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Gender Equality, the New Aid Environment and Civil Society Organisations, a Research Project of the UK Gender and Development Network January 2008
The report ‘Gender Equality, the new aid environment and CSOs’ was researched and written by the Gender & Development Network (GADN) because of a growing concern about the fast changing aid structures, such as direct budget support, pooled funding schemes for supporting civil society and other forms of donor alignment and their possible implications for work on gender equality and women’s rights issues, in the Global North and South.
The report highlights some of the key questions emerging for civil society around the way the new aid systems promote, marginalise or exclude gender equality and women’s rights issues, as well as developing themes for future targeted research. The report reflects the voices of organisations working for gender equality and women’s rights from around the world. It conveys the diversity and complexity of the issues around the new aid modalities and how these differ across countries and continents; it also shows some of the unintended consequences of new aid modalities. Above all, it reveals that many women’s organisations and those focused on challenging gender inequality feel threatened as the focus of funding moves in the direction of larger grants, tighter, short term targets, demonstrable and ‘scaled up’ results, and intensive administration.
Gender Equality, the New Aid Environment and Civil Society Organisations
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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
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Author: Katrin Schneider
Date September 2007
This paper explains what GRB is, what GRB work has help achieved and how it can further contribute to achieving gender equity and equality. The paper also presents some of the challenges of doing GRB work and concludes with a set of recommendations to institutionalize a gender equality perspective in public finance.
Public Finance Management, Including Gender-Responsive Budgeting
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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
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Author Nathalie Holvoet Institute of Development Policy and Managment, PRSP Policy Support Group, University of Antwerp, 2007
This easy-to-read publication seeks to contribute to the reflection process on an approach and a set of instruments that are geared towards the evolution in development thinking and practice. The note first argues why a gender dimension is best integrated into the evolving aid modalities. The extent to which PRSPs and SWAPs in practice take into account lessons learned is examined. Finally, the note discusses a number of avenues for making the new forms of aid more gender-sensitive, taking into account the basic principles of the new aid instruments.
New opportunities for gender equality? ! PRSPs en SWAPs from a gender perspective
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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.
