The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for... read more

The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for... read more

The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for... read more

The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for... read more

The Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a joint research project established in 1995, soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa. It is a collaborative project of national parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including amon others: the Gender and Economic Policy Group of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance; the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), the Community Agency for... read more

TITLE: The Political Economy of Women's Budgets in the South
AUTHOR: Debbie Budlender
DATE: 1999

The following article by Debbie Budlender (n.d.) discusses the potential for gender budget exercises to address gender issues and more specifically, the capacity for such exercises to address the complexities and dilemmas associated with mainstreaming gender into governance processes. The author draws largely upon the South... read more