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Impact of Gender Budgeting on Women Empowerment

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

Gender Perspective on Budgeting: Country Responses

TITLE: Gender Perspective on Budgeting: Country Responses
AUTHOR: OECD
DATE: 2001

This document contains a survey on gender budgeting entitled, "Survey of Budgeting Developments Questionnaire." The survey provides responses from various countries on the extent to which they apply gender analysis to budgeting. The document is written in both English and French.

Gender Perspective on Budgeting: Country Responses

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Pakistan: Experience and lessons learned

Authors: Nadeem Mahbub and Debbie Budlender, November 2007.

This article describes the experience and lesson learned to date during the implementation of gender responsive budgeting in Pakistan through a dedicated project ‘Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiative’. The article provides the background, and details on GRB activities undertaken including implementation of various GRB tools, steps taken to gender sensitize the budgetary processes, linkages and synergies developed, and challenges and lesson learned so far.

Nadeem Mahbub is a government official, he was the National Manager of the GRBI project from its inception in 2005 to August 2007. Ms. Debbie Budlender is an internationally renowned GRB specialist who has acted as advisor to the GRBI project in Pakistan since 2005.

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Pakistan: Experience and lessons learned

Gender-Responsive Budgets in the Commonwealth Progress Report: 2005-2007

This paper was written by Debbie Budlender in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat based on data and information received from Commonwealth countries.

At the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting in 2005, Ministers recognised the critical importance of gender-responsive budgets (GRBs) and the need for sustainable progress on this issue. The Ministers therefore agreed to report on progress biennially at the Finance Ministers Meeting, with the next review in 2007. They also “urged members that have not already done so to establish an institutional mechanism within their countries to monitor progress on implementing GRBs.

The focus of this report is on what had been done in respect of GRBs since 2005 in and by those governments who reported, and how GRB had been built into the countries’ budgeting systems.

Gender-Responsive Budgets in the Commonwealth Progress Report: 2005-2007

Gender-sensitive and Pro-poor Indicators of Good Governance

Paper prepared by Lorraine Corner as a background to the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre and Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) International workshop on engendering and empowering governance indicators, New Delhi, April 2005

Gender-sensitive and Pro-poor Indicators of Good Governance

Gender-Sensitive Budget Initiatives for Latin America and the Caribbean

TITLE: Gender-Sensitive Budget Initiatives for Latin America and the Caribbean
AUTHOR: Simel Esim
DATE: 2000

This UNIFEM report (2000) was prepared for the Eighth Regional Conference on Women of Latin America and the Caribbean - Beijing +5 in Lima. The report discusses types of gender-sensitive budget categories, categories of public expenditure, and tools for gender-sensitive budgets. The paper illustrates how gender budget initiatives can effectively improve accountability and implementation of government policy and programs in the LAC region.

Gender-Sensitive Budget Initiatives for Latin America and the Caribbean