This handbook sets out practical examples of parliament's active engagement in the budgetary process. It seeks to advance parliament's own institutional capacity 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.

This article describes the participation and representation of women in local government elections in South Africa.

This article describes the participation of women in the 1994 election in South Africa, and the particular difficulties women candidates faced during this election.

This paper uses the gender-responsive budgeting approach to explain how governments and donors can promote gender equality in education through their decisions on financing.

This article critically reviews three key research challenges that emerged as a result of developing gender-sensitive indicators for an NGO in South Africa.

This constitution describes the structure, membership, and general elections rules of the African National Congress Women’s League.

This paper focuses on progress made in women’s political participation since Beijing. It highlights the Indian experiment with constitutional amendments, the South African Women’s Budget initiative, Uganda’s experience with new political alliances for gender and politics, and explores the policy responses to gender-based violence.

This consolidated response illustrates the key steps to establishing a women’s party section as recommended by iKNOW Politics Experts as well as by scholars and practitioners in this field. The key steps include introducing the idea of founding a women’s section to party leadership, creating a legal framework and structure for the section, exploring funding options, and developing membership strategies.