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    Gender Sensitive Budgets, Concepts and Key Elements

    BRIDGE, 2002
    This 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.
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    Gender Budget Initiative Tools

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999
    Diane Elson's tools are the most commonly referred to of all frameworks for conducting Gender Budget Initatives. The tools are: 1. Gender-disaggregated beneficiary assessment of public service delivery and budget priorities 2. Gender-disaggregated public expenditure benefit incidence analysis 3. Gender- aware policy evaluation of public expenditure by sector 4.
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    Highlights from a Citizen/Gender Budget Advocacy Project in Indonesia

    BRIDGE, 2002
    How can budget advocacy effectively combine with gender analysis of budgets and political organisation and citizens? participation strategies? With capacity building, civil society organisations can understand and influence budget policy and make demands for the end of corruption and for equality and transparency.
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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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    Country Briefing Paper: Women in Viet Nam

    Regional and Sustainable Development Department, ADB, 2002
    Viet Nam has made good progress in improving the well-being of women and reducing gender disparities. The Government has made impressive advances in narrowing the gender gaps in terms of improved income and access to productive resources, education, and health care. However, gender gaps continue to exist.
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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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    Country Briefing Paper: Women in the Republic of Maldives

    Asian Development Bank, 2001
    The women of the Maldives are among the most emancipated in the Islamic world, closer to their counterparts in East Asia rather than South Asia, the region to which they belong geographically. Though there is no evidence of a strong women's movement in the past, it is gaining momentum now as gender disparities and constraints in women's development become more visible.
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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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    Some Research Gaps in Gender Budget Work from an Advocacy Perspective

    BRIDGE, 2002
    Gender Budget Initiatives can be an important tool for claiming resources, however are they restricted to research and policy papers? This paper takes a look at gender budget work from an advocacy perspective - stating that budgets are nine parts politics and one part information.
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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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