Gender Responsive Budgeting - Moroccan Report to the CEDAW Committee makes reference to GRB work

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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

GRB VIDEO

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 video

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women’s Reproductive Rights: A Resource Pack

Available in English, French and Spanish

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A Training Manual Available in English, French and Spanish. This manual should be used in conjunction with the CD Rom of annexes which includes powerpoint presentations, handouts and guidelines for exercises and is also available in English, French and Spanish.

Moroccan Report to the CEDAW Committee makes reference to GRB work

October 2007

The Moroccan Report to the CEDAW Committee is one of the first national reports to acknowledge that the fulfillment of women’s human rights requires the proper allocation of adequate resources.

This is an eloquent affirmation that compliance with CEDAW entails ensuring that budgets and budgeting processes are formulated with a gender perspective and are designed in a manner that addresses gender inequalities and discrimination against women.

The reference to GRB can be found under paragraph 69 of the Moroccan report at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/40sess.htm (scroll down to Morocco).

The report which is available in Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Russian will be presented to the CEDAW Committee in January 2008.

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