This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.

This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.

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 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...

This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.

This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.

This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.

This publication presents experience of Phillippines in implementing gender responsive budgeting initiatives at the local level.

Decentralization has sometimes been presented as a magic bullet for both development and democracy. Since nearly everyone, from world leaders to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to donors, agrees that development and democracy both fail unless women are included on an equal footing with men, successful decentralization should make government more accessible, accountable, and responsive to women.But does it? Since 2004, 13 research teams in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America,...