• 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

• Mapping Multilateral Development Banks’ Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Spending Suzanna Dennis and Elaine Zuckerman June 2007

Please click on the link below to access the report recently released by Gender Action*.  

This is the first report testing Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) commitment to promote reproductive health, prevent HIV and treat AIDS. It analyses the quantity and quality of MDB funding for these sectors during 2003-2006 and highlights how MDB and International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies undermine achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reproductive health and HIV/AIDS targets.

Gender Action was established in 2002. It is the only organization dedicated to promoting gender equality and women's rights in all International Financial Institution (IFI) investments such as those of the World Bank — the largest public source of development financing in the world. Gender Action's goal is to ensure that women and men equally participate in and benefit from all IFI investments.

http://www.gender-budgets.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=343&Itemid=142

• Show us the money: is violence against women of the HIV&AIDS funding agenda? 

by Women Won't Wait Campaign, Action Aid; 2007. Author: Susana T. Fried

In response to the growing body of evidence on violence and HIV&AIDS, and in response to calls by human rights advocates for effective action on these issues, international institutions and national governments have articulated a concern to address gender-based violence, including within the context of HIV&AIDS.

Little is known, however, about what is actually being done to address these issues in policies, programming and funding, and whether the efforts that are underway are truly based on the human rights and health agenda advocated for so long by women’s movements throughout the world. In order to better understand the level of resources – in policy, programming and funding -- committed to this deadly intersection, this report was commissioned by an international coalition of organizations working on women’s human rights, development, health and HIV& AIDS.

Show us the money is violence against women on the HIV&AIDS funding agenda?