Gender Budgeting

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Sharp, Rhonda, and Sanjugta Vas Dev. 2006. “Integrating Gender into Public Expenditure: Lessons from the Republic of the Marshall Islands.” Pacific Studies 29 (3/4): 83-105.  

Authors: Rhonda Sharp, Sanjugta Vas Dev

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In 2003, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) became tile first Pacific Island government to introduce a gender budget initiative (GBI) as a strategy for promoting gender equality. Important enabling factors which facilitated the GBI included the RMI's matrilineal culture, its strong women's nongovernment organizations (NGO) base and a raft of budgetary reforms seeking to increase transparency and accountability. However, a poorly resourced women's office within the government, low numbers of women holding political office, and the absence of key gender accountability mechanisms limited the success of the initiative. The most significant constraining factor was the RMI's budgetary context, including the uncertainty created by the US-RM I Compact negotiations. A key lesson for other countries is that GBIs, like any budgetary reform process, encounter a range of problems in changing budgetary processes and decision making, including a lack of political will of the government.

Topics: Gender, Gender Budgeting, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, NGOs, Political Participation Regions: Oceania Countries: Marshall Islands

Year: 2006

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Sarraf, Feridoun. 2003. “Gender-Responsive Government Budgeting.” Working Paper 03/83, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC. 

Author: Feridoun Sarraf

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The following is an IMF Working Paper on Gender Responsive Government Budgeting (GRGB) by Feridoun Sarraf (2003). The author discusses the conceptual dimensions of GRGB, the anlytical tools necessary for introducting GRGB and the role of mulitlateral organizations in endorsing and implementing GRGB in various countries. (Abstract from UN Women)

Topics: Gender, Gender Budgeting

Year: 2003

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Norton, Andy, and Diane Elson. 2002. What’s Behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process. London, UK: Overseas Development Institute.

Authors: Andy Norton, Diane Elson

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This paper by Andy Norton and Diane Elson (ODI, 2002) identifies issues, partners, tools and methods that help development actors to support citizen accountability and a pro-poor, gender-equitable, focus in public expenditure management.

The paper argues that integrating a rights perspective with a good understanding of the mechanics and politics of public expenditure management has potential for advancing understanding of how a pro-poor focus can be encouraged in mainstream public policy. The paper broadly aims to review different conceptual approaches for addressing issues of human rights, entitlements, political accountability and citizen participation in relation to the budget process and highlights experiences of pro-poor and gender-sensitive budget initiatives and draw key lessons. (Abstract from UN Women)

Topics: Economies, Poverty, Gender, Gender Budgeting, Political Participation, Rights, Human Rights

Year: 2002

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Mishra, Yamini. 2011. Breaking New Frontiers for Gender Responsive Budgeting: The Kerala Model. New York: UN Women.

Author: Yamini Mishra

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This article prepared by Yamini Mishra, Gender Responsive Budgeting Specialist, South, East and South East Asia, UN Women challenges us to think about what GRB has meant for the reality of women's lives?

Has it translated into better outputs and outcomes in the lives of women at the grassroots in any significant way? Has it resulted in more gender equitable development outcomes?

To answer these critical questions, Yamini Mishra takes a close look at the application of GRB in Kerala, the southernmost state of India which strides to effectively advance gender equality and women's rights have been applauded, although many challenges remain. (Abstract from UN Women)

Topics: Development, Gender, Gender Budgeting, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Asia, South Asia Countries: India

Year: 2001

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Lo, Fatou Aminata, and Nisreen Alami. 2011. Budgeting to End Gender Inequalities in the Education Sector. New York: UN Women, National Planning and Budgeting Cluster.

Authors: Fatou Aminata Lo, Nisreen Alami

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This paper prepared by Fatou Lo and Nisreen Alami explains how gender responsive budgeting tools can help address persistent gender inequalities in the education sector. Drawing on country experiences and a broad analysis of education sector financing, it argues that there are ways in which to sustain and further efforts to respond to gender disparities in eductation sector even in the current economic and financial climate.

Topics: Education, Gender, Gender Budgeting, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality

Year: 2011

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Holvoet, Nathalie. 2006. Gender Budgeting: Its Usefulness in Programme-Based Approaches to Aid. Antwerp, Belgium: University of Antwerp, EC Gender Help Desk.

