Realizing Their Needs: Women's Access to Public Services in Sector Decentralization
Since 2004, 13 research projects supported in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America by the Women's Rights and Citizenship program of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have been exploring exactly how decentralization affects women's access to services, resources, and local power. The findings show that these reforms do not automatically benefit women, and can even put them at a disadvantage.
Report on Morocco Local Level GRB initiative,UNIFEM 2005
This report presents the results of a research aimed at developing a diagnosis and an analysis of the opportunities that stem from introducing a gender approach in budgetary processes in some communes of Morocco. It was prepared under a joint UNIFEM/EU initiative supporting the integration of a gender approach in the systems and budgetary processes at local level in the context of decentralization. The report is in French.
Recommendations and guidelines for introducing the gender perspective to local budgets in Bosnia...
The publication presents a set of instruments for the analysis of public revenues and expenditures from a gender perspective. The authors analyzed...
Training module on Local Level GRB in Morocco.
Training module produced in the context of the Local Level GRB programme in Morocco.
The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The Hilongos Experience
This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.
The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Vignette
This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.
The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: The case of the bifurcated health...
The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: the case of the bifurcated health program was published in 2006 by UNIFEM and the Women's Action Network for Development (WAND). The document highlights how the application of GRB in Sorsogon City revealed that the painful truth that there was no real functional city health office, the acting city health officer was simply deployed from the Provincial Health Office. Understandably, there was no annual health plan, only an annual...
The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: Resources for Gender Budget Initiative
This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.
The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: conclusion and recommendations
This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.
The Local Level Gender Budget Initiative in the Philippines: foreword
This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.