GENDER BUDGETING
Gender inequalities persist in all areas of social and economic life. Gender budgeting is an important public governance tool that governments can use to assess how budget decisions impact gender equality. When implemented effectively, gender budgeting helps expose how gender inequalities may have inadvertently become embedded in public policies and the allocation of resources and promotes budget measures that will be effective at closing gender gaps. It is popularly called as, Gender Sensitive Budgeting (GSB) and Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB). In case of EU budget processes , it means, the full integration of gender perspectives at all stages of budgeting and planning processes. Practical steps to this end include: 1)A gender-based assessment to take stock of, and make visible, the gendered impacts of budgets – such a gender budget analysis is the starting point for all gender budgeting work. 2)Promoting changes to advance gender equality based on the results of the gen...