Harmonised Indicators on Gender Equality and the Status of Women in Albania
The publication serves as a basic manual for collecting data, assessing gender equality and the status of women in Albania and developing proposals to further improve them in such areas as women’s participation in the decision-making, education, employment, defense, social welfare, health, media and domestic violence.
Technical Brief - GRB in the context of COVID-19
This technical brief builds on UN Women’s Guidance Note on ‘ Assessing Fiscal Stimulus Packages to respond to the Socio- Economic Impacts of Covid-19’ and it presents key entry points for using gender responsive budgeting to assess and monitor COVID-19 fiscal support packages. It presents five main GRB tools with corresponding information and guiding questions to support their use in the current context.
The missing link: Applied budget work as a tool to hold governments accountable for maternal...
This brief explores the relevance of civil society budget analysis and advocacy (i.e., budget work) and its potential as a tool to hold governments accountable for their maternal mortality reduction commitments. In doing so, it discusses three recent examples of civil society groups engaged with budget analysis and advocacy: Fundar, Center for Analysis and Research in Mexico; Women's Dignity in Tanzania; and the Center for Budget and Governance Accountability in India. The work of these...
A Practitioner’s Guide to Gender responsive planning and implementation
The guide brings together and synthesises several innovative and tested strategies on gender responsive planning & implementation from across India....
Discussion Paper on Measuring Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 5c1
Paper discussing the definition and measurement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 5.c.1 (reclassified to Tier II) and discussing the relationship of SDG Indicator 5.c.1 with other Indicators.
Gender in Local Planning’. Guidebook for civil society organizations
The manual is addressed to representatives of civil society and aimed at increasing their participation in the development of local development...
Gender-Sensitive Local Auditing: Initiatives from India to Build Accountability to Women
This article from the World Bank Institute's Development Outreach Journal discusses the importance of citizen's efforts to audit directly the...
Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW
The report makes a significant contribution to the advocacy work on the transparency of budgets. It provides arguments for increasing the accountability of government budgets to women's rights.
Budgeting for Women's Rights Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW: a summary...
A summary guide for policy makers, gender equality and human rights advocates" is a publication based on a report by Diane Elson "Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW" by UNIFEM 2006. The publication developed by UNIFEM in 2008 articulates what it means to take an explicitly rights-based approach to government budgets and draws on the lessons of Gender Budgets Initiatives (GBIs) experiences around the world. It links governments' commitments under...
Budgeting for Women's Rights Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW: summary..(Fr )
A summary guide for policy makers, gender equality and human rights advocates" is a publication based on a report by Diane Elson "Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW" by UNIFEM 2006. The publication developed by UNIFEM in 2008 articulates what it means to take an explicitly rights-based approach to government budgets and draws on the lessons of Gender Budgets Initiatives (GBIs) experiences around the world. It links governments' commitments under...