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Budgeting for Equity: Gender Budget Initiatives within a Framework of Performance Oriented Budgeting
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003Can performance-oriented budgeting serve as a framework for making budgets more gender responsive? This question is set in the context of recent public sector reforms to make public expenditure more 'results based' as part of the 'good governance' agenda.DocumentGender Budgets: What's in it for NGOs?
BRIDGE, 2002Over the last seven years, there has been increasing interest in gender budget work worldwide. There are, however, big differences between the initiatives in different countries. In particular, in some cases the initiatives have been located inside government; in other cases in Parliament; and in yet others within civil society.DocumentHow to Make the Law Work? Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence Policies in Latin America
2003How can domestic violence be reduced in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? This synthesis research paper demonstrates that to make domestic violence policy work there needs to be sufficient budgetary allocations to enable the laws enacted in these countries to translate into action.DocumentGender Impacts of Government Revenue Collection: The Case of Taxation
Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004Are tax systems gender neutral? Assessing taxation and revenue from a gender perspective is no easy task. Political and technical constraints help to explain why most work to date has focused on expenditure. This paper provides information to assist in the analysis of potential gender bias in tax systems and help the design of gender-sensitive revenue measures.DocumentBRIDGE Report 56: Gender and Development: Facts and Figures
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000What evidence is there of gender inequalities in life outcomes between women and men? This report provides facts and figures that expose gender inequalities, providing evidence of the need to engender development.DocumentRulemaking and Governance for Trade Intensification Asian Women's Views
2003This economic literacy pack, the third in this series, is a tool for educating local women's constituencies on trade rules and negotiations. It explores four main themes, firstly 'How the WTO Treats National Health Emergencies in the Rubric of Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)'.DocumentAn Analysis of the WTO-AOA Review from the Perspective of Rural Women in Asia
2003How does the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) affect the livelihoods of rural women in Asia? This paper, prepared on the occasion of the WTO-AOA review in 2003, analyzes the impact of the new trading rules imposed by the WTO on Asian peasants.DocumentA Strategic Approach to Gender, Trade Agreements and Trade Policy
2003It is often claimed that trade agreements, policies and liberalisation processes are gender and class neutral. However gender biases in the division of labour, in access to economic resources and in socially prescribed roles, usually impact women more negatively than men.DocumentInternational Gender and Trade Network: WTO Fifth Ministerial Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, September 10-14th, 2003 (Position Papers on Four WTO Issues)
2003The IGTN Advocacy Document for the 5th WTO Ministerial Meeting that was held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003 focuses on these four issues and identifies critical advocacy positions for each of them.DocumentBRIDGE Report 61: Gender and Micro Credit - Useful Resources
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001International development organisations have for the past decade supported small-scale loans and credit in different forms (solidarity-groups, small enterprises, rotating saving schemes). Much has been written on the positive and negative long-term and short-term impacts of such projects and programmes. Considerable information on such measures to combat gender inequity has been generated.Pages