Gender budget initiatives

Why is progress towards gender equality so slow? Despite commitments of governments all over the world to gender equality, unequal gender relations prevail. In part, this is a failure to attach money to policy commitments, in other words, a failure to reflect a gender perspective in government budgets. Some feminists argue that for focus on gender budgeting, i.e. initiatives that aim to influence governments to implement gender sensitive budgets and more inclusive models of decision-making about government expenditure and revenue collection.

For more details view Banúlacht’s Briefing Paper on Gender Responsive Budgets, which covers

• What is the budget?
• What is gender budgeting?
• Challenges in engaging in gender budget initiatives
• Gender budgeting: a strategy towards transformation?
• Banúlacht and Gender Budgeting

Links

Siyanda
http://www.siyanda.org

Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives
www.gender-budgets.org

International Budget Project
www.internationalbudget.org

The Commonwealth Secretariat
www.thecommonwealth.org

Institute of Development Studies
www.ids.ac.uk