Gender budgets
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A summary guide to monitoring government budgets for compliance with CEDAW
- ( J. Hukerby (ed);L. Kytola;N. Alami / United Nations Development Fund for Women , 2008)
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The adoption of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) by the United Nations in 1979 and subsequent ratification by 185 countries has broad implications ...
- Gender budgeting analysis for the advancement of women’s rights: a training manual
- ( D. Kadiri;B. Fajemirokun (ed) / Gender Responsive Budgeting , 2006)
- The incidence of gender inequalities in Nigeria is widely regarded as an obstacle to achieving optimum social and economic development. One of the ways in which this state of affairs can be reversed i...
- Funding for women's organisations
- ( Development Assistance Committee, OECD , 2008)
- Funding support for women’s organisations and for non-governmental organisations working to achieve gender equality is an important element in many donors strategies. These organisations often h...
- Funding gender based violence programmes in South Africa
- ( D. Budlender;J. Kuhn / , 2007)
- Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a pressing concern in South Africa, with levels of rape, domestic violence and femicide unabated during its fourteen years of democracy. Despite this, civil society...
- Gender-budgeting to reduce gender disparities and improve economic outcomes
- ( J.G. Stotsky / Finance and Development, IMF , 2007)
- This article argues that the understanding of how public policies have different effects on men and women has improved in recent years and is influencing macroeconomic policymaking. Reducing gender di...
- How much aid do donor countries give to support gender equality?
- ( Development Assistance Committee, OECD , 2007)
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This report summarises statistics of foreign aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment by members of the OECD Development Assistant Committee (DAC). The report includes statistic...
- Changing the existing funding landscape for women’s rights organisations
- ( C. Clark; E. Sprenger; L. VeneKlasen; L. A. Duran; J. Kerr / Association for Women's Rights in Development , 2006)
- This report assesses the resources and the role of donors in the promotion of women’s rights and the support of women’s rights organisations. The report which is the result of an ongoing action resear...
- Monetary policy is not gender neutral: negative effects on women’s employment
- ( E. Braunstein; J. Heintz / The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics , 2006)
- Central banks in developing countries are increasingly turning to maintaining a low inflation rate as the central target of monetary policy, without much consideration for how these policies impact th...
- Ensuring that women's rights are central to government budgets
- ( D. Elson / United Nations Development Fund for Women , 2006)
- This report adds a landmark to the discourse on the link between human rights standards and government budgets. It elaborates on how budgets and budget policy making processes can be monitored for com...
- Review of government budget allocations that support gender equality, the Philippines
- ( R.G. Manasan; E.c. Villanueva / Philippine Institute for Development Studies , 2005)
- This paper reviews the gender-differentiated effect of macro-economic policies by examining the impact of persistent revenue shortfalls on the part of the national government in 1997-2003 on the budge...
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