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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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Training Resources

System of quantitative indicators on VAW in Andalucia by Mª Isabel Martínez

System of quantitative indicators on VAW (translation of chapter 5 point 3 of the book Los Costes sociales y Económicos de la Violencia Contra las Mujeres en Andalucía by Mª Isabel Martínez Martín Almenara Estudios Económicos y Sociales, 2003

System of quantitative indicators on VAW by Isabel Martinez

Tools for a Gender-Sensitive Analysis of Budgets

TITLE: Tools for a Gender-Sensitive Analysis of Budgets
AUTHOR: UNIFEM
DATE: 2005

Introduced by a group of feminist economists, the following tools are intended to be used for analysis of budgets from a gender perspective. These methodologies have been the main driving force for the increased momentum around gender budgeting.

Tools for a Gender-Sensitive Analysis of Budgets

Training Manual on Gender Budget Analysis

Author: the Development Initiatives Network (DIN)

December 2006.

This training manual has been developed as part of the Gender Budget Transparency and Accountability Project. The Project, which is being implemented in Lagos State by DIN with financial assistance from the European Union over a 2-year period, 2006-2008, has as its principal objective, the advancement of women's rights through the use of gender budget analysis (GBA).

The manual aims to facilitate the training of individuals and groups who have limited or no knowledge of government budget processes. It also presents concise information on the key elements of GBA and practical advice on how local communities and civil society can ensure the gendering of government budgets at all levels.

Training Manual on Gender Budget Analysis (DIN)

Understanding the Budget: The WIN-Belize Training on the Budget

Author Debra Lewis for The Women’s Issues Network of Belize (WIN-Belize) April 2006

This training manual was developed by WIN-Belize to insure that members of the Working Group formed in September 2005 to support the development of WIN-Belize’s work on the budget,have a solid understanding of budget issues.

Understanding the Budget: The WIN-Belize Training on the Budget By Debra Lewis