The following report, published by The Nordic Council of Ministers, is part of a Nordic cooperation project that strives to contribute to the integration of a gender and equality perspective into Nordic financial policy. The report, which was distributed at a Gender budgeting seminar with over 70 governmental participants, outlines a number of examples of methods that are used in the Nordic countries and internationally, in order to compare gender equality analyses, including a gender perspective on the allocation of resources as well as understanding equality within different sectors.

The guide brings together and synthesises several innovative and tested strategies on gender responsive planning & implementation from across India. It is designed as a selflearning tool or a practitioner’s reference book that provides a knowledge base of experiences which can be used as a reference for gender responsive planning & implementation initiatives. It draws extensively from inputs provided by a cross section of policy makers, feminist economists, representatives from civil society and women’s organisations.

The subject of this analysis is the budget process in the Republic of Macedonia (RM), with emphasis on the reforms of budget policies in terms of gender equality and determining entrance points for integration of the gender into the budgeting process. The analysis focused on reviewing the Budget of RM for 2009, 2010 and 2011, with a description of the budgeting process and a review of the reforms of the budget process towards the implementation of programorientedbudgeting.