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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

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

Gender Impacts of Government Revenue Collection: The Case of Taxation

by Kathleen Barnett Caren Grown for the COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT, 2004

This paper reviews the literature on the gender dimensions of taxation and the implications for tax policy with special reference to developing countries. It was commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat as part of the organization's commitment to integrate gender concerns into economic policy.

The paper follows important prior work on the gender dimensions of public expenditure. Its purpose is to provide information to assist in the analysis of potential gender bias in tax systems and the design of gender-sensitive revenue measures.

Gender Impacts of Government Revenue Collection: The Case of Taxation

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

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