The publication presents a set of instruments for the analysis of public revenues and expenditures from a gender perspective. The authors analyzed basic categories of public expenditure in five municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Banovici, Bijeljina, Srebrenica, Travnik and Tuzla) with a view to provide solid arguments for the implementation of gender-budgets at local and national levels.

The resource book, produced by the Public Administration Research and Consultation Centre (PARC) of Cairo Univerisity in collaboration with the Egyptian National Council for women, explains performance based budgeting and ways of integrating gender into those budgets. The book, produced in Arabic, also provides a number of examples and practical tools.

This publication is a compilation of two studies carried out to assess GRB in the peacebuilding and Health programmes under the EC/UN Women partnership programme on 'Integrating GRB into the Aid Effectiveness Agenda'.

This article from the World Bank Institute's Development Outreach Journal discusses the importance of citizen's efforts to audit directly the activities of development programs. The piece, which emphasizes that local accountability to the poor can be served in the form of gender-sensitive participatory planning, budgeting and auditing, provides examples from the Indian context.

The manual is addressed to representatives of civil society and aimed at increasing their participation in the development of local development programs and gender mainstreaming in the process. The publication presents the steps to formulate a development plan at the district level and discusses methods of gender analysis of the situation. It also identifies key challenges and opportunities in planning and budgeting process and includes the main strategic directions of development and planning for implementation of the plan.

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.