WEB
RESSOURCES ON GENDER BUDGETING
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Compiled and edited august 2002 by Seila Redzepi International Contacts in the field of Gender Budgets:
*International
Center for Research on Women
Dr. Simel Esim 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 302 Washington, DC 20036 Tel: 202-332-2853 ext. 148 Fax: 202-332-8257 E-mail: sesim@icrw.org Website: http://www.icrw.org *International Budget Project of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 820 First Street, NE Suite 510 Washington, DC 20002 Tel: 202 408 1080 | Fax: 202 408 1056 E-mail: info@internationalbudget.org Website: http://www.internationalbudget.org *Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP) Ms. Gemma Akilimali Gender Resource Centre, Mabibo Rd. adjacent to the National Institute of Transport (NIT) PO Box 8921, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Tel. 255 22 244.3205/244.3450/244.3286 Fax 255 22 244.3244 E-mail: tgnp@tgnp.co.tz or the web - team at info@tgnp.co.tz Website: http://www.tgnp.co.tz *The African Centre for Empowerment, Gender and Advocacy (AC-EGA) Ms. Litha Musyimi Ogana United Nations Avenue, opposite UN Headquarters, Girgiri P.O. Box 60375 Nairobi, Kenya Tel. 254-2-520247 Fax. 254-2-512002/710305 E-mail: acega@insightkenya.com *Gender and Youth Affairs Department (GAD) Commonwealth Secretariat Mr. Guy Hewitt Marlborough House, Pall Mall London SW1Y 5HX United Kingdom. Tel: + 44 207 747 6460/6467 Fax: +44 207 930 1647 E-mail for Division: gad@commonwealth.int E-mail for contact person: m.roberts@commonwealth.int Website: http://www.thecommonwealth.org *South African Women’s Budget Initiative Community Agency for Social Enquiry (C A S E) Director, Dr Zaid Kimmie, at: director@case.org.za Website: http://www.case.org.za *UNDP/SEPED One UN Plaza, DC-1, 20th Floor New York, NY 10017 Fax: 212-906-5313 Website: http://www.undp.org/poverty/resources/gender_budgets.htm *Nordic Council Carita Peltonen Store Strandstræde 18 DK-1255 Copenhagen Tel. + 45 33 96 03 45 E-mail: cp@nmr.dk Website: http://www.norden.org *Fokus Kvinner Storgt.11, N-0155 Oslo Norway Tel. +47 23010300 Fax +47 23010301 E-mail: fokus@fokuskvinner.no Website: http://www.fokuskvinner.no/
*The Danish
National Research and
Documentation Centre for Gender Equality Frederiksberggade 24, 2 1459 København K Tel. +45 33951060 Fax +45 33951070 E-mail: info@vidlige.dk Website: http://www.vidlige.dk Selected reading materials:
*”Gender
Budgeting Initiatives Brochure”, UNIFEM, Commonwealth,
CDRI.
http://www.bellanet.org/grbi/docs/ACF31B2.pdf?template=blank.htm%3BOutsideInServer=error
“Review of
Gender Budget Initiatives”, Prepared by Debbie Budlender,
Community Agency for Social Enquiry, South Africa, December
2000.
*“Money
Matters: Women and the Government Budget”, By Karen Hurt,
Debbie Budlender, 1998.
