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“Zambia's poor deserve a larger share of the national budget,” reports UN expert PDF Print E-mail
GENEVA (4 June 2010) – “Resources are scarce, but the Zambian Government can and must do more,” UN Independent Expert Magdalena Sepúlveda said Friday at the UN Human Rights Council, during the presentation of her report* on the question of...

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Gender Responsive Budget: the Nepalese Experience PDF Print E-mail
Article by Krishna Hari Baskota, Revenue Secretary Ministry of Finance of Nepal.

The original article was published in Nepali in the Kathmandu Post, daily Newspaper.

The English translation of this article has been...

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Gender-Responsive Budgeting as a tool for alternative economic planning PDF Print E-mail
Article by Yamini Mishra, Executive Director of the Center for Budget and Governance Accountability

This article was originally published in “In search of economic alternatives for gender and social justice: Voices from India” a publication...

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Women will bear brunt of budget cuts, says Yvette Cooper (UK) PDF Print E-mail
Article by Allegra Stratton, Political Correspondent for the Guardian , published on 4 July 2010

The coalition's financial plans are the "worst for women since the creation of the welfare state" according to an analysis of last month's emergency...

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A woman-friendly budget (Bangladesh) PDF Print E-mail
Article by Journalist Parvez Babul from Bengladesh. Published in the Daily Star on 1 June 2010

 "Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness." ~Erica Jong.

MALIHA (age 16, but not her real name) does...

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UNIFEM signs a MOU with the Russian Academy of Civil Service to strengthen capacity for Gender Mainstreaming and GRB work in the CIS PDF Print E-mail
Moscow, 9 June 2010

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation (RAGS) and the UNIFEM Sub-Regional Office for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)...

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Articulating an alternative macroeconomic and gender and development framework (summary of UNIFEM CSW event) PDF Print E-mail
Article by the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS), 18 March 2010. Based on a paenl discussion organized by UNIFEM during the 54th session of the CSW.

Moderator: Mr. Manuel Montes , Chief, Policy Analysis and Development...

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Resources PDF Print E-mail
PublicationsGuide for the formulation of public budgets in the health sector using a gender perspective.Violence against Women in Mozambique Issue Paper   HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: Public budgets for the epidemic in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador...

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Gender Responsive Budgeting Programme in Ecuador receives worldwide recognition PDF Print E-mail
The Gender Responsive Budgets initiative led by the Ministry of Finance of Ecuador has been awarded a prize for innovation in addressing gender inequalities by the German International Cooperation Agency (GTZ). The initiative which was selected...

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The GRB website gets a “face lift” PDF Print E-mail
As part of UNIFEM's efforts to facilitate access to knowledge on GRB, UNIFEM's GRB website www.gender-budgets.org has undergone a number of improvements in terms of content, functionality and design. The new features of the website include an...

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