The recent release of the Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Latin America and the Caribbean is an important step for understanding how corruption affects women. Based on a survey of more than 17,000 people in 18 countries across the region, the report reveals new data that could help develop more gender-responsive anticorruption programmes and policies.

This research was carried out by Marcia Roeder, Carmen Takayama, Patricia Fuertes and Isabel Hurtado, under the programme"Integrating gender responsive budgeting into the aid effectiveness agenda" launched by UNIFEM and the European Commission (EC) in 2008.The report investigates how GRB can contribute to promoting gender equality in the context of the aid effectiveness agenda. The paper analyses the National Budget process in Peru with focus on development aid and presents a case study of the...