This Commonwealth Secretariat publication provides a conceptual framework for work on gender responsive budgets, traces the evoluation of work in this area and provides information on country initiatives. This is a crucial resource for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.

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 paper uses examples from Australia and the Pacific Island Countries and Territorities to address the following questions:How can we assess a government's achievements in gender responsive budgeting? How can gender responsible budgeting be made sustainable in the face of change?

Labour market issues, be those of employment, unemployment, inactivity, wages and the like are very important for every country since they are linked to some of the main indicators of economic wellbeing or lack thereof.

The programme was launched in late 2006 to strengthen democratic governance and promote women's human rights through support for policy planning and budgeting processes to incorporate a gender perspective.

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

Comics on the topic of GRB.  For promoting better understanding of the GRB concept among civil society and wider public, including youth.

Comics on the topic of GRB.  For promoting better understanding of the GRB concept among civil society and wider public, including youth.

Comics on the topic of GRB.  For promoting better understanding of the GRB concept among civil society and wider public, including youth.

The article examines the two main strategies adopted by the Government of India for institutionalizing gender responsive budgeting to highlight what has gone wrong and what needs to be fixed in order to achieve better outcomes for women.