Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9RE, UK
Tel: + 44 1273 877747
Fax: + 44 1273 621202
Email: bridge@ids.ac.uk
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge

Producers of this Cutting Edge Pack CD, the Glossary on macroeconomics from a gender perspective (2000) and the Women's and Gender Budgets: An Annotated Resource List (1999).

See section 7 on Web Resources for details of online resources on gender and budgets, and gender and economics (on the Siyanda and BRIDGE websites).

Gleichstellungsbüro Basel-Stadt
Clarastr. 13
CH-4058 Basel
Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 267 66 81
Fax: +41 61 267 66 80
Email: gsb@bs.ch

The Commonwealth Secretariat has a Gender Budget Initiative which has implemented pilot gender-responsive budget initiatives in several countries, including Australia, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Canada, Fiji Islands, India, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, St Kitts and Nevis, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It has also been working on:

• Production of tools, methodology and capacity-building materials.
• International advocacy for the implementation of gender-responsive budgets.
• Encouraging partnerships and collaboration between agencies interested in supporting work in this area.
  

In light of this, the Commonwealth Secretariat is currently working in collaboration with IDRC and UNIFEM on the Gender Responsive Budget Initiative (GRBI) - see section 7 on Web Resources for more information. Two outputs of this collaboration are Gender Budgets Make Cents and Gender Budgets Make More Cents (see section 2 on Overview Materials and section 4 on Case Studies).

It also commissioned the ICRW to undertake a literature review on the gender dimensions of revenue collection, with a concentration on developing countries. This report, 'Gender Impacts of Government Revenue Collection: The Case of Taxation', is available in full in sub-section 3.3.

At their meeting in September 2002, Commonwealth Finance Ministers, for the first time, agreed to make substantial progress on implementing gender-responsive budgets.

Emakunde/The Basque Women's Institute 1988 is an autonomous organisation dependent on the Presidency of the Basque Government. Its fundamental objective is to work in favour of real and tangible equality between men and women in all areas of the political, economic, cultural and social life of the Basque Country.

In conjunction with the Basque Women's Machinery, Emakunde is engaged in an ongoing Gender Budget Initiative. Please visit http://www.emakunde.es/actualidad/
presupuestos/indice_.htm for more information.

Gender Sector Advisory Project
Post Box. 51 80
65726 Eschborn, Germany
http://www.gtz.de/themen/ cross-
sectoral/english/gender.htm

The Gender Sector Advisory Project of GTZ (Germany) supports gender budget initiatives in the context of monitoring the PRSP process in Zambia, Kenya, and South Africa. The main objectives of the regional activities are:

• Strengthening the transparency and accountability of governments through a strategic implementation of gender-sensitive budgeting and expenditure tracking.
• Building capacity for a gender-sensitive analysis of macroeconomic frameworks and budgets, through training and raising the awareness of civil servants.
• Strengthening lobbying and advocacy groups such as women's networks (e.g. FEMNET in Kenya), members of the media, and other target groups, through economic literacy training.

The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) finances all activities.

The Women's Budget Group is a self-organising group within Engender. The overall aim is to see gender impact analysis embedded within the Scottish public expenditure process.

See chapter in Gender Budgets Make More Cents on their work. A summary of this book and the full text is available in sub-section 4.1, Case Studies.

PO Box 20061
2500 EB
The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel: +33 70 348 7388
Fax: 33 70 348 4883
http://www.minbuza.nl

The Ministry has also produced a "tip sheet" on Budget Impact Assessments (Gender Budgeting), reproduced on the website of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) website: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd
/3/27/1896544.pdf

DAC work in the area of gender equality is conducted primarily through the Network on Gender Equality/ GENDERNET (ex-Working Party on Gender Equality).

GENDERNET is the only international forum where gender experts from development co-operation agencies meet to define common approaches in support of gender equality.

The publication What's Behind the Budget? Politics, rights and accountability in the budget process was a CAPE initiative. See sub-section 3.4 on rights and accountability in Concepts.