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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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Key Resources

Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Budgets: Overview Report

by Helena Hofbauer Balmori for BRIDGE/IDS (February 2003)

This report seeks to contribute to answering the following questions: what are Gender Budgets Initiatives (GBIs) and why are they needed? How are GBIs implemented in practice? Who carries out GBIs? What strategies are useful for advocating for gender-sensitive budgets?

Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Budgets

Cutting Edge Pack: Gender and Budgets Supporting Resources Collection

by Hazel Reeves and Charlie Sever for Bridge/IDS (February 2003)

This publication complements the Overview Report on Gender and Budgets by providing summaries of a selection of key materials that reinforce the role of gender-sensitive budgets as a tool for advancing gender equality. Sharing accessible explanations of key concepts, geographically and context diverse case studies, practical tools, guidelines, training materials, popular education materials, web resources and networking contacts, supports progress towards achieving the ultimate goal of the formulation of a gender-sensitive budget.

Cutting Edge Pack: Gender and Budgets Supporting Resources Collection

Engendering Budgets:A Practitioner's Guide to Understanding & Implementing Gender-Responsive Budgets

TITLE: Engendering Budgets: A Practitioner's Guide to Understanding and Implementing Gender-Responsive Budgets
AUTHOR: Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt
DATE: 2003

This practical guide by Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt, based on experiences of past gender budget initiatives, provides a comprehensive outline of how to engender budgets. Intended for practitioners of any level, this gender budgets handbook provides insight based on past examples, while also relaying technical guidance needed to apply the concepts in most contexts.

Engendering Budgets: A Practitioner's Guide to Understanding and Implementing Gender-Responsive

Engendering Macroeconomic Policy in Budgets, Unpaid, and Informal Work

TITLE: Engendering Macroeconomic Policy in Budgets, Unpaid, and Informal Work

AUTHOR: Simel Esim
Annex 4

Policies and programs geared to macro-level planning and management have often failed to take gender characteristics into account. This has resulted in negative effects on the position of women. Visibility is crucial for integrating women into the macroeconomic development process. Two areas where progress has been made to integrate women into macroeconomic policies are efforts to engender budgets at the national level, and programs to introduce unpaid work, time use, and informal employment into national economic statistics and policy.

http://www.gender-budgets.org/content/view/162/153/

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