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.

UN Women prepared this manual to aim members of women's organizations at a community level who seek to influence public policy in local governments. The manual is a tool that can be used on-awareness training sessions to promote opportunities for participation and advocacy.

The focus of this publication is to act as a guide to the practice of gender budgeting. It is not a first-step book. There are many publications which...

This guide prepared by the Development Assistance Committee, OECD in June 2002 is intended for policy and operational staff in government and development organisations who are interested in sector wide approaches (SWAPs). It is based on case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in Education (Ghana, India and Uganda; in Health (Bangladesh and Ghana), in Agriculture (Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique).

This note has been written, by CIDA-Asia Branch in 2002, to provide a starting point to help understand how and why a gender equality perspective is relevant in programming related to decentralization. It is not an all-inclusive guide, rather it sets out initial questions to consider and provides resources to be used in follow-up.

This manual published by United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in 2008 is designed to assist training institutions in mainstreaming gender concerns in local government capacity-building and in training related to human settlements as conducted by Habitat Agenda partners.The Sourcebook seeks to provide local governments with the tools to better understand the importance of gender in the decision-making process and to reach better solutions for the communities they serve. Key...

The sourcebook for Trainers was published by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) - 2008. The manual is designed to assist training institutions in mainstreaming gender concerns in local government capacity-building and in training related to human settlements as conducted by Habitat Agenda partners. The Sourcebook seeks to provide local governments with the tools to better understand the importance of gender in the decision-making process and to reach better solutions for...

The manual is addressed to representatives of civil society and aimed at increasing their participation in the development of local development...

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....