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Gender and Budgets Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003Everyone who has struggled to mainstream gender into public policy recognises that programmed action without money attached amounts to inaction. While government budgets allocate resources in ways that perpetuate gender biases, budgets also offer the potential to transform gender inequalities.DocumentBreaking Rural Bonds Through Migration: the Failure of Development for Women in India
Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, 1997Despite many five-year plans which have specifically focused on development in rural areas, the major focus and most rapid development has been in the urban centres.DocumentUntapped Connections: Gender, Water and Poverty
2003What are the linkages between gender, poverty and water? The paper examines women's central role in managing water supply and distribution, and explores how access to water and sanitation has implications for women's health, economic activities, and sustainable development as a whole.DocumentWomen and local government
Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1996How can municipalities address their financial difficulties yet not overburden the poor, particularly poor women? This paper, one of a collection of four papers from the fifth year of the Women's Budget Initiative in South Africa, stresses that local government must have enough money to deliver what they are meant to deliver.DocumentGender Sensitive Budgets, Concepts and Key Elements
BRIDGE, 2002This handbook drawn up for the Mexican Ministry of Health provides information for policy-makers on how to implement a gender perspective within the National Programme of Health. The risk of disease, access to healthcare, and quality of services are all influenced by gender inequalities.DocumentAccountability to Women in Development Spending - Experiments in Service-delivery Audits at the Local Level
BRIDGE, 2002What matters to consumers of public services is local-level accountability. Local monitoring and auditing is the only way to ensure commitments on paper at the local and national level - particularly in areas of concern to women - are translated into practice.DocumentThe Gender Budget 1998/99
Forum for Women in Democracy, 1998What 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.DocumentGender Checklist: Agriculture
Asian Development Bank, 2001Women are major contributors to the economy, both through their remunerative work on farms and through their unpaid labour at home and in the community. However, in many societies they are systematically excluded from access to resources, services and decision making. ADB has found that women's participation in the Bank's agriculture projects contributes to their success and sustainability.DocumentFrom Policy, Through Budgets, to Implementation: Delivering Quality Health Care Services
Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2000What are the issues that must be addressed in the analysis of a sectoral budget from a gender perspective? How can national, provincial and local budgets be linked to achieve better policy-making and implementation?DocumentDevelopmental Social Welfare: Who Benefits, Who Pays?
BRIDGE, 2001The concept of ?developmental social welfare? (DSW) is a key component of the South African welfare department's policy on budgeting for poverty relief. It is an approach that emphasises implementation and sustainability of poverty relief programmes, building capacity and participation among beneficiaries, and involving civil society groups.Pages