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Gender Responsive Budgeting in the Nordic Countries: The Scandinavian Experience: Barriers, Results and Opportunities by Catharina Schmitz Project Director, Gender Budgeting, 2006
The project’s three main components: 1. Cooperation and exchange of experiences between the Nordic countries; 2. Cooperation and coordination with other actors and, 3. Methodological development. The project will use as its basis the European Council’s definition of Gender Budgeting: Gender budgeting is an application of gender mainstreaming in the budgetary process. It means a gender-based assessment of budgets, incorporating a gender perspective at all levels of the budgetary process and restructuring revenues and expenditures in order to promote gender equality.The long-term goal is to integrate a gender- and equality perspective in budget processes and national budget, in line with each countries’ own political goals and gender platforms. The final report will include a concluding report synthesizing experiences from the project, with a presentation of the pilot projects. The report will include methods and models developed, conclusion and recommendations for continued future work.
Gender Responsive Budgeting in the Nordic Countries: The Scandinavian Experience
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What real impact does the income and expenditure of the State have on gender equality and how do changes in spending policy affect the distribution of paid and unpaid work? Are men and women equally affected or is there a difference? Only when the facts are known can adjustments be made in the budget and a policy devised that takes into account the needs of both sexes. The canton of Basel City has shown the way forward with a gender-sensitive analysis of its budget. some of the very interesting results of this study were presented as part of Switzerland’s contribution to the 52nd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which was devoted to the subject of “Financing for Gender Equality“. Other delegations and experts showed great interest in learning more about this analysis and the methodology involved.
Paper Published by: Equal Rights Office, Office of Statistics, and Women’s Council of the Canton of Basel-City. Original language: German Available from:
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The Publication contains three studies: A gender-disaggregated expenditure incidence analysis for the Canton of Basel-City; Spending by the Canton of Basel-City and unpaid work; Personnel expenditure and employment of women and men in the Administration of the Canton of Basel-City
Gender-responsive budget analysis in the Canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
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Author: Mascha Madoerin, Basel, Switzerland, August 2007
The first debates on gender-responsive budgeting initiatives emerged in Switzerland in 1994, The choice of methods for conducting gender-differentiated analyses and the means by which they are conducted have been informed, and continue to be informed, by the relatively early emergence of gender-responsive budgeting (hereafter GRB) as an issue in Swiss public debate, by the circumstances under which GRB emerged, and by the fact that parliaments at local (municipal/communal), cantonal and federal levels and citizens in Switzerland’s direct democracy retain considerable influence over public finance.
In Switzerland, an analytical tool – the “BASS Method” – was developed to analyze, among other things, the impact public expenditure has on unpaid labor. If this ultimately has been and remains a fundamental requirement of any gender responsive budgeting initiative, it has proven hard to put into effect.
This report presents the specificities of the BASS Method, the projects implemented in Switzerland since 2000, their initiators and their results and finally some projects that have not applied the BASS Method are also presented.
Gender-responsive budgeting in Switzerland Work in Progress
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TITLE: “Ka rodnom budžetiranju: vodič” (Guidebook on Gender Budgeting)
Editor: Tatjana Djuric Kuzmanovic
DATE: 2007
This book is the first source in Serbian language devoted exclusively to the topic of gender responsive budgeting (GRB). It includes general information on the concepts and tools for gender responsive budgeting, an overview of worldwide experiences, discussion on the links between GRB and CEDAW, a comparative analysis of the 2002 and 2005 budget of the Republic of Serbia from a gender perspective and a glossary of relevant terms. The printing and dissemination of the book was supported by the UNIFEM Office for Central and Eastern Europe, in the framework of its regional Programme on Gender Responsive Budgeting in South East Europe. The book was published by Women’s Studies and Research Novi Sad and Futura publikacije. The book is available only in Serbian language.
Guidebook on Gender Budgeting in Serbian Language
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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.
