The Gender Responsive Budgeting website is a collaborative effort between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Commonwealth Secretariat and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), which was launched in 2001. The website strives to support efforts of governments, women’s organizations, members of parliaments and academics to ensure that planning and budgeting effectively respond to gender equality goals. The site also provides practitioners with a variety of resources, assessments and training materials on gender responsive budgeting. Finally, it aims to promote cross-regional information-sharing on country experiences and facilitates networking and collaboration amongst countries, civil society and international organizations.
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Date: 2 October 2008
United Nations, New York — The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) signed today the Gender Equitable Local Development (GELD) programme document, which forges a partnership between UNCDF, UNIFEM and UNDP, to support the improvement of women’s access to resources and services at the local level through gender-responsive planning, programming and budgeting. The programme will be rolled out in local governments in Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.
With an estimated budget of US$8 million for the period 2008–2011, the GELD programme will build the capacity of local governments to mainstream a gender perspective in planning and budgeting processes and facilitate participation of women and community organizations in those processes. The programme will be jointly implemented by UNCDF and UNIFEM while ensuring coordination with the wider UN Country Teams.
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20 August 2008
This issue - which coincides with the preparations of the Ghana High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness - highlights the relevance of GRB approaches to ensuring that aid management systems as articulated in the Paris Declaration incorporate a gender perspective.
The publication further explores a number of GRB initiatives (Nepal, Morocco and Egypt) where Ministries of Finance are taking the lead in introducing systems, guidelines and mechanisms to ensure that budgeting contributes to the promotion of women’s rights. The issue also mentions various efforts in support of GRB by the UN system and other agencies as well as GRB initiatives in South East Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States, Canada, and Senegal. Finally, information is provided on new resources and upcoming GRB events.
We hope you find the information useful and look forward to receiving your feedback on the present and contributions to upcoming issues.
Gender Responsive Budgeting Newsletter - Issue 2
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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.
Click here to watch Morocco video
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Original title "Zimbabwe's remarkable Progress Recorded in Gender Equity Programmes"
Posted on All Africa.com 10 March 2008, added on this website April 2008
Harare
"The Governement of Zimbabwe has made tremendous strides in implementing gender equity programmes that need to be complemented through a budget that pushes women empowerment", the Minister of Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development", Oppah Muchinguri said yesterday.
Although this year's international commemorations are being held under the theme; Financing for Gender Equality, Zimbabwe has adopted a national theme of "Gender budgeting for women empowerment."
Speaking at the launch of the International Women's Day, Muchinguri said this year's theme has come at a time when Government is implementing the gender budgeting programme launched in April last year.
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Posted on Thaindian News on February 6th, 2008 - added on the website April 2008
New Delhi, 6 Feb 2008
The Ministry of Women and Child Development is organising a workshop to sensitise senior officials of various Central Ministries towards gender responsive budgeting. The officials of 35 Ministries will attend the residential workshop on 7th-8th February at Kuchesar, District Bulandshehar.
The objective of the workshop is to sensitise senior officials to the needs and realities of women at the grass roots. The Government has already set up gender budgeting cells in 35 Ministries to ensure a gender perspective at various stages like programme & policy formulation, review of extant policies and guidelines, reprioritisation and allocation of resources.
The two-day workshop will make assessment of needs of target groups and impact of the gender budgeting so far. Case studies and feedback on the initiative and future plan of action will be deliberated upon. The Ministry has taken a number of initiatives to use gender budgeting as a tool for empowerment of women.
The Ministry has adopted budgeting for gender equity as a mission statement. A strategic framework of activities to implement this mission has been framed and disseminated across all departments of the Central Government. The Ministry of finance has also mandated all Ministries to establish gender budgeting cells and has issued a gender charter for the same.
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An innovative way to analyze federal spending recognizes women's needs as well as men's. An article by Martha Burk published by Ms Magazine (Weekly Feminist News). Added to this website April 2008
President Bush has unveiled his budget request for the next fiscal year, and it's hardly surprising: a dramatic increase in defense spending, an even larger deficit and proposed cuts in a wide range of domestic programs such as education, childcare, health research, Medicaid, Medicare and job training. Those programs being cut, not coincidentally, are those that disproportionately impact women.
Bush's budget proposal is consistent with what author Riane Eisler, in her book The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics ( Berrett-Koehler, 2007) , calls a “dominator” economic system. Such a system is characterized by a distribution of resources to those on top, heavy investment in armaments and a lack of investment in meeting human needs. The result is an economic double standard in which programs associated with “femininity” (such as caregiving) are devalued, while “masculine” priorities (such as war) are highly valued.
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http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2008/GenderBudgetsAnyone.asp
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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.
