8. Networking and contact details - 8.2 Asia and the Pacific

8.2 Asia and the Pacific

Adelaide University Ray Broomhill Department of Social Inquiry South Australia 5005 Australia Email: ray.broomhill@adelaide.edu.au http://www.labour.adelaide.edu.au/ cls/staff/broomhill.html	Has written on the Australian gender budget initiative experience with Rhonda Sharp. See Sharp, R. and Broomhill, R., 2002, Budgeting for equality: the Australian experience in sub-section 4.2.2 on Asia and Pacific in Case Studies.
The Asia Foundation Contact: Katherine S. Hunter (Senior Director) Email: hunter@tafindo.org Women's Political Participation Program Jl. Darmawangsa Raya No. 50 Kebayoran Baru Jakarta 12160 Indonesia Tel: +62 21 726 1860 Fax: +62 21 726 2834	The Asia Foundation has a Gender Budget Analysis and Citizen Advocacy Project working with women's groups in Indonesia (Bandung, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and Banda Aceh). The aim is to develop new skills and knowledge in gender budget analysis, and to ensure that decentralisation and democratisation support women. See sub-section 4.3 on Advocacy, participatory processes and accountability issues in Case Studies for a summary and link to full-text of Highlights from a citizen/gender budget advocacy project in Indonesia by Lisa VeneKlasen.
Bandung Institute of Government Studies (BIGS) Contact: Dedi Haryadi (Program Manager) Jl. Bangbayang No.5 Bandung 40132 Indonesia Tel: + 62 22 253 2429 Email: bigs@bdg.centrin.net.id	BIGS is a research and advocacy NGO that works toward good governance through budget analysis, public services accountability, and institutional capacity-building. It has focused its budget work on the problem of housing in slum areas. Using a team of community organisers it works closely with slum dwellers to define problems and solutions. See VeneKlasen Highlights from a citizen/gender budget advocacy project in Indonesia under Case Studies, as above.
Development Through Active Networking Foundation (DAWN) Contacts: Celia Flor and Andrea Lizares-Si c/o Women's Center Rm. 209 JL Bldg., Lacson-Burgos Sts. Bacolod City Philippines Tel: +63 34 526 256 Email: celia@bcd.weblinq.com	DAWN has undertaken a gender budget initiative in the City of Bacolod, funded by the Asia Foundation (TAF). See Flor, C. and Lizares-Si, A., 2002, 'The Philippines: getting smart with local budgets [Level 1]' in sub-section 4.2.2 on Asia and Pacific in Case Studies.
Karnataka Women's Information and Resource Centre Contact: Devaki Jain Tharanga 10th Cross Rajmahal Vilas Extension 560080 Bangalore, India Email: lcjain@bgl.vsnl.net.in	Devaki Jain's experience to date in localised government and the opportunities in Karnataka for gender budget work, and proposals on how to take this forward are reproduced in 'Building Budgets from Below: Women Design Fiscal Policy in Karnataka', in K. Judd (ed.), 2002, Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, Concepts and Experiences, New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). This book is available in full in sub-section 4.1 in Case Studies.
Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) (The Workers' and Farmers' Power Association) Village Devdungri Post Barar District Rajsamand - 313341 Rajasthan India Tel: +91 02951 43254 / 50180 Email: mkssrajasthan@yahoo.com	MKSS's work includes the exposure in public hearings of mishandling of development funds, highlighting the importance of citizens' access to official documents, including those related to local budgets and expenditure. They have inspired a nation-wide right-to-information campaign. The work of MKSS is featured in the paper by Goetz and Jenkins, Accountability to women in development spending - experiments in service-delivery audits at the local level in sub-section 4.3 on Advocacy, participatory processes and accountability issues in Case Studies.
University of South Australia Contact: Rhonda Sharp Reseach Centre for Gender Studies WL 3-57, City West Campus North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000 Australia Tel: +61 8 830 20007 Fax: +61 8 830 20512 Email: rhonda.sharp@unisa.edu.au	Author of Budgeting for Equity: Gender Budget Initiatives within a Framework of Performance Oriented Budgeting, 2003 in sub-section 3.4 on rights and accountability and co-author of How to Do a Gender-Sensitive Budget Analysis: contemporary research and practice, 1998 in section 5 under Tools, Guidelines and Training Materials. She has also written on the Australian gender budget initiative experience with Ray Broomhill. See Sharp, R. and Broomhill, R., 2002, Budgeting for equality: the Australian experience in sub-section 4.2.2 on Asia and Pacific under Case Studies.