Although publicly-funded International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have missions to reduce poverty and promote economic growth, IFI projects often ignore gender inequality and increase poverty, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS, particularly among women and girls. The ‘Gender Justice – A Citizen’s Guide to Gender Accountability in International Financial Institutions’ is written in context of recent endeavours by IFIs to assess their compliance with and the enforcement of institutional accountability to their own policies and procedures on gender equality as well as other cross-cutting issues.

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