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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

Intergovernmental fiscal relations and gender-responsive budgeting

This pamphlet is intended to assist GRB advocates in thinking about what budget experts term ‘intergovernmental fiscal relations’ and what this means for GRB activities. Understanding this issue can strengthen advocacy around ensuring that adequate resources are available for allocation towards gender-responsive priorities for which local government is responsible. Intergovernmental fiscal relations concerns how money is transferred between different levels of government and thus how much money is available to sub-national governments for delivery of services.

Intergovernmental fiscal relations and gender-responsive budgeting pamphlet

List of GRB Experts

This list of experts was developed by UNIFEM Gender Budget Programme. It includes the name, detailed profile and email address of experts from all regions of the world, who have collaborated with UNIFEM in recent years. Please visit often for updates.

List of GRB Experts

Local Level Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives July 2003 - December 2005 : UNIFEM final report

This report highlights the work carried out by UNIFEM and its partners throughout the lifetime of the project “Local Level Gender Responsive Budgets Initiatives.” The overall objective of the programme was to advocate for and support the transformation of economic governance and leadership into a more gender responsive governance in order to improve gender equality and increase women’s participation in decision making process that shape their lives.

Local Level Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives : final report

Mainstreaming Gender into Egypt's Socio-Economic Development Plan--A Success Story

TITLE: Mainstreaming Gender into Egypt's Socio-Economic Development Plan--A Success Story (English Version)
AUTHOR: PARC
DATE: 2004

The following piece, published by the Egyptian National Council for Women, and available in English and Arabic below, summarizes their success in mainstreaming gender into the Socio-Economic Development Plan by highlighting methods such as gender budgeting and performance based budgeting with a gender approach, and the subsequent impact on the national budget allocations.

Mainstreaming Gender into Egypt's Socio-Economic Development Plan--A Success Story (EnglishVersion)

NEW! Gender Responsive Budgeting- Newsletter

3 MARCH 2008

UNIFEM's Gender Budget Programme is pleased to announce the release of its first quarterly newsletter.

This Newsletter seeks to encourage knowledge sharing from Gender Budget Initiatives around the world, share news on progress made in incorporating a gender perspective into budgeting, and inform practitioners of new resources and publications on GRB.

GRB Newsletter Issue 1