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Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) is an attempt to ensure that
gender-related issues are considered and addressed in all government
policies. This paper uses the GRB approach to explain how governments and
donors can promote gender equality in education through their financing
decisions.
The paper uses three categories of GRB to discuss how education budgets
in different countries have tried to promote gender equality. These
categories are:
- gender-targeted expenditures: for example, special scholarships for
girls
- staff-related employment-equity expenditures: for example spending
on training for female teachers' career development
- mainstream expenditures: for example spending on compulsory
education and the provision of early childhood education.
The paper concludes with some recommendations:
For governments:
- support free education programmes
- mainstream gender equality within other programmes
- assess the sustainability of GRB initiatives before offering full
support
- consider the balance of spending between tertiary, secondary and
primary education.
For NGOs:
- explore opportunities to work with parliamentarians based on a
gender-budgeting exercise for education
- work with employees in the education sector to examine gender equity
- support local organisations in their own GRB initiatives
- link free primary education campaigns with wider
initiatives.
[adapted from author]
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