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Impact of Gender Budgeting on Women Empowerment

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

NEW! GRB VIDEOS

MOROCCO

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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BOLIVIA

In Cochabamba, Bolivia, UNIFEM has made significant strides in teaching local women how to seek local government funding for projects that can benefit them. UNIFEM developed and sponsored local workshops in which women were educated on the city budget: where government money comes from, how it is distributed, and what strategies to use in applying for government funds. The workshops helped the women envision a new potential for what they can do for themselves, and helped them better understand what kinds of demands they can make on their own government.

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INDIA

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.

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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

Legislative Participation in Government Budget Processes in Nigeria: A fact Sheet