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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

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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Asia

GRB Work in Philippines: a case study

Case study compiled by Debbie Budlender based on presentation by Florencia Casanova-Dorotan, Programme Manager WAND Philippines during UNIFEM/UNFPA GRB Workshop in Bangkok, June 2006

GRB WORK IN PHILIPPINES

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Strengthening the Results Orientation of Local Gender Budgeting in Hilongos, Leyte and Sorsogon City.

Author: Jurgette A. Honculada. Published in 2006 by UNIFEM and the Women’s Action Network for Development, Inc. (WAND)

This publication record in rich and abundant detail the ups and downs of the yearlong (2004-05) experience that has laid the foundation for a gender responsive and results-based budgeting process at local level in the Philippines (Hilongos and Sorsogon City).

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: foreword

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Executive summary

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Vignette

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The Hilongos Experience

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The Case of the Vanishing River

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The Sorsogon Experience

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The case of the bifurcated health progr

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: conclusion and recommendations

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: annexes

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Resources for Gender Budget Initiative

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Strengthening the Results Orientation of Local Gender Budgeting in Hilongos, Leyte and Sorsogon City.

Author: Jurgette A. Honculada. Published in 2006 by UNIFEM and the Women’s Action Network for Development, Inc. (WAND)

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: foreword

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Executive summary

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Vignette

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The Hilongos Experience

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The Case of the Vanishing River

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The Sorsogon Experience

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The case of the bifurcated health progr

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: conclusion and recommendations

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: annexes

The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Resources for Gender Budget Initiative

Budgetary Allocations and Gender in Sri Lanka: A Categorization of Financial Inputs

TITLE: Budgetary Allocations and Gender in Sri Lanka: A Categorization of Financial Inputs
AUTHOR: Lekha S Chakraborty
DATE: 2003

The following paper by Lekha S. Chakraborty (2003) brings forth experiences of gender budgeting from diverse contexts. Chakraborty provides an analysis of selected gender indicators with regard to education, health, nutrition and labour force to understand the capability deprivation across gender in the socio-economic scale of Sri Lanka. The paper also contains an accessible analysis of the key trends in the National Budgets of 1999- 2003, and a gender-sensitive analysis of the allocations in the 2003 National Budget in comparison to earlier budgets developed since 1999.

Budgetary Allocations and Gender in Sri Lanka: A Categorization of Financial Inputs

A Gender Analysis of the Impact Of Indirect Taxes on Small and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

TITLE: A Gender Analysis of the Impact Of Indirect Taxes on Small and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
AUTHOR: A Haroon Akram-Lodhi & Irene van Staveren
DATE: 2003

This paper on SMEs in Vietnam, looks into biases that help explain the higher costs and lower profits of female-owned enterprises. It brings together gender analysis, small scale enterprise analysis, and gender budget analysis in a development context by demonstrating that gender matters not only to the ownership of an SME, but also to its most likely principal activity, the stock of the assets that it possesses, the labour that it utilizes, the costs that it faces, the revenues that it generates, and the profits that it earns. The paper's main thrust lies in its argument that although various factors play a role, gender biases in costs and earnings, partly caused by the tax system, are the more dominant factor.

A Gender Analysis of the Impact Of Indirect Taxes on Small and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam