Budget Analysis
Budgeting for Womens' Rights - Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW
Diane Elson, UNIFEM, May 2006.
This report provides a framework for applying a rights-approach to budgets from a gender perspective that defines the requirements of good budget performance in the planning, formulation and execution stages. It also details the elements that require a critical assessment of budget policy making processes, the appropriateness of budget allocations, and the standard principles for non-discriminatory economic and budgets policies. This report is timely in the context of discussions on aid effectiveness and new aid modalities. It responds to the challenge of implementation and the need for more concrete measures to be undertaken to increase accountability and ensure the achievement of the MDGs. Gender equality advocates have increasingly used gender budget analysis tools to identify existing gender gaps and biases in budget allocation, spending and revenue raising measures. The report uses examples of such work to illustrate the relevance of the rights based approach to gender budgeting.
Applied Budget Analysis and Economic Social and Cultural Rights
The International Budget Project.
Monitoring government budgets to advance child rights: a guide for NGOs
Judith Streak with IDASA.
What's Behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process
Andy Norton and Diane Elson. Overseas Development Institute, June 2002.
Promesas Que Cumplir: El Presupuesto Publico Como Herramienta Para Promover Los Derechos Economicos, Sociales Y Culturales
Jim Schultz, Centro para la Democracia, January 2002 (Spanish version).
A Rights-Based Approach towards Budget Analysis
Maria Socorro I. Diokno. International Human Rights Internship Program, Institute of International Education, 1999.
The South African Women’s Budget Initiative
Debbie Budlender, Community Agency for Social Enquiry, 1998. Gender responsive budgeting
Gender responsive budgeting
This website is a collaborative effort between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Commonwealth Secretariat and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), which was launched in 2001.
Gender budget initiatives in Uganda,Mozambique and Nicaragua
Teresa Buchen Vienna, March 2007
This paper provides an overview on gender budget initiatives in Uganda, Mozambique and Nicaragua.