Engendering Legislation/Budgets

In representing and defending the interests and rights of the people, parliamentarians have a duty to ensure that legislation is not gender-blind and adequately considers the needs and interests of both men and women. Mainstreaming gender in legislation, and particularly in the budgeting process, is critical to establishing a framework in which gender equality can thrive in society. This exercise requires a sound knowledge of legislative and budgetary processes, access to sex-disaggregated data and strong cooperation with women’s groups and governmental bodies alike.

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Delivering on the Promise of Equality

This resource describe's UNFPA's strategy for working with governments and partners in promoting gender equality around the world. It describes the purpose behind gender equality strategy and needs for gender mainstreaming.

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Consolidated Response on Gender Mainstreaming in South-East Asia

This consolidated response highlights the role of international organizations, national governments, and non-profit women’s organizations in mainstreaming gender into national policies and legislation of the South-East Asian countries.

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Measuring Democratic Governance: A Framework for Selecting Pro-Poor and Gender Sensitive Indicators

By presenting methods for generating pro-poor gender sensitive indicators, this framework assists policy-makers to monitor and evaluate democratic governance at the country level.
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Gender Equality for Development Effectiveness

This paper describes experiences of the CIS countries with integrating gender equality in national policies and budgets. It includes recommendations on improving gender analysis throughout national plans, strengthening links between policy and budgets, improving statistical development, and increasing national civil service capacities.
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Opportunities and Challenges for Introducing Gender Sensitive Budgeting in the Area of Domestic Violence

This report analyses the budgets of four public institutions working on social protection in Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It assesses public resources allocated to provide services to domestic violence victims, with a focus on domestic violence shelters.
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Gender Responsive Budgeting: Manual for Trainers

This manual specifically seeks to build understanding of gender responsive budgeting as a tool for promoting gender equity and transparency in budget policies and processes. This version of the UNDP Manual has a specific reference to Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS region.
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Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Education

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.
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