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DAC gender equality policy marker

  • Online resource | Last updated: 06 Aug 2026

The OECD tracks and analyses development financing in support of gender equality and women’s rights, using the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) gender equality policy marker. The marker is a qualitative statistical tool to record development activities that target gender equality as a policy objective. The gender equality policy marker is used by DAC members as part of the annual reporting of their development activities to the DAC, to indicate for each aid activity whether it targets gender equality as a policy objective. In addition, philanthropies, multilateral organisations, non-DAC donors and other actors are monitoring their development activities using the policy marker. The data based on the marker provides a measure of the development finances that DAC members and other actors allocate in support of gender equality.

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