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Author: Teresa Buchen Vienna, March 2007
This paper provides an overview on gender budget initiatives in Uganda, Mozambique and Nicaragua. It was written by Teresa Buchen at the request of the Development Policy Research (DPR) department of the Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation (vidc) and the Gender and Development department of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
Gender budget initiatives in Uganda, Mozambique and Nicaragua
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IMF Working Paper by Janet G. Stotsky, October 2006
This study examines how public processes can contribute to improving women’s status. “Gender budgeting,” which refers to the systematic examination of budget programs and policies for their impact on women, has been tried in a range of countries in recent years. Australia was the first country to formally incorporate gender budgeting into its budget process by developing the concept of a “women’s budget” to address inequalities between women and men. Government ministries and departments were required to provide an analysis of the impact of the annual budget on women and girls, focusing mainly but not exclusively on public expenditures. Gender budgeting is sometimes seen as outside mainstream research on budgeting.
The study attempts to place it squarely within that mainstream and to show that gender budgeting is just good budgeting—budgeting that properly accounts for the positive externalities that are derived from improving women’s opportunities for health care, education, and employment. Studies show that programs and policies designed to improve women’s economic opportunities lead to higher rates of economic growth (Stotsky, 2006).
Gender Budgeting
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by Nathalie Holvoet
EC Gender Help Desk, 2006
This paper focuses on gender budgeting and its usefulness in the context of new aid instruments. It is part of the series of Gender Briefing Notes designed to help EC officials working in development cooperation to easily identify and address gender equality issues in specific sectors and thematic areas.
The publication complements the “Mainstreaming Gender Equality in EC Development Cooperation” toolkit and highlights how gender budgeting may be used by both partner countries and donors to make programme-based approaches more gender-sensitive. It shows how this will contribute to more effective and more efficient development and to greater gender equality.
Gender Budgeting: its usefulness in programme-based approaches to aid
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Developed by the Parliamentary Information and Research Service- Canada November 2007.
This brief paper on gender budgets provides an overview of what a gender budget is, why gender budgets are needed, the implementation process of a gender budget, tools for effective gender budgeting, and the role of parliamentarians in encouraging and implementing a gender budget.
Gender Budgets: an overview- Canada
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Author: OECD-DAC Date: 2007
How have aid agencies tackled the challenges of promoting gender equality since the beginning of the twenty-first century? How can the gap between policy and implementation be bridged? This report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) examines changes in the gender equality approaches of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members. It argues that mainstreaming is a necessary but insufficient strategy to promote gender equality. Specific measures for women’s empowerment must be reintroduced and financed.
Gender Equality and Aid Delivery: What Has Changed in Development Co-operation Agencies Since 1999?
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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.
