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.

The publication written by Jurgette A. Honculada documents the challenges and the successes of WAND's initiative in engendering the LGU budget process. Within these pages lies the clear evidence of an alternative approach to budgeting, one that addresses gender needs and is rigorously based on results. It is a testament to the power of women's organizations and civil society partnerships at the local level to make a difference in the lives of women, their families and communities.

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 article by J. Vanishree (2008) focuses on the experiments carried out by Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on Gender Responsive Budgeting and Local Governance. Even though many studies show that decentralized local governance is struggling to establish itself as a self governing institution, experiments from selected Indian states show that the potential can be unleashed.

This fact sheet was produced by UNIFEM in 2007 under the UNIFEM sub -regional programme "Gender-Responsive Budgeting in South East Europe: Advancing...

The aim of this publication is to provide an overview of the latest research findings and discussions in the Canton of Basel-Stadt with regard to “engendering budgets”. The study includes an innovative impact of public expenditure on unpaid care work.

The first debates on gender-responsive budgeting initiatives emerged in Switzerland in 1994, The choice of methods for conducting gender-differentiated analyses and the means by which they are conducted have been informed, and continue to be informed, by the relatively early emergence of gender-responsive budgeting (hereafter GRB) as an issue in Swiss public debate, by the circumstances under which GRB emerged, and by the fact that parliaments at local (municipal/communal), cantonal and federal...

The paper suggests how the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS), developed and implemented in 14 countries over the last ten years with financial support from the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), can be used to facilitate gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) at the local level.  In particular, it looks at how CBMS can be used to support local-level GRB (LLGRB) initiatives of civil society and local government.