Gender-responsive budgeting Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Research report

Gender-responsive Budgeting in Tanzania

29/12/2021

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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The Constitution and laws of the United Republic of Tanzania require the use of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) to promote gender-balanced and integrated national economic plans. It is at the village level where community budget needs are identified, though women’s needs are often marginalized. Although women are best at articulating their needs, their voices are seldom […]

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Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

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Research report

Making Gender-Responsive Budgeting Work for Women Small-Scale Farmers: Lessons from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania

03/06/2021

3 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This paper reviews and synthesizes three research papers that look at gender-responsive budgeting in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania, with the aim of drawing out common themes and lessons learned on what it takes to ensure well-functioning gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) and how it can benefit women small-scale farmers. While Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania are not countries […]

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Research report

Gender-responsive Budgeting in Ghana: An analysis of GRB implementation and its existing and potential impacts on women small-scale farmers

29/10/2020

1 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

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Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB), also known as gender budgeting, is an approach to budgeting that takes into account the various needs of a diverse population by using an intersectional gender lens to respond to the different experiences of women, men, and gender-diverse groups. In addition to promoting more equitable budgeting outcomes, GRB requires that the budgeting […]

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Discussion paper

Data for Gender-Responsive Budgeting

24/05/2019

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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The collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data (that is data that is broken down to show differences between females and males) is central to Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) initiatives. Detailed data is important because it helps us see the situation of different groups of people as well as how inequalities intersect to make some groups particularly […]

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Briefing paper

It’s Not All About the Money: Domestic revenue mobilization, reducing inequality and building trust with citizens

08/05/2019

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Governments need more domestic revenue to fund their own development goals, but it won’t come from squeezing the poor. It’s not only about collecting more. It’s about how that revenue is collected (i.e. who pays). The path to successful domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) starts with the political commitment to reducing inequality and building trust with […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

A Short Guide to Taxing for Gender Equality

07/03/2019

21 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam is working in countries around the world so that government budgets – both on the side of revenues and spending – work to tackle issues such as unpaid care work and violence against women and girls. Often under the banner of gender responsive budgeting, Oxfam is also working to support women and women's organizations […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

A Guide to Gender-Responsive Budgeting

28/02/2018

10 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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A gender-responsive budget is a budget that works for everyone (women and men, girls and boys) by ensuring gender-equitable distribution of resources and by contributing to equal opportunities for all. Gender-responsive budgeting is essential both for gender justice and for fiscal justice. It involves analysing government budgets for their effect on genders and the norms […]

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Briefing paper

A Case for Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Myanmar

24/03/2016

2 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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A country’s budget can be a powerful lever for social transformation. A budget is the tool a government has to help it translate national resources into allocations which meet the needs and aspirations of its population, and set the country on a path to sustainable and equitable development. If a budget does not account for […]

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Case study

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Education

05/12/2005

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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In the mid-1980s, the Australian government embarked on the first initiative to analyse government budgets from a gender perspective. In 1995, South Africa and the Philippines became the second and third countries to attempt gender-responsive budget exercises. By 2003, there had been similar initiatives in more than sixty countries. This paper uses the gender-response budgeting […]

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