Consultants

Helena Hofbauer Balmori (author of BRIDGE's 'Gender and Budgets Overview Report' in this Cutting Edge Pack)
Helena is the Executive Director of FUNDAR (Centro de Análisis e Investigacion) in Mexico, an independent and interdisciplinary institution aimed at enhancing the transition to democracy. FUNDAR's main area of work is applied budget research as a means to promote citizen participation in setting the priorities for the poor, women and children.

Debbie Budlender (advisor on the Cutting Edge Pack)
Debbie is a specialist researcher with the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), a social policy research non-governmental organisation (NGO). She has co-ordinated the South African Women's Budget Initiative since it started in 1995, and acted as a consultant to the Department of Finance in the subsequent South African government pilot gender budget initiative (funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat).

BRIDGE

Hazel Reeves (editor and joint-author of this collection)
Hazel is the Manager of BRIDGE, the gender and development information service based at the Institute of Development Studies in the United Kingdom (UK). She has researched, written and lectured on a wide range of gender and development themes including gender budgets.

Charlie Sever (joint-author of this collection)
Charlie is a researcher at BRIDGE. She has worked on gender and development, lesbian politics, and civil society mobilisation.

Credit is due to BRIDGE team members Lata Narayanaswamy, Ra'ida Al-Zu'bi and Susan Jolly for coordinating the production of this CD-ROM, as well as Emma Bell (former BRIDGE Research and Communications Officer) for her valuable writing and editing input to the original pack.

Credit is also due to Asako Osaki at UNDP, who coordinated the project at UNDP and offered valuable insight and support throughout, and to the SYNTAX team for their wonderful design ideas and commitment to producing this CD.

Additional credits

Many thanks also go to all the gender budget advocates who responded to our requests for their latest materials and who agreed to have their materials reproduced on this CD. Particular thanks go to Simel Eşim, Guy Hewitt, Anne-Marie Goetz, Rob Jenkins, Sue Himmelweit, Rhonda Sharp, Raquel Coello Cremades, Haifa Abu Ghazaleh, Pethu Serote, Isabella Matambanadzo, Mary Rusimbi, Lisa VeneKlasen, Barbara Evers, Roxanne Scott, Margaret Zunguze, Nisreen Alami and Mukunda Julius Mugisha. Thanks also to Diana Strassman (International Association for Feminist Economics) and Sherry Dixon (Taylor and Francis Limited) for allowing BRIDGE to reproduce two articles from the Feminist Economics journal. Thanks also to Caroline Sweetman (Oxfam Publishing) for allowing BRIDGE to reproduce two articles from the Gender and Development Journal. We would also like to thank Donna St. Hill at the Commonwealth Secretariat, who has continued to keep us informed of new materials and kindly agreed to have all Commonwealth Secretariat materials reproduced.

Funding

The production of this CD was funded through the generous support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/Japan Women in Development Fund.

BRIDGE is also grateful for the financial support of the following agencies who contributed to the production of the original Cutting Edge Pack: the Department for International Development, UK (DFID), German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the New Zealand Agency for International Development, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the Norwegian Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).