Gender Budgets Make More Cents
Gender Budgets Make More Cents

Author: Debbie Budlender

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780850927344

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Comprises ten papers which document "good practice" in gender budget work from across the globe.

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice
Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice

Author: Bola Akanji

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-03-30

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1793652678

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In the twenty-first century, gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) has emerged as a development tool that explores if and how gender equality goals and targets are being effectively supported through government funding. Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice: Lessons from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries argues that, although justified by the high costs of gender inequality to economic growth and development, the use of GRB as a tool to achieve global and regional gender equality goals has seen little progress in the twenty-first century, especially in developing countries. Through analyses of government budgets and the budgeting process, and gender equality outcomes in Nigeria and the selected countries from 2000 to 2020, the contributors show that GRB has failed to gain traction or thrive in developing countries. Using these analyses, the contributors identify critical success factors that are missing in policy-making and planning in the developing world and must be integrated in order to further facilitate inclusive growth and sustainable development.

GENDER AND DECENTRALIZATION
GENDER AND DECENTRALIZATION

Author: Simi Afonja & Monica Alagbile

Publisher: ChudacePublishing

Published:

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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GENDER & DECENTRALISATION Gender and Decentralization in Nigeria is a product of two years’ research sponsored by the Gender Unit of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, as part of its Gender and Decentralization Program for sub-Saharan Africa. The overall objective of the program was to document and analyze specific state decentralization reforms that have worked to promote women’s rights, and/or reforms that have created barriers to the protection and realization of these rights. At the core of the Nigerian project were women’s representation and political effectiveness in local administration. The issues transcended the usual structural analysis of the political, administrative and fiscal changes associated with decentralization and a breakdown by gender. Given the centrality of equity and accountability issues in current good governance debates, a feminist perspective on voice and action was inserted into the traditional public administration perspective. Going beyond numbers, description of gender inequitable electioneering processes, poor accountability of the state, of political parties and the women’s constituency, the book also focusses on feminist political activism at the grassroots level. The authors also document the potential impact of re-politicizing civil society, and restructuring of gender ideologies to achieve self determination and increase women representation and political effectiveness.

State, Economy, and Society in Post-Military Nigeria
State, Economy, and Society in Post-Military Nigeria

Author: S. Adejumobi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0230117597

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This book analyzes how neo-liberal state economic policies and political reforms have impacted on state-society relations, economic and class configurations, social composition of power, social welfare and cohesion in post-military Nigeria; and points to key policy recommendations that may be crucial in redirecting the future of the country.

Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Ms.Janet Gale Stotsky

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1475520034

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Gender budgeting is an initiative to use fiscal policy and administration to address gender inequality and women’s advancement. A large number of sub-Saharan African countries have adopted gender budgeting. Two countries that have achieved notable success in their efforts are Uganda and Rwanda, both of which have integrated gender-oriented goals into budget policies, programs, and processes in fundamental ways. Other countries have made more limited progress in introducing gender budgeting into their budget-making. Leadership by the ministry of finance is critical for enduring effects, although nongovernmental organizations and parliamentary bodies in sub-Saharan Africa play an essential role in advocating for gender budgeting.

Parliament, the Budget and Gender
Parliament, the Budget and Gender

Author: Joachim Wehner

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 9789291421879

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This handbook, jointly produced with the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank Institute and the United Nations Fund for Women, was inspired by a series of regional and national seminars on Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including from a Gender Perspective. Intended as a reference tool, it sets out practical examples of parliament's active engagement in the budgetary process, seeking to advance parliaments' own institutional capacities to make a positive impact on the budget, and to equip parliament, its members and parliamentary staff with the necessary tools to examine the budget from a gender perspective.--Publisher's description.