If you are too busy implementing, designing and managing to have time to read a book, then this Pack can offer you concise, accessible information. We hope these resources will further encourage collaboration and networking.

As this collection shows, there is no one way of "doing" gender budget work. The context for the work is everything. Whilst we have included examples of tools, guidelines, and training materials, we want to stress that there is no magic formula and any materials need to be adapted for the context.

This CD also features the full-text of resources where these are available, and links to these may be found with each summary. Where materials are only available in printed copy, we have provided contact details of the publisher. Alternatively, all these titles may be purchased through Women, Ink:

Yasna Uberoi or Mary Wong
Women, Ink
777 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Tel: +1 212 687 8633
Fax: +1 212 661 2704
wink@womenink.org

New resources on gender and budgets are continually being produced. The Siyanda website features all the resources in this collection plus many more, and will be updated with new materials as they are produced. Go to http://www.siyanda.org and search for 'budgets'.

Any selection of materials is necessarily partial - we have sought help in selecting from the wide range of valuable materials available. But if you feel we have missed important resources or you have recently produced new materials, please tell us. Please visit our Users' Corner on our Siyanda page at http://www.siyanda.org/userscorner/, email siyanda@ids.ac.uk or write to BRIDGE bridge@ids.ac.uk. There is a possibility that if you have useful resources but do not have the capacity to put them online, BRIDGE can put them online on the Siyanda website.

BRIDGE has worked with UNDP and SYNTAX to produce this CD version of the Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Budgets.

BRIDGE was set up in 1992 as a specialised gender and development research and information service within the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK. BRIDGE supports gender mainstreaming efforts of policymakers and practitioners by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible and diverse gender information.

Other publications in the Cutting Edge Pack series:

• Gender and ICTs (forthcoming)
• Gender and Citizenship
• Gender and Armed Conflict
• Gender and HIV/AIDS
• Gender and Cultural Change
• Gender and Participation

These packs, along with all other BRIDGE publications including In Brief, can be downloaded free from the BRIDGE website at http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge. Paper copies of the Cutting Edge Pack will be available for sale through the IDS virtual bookshop at: http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/index.html, or order direct from Gary Edwards, IDS Communications, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Falmer, East Sussex, BN1 9RE, Tel: +44 (0) 1273 678269; Fax: +44 (0) 1273 621202; Email: bookshop@ids.ac.uk. A limited number of paper copies will be available on request to organisations based in the South. Please contact BRIDGE for more details:

BRIDGE
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9RE UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 877747
Fax: +44 (0) 1273 621202
Email: bridge@ids.ac.uk

BRIDGE also hosts and manages Siyanda, an on-line database of gender and development materials. It is also an interactive space where gender practitioners can share ideas, experiences and resources. Siyanda aims to be an ever growing resource to support practitioners in implementing gender programmes and in mainstreaming gender equality concerns, whether they are gender specialists or not. To access all the resources available on this CD, as well as new materials on gender budgets, please visit Siyanda at http://www.siyanda.org/index.htm.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and their wide range of partners.

Making gender equality a reality is a core commitment of UNDP. Since the international community vowed to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment at world summits and global conferences in the 1990s, UNDP has been helping countries translate these commitments into practical realities.

Gender-sensitive budgeting is one of the focus areas of UNDP's work on gender. Ongoing activities include the mapping of gender sensitive budget initiatives around the world (with GTZ), codification of knowledge for country offices to build on the work of UNIFEM and other partners (with BRIDGE), and training of a pool of experts in the regions to respond to the increasing demands from countries for expertise in gender sensitive budgets (with support from the Government of Japan).

SYNTAX, brand, information and digital architects, has designed and produced this CD. Based in Jordan, SYNTAX helps its clients create marks of excellence for their products, services and organisations. SYNTAX's mission is to enable organisations to communicate intelligently with their audience, across media and across cultures by utilizing the power of digital media and the internet to interact effectively with customers and communities and streamline operations. For more information visit http://www.syntaxdigital.com

SYNTAX contact address:
Street address (for courier packages):
Arar Street/Wadi Saqra,
Al Hassan Center, 4th floor, office 27,
Amman, Jordan.

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