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Gender-responsive budgeting is a crucial tool for women’s empowerment. In Morocco, UNIFEM has worked with the government to create a more tailored approach in which budgeting can have a more effective and immediate impact. As this documentary illustrates, when the needs of women living in a particular geographical and cultural context are addressed, the entire community benefits. In the past four years, the Finance Ministry of Morocco has made substantial progress in developing both gender-responsive and results-oriented budgetary reform.
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Women's Budget Initiatives 1hot!
- 16.08.2007
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The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for Social Enquiry and the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit.
The project has completed an analysis of the impact of the budgets of all national government departments on the lives of South African women, under the coordination of world class GRB expert Debbie Budlender
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Women's Budget Initiative 5hot!
- 16.08.2007
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The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for Social Enquiry and the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit.
The project has completed an analysis of the impact of the budgets of all national government departments on the lives of South African women, under the coordination of world class GRB expert Debbie Budlender
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Women's Budget Initiative 4hot!
- 16.08.2007
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The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for Social Enquiry and the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit.
The project has completed an analysis of the impact of the budgets of all national government departments on the lives of South African women, under the coordination of world class GRB expert Debbie Budlender
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Women's Budget Initiative 3hot!
- 20.08.2007
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The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for Social Enquiry and the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit.
The project has completed an analysis of the impact of the budgets of all national government departments on the lives of South African women, under the coordination of world class GRB expert Debbie Budlender.
This is the 3rd issue of WB3
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Women's Budget Initiative 2hot!
- 16.08.2007
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The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for Social Enquiry and the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit.
The project has completed an analysis of the impact of the budgets of all national government departments on the lives of South African women, under the coordination of world class GRB expert Debbie Budlender
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Women's and Gender Budgets: An Annotated Resource Listhot!
- 24.02.2007
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TITLE: Women's and Gender Budgets: An Annotated Resource List
AUTHOR: Hazel Reeves and Heike Wach
DATE: 1999
This annotated resource list, by Hazel Reeves and Heike Wach (1999), from BRIDGE provides information on resources and publications on gender budgets at the national, provincial and local levels within institutions. The list also includes resources that discuss the conceptual issues involved in gender budget analysis. - Hits: 217
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Women and workhot!
- 06.08.2007
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W and Work
Uploaded by Fatou and Liisa on august 6, 2007.
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What's Behind the Budgethot!
- 03.10.2007
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Andy Norton and Diane Elson, What’s behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the budget process, ODI 2002
The paper identifies issues, partners, tools and methods that help development actors to support citizen accountability and a pro-poor, gender-equitable, focus in public expenditure management. The paper argues that integrating a rights perspective with a good understanding of the mechanics and politics of public expenditure management has potential for advancing understanding of how a pro-poor focus can be encouraged in mainstream public policy. The paper broadly aims to review different conceptual approaches for addressing issues of human rights, entitlements, political accountability and citizen participation in relation to the budget process and highlights experiences of pro-poor and gender-sensitive budget initiatives and draw key lessons.
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What Gender Equality Advocates Should Know...
- 08.07.2008
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Caren Grown, September 2005.
Considering revenue collection and taxation as a strategy in work for women’s rights and poverty alleviation is important. Different forms of taxation, and the complexities of taxation systems, frequently include a number of gender biases. For example, consumption taxes may be biased against poor women who spend a larger proportion of their incomes on consumption goods. It is important to understand and eliminate these biases for both gender and social equity.
This paper is intended to provide information to assist in the analysis of potential gender bias in tax systems and the design of gender-sensitive revenue measures. The following sections provide an overview of issues of taxation in developed and developing countries, outline some basic concepts of tax, review the gender dimensions of specific types of taxes, and conclude with recommendations to improve gender equity in tax policy and suggests areas for future research.
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What Gender Equality Advocates Should Know About Taxation
- 08.07.2008
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Caren Grown, September 2005.
Considering revenue collection and taxation as a strategy in work for women’s rights and poverty alleviation is important. Different forms of taxation, and the complexities of taxation systems, frequently include a number of gender biases. For example, consumption taxes may be biased against poor women who spend a larger proportion of their incomes on consumption goods. It is important to understand and eliminate these biases for both gender and social equity.
