gender-responsive budgeting

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Dictionary meaning

an approach to public finance management that applies a gender analysis to government budgets to assess how fiscal policies and expenditures affect women and men differently, and ensures that budgetary decisions advance gender equality; gender-responsive budgeting does not require separate budgets for women but rather the integration of gender analysis into all stages of the budget cycle — planning, allocation, implementation, and audit; it examines whether public spending on health, education, infrastructure, and social protection reaches women and girls equitably, and whether revenue-raising measures fall disproportionately on women; pioneered by Australia in the 1980s and subsequently adopted by over eighty countries, gender-responsive budgeting is promoted by UN Women as a tool for translating gender equality commitments into fiscal reality