Gender-Responsive Budgets
Gender-responsive budget analysis provides a way to hold governments accountable for their commitments to gender equality and women's human rights — by linking these commitments to the distribution, use and generation of public resources. It identifies the implications of budgets for women and girls as compared to men and boys and forms the basis for reordering the budget process and priorities to support women's empowerment and gender equality.
Created jointly by UNIFEM, The Commonwealth Secretariat and IDRC, this
online resource centre aims to facilitate the exchange of information between
academics, practitioners, researchers, and activists working on gender budget
initiatives. It features new and current articles, research papers, training
tools and kits, and links to other quality websites on gender and budgets. visit the portal
If you want to see which way a country is headed, look at the country's budget and how it allocates resources for women and children.
—Pregs Govender, Member of Parliament, South Africa
