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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

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

Gender Budget Training Package

This powerful tool to use in advocating for gender equity, transparency and efficiency in public expenditures was dev eloped by the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE).

Gender Budget Training Package

Gender Budgeting and Auditing: Putting Lebanese Women in the Picture

TITLE: Gender Budgeting and Auditing: Putting Lebanese Women in the Picture
AUTHOR: UNIFEM Western Asia
DATE: 2000

The following document is from a "One Day Workshop for UN Focal Points" and has been prepared by UNIFEM (2002). The document details a workshop aimed at informing governments considering undertaking a gender-sensitive budget exercise. Specifically, the document covers the issue methods and strategies for the first year of implementing such an excersise for a gender budgeting workshop in Lebanon.

Gender Budgeting and Auditing: Putting Lebanese Women in the Picture

Gender Budgeting Guidebook

TITLE: Gender Budgeting Guidebook
AUTHOR: PARC
DATE: 2004

The following Gender Budgeting guidebook was produced by the Public Administration Research and Consultation Centre (PARC) of Cairo University in collaboration with the Egyptian National Council for Women. The guidebook, serves as a useful resource on Gender responsive budgeting concepts, tools and experiences in the Arabic language.

Gender Budgeting Guidebook

Gender in Local Government A Sourcebook for Trainers

Published by United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) - 2008

This manual, ‘Gender in Local Government: A Sourcebook for Trainers’, is designed to assist training institutions in mainstreaming gender concerns in local government capacity-building and in training related to human settlements as conducted by Habitat Agenda partners.

The Sourcebook seeks to provide local governments with the tools to better understand the importance of gender in the decision-making process and to reach better solutions for the communities they serve. Key issues addressed in this manual include participation in local government, local government financing and violence against women.

Gender in Local Government A Sourcebook for Trainers

Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women's Reproductive Rights: a Resource Pack

This resource pack authored by Debbie Budlender provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks. It focuses primarily on health, particularly reproductive health; on HIV/AIDS; and on violence against women as it relates to health services.

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