Gender Responsive Budgeting - Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

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The following documents were recently added to the website.

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

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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Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

Statistics based on DAC Members’ reporting on the Gender Equality Policy Marker, 2004 - 2005

By OECD-DAC, June 2007

Summary of (2004-2005) statistics on aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment extended by DAC members. Information shown includes the gender equality policy marker coverage, the top ten recipients and a sector breakdown of aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment