Gender, Youth, and Development

UNIFEM Asia-Pacific and Arab States Regional Programme for Engendering Economic Governance — This site offers useful resources and examples to make national statistical systems more responsive to gender differences in the definition, collection, and analysis of data.

Gender Responsive Budgets — The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Governance and Peace-building Program includes a site for gender budgets. This reflects on the collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to create the Gender Responsive Budgets Initiatives (GRBI).

The Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives (GRBI) — GRBI is a collaborative effort between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), The Commonwealth Secretariat and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), to support government and civil society in analyzing national and/or local budgets from a gender perspective and applying this analysis to the formulation of gender responsive budgets.

High Level Conference on Gender Responsive Budgeting: A Global Vision to Strengthen Economic Governance — Finance ministers, government officials, independent experts, and non-governmental organizations from over 43 countries attended the conference held in Brussels on October, 2001 to achieve political and financial support for gender responsive budgets.

Parliament and the Budgetary Process, from a Gender Perspective — Regional seminar for English-speaking African parlamentarians held in Nairobi, Kenya on May, 2000.

The South African Women's Budget — Information on a joint initiative in South Africa to promote expenditure reprioritization towards women's needs.

BRIDGE: Briefings on Development and Gender — In their own words, BRIDGE "provides tailor-made briefings on gender issues on request. BRIDGE briefings present state of the art research findings, review current policy debates, synthesize best practice and evaluate strategies for translating gender policies into practice."

World Bank Gender Home Page — Site includes good practices, statistics on gender and development, and online documents.

African Women and Economic Development discussion forum — Online conference that is part of the Global Knowledge Partnership.

IDASA Children Budget — Information on IDASA (Institute for Democracy in South Africa) initiative to study children's budget issues in South Africa.

Presupuesto con Enfoque de Género: Herramientas Metodológicas/Methodological Tools for Gender Budget Analysis (in Spanish/en Español) — by Helena Hofbauer and Debbie Budlender. [Note: If you cannot access this Power Point Presentation through the link, right-click on the underlined text, click "Save Link As," download to your directory, and open the document in Power Point.]

Women’s and Gender Budgets: An Annotated Resource List — Includes publications and other resources on gender budgets at national, provincial, and local levels. It also provides an overview of the budget process from a gender perspective and of conceptual issues in gender budget analysis. Prepared for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). By Hazel Reeves and Heike Wach.

The Women's Budget Group (WBG) — The WBG is an independent UK organisation bringing together academics and people from non-governmental organisations and trades unions to form a network of experts to promote gender equality through appropriate economic policy. The WBG aims to encourage the government to use gender analysis to improve its economic policy making.

The Commonwealth Gender Budget Initiative by the Commonwealth Secretariat — Assists governments to integrate gender into all their activities, primarily through the development of the Gender Management System (GMS) concept. It focuses on integrating gender into the national budget through the application of the policy tools developed by the Secretariat; collecting and using sex-disaggregated data; and strengthening dialogue between stakeholders.

INFOPOLIS: Thematic Digital Library (in Spanish/en Español) — This resource offers a new way of navigating through a whole body of premium content on Gender Sensitive Budgets. It also works as a simulation of questions & answers to promote dialogue between experts interested in this field.