UN Women prepared this manual to aim members of women's organizations at a community level who seek to influence public policy in local governments. The manual is a tool that can be used on-awareness training sessions to promote opportunities for participation and advocacy.

The focus of this publication is to act as a guide to the practice of gender budgeting. It is not a first-step book. There are many publications which articulate the rationale for, the background to and the history of gender budgeting.

The manual is addressed to representatives of civil society and aimed at increasing their participation in the development of local development programs and gender mainstreaming in the process.

Guidelines which aim to offer a practice of gender mainstreaming in the budgetary process of policies and programmes drafted from different line ministries during the medium-term budgetary programme.

This publication captures lessons learned in the course of the UNIFEM project on gender responsive budgeting (GRB) in South Eastern Europe (SEE).

This guide provides step by step instructions on implementing gender responsive planning and budgeting ( PBSG ) at the decentralized level.

This publication supports the design and formulation of Gender Sensitive policies and budgets in the Health Sector.

This publication is a methodological Guide to Planning and Gender Responsive Budgeting.

The GRBC has developed five criteria for evaluation of genderresponsiveness of the budgeted government programmes and projects.

This guide was developed in Kyrgyzstan to conduct appropriate training seminars among staff of ministries and agencies responsible for the development and implementation of social and economic policy.