This paper is intended to provide information to assist in the analysis of potential gender bias in tax systems and the design of gender-sensitive revenue measures. The following sections provide an overview of issues of taxation in developed and developing countries, outline some basic concepts of tax, review the gender dimensions of specific types of taxes, and conclude with recommendations to improve gender equity in tax policy and suggests areas for future research.
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What can we expect from gender sensitive budgets? Strategies in Brazil and in Chilehot!
- 18.08.2007
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What can we expect from gender sensitive budgets? Strategies in Brazil and in Chile in a comparative perspective. By Florence Raes
In Latin America, gender sensitive budget exercises emerge in a context of increased legitimacy of the agenda of women’s rights and of renewed interest for public budgets brought about by the discourse on “good governance”. On the one hand, many governments have signed CEDAW and its facultative protocol; they have adjusted legislations and taken policy measures that favor gender equality. On the other hand, recurrent economic crisis and structural adjustment policies have struck harder on women, especially amongst the poor, notably because of the cutbacks in social spending and in the delivery of public services. In the light of these ambivalences, what are the benefits of gender sensitive budget initiatives?
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Water, Equity and Moneyhot!
- 24.02.2007
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TITLE: Water, Equity and Money
AUTHOR: Prabha Khosla
DATE: 2003
This document, written for the Netherlands Council of Women, describes how gender responsive budgeting should be used for Water resource management. - Hits: 256
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UNIFEM's work in support of gender responsive budgetinghot!
- 14.04.2008
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This brochure developed by UNIFEM's Gender Budget Programme provides an overview of UNIFEM's support to GRB work around the world at national, local and sectoral level, in addition to brief case studies of GRB initiatives in India, Latin America, Morocco, Mozambique and the Philippines.
Published March 2008.
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UNIFEM publishes 'Promoting Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships'hot!
- 24.02.2007
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TITLE: UNIFEM publishes 'Promoting Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships'
AUTHOR: Nisreen Alami and Anne Marie Goetz
DATE: 2006
This article by UNIFEM provides a gender analysis of the new aid agenda as outlined in the Paris Declaration. Highlighting key opportunities and concerns that are presented in the new aid context towards the achievement of gender equality, the article also outlines the usefulness of some key tools such as gender budget analysis, gender analysis, gender statistics and indicators-- in order to address the gaps that currently exist within the monitoring frameworks of the new aid agenda. These tools can be used to ensure that the application of the new aid modalities includes gender equality and women’s rights in its approach towards effective development outcomes. - Hits: 273
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UNIFEM GRB Program Results 2001-2004hot!
- 15.03.2007
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TITLE: UNIFEM GRB Program Results 2001-2004
AUTHOR: UNIFEM
DATE: 2005
In 2001, UNIFEM launched a 20 country programme creating a momentum among governments, civil society and parliamentarians to engage in budget policy-making from a gender perspective. - Hits: 543
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UNIFEM Gender Responsive Budgeting Programme: Mid-term Review Summary Reporthot!
- 24.02.2007
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TITLE: UNIFEM Gender Responsive Budgeting Programme: Mid-term Review Summary Report
AUTHOR: UNIFEM
DATE: 2004
The following document, "A Learning Programme in Action," (2004) is a UNIFEM commissioned review of the GRB programme supported by the Government of Belgium. The review examined the progress to date, assessed the effectiveness of tools and capacity building strategies in use, and aligned programme activities with expected results. - Hits: 765
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Training module on Local Level GRB in Morocco.hot!
- 13.08.2007
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Training module produced in the context of the Local Level GRB programme in Morocco.
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Towards Gender Responsive Budgeting
- 09.07.2008
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Towards Gender Responsive Budgeting: Rising to the Challenge of Achieving Gender Equality
Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women
House of Commons - Canada (39th Parliament, 2nd Session)
Yasmin Ratansi, June 2008
In this study on gender responsive budgets, the Committee continues with its commitment to pursue gender equality and women’s economic security. The Committee recognizes that federal spending and taxation decisions have a differential impact on men and women. The Committee believes that the federal government has historically been, and continues to be, the key driver in achieving gender equality, and that gender equality can be attained if the federal government commits to setting objectives that are linked to government spending and taxation policies.
To achieve this, the federal government will need to maintain the dual approach that was described above. As well, the federal government has to be cognizant that many women continue to face economic insecurity in their everyday lives due to their income levels and the amount of unpaid work that they perform.
