Engaging Parliaments in Gender-Responsive Budgeting
Summary
This Action Kit is a practical guide on how to integrate gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) into the annual state budget process. It explains what GRB is, why it matters for financing gender equality, and how it can be embedded across the budget cycle: formulation, approval, implementation, monitoring and audit. Using concrete country examples, it shows how parliaments can scrutinise budgets through a gender lens, strengthen oversight of government spending, and ensure public resources better address the needs and priorities of women and girls.
Purpose
The purpose of the Action Kit is to equip parliaments and their partners with step-by-step guidance, tools and questions to apply GRB in practice. It aims to help users understand entry points for parliamentary engagement in the budget cycle, design programmes to support GRB work in parliament, and build sustainable systems and capacities for gender-responsive public financial management.
Audience
The primary audience is Members of Parliament, parliamentary staff, committees and women’s caucuses. A secondary audience includes UN Women and other UN entities, civil society organisations and technical partners who support parliaments to implement gender-responsive budgeting.
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