Gender Responsive Budgeting: examples of implementation

Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is a tool that aims at integrating gender perspectives in the revenue and expenditure side of PFM. It is an influential element of managerial activities related to development of budgets of different levels, which provides important information to specialists making decisions about the revenue as well as the allocation of budget funds.

Last year GRB received substantial interest and support from International Financial Institutions and the media:

• IMF Managing Director Ms. Lagarde gave full support to GRB at the recent Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality Conference in November 2016
• IMF published the first GRB global survey “Gender Budgeting: Fiscal Context and Current Outcomes” that showed that 80 countries around the world are engaged in some form of GRB work (July 2016)
• OECD issued a review on “Gender Budgeting in OECD countries” (June 2016)
• PEFA 2016 (a methodology for assessing public financial management performance) includes new sets of indicators and reference to gender
• Article in the Economist on “What is gender budgeting? How taking gender into account can be good for a country’s economy” (March 3d, 2017).

One of the practical examples of gender budgeting is the GRB Project in Ukrane - ongoing  seven year gender budgeting process implemented at the central and local levels in Ukraine.

Results so far: 90 budget programs analysed at state and local level and are being improved to better target needs of women and men. 2000 persons in state and local administrations currently work on GRB (gender analysis, improvements of programs, statistical reporting, documents used in budget process). But three more years to go! 

Dear colleagues, do you have other examples of GRB implementation to share?