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Tour d'horizon du budget du Canada pour 2007hot!
- 18.08.2007
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Tour d'horizon du budget du Canada 2007 par L’Alliance canadienne féministe pour l’action internationale (l’afai)
Les femmes du Canada ne sont pas affectées de la même manière que les hommes par les politiques fiscales et les dépenses des gouvernements. Les occasions d'emploi, les responsabilités communautaires et familiales et les niveaux de sécurité économique sont différents pour les femmes et les hommes du Canada. Le budget 2007 nous démontre le peu de cas que fait le gouvernement de ces faits. Certaines des mesures de ce budget accentuent une tendance documentée dans l'analyse rétrospective de 10 années de budgets fédéraux (1995-2004) publiée par Armine Yalnizyan. Ce rapport est accessible au http://www.fafia-afai.org/en/node/150
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Tools for Gender Budgeting
- 09.07.2008
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Firoza Mehrotra, UNIFEM - 31st May 2007
This PowerPoint Presentation introduces Gender Responsive Budgeting, what it can be applied to, the key stakeholders and the various procedures and stages. It explains the basic pre-requisites which include: Gender orientation and sensitisation of government and non-government stakeholders, Orientation to the concept and tools of Gender Budgeting and a Sex-Disaggregated database.
This presentation goes on to explain that involvement of women in decision making is seen as a key to success of all gender budgeting initiatives, and that simply taking their concerns into account is not sufficient. Women’s empowerment is a holistic concept which entails adequate resource allocation in all areas including health, education, water sanitation and nutrition, sustained employment, access to credit and asset ownership, skills, research and design technology and political participation.
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Thoughts on Dignity
- 08.07.2008
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Barbara Y. Phillips,
PWESCR - Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
N1, May 2007
This essay discusses the possibility that the concept of “dignity” may help in advancing a holistic approach to theory and practice. After discussing the political utility of the concept of dignity to strengthen and unite social justice movements, the essay considers the challenges inherent in coming to a common understanding of the term “dignity”, raises the significance of globalization, highlights the importance of developing appropriate measurement mechanisms, grapples with the role of the State, and concludes with an urgent call for activists to pursue engagement with the potential of this concept to advance social justice.
Experience has taught us that concepts of equality, non-discrimination, and economic empowerment/security are not enough. They have not united diverse social justice movements and, furthermore, hold the potential to get us only part of the way to that ideal world.This contribution to the ongoing discussion is intended to raise, not answer, questions and to suggest areas for further and deeper exploration. Its purpose is to engage people across all social movements in considering the possibilities.
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The Political Economy of Women's Budgets in the Southhot!
- 24.02.2007
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TITLE: The Political Economy of Women's Budgets in the South
AUTHOR: Debbie Budlender
DATE: 1999The following article by Debbie Budlender (n.d.) discusses the potential for gender budget exercises to address gender issues and more specifically, the capacity for such exercises to address the complexities and dilemmas associated with mainstreaming gender into governance processes. The author draws largely upon the South African initiative and highlights how gender budget exercises must be modulated within a social, economic and political context.
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The Mexican Experience with Gender Responsive Budgets
- 09.07.2008
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Mexico City Government and Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia .
An Economy for Equality, Dialogue with Governments on Gender Responsive Budgeting 52 session. Comission on the Status of Women
Lucía C. Pérez Fragoso, 2008
This PowerPoint Presentation discusses the improvements achieved through gender budgeting in Mexico. Since 2000, members of the feminist movement in Mexico that belonged to the National Forum for Women and Population Policy started advocating for gender responsive budgeting. Since then, the non-governmental organization, Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, began to carry out analysis and formulation of gender budgets.
Further achievments include by 2007, the Mexico City Women’s Institute already had a network of gender agents in every Mexico City public institutions. Strengthening of the government’s work through the use of a tool devised to allocate resources to women's and/or gender programs Providing information about discrimination against women and the potential of public policies to achieve gender equity.
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The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Vignette hot!
- 16.08.2007
- The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Vignette exemplifying gender and governance published in 2006 by UNIFEM and the Women's Action Network for Development (WAND)
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The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The Sorsogon Experiencehot!
- 16.08.2007
- The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The Sorsogon Experience, published in 2006 by UNIFEM and the Women's Action Network for Development (WAND)
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