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Budgeting for Women's Rights
This report by Diane Elson, a professor at the University of Essex, U.K., adds a landmark to our thinking around budgets and women's rights. Budgeting today is no longer an exclusive task of the Finance ministry to balance income and revenue but the available resources have to be used in an efficient, effective and equitable manner to address needs and achieve goals. Discrimination can either be reinforced or eliminated by budget policies. Until recently human rights and government budgets have not been analysed together, but there is a growing collaboration between civil society groups working on budget analysis and those working on human rights.The report provides a framework to define the requirements of good budget performance in the planning, formulation and execution stages. Gender equality activists and researchers have used budget analysis tools to identify existing gender gaps and biases in budget allocation, the report presents examples of such work and illustrates the relevance of gender budgeting.
The report aims to clarify how gender budget analyses can help to monitor compliance with CEDAW as well as how CEDAW can help to set criteria for gender equality in government budgets and provide guidance for Gender Budget Initiatives.
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