Financing for Gender Equality

Realising Women’s Rights through Gender Responsive Budgeting

Zohra Khan, Nalini Burn, Zohra Khan, Nalini Burn

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781137461001
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137461018
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Accounting
• Index: Business

This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds. Casting a spotlight on the application of gender-responsive budgeting in public budgetary policies, systems and processes, the contributions to this volume explore the chequered trajectories of these efforts in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Andalucía. Critiquing systems of finance, from adherence to neo-liberal macroeconomic fundamentals which prioritise fiscal austerity, the book makes a compelling case for reframing and re-prioritizing budgets to comply with human rights standards, with a particular view to realizing women's rights. The authors highlight the paltry funding for women's rights organizations and movements and examine the prospects for making financing gender responsive. The specific policy, strategy and technical recommendations and the connections across silos which articulate the authors' suggested operational levers will appeal to researchers, practitioners, students, policymakers, gender equality and human rights activists alike.

Table of contents

• Series Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Boxes
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Financing for Gender Equality: Reframing and Prioritizing Public Expenditures to Promote Gender Equality
• Chapter 3: Financing for Gender Equality: How to Budget in Compliance with Human Rights Standards
• Chapter 4: Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Africa: Chequered Trajectories, Enduring Pathways
• Chapter 5: GRB Initiative in Andalusia: Reconciling Gender Equality and Economic Growth Perspectives
• Chapter 6: Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Latin America: Regional Learning to Advance Financing for Gender Equality
• Chapter 7: Gender Incursions in the Domain of Budgets: The Practice of GRB in Asia Pacific
• Chapter 8: Politics, Policies and Money: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals for Women
• Chapter 9: From Commitment to Action: Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
• Chapter 10: Financing for Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding: Setting Financial Targets as a Tool for Increasing Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Recovery
• Chapter 11: Beyond Investing in Women and Girls: Why Sustainable Long-Term Support to Women’s Rights Organizations and Movements is Key to Achieving Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
• Chapter 12: Climate Finance: Why Does It Matter for Women?
• Index