The subject of this analysis is the budget process in the Republic of Macedonia (RM), with emphasis on the reforms of budget policies...

The guide brings together and synthesises several innovative and tested strategies on gender responsive planning & implementation from across India....

This Guide was preared by Alexandra Wilde, Shipra Narang, Marie Laberge and Luisa Moretto UNDP Oslo, 2009. The publication compiles existing knowledge on decentralization and local governance measurement and provide a platform for understanding and navigating the array of assessment tools that exist, focusing on particular issues such how to select amongst the existing (or decide to design a new set of) local governance indicators; how to deal with the preparation and launching of an assessment;...

The publication discusses the tools needed to determine how a government budget impacts the different sexes. The publication achieves three objectives. First, the background of gender responsive budgets is described for readers who are not as familiar with the initiative. Secondly, it outlines the evolution of performance oriented budgets and provides a description of how the current system work. Thirdly, strategies for achieving greater gender aware outputs are summarized.

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...

UN Women worked in close partnership with the Jordanian Coalition on Budget and the General Budget Department to issue a more user-friendly Budget Brochure for all Jordanian citizens. As a tool to simplify and sustain the dialogue between the Government and the citizens, the brochure includes a comprehensive explanation on Gender responsive budgeting as well as highlights on budget’s figure targeting women and children.

This document is introduced in the framework of the implementation of Gender Responsive Project (GRB) that was implemented until June 2012 at the municipal level in Santa Rosa de Copan Budgets and under the implementation of the Partnership Programme between the European Union (EU) and UN Women for gender equality (2011-2015), called Financing for gender equality(F4GE).

This practical guide by Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt, based on experiences of past gender budget initiatives, provides a comprehensive outline of how to engender budgets. Intended for practitioners of any level, this gender budgets handbook provides insight based on past examples, while also relaying technical guidance needed to apply the concepts in most contexts.

This manual for trainers give them knowledge and tools to: become familiar with gender analysis and its application in national planning; explore the basic principles of gender budgeting and understand its value added to the national planning; understand how to mainstream gender in all stages of the budget cycle; appropriate methodology of gender budgeting, particularly in the area political participant (e) training.

This toolkit follows the transfer of public funds from central to local governments until they reach users such as schools and clinics. It explains how a public expenditure tracking system operates and how it can benefit marginalized groups. With this toolkit local communities can track the inputs, outputs, and outcomes of particular government services, and determine the gender-specific distribution of benefits from those services.