Gender Action, Washington DC, USA
From the Global Women's Network
| Gender Action, Washington DC, USA | |
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| Logo: |  |
| Street address: | 1875 Connecticut Avenue NW
Suite 500 |
| City: | Washington |
| State or Province: | DC |
| Country: | United States |
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| Location coordinates: | 38° 54' 56" N, 77° 2' 45" WLatitude: 38.915646 Longitude: -77.04596 |
| Executive Director: | Elaine Zuckerman |
| Contact number: | +1-202-939-5463 |
| Contact email: | info@genderaction.org |
| Website: | http://www.genderaction.org |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/genderaction |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/genderaction |
| Target: | Girls and Women |
| Organization type: | International NGO (operating in multiple countries) |
| Sectors: | Agriculture/Food Security, Climate Change, Economic Empowerment, HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health, Violence Against Women |
| Year founded/registered: | 2002 |
Summary
Gender Action is the only organization dedicated to promoting gender justice and women's rights in all International Financial Institution (IFI) investments such as those of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund - two of the largest public sources of development financing in the world.
About
Gender Action's vision is a World Bank and other IFIs with mandatory gender policies and strategies that are implemented to increase women's economic empowerment opportunities and eliminate their human rights violations. Gender Action represents Elaine Zuckerman's, President and Founders, life work and passion to ensure social justice, and equal rights and opportunities for women.
Elaine joined the World Bank when she heard that China was becoming a borrowing member in 1980 and worked there as an economist on China. This preceded the advent of structural adjustment loans (SALs) and protests against the Bank. Witnessing the unfolding of structural adjustment, in 1987 she created the Bank's first program to globally mitigate SALs' harmful impacts on the poor, especially on women. Later she worked in the World Bank's gender unit where she had an opportunity to analyze Bank investments around the world across sectors. She was struck by the paucity of Bank operations that try to empower women despite Bank rhetoric and studies expressing the urgency to do so in order to reduce poverty. In the 1990s at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Elaine designed a strategy for the Amazon that prohibited future investments in roads and ranching that damaged indigenous groups and the environment, and instead promoted health, water, education and renewable resources. She was also Coordinator of the IADB's Social Agenda Policy Group which promoted equitable education and health financing for all men and women, girls and boys.
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