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Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006How can gender budget analysis help to monitor government compliance with CEDAW? And equally, how can CEDAW help to provide guidance for gender-sensitive budget initiatives (GBIs)? CEDAW (especially Article 7) obliges governments to take all appropriate measures to ensure that women participate on equal terms with men in budget decision processes.DocumentPublic Finance Management, Including Gender-Responsive Budgeting
2007Public budgets are important policy tools for a government because they reflect its political priorities. Gender responsive budgets are not separate budgets for women, but instead, general budgets that are planned, approved, executed, monitored and audited in a gender-sensitive way.DocumentFinancing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Issues, Findings and Recommendations from an Online Discussion
2007A four week online discussion was held in 2007 to feed into the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women Expert Group meeting on financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women,.DocumentPromoting Gender Equality in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Asia Pacific - Engaging the Principles of the Paris Declaration
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007In August 2007 representatives from 11 countries in the Asia Pacific region convened to examine the extent to which the guiding principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration have provided opportunities to advance gender equality and development agendas.DocumentFinancing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Some Theoretical and Practical Issues from a Trade and Macroeconomic Policies Perspective
WomenWatch, UN, 2007The international political economy is currently dominated by a wide range of reform agendas, including on aid, trade and debt.DocumentLesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Grantmaking In The Global South and East - a Global Gaze
BRIDGE, 2007What is the state of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) grant-making and receiving organisations in the Global South and East? This report includes key findings about givers and receivers of LGBTI grant-making.DocumentBRIDGE Bibliography 19: Putting gender back in the picture: rethinking women's economic empowerment - overview and annotated bibliography
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007Current momentum around women's economic empowerment offers huge scope for bringing about real changes in women's lives. But earning an income or having access to credit cannot be assumed to bring automatic benefits for women.DocumentMarriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy: Reconfiguration of Personal and Economic Life
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007How are women and men dealing with the 'feminisation' of the global labour force in the face of the widespread prevalence of male 'breadwinner' ideologies and the apparent threat to male authority represented by women's earnings?DocumentGender and Economic Empowerment in Africa, 8th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum, Berlin, Germany, 22-23 May 2007
Africa Partnership Forum, 2007There are multiple obstacles to the economic empowerment of women in Africa. For example, limited access to productive resources such as land, seed and fertiliser means that women may be unable to benefit from the expansion of trade in agricultural products.DocumentWebpage: Young women in the new world of work: good jobs for our futures
2005Because of the increasingly global nature of manufacture and trade and the restructuring of national economies, the work undertaken by young women today is decidedly different from that of the previous generation. Young women work as wage earners in factories, as salaried professionals in offices, as part-time workers in the formal economy, and selling goods and services in the informal economy.Pages