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    The Gender Budget 1998/99

    Forum for Women in Democracy, 1998
    What does gender analysis of a budget look like? FOWODE in Uganda has completed the first phase of its Gender Budget Project, which examines the differential impact of Uganda's budget on women and men, girls and boys. This book is an account of this first phase, which concentrates on an analysis of the 1998/1999 budget in three sectors - agriculture, education and health.
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    Gendered Budget Work in the Americas: Selected Country Experiences

    University of Texas, 2002
    Integrating gender into budgetary debate can yield better information and analysis of a budget's impacts. It can also serve as a tool to advocate for more equitable public policies. Researchers and advocates in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chile have attempted to influence the debate around policy priorities and to assess the impact of government spending on women and girls, men and boys.
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    Rwanda: Translating Government Commitments Into Action

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2002
    How do Gender Budget Initiatives fit into broader policy frameworks? This case study from the book Gender Budgets Make More Cents: Country studies and good practice examines the Gender Budget Initiative (GBI) in Rwanda.
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    What's Behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    Can budget processes be used to claim rights and call governments to account? Who has the power to determine who gets what budget resources? Whilst often considered merely technical tools, budgets are in fact political processes. Starting from this basis, the authors show how a rights-based approach can strengthen pro-poor and gender-sensitive outcomes from public expenditure management.
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    Gender Budgets Make Cents: Understanding Gender Responsive Budgets

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2002
    How can greater consistency between social commitments and economic goals be achieved? This publication aims to inspire government officials, policy-makers, donor agencies, and civil society groups to engage in gender-responsive budget initiatives by demonstrating both equity and efficiency gains.
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    Gender-neutral, Gender-blind, or Gender-sensitive Budgets? Changing the Conceptual Framework to Include Women's Empowerment and the Economy of Care

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999
    Budgets are often assumed to be gender-neutral, whereas in reality they tend to be gender blind - failing to take into account the fact that men and women have different roles, responsibilities and resources in society. This failure leads to further discrimination against and disempowerment of women. One of the major failures of budgets is their neglect of the unpaid 'care economy'.
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    Budgets as if People Mattered: Democratising Macroeconomic Policies

    United Nations Development Programme, 2000
    How can macroeconomic policy frameworks be democratised to take into account the voices and interests of women and the poor? In most countries, ordinary citizens, particularly poor women and men, do not have a say in determining how public revenues are collected and spent. An alternative is people-centred budgeting.
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    An Introduction to the General Agreement on Trade in Services for Gender Advocates

    2001
    This short piece provides an introduction to the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). GATS is problematic because it encourages the privatisation of public services and amenities such as water, healthcare and education; it threatens to overrule domestic laws where these are perceived to hinder free trade; and the propositions within the agreement remain untested.
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    Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

    2001
    Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women.
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    Gender Budget Initiative in India?Education Sector Insights

    BRIDGE, 2002
    This presentation was given at a DFID seminar entitled 'Gender Budgeting' in July 2002. It outlines gender budgeting efforts in India at the National and State levels. Case studies from the education sector are provided.

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