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UNIFEM's work in support of gender responsive budgeting

Budget Support: As good as the strategy it finances

Gender and Participatory Budgeting- DFID

Application of the gender policy marker by German Bilateral Development Agencies

Morocco Gender Report 2008

How do DAC statistics measure gender equality focused aid?

Gender Budgeting Guidelines and Analytical Tools at local level in Uganda

Genre et décentralisation au Sénégal

Rapport du Séminaire sur la prise en compte du genre dans le travail parlementaire- Burundi 2008

Gender Budgets: an overview- Canada

WHAT IS GRB?

"Gender responsive budgeting (GRB) is about ensuring that government budgets and the policies and programs that underlie them address the needs and interests of individuals that belong to different social groups. Thus, GRB looks at biases that can arise because a person is male or female, but at the same time considers disadvantage suffered as a result of ethnicity, caste, class or poverty status, location and age. GRB is not about separate budgets for women or men nor about budgets divided equally. It is about determining where the needs of men and women are the same, and where they differ. Where the needs are different, allocations should be different."

Debbie Budlender 2006

Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives Brochure

GRB VIDEO

Incorporating a gender perspective in government budgets can ensure that resources are allocated towards women's priorities to eliminate gender gaps.

This can be achieved through women's participation in budget policymaking and gender budget analysis.

This video presents show how this is working in practice in a GRB initiative supported by UNIFEM in Mysore, India.

Click here to watch video

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women’s Reproductive Rights: A Resource Pack

Available in English, French and Spanish

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A Training Manual Available in English, French and Spanish. This manual should be used in conjunction with the CD Rom of annexes which includes powerpoint presentations, handouts and guidelines for exercises and is also available in English, French and Spanish.

Africa

Gender Budgeting for African Development by Ngone Diop- CODESRIA 2005

Author: Ngone Diop (paper presented at the 11th General Assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa [CODESRIA] in Maputo- Mozambique, December 2005)

The purpose of this paper is to sharpen the understanding of the linkages between gender equality, poverty reduction and Africa’s development and to scrutinize ways in which these linkages can be reflected into policy formulation and public resource expenditure towards meeting the BPFA, MDGs, thus paving the way for a sustainable development of the Continent as envisioned by NEPAD. In so doing, gender budgeting will be used as the main pathway to gender equality and African development.

Gender Budgeting for African Development

Genre et décentralisation au Sénégal- published October 2007

Authors: Moustapha Ngaide et Rokhaya Cisse Chambaz- Octobre 2007

Cette étude relative au genre et à la décentralisation, menée dans le cadre du “Programme Réussir la Décentralisation”, est une initiative conjointe de (Innovations, Environnement et Developpement (IED Afrique), UNIFEM et de la Direction de la Décentralisation.

This study on gender and decentralisation in Senegal was carried out under a programme entitled "Reussir la Decentralisation" (achieve decentralization). It was jointly initiated by IED Afrique, UNIFEM and the Directorate of Decentralization in Senegal. It builds on an extensive review of national laws and policies on gender and the vast experience of the informal working group on gender and decentralization.

Genre et Decentralisation au Senegal

Preparation of Government Budgets (focus on Nigeria) - August 2006

Gender Budgets Transparency and Accountability Project

Fact Sheet: Preparation of Government Budgets developed by the Development Initiatives Network, August 2006

Preparation of Government Budgets (focus on Nigeria)

Gender Analysis and Recommendations for Engendering the Action Plan for the Reduction

TITLE: Gender Analysis and Recommendations for Engendering the Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty 2001-2005 (PARPA): Republic of Mozambique 2003
AUTHOR: Ashley Garrett
DATE: 2003

The following review by Gender Action contains the results and recommendations of the organization’s gender analysis of the Republic of Mozambique’s ‘Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty 2001-2005.’

Gender Analysis and Recommendations for Engendering the Action Plan for the Reduction