A Change in Thinking is a CD Oxfam put together with its partners to show how gender budgeting can deliver better value services for both women and men. Oxfam wants service delivery and regeneration initiatives in the UK to take gender into account. Only then will the poorest people in society benefit from the services on offer.

So we spoke to people across the UK who are conducting, lobbying for or benefiting from gender budgeting at local and national level. We hope the results will encourage government use of gender budgeting techniques.

  The inspiration for A Change in Thinking came from a gender budgeting learning exchange to South Africa and Yemen. The exchange involved sharing experiences of using gender budgeting with other governments and organisations. Participants included those working in or with local and national governments in England, Scotland and Wales, and Oxfam staff.

Oxfam supports learning through international visits because it contributes to a greater understanding among decision makers in Britain that poverty is global, and they also enable us to bring new perspectives and approaches to tackling poverty in the UK.

The participants were inspired and motivated by the visits. They described seeing things from a new perspective. They felt humbled by the energy and commitment of activists working in more challenging circumstances than their own. We hope that A Change in Thinking convinces you that now’s the time to try gender budgeting.

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