Policy Context

Ireland does not have standalone gender equality strategy or feminist foreign policy. The following are top priorities of gender equality for Irish Aid:

• Girls’ education;
• Preventing gender-based violence;
• WEE and support to women farmers;
• Expanding access to sexual and reproductive health and rights;
• Women, peace and security and promoting women’s political leadership; and
• Gender equality and climate action.

According to the OECD Peer Review 2020, Ireland is an international leader on women, peace and security, and fights again GBV in humanitarian settings. Ireland is also the largest contributor of personnel to UN peacekeeping operations as a proportion of its population among all DAC member countries and has an unbroken record of UN peacekeeping service since 1958.

ODA Spending

How much ODA does Ireland allocate to gender equality?

How is Ireland's gender equality ODA changing?