Western Hemisphere: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts

IMF Working Papers, July 28, 2016

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• Authors: Lucía Pérez Fragoso, Corina Rodríguez Enríquez
• Published: July 28, 2016
• Series: IMF Working Papers
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475520040.001

Summary

• Gender budgeting is an approach to fiscal policy and administration that integrates considerations of women’s equality and advancement into the budget.
• Latin American countries have undertaken diverse gender budgeting initiatives, most of them addressing public expenditures.
• This paper surveys and assesses key initiatives in Mexico, Mexico City, Ecuador, Bolivia, and El Salvador, and briefly summarizes others.
• The five key initiatives offer different perspectives on how countries approach gender budgeting.
• The authors find that these initiatives are contributing to the reduction of gender inequality and the advancement of women in Latin America, though there is scope to strengthen them.

Major themes and scope

• Geographic focus:
  • Latin America, with case studies in Mexico, Mexico City, Ecuador, Bolivia, and El Salvador.
• Policy focus:
  • Integration of gender considerations into budget planning and public expenditures.
• Institutional focus:
  • Interaction of gender budgeting with fiscal policy and administration, public financial management (PFM), and government institutions.

Key findings

• The surveyed gender budgeting initiatives:
  • Address primarily public expenditures.
  • Offer diverse approaches and perspectives across the five highlighted jurisdictions.
  • Are contributing to the reduction of gender inequality and the advancement of women in Latin America.
• Limitations identified:
  • There is scope to strengthen the initiatives (no further detail provided in the source content).

Subject tags and keywords (as provided)

• Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Gender, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Public financial management (PFM), Women
• Keywords: Budget planning and preparation, Central America, child benefit, civil society, executive branch, federal budget, fiscal policies, fiscal policy and administration, Gender budgeting, gender inequality, government administration, government institution, government machinery, Latin America, national budget, public finance, spending area, Women, WP

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