Gender Budgeting: Fiscal Context and Current Outcomes

IMF Working Papers, July 27, 2016

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• Authors: Janet Gale Stotsky
• Published: July 27, 2016
• Series: IMF Working Papers
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475575460.001

Overview

• Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting that uses fiscal policy and administration to promote gender equality and girls and women’s development.
• The paper posits that, properly designed, gender budgeting improves budgeting, and places budgeting for this purpose in the context of sound budgeting principles and practices.
• The paper provides an overview of the policies and practices associated with gender budgeting as they have emerged across the world, examples of the most prominent initiatives in every region of the world, and suggestions of what can be learned from these initiatives.

Key Findings and Claims

• Properly designed gender budgeting can improve overall budgeting processes.
• Gender budgeting integrates gender-equality objectives into fiscal policy and public financial management.
• The approach has been implemented in a number of country efforts and across multiple regions, with prominent initiatives identifiable in every region of the world.

Policies and Practices Described

• Use of fiscal policy and administration to advance gender equality and women’s development.
• Incorporation of gender considerations into budget planning and preparation, budget decision-making, and government program design and oversight.
• Interaction with broader public financial management (PFM) systems and sound budgeting principles.

Examples and Regional Initiatives

• The paper includes examples of the most prominent gender-budgeting initiatives in every region of the world (detail level not reproduced here; the paper provides the country-level initiatives).

Lessons and Suggested Actions

• Lessons are drawn from global initiatives to inform the design and implementation of gender-budgeting efforts.
• Emphasis on designing gender budgeting in ways that strengthen budgeting practices and align with fiscal administration and fiscal policy objectives.

Subject Areas and Keywords

• Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Fiscal policy, Gender, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Public financial management (PFM), Women
• Keywords: a number of country effort, budget decision, Budget planning and preparation, budget process, country, fiscal administration, fiscal policies, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, government, government activity, government budget decision, government bureaucracy, government ministry, government oversight, government policy, government program, state budget, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women, WP

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