Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice
Author: Bola Akanji
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2022-03-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1793652678

In the twenty-first century, gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) has emerged as a development tool that explores if and how gender equality goals and targets are being effectively supported through government funding. Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice: Lessons from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries argues that, although justified by the high costs of gender inequality to economic growth and development, the use of GRB as a tool to achieve global and regional gender equality goals has seen little progress in the twenty-first century, especially in developing countries. Through analyses of government budgets and the budgeting process, and gender equality outcomes in Nigeria and the selected countries from 2000 to 2020, the contributors show that GRB has failed to gain traction or thrive in developing countries. Using these analyses, the contributors identify critical success factors that are missing in policy-making and planning in the developing world and must be integrated in order to further facilitate inclusive growth and sustainable development.

Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting

Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting
Author: Cecilia Ng
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319244965

This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting. It explores the possibilities for gender sensitive budgeting when implemented using techniques that have been popularized by participatory governance activists. A combination of the two allows for a whole new way of ensuring public budgets are used equitably.

Gender Budgets Make More Cents

Gender Budgets Make More Cents
Author: Debbie Budlender
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780850927344

Comprises ten papers which document "good practice" in gender budget work from across the globe.

Gender-Responsive Government Budgeting

Gender-Responsive Government Budgeting
Author: Mr.Feridoun Sarraf
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2003-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451850565

This paper examines the concept of gender-responsive government budgeting, promoted in recent years by women's nongovernmental organizations, academia, and multilateral organizations, and the extent of its implementation by national governments in both advanced and developing countries. Owing to recently developed analytical and technical tools, government budget management systems in some countries can help promote gender equality-to the extent of government involvement in gender-sensitive sectors and programs-at any level of available funding. However, to be fully effective, obstacles such as gender-biased culture, the lack of appropriate budget classifications, and the lack of gender analysis expertise and gender-disaggregated data in most countries need to be addressed.

Gender Budgets Make Cents

Gender Budgets Make Cents
Author: Debbie Budlender
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780850926965

Providing an understanding of gender responsive budgets, this text is part of the inter-agency programme of the Commonwealth Secretariat, IDRC and UNIFEM. It covers the theoretical framework, the evolution of work in this area, the role of different stakeholders and the lessons learned to date.

Engendering Budgets

Engendering Budgets
Author: Debbie Budlender
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780850927351

This guide provides practitioners, politicians and policy communities with the basic information needed to understand gender-responsive budgets and to start initiatives based on their own local situations.

Caribbean and Pacific Islands

Caribbean and Pacific Islands
Author: Tamoya A. L. Christie
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1475520050

Of the countries in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands, Timor-Leste has the most well-developed gender budgeting initiative. In the Pacific Islands, a few gender budgeting efforts were initiated but did not continue. In the Caribbean, there have been no well-developed gender budgeting efforts, although governments have undertaken policies to promote gender equality. We provide a number of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of gender budgeting efforts. Governments should link gender budgeting to national development plans, set realistic time expectations for achieving results, engage in capacity building with officials, draw upon strengths outside the government, and strengthen regional coordination.

Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment

Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment
Author: Kuruvilla, Moly
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2020-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799828212

Globally, women are facing social, economic, and cultural barriers impeding their autonomy and agency. Accelerated women empowerment programs often fail to attain their targets as envisaged by the policymakers due to a variety of reasons, with the most prominent being the deep-rooted cultural norms ingrained within society. In the era of globalization, empowerment of women demands new approaches and strategies that encourage the mainstreaming of gender equality as a societal norm. The Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment is a critical scholarly publication that examines global gender issues and new strategies for the promotion of women empowerment and gender mainstreaming in various spheres of women’s lives, including education and ICT, economic participation, health and sexuality, mental health, aging, law and judiciary, leadership, and decision making. It provides a comprehensive coverage of all major gender issues with novel ideas on gender mainstreaming being contributed by men and women authors from multidisciplinary backgrounds. Gender perspective and intersectional approach in the discourses make this handbook a unique contribution to the scholarship of social sciences and humanities. The book provides new theoretical inputs and practical directions to academicians, sociologists, social workers, psychologists, managers, lawyers, policy makers, and government officials in their efforts at gender mainstreaming. With a wide range of conceptual richness, this handbook is an excellent reference guide to students and researchers in programs pertaining to gender/women's studies, cultural studies, economics, sociology, social work, medicine, law, and management.