Finance and Budgeting

This case study examines how women in the Arab Gulf region have entered the mainly male-dominated business sector. It draws on the experience of countries in the Gulf region that have tried to integrate women into chambers of commerce and industry.

This manual was designed for the Asia/Pacific Regional Training of Trainers Workshop on Gender Sensitive Budgeting. It provides material on gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) initiatives.

This report evaluates the strengths, weaknesses and overall effectiveness of the one-year National Gender Budget Project in Uganda.

This fact sheet provides a brief explanation of gender budgeting and highlights its importance in promoting gender equality, alleviating poverty, and building human capacities. It includes a short description of advancements made in Uganda with respect to gender budgeting.

These guidelines were developed to address the current deficiencies in gender budgeting in Uganda.

This manual is intended to provide reference material on gender budgeting to trainees in local lower governments in Uganda. It aims to acquaint the trainees with the key concepts, processes and tools used in gender budgeting.

This paper argues that participatory budgeting and analysis - whether it is pro-poor, environment-sensitive or gender responsive - offers a new and innovative means of encouraging a balanced distribution of public resources and ensuring government accountability to international and national comm

This report aims to develop ideas that may be useful in monitoring the compliance of government budgets with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

This publication consists of a collection of papers from the High Level International Conference, "Strengthening Economic and Financial Governance Through Gender Responsive Budgeting," held in Brussels in October 2001.