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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

European Commission Consultation: Reforming the Budget, Changing Europe. Published April 2008

A Contribution from the European Women’s Lobby to the European Commission’s Communication: Reforming the Budget, Changing Europe – A public consultation paper in view of the 2008/2009 Budget Review.

The European Commission's Roadmap for Equality between women and men 2006-2010 states “the implementation of gender equality methodologies such as gender impact assessment and gender budgeting (the implementation of a gender perspective in budgetary process) will promote gender equality and provide for greater transparency and enhance accountability.” A gender budget approach is also in line with the Treaty commitment of equality between women and men (article 2) and to mainstream equality between women and men into all policies of the EU (article 3).

Federal Budget Overview 2007 : Not a Budget for Women (in Canada)

2007 Federal Budget Overview: Not a Budget for Women report by the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA).

FAFIA is a dynamic coalition of over 75 Canadian women’s equality-seeking and related organizations.1 FAFIA’s mandate is to further women’s equality in Canada through domestic implementation of its’ international human rights commitments

2007 Federal Budget Overview: Not a Budget for Women ( in Canada)

Financing HIV and AIDS Interventions: Implications for Gender Equality

Background paper prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat by Dr Robert Carr, Caribbean Centre of Communication for Development, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica Commonwealth Secretariat, May 2007

This paper commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat for the Eighth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting (8WAMM) convened in Kampala, Uganda in June 2007 examines the implications for gender equality of financing conditionalities for HIV and AIDS interventions. The core of this paper’s argument is that financing for development means financing to achieve equitable gender relations as central to the development process.

Financing HIV and AIDS Interventions: Implications for Gender Equality

Gender and Participatory Budgeting- DFID 2004

Authors: CIPFA is the UK’s leading accountancy body for public services / DFID 2004

This paper highlights examples of Gender Budgeting and Participatory Budgeting and considers the benefits and challenges they present. It also indicates some of the ways in which members of a professional organisation such as CIPFA (CIPFA is the UK’s leading accountancy body for public services) might contribute to further research and development in this field.

Gender and participatory budgeting are increasingly being used in developing countries to give civil society groups or members of a community a means to influence the way public resources are spent. Similar approaches have also been used in the United Kingdom and there is scope for the lessons emerging from developing countries to feed into the further development of such approaches in the United Kingdom.

Gender and Participatory Budgeting by DFID

Gender and Trade: Impacts and Implications for Financial Resources for Gender Equality

Gender and Trade: Impacts and Implications for Financial Resources for Gender Equality,

May 2007

Background paper prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat by Mariama Williams, Adjunct Associate, Center of Concern, Washington DC and Research Adviser for the International Gender and Trade Network.

This paper explores in greater detail to what extent the Multilateral trading system can help to support the financing of gender equality and women’s economic and social empowerment in Commonwealth developing countries.

Gender and Trade: Impacts and Implications for Financial Resources for Gender Equality