Development and
Cooperation

Equal opportunity à la Wolfowitz

„What we are trying to do with the Gender Action Plan is to develop more concrete ways in which this basic idea that the whole of society benefits when everybody has equal access can be incorporated in more and more of the programmes that we actually do.“
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, Oslo, October 2006.

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