gender responsive budgeting as a tool for fostering gender equality in EU partner countries
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Woestman, Lois
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenorganisaties, beleid, arbeid, gelijke behandeling, EU-landen, paper
- Description
- The purpose of this briefing paper is to contribute to the capacity building of women organizations and gender .advocates, and promote their involvement in Aid Effectiveness processes.. .The paper begins by defining 'general budget support'. It then highlights main concerns and opportunities that increased general budget support present for gender equity work in EU partner countries. Next, it defines what is meant by gender responsive budgeting. The following section highlights what EU gender equity commitments and attempts to operationalize them have to say about how gender responsive budgeting could be used as a tool to engender general budget support. The concluding sections summarize lessons learnt re: engendering general budget support via GRB, and provide recommendations for action that women’s organizations could advocate and/or support.