Resources and organisations

Below is a list of key resources about gender budgeting.

Gender responsive budget initiatives.
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), The Commonwealth Secretariat and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Gender analysis of expenditure project report. (2004)
Published by the Women and Equality Unit.

Money matters two: women and local government budget. (2002)
Karen Hurt & Debbie Budlender.

Gender budgets make more cents: country studies and good practice. (2002)
Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt.

What is gender budgeting?. (2004)
Wales Gender Budget Group.

Promoting gender equality in public spending. (2000)
Scottish Women's Budget Group.

Budgeting for all: manual for local gender budget initiatives. (2005)
This publication is not available electronically. For further information and to order a hardcopy, contact Sheila Quinn at quinnsheila@eircom.net
Sheila Quinn in collaboration with Thera van Osch and Jacintha van Beveren.

Accounting for gender: a gender analysis of support for work in south bank and grangetown. (2005)
Romi Jones and Julia Lyford.

Looking at the economy through women's eyes, a facilitator's guide for economic literacy. (2004)
Published by Banulacht. To order a copy of the facilitator's guide, please contact the author of the book, Maeve Taylor, at banulach@iol.ie
Maeve Taylor.

Organisations

Below is a list of UK and international organisations working on gender budgeting.

UK Women's Budget Group.
A network of around 150 women and men lobbying at UK government level for the use of gender budgeting techniques, and critiquing government policy on gender. Focus in the last few years has been on work with HM Treasury.

Scottish Women's Budget Group.
A group of women from voluntary, statutory sector and feminist academics. Their particular expertise is successful lobbying of the Scottish Executive on public spending.

Wales Gender Budget Group.
C/O Adele Baumgardt, EOC
Windsor House, Windsor Lane
Cardiff
CF10 3GE
The Wales Assembly Government has a particular interest in gender budget initiatives, making the potential influence of this group significant. Similar in influence level to the Scottish group.

The Gender Responsive Budgets Initiative.
An international collaboration between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), The Commonwealth Secretariat and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), to promote the use of gender budgeting.