Western Hemisphere: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts
July 28, 2016
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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 some key initiatives, including those 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. We 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.
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
Pages:
50
Volume:
2016
DOI:
Issue:
153
Series:
Working Paper No. 2016/153
Stock No:
WPIEA2016153
ISBN:
9781475520040
ISSN:
1018-5941
