Gender equality from a gender budgeting perspective.

Gender budgeting, which is also known as gender responsive budgeting , tracks how budgets respond to gender equality and women’s rights requirement. This entails investing in and making available mechanisms, guidelines and indicators that enable gender equality advocates to track progress, benefit i...

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Main Authors: Maruzani, Nyevero, Matope, Nogget, Chauraya, Efiritha
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11408/948
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author Maruzani, Nyevero
Matope, Nogget
Chauraya, Efiritha
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description Gender budgeting, which is also known as gender responsive budgeting , tracks how budgets respond to gender equality and women’s rights requirement. This entails investing in and making available mechanisms, guidelines and indicators that enable gender equality advocates to track progress, benefit incidence and show how supposedly gender neutral budgets impact on men and women. The aim of this discussion is to highlight the importance of gender budgeting in addressing gender disparities while taking note of the fact that gender is a key variable in development. The term gender budgeting will be defined in an effort to show how the practice can lead to gender equitable resource allocation and improve revenue generation for nations. This enables government’s commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment move from paper to practical policies .In gender budgeting there is the creation of awareness regarding gender specific issues in the policies of all government agencies. It also brings to light the effort of women in running the economy and attaining economic efficiency by including equity in budget performance indicators .Considering that most nations signed and ratified international commitments on gender equality and equity, it is expected of them to put in place realistic budgetary measures towards the achievement of gender equality .Despite the fact that gender budgeting is a relatively new concept, it is undoubtedly an important ingredient in quickening the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and the fulfillment of international commitments on gender equality. The discussion concludes by highlighting success stories of gender budgeting initiatives in various countries in an effort to show how gender budgeting can be used as a tool for engendering macroeconomic policies.
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spelling ir-11408-9482022-06-27T13:49:06Z Gender equality from a gender budgeting perspective. Maruzani, Nyevero Matope, Nogget Chauraya, Efiritha Budget, Gender budgeting, Gender equality Gender budgeting, which is also known as gender responsive budgeting , tracks how budgets respond to gender equality and women’s rights requirement. This entails investing in and making available mechanisms, guidelines and indicators that enable gender equality advocates to track progress, benefit incidence and show how supposedly gender neutral budgets impact on men and women. The aim of this discussion is to highlight the importance of gender budgeting in addressing gender disparities while taking note of the fact that gender is a key variable in development. The term gender budgeting will be defined in an effort to show how the practice can lead to gender equitable resource allocation and improve revenue generation for nations. This enables government’s commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment move from paper to practical policies .In gender budgeting there is the creation of awareness regarding gender specific issues in the policies of all government agencies. It also brings to light the effort of women in running the economy and attaining economic efficiency by including equity in budget performance indicators .Considering that most nations signed and ratified international commitments on gender equality and equity, it is expected of them to put in place realistic budgetary measures towards the achievement of gender equality .Despite the fact that gender budgeting is a relatively new concept, it is undoubtedly an important ingredient in quickening the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and the fulfillment of international commitments on gender equality. The discussion concludes by highlighting success stories of gender budgeting initiatives in various countries in an effort to show how gender budgeting can be used as a tool for engendering macroeconomic policies. 2016-04-21T10:46:00Z 2016-04-21T10:46:00Z 2012-09 Article http://hdl.handle.net/11408/948 ;Vol. 2, No. 9:1627-1640 open
spellingShingle Budget, Gender budgeting, Gender equality
Maruzani, Nyevero
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Gender equality from a gender budgeting perspective.
title Gender equality from a gender budgeting perspective.
title_full Gender equality from a gender budgeting perspective.
title_fullStr Gender equality from a gender budgeting perspective.
title_full_unstemmed Gender equality from a gender budgeting perspective.
title_short Gender equality from a gender budgeting perspective.
title_sort gender equality from a gender budgeting perspective.
topic Budget, Gender budgeting, Gender equality
url http://hdl.handle.net/11408/948
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