Morocco has a long history of gender responsive budgeting work with sustained, high-level political will to address gender equality. Since the adoption of a new finance law in January 2014, the needs of women and girls are increasingly being reflected in how governments spend and the gender priorities are integrated throughout the budgeting process.

UN Women supported the establishment of Centers of Excellence on Gender-Responsive Budgeting in different regions to promote learning, innovation and exchange on GRB. These centers provide essential knowledge and tools and build technical capacity of government authorities to strengthen gender-responsive budgeting. There are three regional centers established to date: GRB Center of Excellence (GRB-CE) Morocco, GRB Center of Excellence for CIS and GRB Center of Excellence Mozambique.

Tracking financial allocations and monitoring how and where they are spent is key to increase accountability in financing for gender equality. The Canadian CSO AWID (Association for Women's Rights in Development) partnered with the Instituto del Tercer Mundo/Social Watch, feminist economists, other women’s rights organizations and research institutions to develop an innovative scorecard, FundHer, to assess donor funding and to address the changing landscape in development cooperation.

Gender responsive planning and budgeting is critical to address gender inequality.<br/><br/>

Transparent and accountable institutions promote gender equality. <br/>

Women's voice and participation leads to increased influence. <br/><br/>

Gender responsive local governance is central for improved service delivery for women and girls.<br/><br/>

This paper by the Commonwealth Secretariat (1999) provides a rationale for the strategic goals of the Commonwealth Gender Budget Initiative at the national level and highlights the need for integrating a gender perspective in macroeconomic policies and budgets. In addition, the paper outlines the necessary tools required for a gender analysis of the budget and the results from pilot initiatives in Sri Lanka and South Africa.

The publication is comprehensive review of ACFODE of Uganda's gender budgeting experiences at the local level. Among some of the topics discussed in the newsletter are ACFODE's initiatives, mission, activities, lessons learnt, local level gender budget research and more.

This study by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance discusses existing income discrepancies based on current statistics and examines the effects of taxation, which is gender-neutral in its legal formulation, on these differences, especially with regard to the most recent tax reform.