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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

Gender in Fiscal Policies: The Case of West Bengal

TITLE: Gender in Fiscal Policies: The Case of West Bengal
AUTHOR: Nirmala Banerjee& Poulami Roy
DATE: 2003-2004

This study was launched to find out what the State of W. Bengal had been doing for the welfare of its women. To do this, it assesses the budgetary position of all those schemes which demonstrably have some impact on women's welfare. But because the study was set at the end of the 1990s decade, it first had to find out how far the State's fiscal activities had been constrained by the new economic policies that had been initiated in India at the beginning of that decade. Given these evolving constraints, how well had the W. Bengal government performed in comparison with other major states in the country?

Gender in Fiscal Policies: The Case of West Bengal

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Rajasthan

Author: Department of Planning Government of Rajasthan, 2006

These publications on gender responsive budgeting for select sectors in Rajasthan are the first in a series of gender responsive budgeting publications being brought out by the Government of Rajasthan. The biggest strength of the gender budgeting initiative in Rajasthan that it is State-led and very much a part of the Government’s agenda.

The Directorate of Evaluation and the Directorate of Economics and Statistics of the Department of Planning have played a very key role in this whole exercise taking up the gender budget analysis of six departments – those of Health, Education, Agriculture, Women and Child, Stamps and Registration and Social Welfare. In a very participatory process, officers of the concerned departments worked closely with experts from UNIFEM, UNFPA and IFES to brainstorm and put together these reports. The recommendations at the end of each of these reports present an edifice for expansion and further building upon and the Government will seriously be considering these.

Snapshots of Gender Responsive Budgeting in Rajasthan

Gender Responsive Budgeting for the Department of Agriculture in Rajasthan

Gender Responsive Budgeting for the Department of Education in Rajasthan

Gender Responsive Budgeting for the Department of Health in Rajasthan

Gender Responsive Budgeting for the Department of Registration and Stamps in Rajasthan

Gender Responsive Budgeting for the Department of Social Welfare in Rajasthan

Gender Responsive Budgeting for the Department of Women and Child Development in Rajasthan

Gender-Sensitive Local Auditing: Initiatives from India to Build Accountability to Women

TITLE: Gender-Sensitive Local Auditing: Initiatives from India to Build Accountability to Women
AUTHOR: Anne-Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins
DATE: 2002

The following article from the World Bank Institute’s Development Outreach Journal discusses the importance of citizens’ efforts to audit directly the activities of development programs. The piece, which emphasizes that local accountability tothe poor can be served in the form of gender-sensitive participatory planning, budgeting and auditing, provides examples from the Indian context.

Gender-Sensitive Local Auditing: Initiatives from India to Build Accountability to Women

Macroscan of Union Budget 2003 in India

TITLE: Macroscan of Union Budget 2003 in India
AUTHOR: Lekha S Chakraborty
DATE: 2003

In this paper Lekha S. Chakraborty (2003) analyzes the Union Budget in India from a gender perspective. Chakraborty provides a gender-sensitive analysis of the Expenditure Budget (2003) in comparison to the preceding eight years, and concludes the paper with some policy recommendations.

Macroscan of Union Budget 2003 in India

Making the Indian Budget: How Open and Participatory?

Author: Vinod Bhanu, Economic and Political Weekly March 31, 2007

Open and participatory budget making is imperative for good governance; yet by international standards India fares badly on this count. This article analyses the process of budget preparation and suggests how it can be made more transparent and participatory.

Making the Indian Budget How Open and Participatory?

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