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Gender Mainstreaming in EU Development Policy towards Southern Africa and South America

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Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance

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The Lisbon Treaty considers ‘equality between women and men’ to be among the EU’s core values and objectives (Article 2 of TEU), and since 1997, the EU has committed to integrating gender considerations into all aspects of its operations and policies (now Article 10 TFEU). In its policy documents and public statements, the European Commission frequently stresses that gender equality is a goal in its own right that has been a part of the European project of integration since its inception (MacRae 2010). Given the rich history and growing importance of gender equality in all kinds of policy domains, it is not surprising that observers have stated that the EU stands out among international organizations in its support for gender equality (Debusscher and True 2009). The EU (Commission and member states) is also the world’s largest development aid donor, collectively disbursing 55 per cent of official development assistance globally. In several high-level policy documents, the EU has stressed that gender equality is one of the five essential principles of development cooperation and that it ‘has been increasingly active in promoting gender equality in its external action’ (European Commission 2010: 3).

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    Anna van der Vleuten  & Anouka van Eerdewijk  & 

  2. FLACSO Ecuador and VU University, The Netherlands

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Debusscher, P. (2014). Gender Mainstreaming in EU Development Policy towards Southern Africa and South America. In: van der Vleuten, A., van Eerdewijk, A., Roggeband, C. (eds) Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance. Gender and Politics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301451_5

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