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Author: Debbie Budlender, Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE).
This booklet was commissioned by the Southern African Regional Office (SARO) of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM. UNIFEM’s SARO has been supporting GRB work in the region for many years. It sees this booklet as yet another way in which it can link the work on GRB and rights.
Budgeting to Fulfill International Gender Commitments
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Prepared by Christina Nomdo, September 2006
This paper provides a brief description of the perspectives of child rights and gender budgeting, examine the methodologies of each of these budgeting perspectives and present an example of the girl child’s right to education to illustrate how each of these methodologies can be applied to improve the quality of life of the girl child. The paper also provides information about a South African project where children are involved in learning budget monitoring and analysis.
Improving the quality of life for the girlchild by using child rights and gender sensitive budgeting
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TITLE: Making the Act Work
AUTHOR: Gender Advocacy Programme, South Africa
DATE: 2002
The following is a research study, by the Gender Advocacy Programme in South Africa, that investigates budget allocations for the implemenation of the Domestic Violence Act in the Western Cape. The research centres on key departments responsible for implementation of the Act, namely the Department of Justice, Safety and Security and Welfare.
Making the Act Work
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The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for Social Enquiry and the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit.
The project has completed an analysis of the impact of the budgets of all national government departments on the lives of South African women, under the coordination of world class GRB expert Debbie Budlender.
Women's Budget Initiatives 1
Women's Budget Initiative 2
Women's Budget Initiative 3
Women's Budget Initiative 4
Women's Budget Initiative 5
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