Author: Nathalie Holvoet

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The series of Gender Briefing Notes is designed to help EC officials working in development cooperation to easily identify and address gender equality issues in specific sectors and thematic areas. This paper focuses on gender budgeting and its usefulness in the context of new aid instruments. It complements the "Mainstreaming Gender Equality in EC Development Cooperation" toolkit. It highlights how gender budgeting may be used by both partner countries and donors to make programme-based approaches more gender-sensitive. It shows how this will contribute to more effective and more efficient development and to greater gender equality.

Topics: Development, Gender, Gender Budgeting, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality

Year: 2006

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Floro, Maria, Nilüfer Çağatay, John Willoughby, and Korkut Ertürk. 2004. Gender Issues and Concerns in Financing for Development. 3. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.

Authors: Maria Floro, Nilufer Çagatay, John Willoughby, Korkut Ertürk

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The objective of this paper prepared for INSTRAW by Maria Floro, Nilufer Çagatay, John Willoughby and Korkut Ertürk in March 2004 is to use a gendered approach in examining the development financing strategies endorsed in the 2002 Monterrey Consensus. The paper seeks to identify what needs to be done to ensure that gender perspectives are incorporated in the followup mechanisms to the conference as well as in the broader global effort for economic and gender justice, peace and the realization of human rights. (Abstract from UN Women)

Topics: Economies, Gender, Gender Budgeting, Justice, Rights, Human Rights

Year: 2004

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Esim, Simel. 2000. “Impact of Government Budgets on Poverty and Gender Equality." Paper presented at the Inter-Agency Workshop on Improving the Effectiveness of Integrating Gender into Government Budgets, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, April 26-27.

Author: Simel Esim

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In this paper Simel Esim (2000) focuses on expenditure and revenue instruments of fiscal policy as strategic entry points for engendering macroeconomics. The paper also includes a discussion of the potential implications of monetary policy and overall fiscal stance on poverty and gender equality. (Abstract from UN Women)

Topics: Economies, Poverty, Gender, Gender Budgeting, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality

Year: 2000

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Grown, Caren, Chandrika Bahadur, Jessie Handbury, and Diane Elson. 2006. "The Financial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment." Working Paper 467, the Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Authors: Caren Grown, Chandrika Bahadur, Jessie Handbury, Diane Elson

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This paper by Caren Grown, Chandrika Bahadur, Jessie Handbury, Diane Elson, August 2006, was prepared for the World Bank High-Level Consultation on "Promoting the Gender Equality Millennium Development Goal: the Implementation Challenge" held on 16 February 2006, in Washington, DC. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Jessica Dixon in the preparation of this paper. Thanks also are due to the following individuals for assistance with data collection: Kristin Haffert, National Democratic Institute; Alice Weimers, Guido Schmidt- Traub, Gonzalo Pizarro, Brian Lutz, and Joanna Rubinstein, UN Millennium Project; and Ky Tu Lam, Denyse Morin, and Helene Carlsson, World Bank. We also appreciate the constructive suggestions of Shanta Devarajan, Eric Swanson, Andrew Morrison, Ian Gillson, and the members of the Gender Unit at the World Bank during a presentation of an initial draft of this paper in November 2005. Task Force 3 of the UN Millennium Project provided the intellectual framework for the gender analysis, and the UN Millennium Project Secretariat developed the analytical framework and the estimates of MDGs costs used in this paper.

Topics: Development, Gender, Gender Budgeting, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality

Year: 2006

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Das, Subrat, and Yamini Mishra. 2006. “Gender Budgeting Statement: Misleading and Patriarchal Assumptions.” Economic and Political Weekly 41 (30): 3285-88.

Authors: Subrat Das, Yamini Mishra

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The gender budgeting statement presented in the union budget for 2006-07 covers a significant number of ministries/departments and is hence a welcome step. However, many of the figures given in the statement reflect highly questionable assumptions, which on the one hand are unjustifiable and on the other quite patriarchal.

Topics: Gender, Gender Budgeting, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy Regions: Asia, South Asia Countries: India

Year: 2006