This book looks at the budget allocations of eight government departments and shows the different impact economic policies have on women and men. Money Matters demonstrates how important gender-sensitive policies and budgets are to achieve equality between women and men in South Africa. -Can be ordered from IDASA, South Africa: http://www.idasa.org.za/m_main.php?view=7 *”Money Matters 2: Women and the Local Government Budget”, By Karen Hurt, Debbie Budlender, 2000. This book looks at how the budgets of local municipalities affect poor people. It looks at the revenue (income) and spending of five municipalities. Each of the chapters looks at the municipality's budget, and asks questions about whether and how services are provided. It asks what kind of spending has been put first and focuses on the impact of the revenue and spending on women. -Can be ordered from IDASA, South Africa: http://www.idasa.org.za/m_main.php?view=7 *”Money Matters 3: Women and Government Revenue”, By Debbie Budlender, Karen Hurt, 2001. This book looks at how different forms of government revenue affect women and men. It is based on papers produced for the Women's Budget Initiative. This Initiative is a joint project of the Community Agency for Social Enquiry, Idasa and the parliamentary Committee on the Quality of Life and Status of Women. -Can be ordered from IDASA, South Africa: http://www.idasa.org.za/m_main.php?view=7 *“Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives: Some Key Dimensions and Practical Examples”, Professor Diane Elson, UNIFEM-OECD-Nordic Council Conference hosted by Belgian Government on Gender Responsive Budgeting, Brussels 16-17 October 2001. -Can be accessed on: http://www.gender-budgets.org/index.cfm?Fuseaction=activities_view&Dir=Towards&File=brussels%2Dcover%2Ehtml *“Gender Responsive Budgeting/A Global Vision to Strengthen Economic Governance, Lessons learned in Practice: the Role of Parliament”, Pregs Govender, UNIFEM-OECD-Nordic Council Conference hosted by Belgian Government on Gender Responsive Budgeting, Brussels 16-17 October 2001. -Can be accessed on: http://www.gender-budgets.org/index.cfm?Fuseaction=activities_view&Dir=Towards&File=brussels%2Dcover%2Ehtml *”Gender Budgets Make Cents: Understanding Gender Responsive Budgets”, The Commonwealth Secretariat, October 2001, Diane Elson, Debbie Budlender, Guy Hewitt, Tanni Mukhopadhyay. This publication provides a comprehensive understanding of GRB initiatives and will be invaluable to governments, NGOs, donors and other agencies, working to integrate a gender analysis into public expenditure policies and budgets. -Can be ordered from the Commonwealth Secretariat: http://www.thecommonwealth.org/dynamic/whatisnew/whatsnew.asp or read on World Bank’s homepage: http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/publicfinance/documents/gender/genderbudgets.pdf *”Gender Budgeting Initiative”, Professor Diane Elson, Commonwealth Secretariat, June 1999. -Can be accessed on Commonwealth Secretariat’s Gender Budgets page under Budgets: http://www.thecommonwealth.org/gender/index1.htm *”A Case Study on Strategies for Transforming and Mainstreaming Gender Into National Planning and Budgeting Processes & Macro-Economic Policies in Tanzania” Mary Rusimbi, Executive Director, Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), UNIFEM-OECD-Nordic Council Conference hosted by Belgian Government on Gender Responsive Budgeting, Brussels 16-17 October 2001. -Can be accessed on: http://www.gender-budgets.org/activities/Towards/rusimbi.doc?ois=n *“Gender Budgets: The Experience of the UK's Women's Budget Group” Paper prepared for the conference 'Engendering National Budgets', Copenhagen, 25 March 2002, Dr. Katherine Rake, London School of Economics and Women's Budget Group. -Can be accessed on The Danish National Research and Documentation Centre for Gender Equality homepage under “Nyheder”: http://www.vidlige.dk *”Gender-Sensitive Budget Initiatives for Latin America & The Caribbean: A Tool For Improving Accountability And Achieving Effective Policy Implementation”, Simel Esim, Economist, ICRW. Prepared for the Eighth Regional Conference on Women of Latin America and the Caribbean - Beijing+5, Lima, 8-10 February 2000. -Can be read on: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/gender/docs/esim.html *”Impact of Government Budgets on Poverty and Gender Equality”, Simel Esim, Economist, ICRW. Paper prepared for the Inter-Agency Workshop on Improving the Effectiveness of Integrating Gender Into Government Budgets Commonwealth Secretariat, 26-27 April 2000. Press Releases:
*”UNIFEM
CALLS FOR GENDER BUDGET ANALYSIS TO BE APPLIED TO OFFICIAL
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE”, March 18, 2002.
-Can be accessed on UNIFEM’s homepage: http://www.unifem.undp.org/press/pr_gender_budget_ffd.html
*”GENDER
SENSITIVE ANALYSIS OF THE WORLD BANK’S PRSP IN KENYA”,
UNIFEM Currents, April 2002.
-Can be accessed on UNIFEM’s homepage: http://www.unifem.undp.org/currents/curr0302_01.html#news11 *”ECUADOR’S CAPITAL CITY COMMITS TO GENDER-SENSITIVE BUDGETS”, UNIFEM Currents, August 2002 -Can be accessed on UNIFEM’s homepage: http://www.unifem.undp.org/currents/index.html |
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This web resource was compiled and edited by Seila Redzepi, K.U.L.U.-Women and Development as part of a follow of a public meeting and training seminar on Gender Budgeting, held by KULU February 2002 - as part of the focus on the UN Conference on Financing for Development, March 2002. For
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