Guidelines for Gender Sensitive Budgeting on Girls' Education in Ethiopia

The gender budgeting guidelines for girls' education were developed by the Ethiopian Minsitry of Finance and Ministry of Education in 2009 to provide guidance to planners and budget experts in their decision making in resource allocation to achieve girls' equal access to education at all levels.

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Education

This advocacy brief published in 2010 by UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education was written by Reina Ichii. The author argues that achieving the Education for All (EFA) goals by 2015 requires the design and implementation of programmes that are specifically aimed at achieving the desired outcomes. Budgets required for implementing those programmes must be made available and consistently monitored to ensure that funds are spent in the right places and are effective in achieving the desired results. GRB enables effective progress towards meeting EFA goals.

Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women's Reproductive Rights: A Resource Pack

This resource pack authored by Debbie Budlender provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks. It focuses primarily on health, particularly reproductive health; on HIV/AIDS; and on violence against women as it relates to health services. The Resource Pack was produced in 2006 under a joint UNFPA/UNIFEM partnership.

Gender in Fiscal Policies: The Case of West Bengal

This document, represents the gender analysis that was conducted on Tanzania's 2003-2004 National Budget. The study conducted by Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP) opens with characteristics of a gender-sensitive and pro-poor budget and continues with the analysis of Tanzania's 2003-2004 revenues and expenditures. It includes recommendations for more equitable and pro-poor budgeting, priority sectors, health, agriculture and water, within Tanzania.

Costs of Violence against Women

This is an extensive summary of a report published in Swedish in December 2006, which was produced and written mainly by Elis Envall, Senior Advisor and Annika Eriksson, PhD at the National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden. The purpose of this study is to describe the total estimated costs to society violence against women may lead to, for instance, intervention by the police, absence from work, visits to medical centres and the social services. The perpetrator may be imprisoned, which would lead to direct costs for correctional treatment and indirect costs regarding a production loss.

Capacity Building Workshop on GRB for NGOs- Morocco July 2008 (in Arabic)

This training module aims to introduce concepts of GRB to Moroccan civil society organizations and identify the role that they can play in support of gender responsive budgeting in the country. The module includes sessions that facilitate a discussion of the gender budget report, which is produced annually by the sectoral government departments, to identify the strengths and gaps in the report from a civil society perspective. The module also includes a series of hands-on exercises that familiarize civil society groups with tools to monitor budgets from a gender perspective.

Budgets and Gender, Mexico's Experience

Systematization of the project, "Gender Equity: Citizenship, Labor and Family and Fundar". The assessment was carried out in conjunction with the Ministry of Health, as part of a reflection process for introducing a gender perspective into the planning and budgeting of the health sector in Mexico.

Mainstreaming Gender into Egypt's Socio-Economic Development Plan--A Success Story

The report published by the Egyptian National Council for Women, and available in English and Arabic, summarizes their success in mainstreaming gender into the Socio-Economic Development Plan by highlighting methods such as gender budgeting and performance based budgeting with a gender approach, and the subsequent impact on the national budget allocations.