Money and women
A new webportal on gender responsive budget initatives.
30.05.2005 |Sascha Gabizon
for Women (UNIFEM), The Commonwealth Secretariat and Canada's International
Development Research Centre (IDRC), to support government and civil society
in analysing national and/or local budgets from a gender perspective and
applying this analysis to the formulation of gender responsive budgets.
The programme has 4 main objectives:
- To strengthen the capacity of governments, to incorporate a gender analysis in planning and evaluating the impact of revenue raising and expenditure allocation at all levels in order to fulfil their commitments to promote women's rights and gender equality
- To support strategies for women's participation in economic decision-making through their engagement in budgetary processes
- To enable women to hold governments accountable for their commitments to women's rights, including the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Beijing Platform for Action
- To advocate for and support the incorporation of gender into economic governance and leadership in order to increase women's participation in decision-making processes that shape their lives and to respond to the challenges of a global world.
To access the web-portal, please visit the link Gender Budgets.
(Source: UNIFEM)
