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TITLE: Improving the Effectiveness of Applying a Gender Analysis to Government Budgets
AUTHOR: United Nations Development Fund for Women, International Development Research Centre, Commonwealth Secretariat
DATE: 2000
This document, produced in 2000, provides a report of an inter-agency workshop on gender budgets held for the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Development Research Centre. The report discusses gender budget initiatives located within governments. It further details the diverse range of gender budget experiences, analyzes their impact and discusses future directions for the gender budget analysis programme.
Improving the Effectiveness of Applying a Gender Analysis to Government Budgets
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Report by Kimberli Keith-Brown based on a three-day exploratory dialogue in November 2004 between experts and activists from the fields of maternal health and applied budget analysis, convened by the International Budget Project, Fundar Center for Analysis and Research, and the Population Council Latin America & Caribbean-Regional office, with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The meeting produced numerous ideas about how to take this connection to another level. The aim of this report is to broaden the discussion to an even wider group of people who hopefully share the objectives of those present at this meeting, and provide guidelines for other activists looking for new strategies to reduce maternal mortality.
Investing For Life: Making the Link between Public Spending and the Reduction of Maternal Mortality
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TITLE: Local Level Gender Responsive Budgeting International Expert Group Meeting
AUTHOR: UNIFEM, IDRC
DATE: 2004
The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) organized an International Expert Group Meeting on ‘Local Level Gender Responsive Budget’ in New Delhi, India, during November 1-4, 2004. The meeting was convened as part of UNIFEM’s project supported by the European Commission “Local Level Gender Responsive Budgets Initiatives” (LLGRBI). The project which provides support to local level gender budgets initiatives in Morocco, India, Philippines and Uganda also seeks to develop knowledge and expertise on local level gender budgets approaches and experiences. The International Development Research Center (IDRC Canada) also provided technical expertise towards this meeting. This was the first meeting of its kind, which created a platform to bring together the practitioners, policy makers, researchers, academia and international agencies committed to local level gender responsive budgeting. The following document is the report from the International Expert Group Workshop.
Local Level Gender Responsive Budgeting International Expert Group Meeting
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Government budgets provide a comprehensive statement of the priorities of a nation. Within the budget, a government expresses its policy intentions, and the means and resources with which it intends to implement them. The budget debate is one of the key moments in the parliamentary year and it offers a crucial opportunity for parliament to promote the interests of those it represents. Increasingly, budgets have also begun to incorporate a vision of gender equality, by acknowledging that expenditures have differing effects on men and women, boys and girls.
In line with its dual interest in promoting the role of women in parliament and fostering good governance, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has held a series of regional seminars on "Parliament and the budgetary process, including from a gender perspective": in Nairobi (2000), Bamako (2001), Manila (2002) ,Dili- Timor Leste (2003), Colombo (2003) to help parliaments and their members to become more effective in accomplishing this crucial part of their constitutional mission.
The following publications document the speeches and presentations made during these seminars, and uses a series of quotations from the ensuing debates to provide a snapshot of the issues covered.
Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including from a Gender Perspective: Anglophone Africa seminar
Le Parlement et le processus budgetaire, notamment dans une perspective d'equite..
Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including from a Gender Perspective: Manila Seminar
Parliament and the Budgetary Process in Timor Leste (English version)
Parliament and the budgetary process in Timor Leste (Portuguese version)
Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including from a Gender Perspective: Seminar South West Asia
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Rapport du Seminaire sur la prise en compte du genre dans le travail parlementaire particulierement dans le budget.
Bujumbura, 15 et 16 janvier 2008. Rapporteuse : Honorable Clothilde Caraziwe
Rapport de Seminaire Budget Genre et Parlement- Burundi - Janvier 2008
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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.
