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Gender budgeting: practical implementation Handbook

 

Reports from the EC-UNIFEM programme "Integrating GRB into the aid effectiveness agenda"

   

Budgeting for Women’s Rights: A summary guide for policy makers, gender equality and human rights advocates.

   

"Many a slip...: Budget work to advance the right to food”.

   

The missing link: Applied budget work as a tool to hold governments accountable for maternal mortality reduction commitments

 
 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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NEW! GRB VIDEOS

 

MOROCCO

 

phpthumb.jpgGender-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.

 

 

 

Click here to watch Morocco video

 

 

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.

 

 

Click here to watch Bolivia video

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Click here to watch India video

 

 

 

Resources in Spanish
Análisis con enfoque de género de los presupuestos, planes y programas del municipio de Quito PDF Print E-mail

 

Análisis con enfoque de género de los presupuestos, planes y programas del municipio distrito metropolitano de Quito 2002, elaborado POR1: ec. Zonia Palán Tamayo municipio del distrito metropolitano de Quito comisión de la mujer, el niño y la familia Quito - Ecuador, Noviembre 2002

 

Analisis con enfoque de genero de los presupuestos, planes y programas del municipio de Quito

 

 

 
Análisis del Presupuesto Público con Enfoque de Género: Estudio De Caso Para Villa El Salvador PDF Print E-mail

 

Titulo: Análisis del Presupuesto Público con Enfoque de Género: Estudio De Caso Para Villa El Salvador

Autor: Bethsabe Andia Perez y Arlette Beltran Barco
Fecha: 2002

Este documento, escrito por Bethsabe Andia Perez y Arlette Beltran Barco (2002), recoge los resultados del análisis de presupuesto con perspectiva de género llevado a cabo por UNIFEM-Región Andina en Convenio con la Municipalidad de Villa El Salvador (Perú), sobre el presupuesto del 2001 y el Plan Integral de Desarrollo 2000-2010.

Análisis del Presupuesto Público con Enfoque de Género: Estudio De Caso Para Villa El Salvador

 
Aportes a los Presupuestos Sensibles al Género: experiencias y reflexiones... PDF Print E-mail

Title: Aportes a los Presupuestos Sensibles al Género: experiencias y reflexiones de Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay”, Cuadernos de Dialogos.
Author: UNIFEM Brazilia
Date: November 2008

Description: This publication highlights results achieved and lessons learnt through the Regional GRB Programme funded by AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation) in Latin America and by the Basque Country’s International Cooperation in the case of the local governments in Recife (Brazil), Rosario (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay).

The book is divided in three parts: the first part discusses the history of GRB and concepts; the second part examines GRB in Latin America and the Caribbean, including tensions, conceptual contributions, strategies and results; and the third and last part deals with the participatory budget experiences from a gender perspective in the localities of Recife, Rosario, and Montevideo. (The publication is available in Spanish and Portuguese only.)

Aportes a los Presupuestos Sensibles al G�nero: experiencias y reflexiones... (Spanish)

Aportes a los Presupuestos Sensibles al G�nero: experiencias y reflexiones... (Portuguese)

 

 
Bridging the Gap: Financing Gender Equality PDF Print E-mail

Title: Bridging the Gap: Financing Gender Equality
Authors: A publication of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS)
Date: New York, 2008

Description: This booklet is intended for those who wish to better understand the links between gender equality, public policy formation and development financing. It highlights the importance of expanding policy choices in setting the framework for national development plans, and emphasizes the central role of strategies to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women in achieving development effectiveness.

Bridging the Gap: Financing Gender Equality (English)

Bridging the Gap: Financing Gender Equality (French)

Bridging the Gap: Financing Gender Equality (Spanish)

 
Budgeting for Women’s Rights Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW PDF Print E-mail

Title: Budgeting for Women’s Rights Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW: A summary guide for policy makers, gender equality and human rights advocates.
Author: This booklet is based on a report by Diane Elson “Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW’ by UNIFEM 2006.
Date: December 2008

Description: This booklet articulates what it means to take an explicitly rights-based approach to government budgets and draws on the lessons of Gender Budgets Initiatives (GBIs) experiences around the world. It links govern¬ments’ commitments under CEDAW with the four main dimen-sions of budgets: revenue, expenditure, macroeconomics of the budget, and budget decision-making processes. It makes these links to help clarify how gender budget analysis can assist in: monitoring a government’s compliance with CEDAW; identifying how CEDAW can be used to set equality-enhancing criteria in budget activities; and guiding GBIs and other initiatives towards achieving gender equality.

This booklet is intended as an advocacy and action tool for key stakeholders in the area of government budgets and women’s human rights, including policy and lawmakers at the country level, and gender and human rights advocates.

 

Budgeting for Women's Rights Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW (English)

Budgeting for Women's Rights Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW (Spanish)

Budgeting for Women's Rights Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW (French)

Budgeting for Women's Rights Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW (Arabic)

 
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