Gender Budgets
BRIDGE publications
Everyone who has struggled to mainstream gender into public policy recognises that programmed action without money attached amounts to inaction. While government budgets allocate resources in ways that perpetuate gender biases, budgets also offer the potential to transform gender inequalities. This pack shows how in recent years gender budget initiatives (GBI), both inside and outside government, have risen to this challenge.
Documents on Gender Budgets (138)
Author:
G Aboud,
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Jan 2011
This Supporting Resources Collection - part of the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Climate Change- showcases existing work on gender and climate change. It presents summaries of a ...
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United Nations Development Fund for Women , Aug 2008
Gender responsive budgets are public budgets that take into account the different needs, rights and obligations of women and men. They value the different contributions that both women and men ...
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The Paris Declaration, OECD-DAC, Jan 2009
This document was produced by the DAC Network on Gender Equality and is intended to complement the existing DAC guidelines on gender equality. It takes the five principles of the ...
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European Women’s Lobby, Jan 2007
This paper puts forward recommendations by the European Women's Lobby's around financing for gender equality. It notes that governance institutions such as governments and international funders need to ensure, not ...
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United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., Jan 2000
Despite the failure of the Unite States (US) to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the City and County of San Francisco ...
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