Introductory resources
Oxfam, working with WBG, have produced a series of gender responsive budgeting resources
Gender Budgeting WBG presentation – a 12 slide powerpoint presentation that gives an over-view of GRB
Training manuals and toolkits
Elson, D. 2006. ‘Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW’, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), New York
Quinn, S. 2009, ‘Gender Budgeting: Practical Implementation’, Handbook, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Gender Responsive Budgeting In Practice: A training manual, UN Women, 2010
Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt, Engendering Budgets A Practitioners’ Guide to Understanding and Implementing Gender-Responsive Budgets, Commonwealth Secretariat 2003
Gender Budgets Make More Cents: Country Studies and Good Practice by Debbie Budlender & Guy Hewitt, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2002
Gender Budgets Make Cents: Understanding Gender Responsive Budgets by Debbie Budlender, Diane Elson, Guy Hewitt & Tanni Mukhopadhyay, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2001
Shneider K, 2006, Manual for Training on Gender Responsive Budgeting: GTZ
D., Sharp, R. and Allen, K., 1998, How to Do a Gender-sensitive Budget Analysis: contemporary research and practice, Canberra: Australian Agency for International Development and London: Commonwealth Secretariat
Elson, D, 1999, Gender Budget Initiative Tools, London: Commonwealth Secretariat
Sector specific GRB tools
Taxing men and women: why gender is crucial for a fair tax system, Christian Aid, 2014
Other resources
Guides to GRB
IMF papers on GRB
Stotsky, Janet, Shibuya, S., Kolovich, L., and Kebhaj, S., 2016, "Trends in Gender Equality and Women's Advancement.," IMF Working Paper 16/21.
Stotsky, Janet G., 2016, "Gender Budgeting: Fiscal Context and Current Outcomes.," IMF Working Paper 16/149.
Chakraborty, Lekha, 2016, "Asia: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts," IMF Working Paper 16/150.
Christie, Tamoya A. L., and Thakur, D., 2016, "Caribbean and Pacific Islands: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts," IMF Working Paper 16/154.
Kolovich, Lisa and Shibuya, S., "Middle East and Central Asia: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts," IMF Working Paper 16/151.
Pérez Fragoso, Lucia, and Rodríguez Enríquez, C., 2016, "Western Hemisphere: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts," IMF Working Paper 16/153.
Quinn, Sheila, 2016, "Europe: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts," IMF Working Paper 16/155.
Stotsky, Janet G., Kolovich, L., and Kebhaj, S. , 2016, "Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts," IMF Working Paper 16/152.
Kazandjian, Romina, Kolovich, L., Kochhar, K., and Newiak, M., 2016, "Gender Equality and Economic Diversification," IMF Working Paper 16/140
IMF working paper: Gender-Responsive Government Budgeting, Feridoun Sarraf (2003)
ILO. (undated). Overview of Gender-responsive budget initiatives: A discussion paper for ILO staff on the relevance of gender-responsive budget initiatives in promoting gender equality in decent work country programmes. Bureau for Gender Equality.
Websites
Online guidance and case studies about how to integrate public participation into fiscal policy and the associated benefits. Includes detailed case studies of participatory budgeting processes, including context, lessons learned, and outcomes
Research reports
Roisin Hinds, 2014, Increasing financial investment in women and girls through gender responsive budgeting, GSDRC, available on line at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a089a3ed915d3cfd000356/hdq1081.pdf
ILO. (undated). Overview of Gender-responsive budget initiatives: A discussion paper for ILO staff on the relevance of gender-responsive budget initiatives in promoting gender equality in decent work country programmes. Bureau for Gender Equality.
Budlender, D. (2009). Ten-Country Overview Report. Integrating Gender-Responsive Budgeting into the Aid Effectiveness Agenda. UNIFEM
Budlender, D. 2005. Expectations versus Realities in Gender-Responsive Budget Initiatives, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva
Budgeting for equity: Gender budget initiatives within a framework of performance oriented budgeting, Rhonda Sharp, UNIFEM, 2003
Combaz, E. (2013). Positive Impact of Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report 977). Birmingham, UK: GSDRC, University of Birmingham.
Relating conditions of women in Asia to issues of debt, essential services and climate change: a preliminary discussion paper, Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development, 2013
Books
Caren Grown and Imraan Valodia (eds) (2010) Taxation and Gender Equity: A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Indirect Taxes in Developing and Developed Countries, 2010
O’Hagan, A and Klatzer E, 2018, Gender Budgeting in Europe Developments and Challenges, Palgrave Macmillan
Papers and chapters
Elson, D. (2016). GENDER BUDGETING AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY in J Campbell & M Gillespie (eds), Feminist Economics and Public Policy: Reflections on the work and impact of Ailsa McKay. Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics, Routledge, Feminist Economics and Public Policy, pp. 27 - 37.
Himmelweit, S. (2005) ‘Making Policy Makers More Gender Aware’ Women, Politics and Policy, 27(1/2):109-121
Himmelweit, S. (2002) ‘Making Visible the Hidden Economy: the Case for Gender-impact Analysis of Economic Policy’, Feminist Economics 8(1): 49-70
O'Hagan, A. 2016. 'Challenging the norms: gender budgeting as feminist policy change'. in J Campbell & M Gillespie (eds), Feminist Economics and Public Policy: Reflections on the work and impact of Ailsa McKay. Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics, Routledge, pp. 41-49.
O'Hagan, A., and Gillespie, M. 'Gender budgeting in Scotland: seeking transformative change through public spending'. in J Campbell & M Gillespie (eds), Feminist Economics and Public Policy Reflections on the work and impact of Ailsa McKay. Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, Oxford, pp. 50-58.
Austen, S., Costa, M., Sharp, R. & Elson, D. (2013). ‘Expenditure incidence analysis: a gender-responsive budgeting tool for educational expenditure in Timor-Leste?’. Feminist Economics. 19/4: 1-24. DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2013.830187
Budlender, D., 2002, ‘Gender Budgets: What’s in it for NGOs?’, Gender and Development, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 82-87