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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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General Resources

Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

Statistics based on DAC Members’ reporting on the Gender Equality Policy Marker, 2004 - 2005

By OECD-DAC, June 2007

Summary of (2004-2005) statistics on aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment extended by DAC members. Information shown includes the gender equality policy marker coverage, the top ten recipients and a sector breakdown of aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

Being Effective in the New Aid Environment Leading the ICPD agenda

Author: UNFPA Date: July 2005

Final report of the UNFPA workshop on SWAps and Budget Support, 8-10 June 2005 in Geneva

Being Effective in the New Aid Environment Leading the ICPD agenda

Budget Support: As good as the strategy it finances

Authors: Rebecca Carter, Stephen Lister

This article looks at the relevance of budget support to financing the relevant MDGs, and draws some conclusions about the role of budget support, how it should be designed and the attitude civil society organizations should adopt towards it.

Budget Support: As good as the strategy it finances

Costs of Violence against Women

This is an extensive summary of a report published in Swedish in December 2006, which was produced and written mainly by Elis Envall, Senior Advisor and Annika Eriksson, PhD at the National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden.

The purpose of this study is to describe the total – estimated – costs to society. Violence against women may lead to, for instance, intervention by the police, absence from work, visits to medical centres and the social services. The perpetrator may be imprisoned, which would lead to direct costs for correctional treatment and indirect costs regarding a production loss.

Costs of Violence against Women

Emerging trends in official development assistance

Emerging trends in official development assistance and its impact on financing poverty and hunger eradication in latin american and the caribbean

Background paper prepared by ECLAC and presented at the Regional Consultations on the Economic and Social Council Annual Ministerial Review on Key Challenges of Financing Poverty and Hunger Eradication in Latin America and the Caribbean Brazil, 17-18 May 2007

This document analyses the challenges for development finance posed by current ODA trends. It also presents and examines the new financial instruments being proposed. The focus is on the Latin American and Caribbean context.

Emerging trends in official development assistance