Gender Responsive Budgeting

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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

GRB VIDEO

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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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women’s Reproductive Rights: A Resource Pack

Available in English, French and Spanish

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A Training Manual Available in English, French and Spanish. This manual should be used in conjunction with the CD Rom of annexes which includes powerpoint presentations, handouts and guidelines for exercises and is also available in English, French and Spanish.

News

Archbishop Tutu and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai urge African countries to honour pledge

22 January 2007

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and fellow Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai have said that African governments have failed to deliver on a 2001 health pledge - costing millions of lives. For the two leaders, a number of governments promised to spend 15 per cent of their budgets on helping people who were diseased or sick but that few had kept to their words.

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Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers tell governments to fund gender equality

14 June 2007

The 8th Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting ended on Thursday 14 June 2007 with a message to governments to provide adequate resources to finance gender equality for achieving democracy and development objectives, particularly the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

South Korea commits to GRB by 2010

The submission of gender sensitive budgets and gender reports will be mandatory in South Korea starting in 2010 as instructed by the 2006 Finance Act. In prelude to this, the Ministry of Planning and Budget has ordered through its budget guidelines for 2006-2007 that every ministry clearly reports on budget allocations aimed at fostering gender equality as well as on the impact of sectoral programmes on gender equality.

Aid effectiveness workshop identifies GRB as a driver for gender responsive aid policies

26 April 2007

The experience of Morocco in using GRB to achieve gender equality was presented at a workshop on the theme “Development Effectiveness in practice: applying the Paris Declaration to advancing Gender Equality, Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights”. The meeting convened in Dublin by Irish Aid, OECD and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark from 26-27 April 2007 is one of the key events on the FFD agenda.

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