Financing For Gender Equality: Realising Women's Rights Through Gender Responsive Budgeting Realising Women's Rights Through Gender Responsive Budgeting

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. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction / Nalini Burn -- 2. Financing For Gender Equality: Reframing And Prioritizing Public Expenditures To Promote Gender Equality / Stephanie Seguino -- 3. Financing For Gender Equality: How To Budget In Compliance With Human Rights Standards / Diane Elson -- 4. Gender-responsive Budgeting In Africa: Chequered, Trajectories, Enduring Pathways / Nalini Burn -- 5. Grb Initiative In Andalusia: Reconciling Gender Equality And Economic Growth Perspectives / Alicia Del Olmo Garrudo -- 6. Gender-responsive Budgeting In Latin America: Regional Learning To Advance Financing For Gender Equality / Raquel Coello -- 7. Gender Incursions In The Domain Of Budgets: The Practice Of Grb In Asia Pacific / Navanita Sinha -- 8. Politics, Policies And Money: Delivering The Sustainable Development Goals For Women / Zohra Khan -- 9. From Commitment To Action: Aid In Support Of Gender Equality And Women's Rights In The Implementation Of The Sustainable Development Goals / Patti O'neill -- 10. Financing For Gender-responsive Peacebuilding: Setting Financial Targets As A Tool For Increasing Women's Participation In Post-conflict Recovery / Cecile Mazzacurati -- 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 / Angelika Arutyunova -- 12. Climate Finance: Why Does It Matter For Women? / Mariama Williams. Zohra Khan, Nalini Burn, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Introduction....Pages 1-4 Financing for Gender Equality: Reframing and Prioritizing Public Expenditures to Promote Gender Equality....Pages 5-24 Financing for Gender Equality: How to Budget in Compliance with Human Rights Standards....Pages 25-48 Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Africa: Chequered Trajectories, Enduring Pathways....Pages 49-86 GRB Initiative in Andalusia: Reconciling Gender Equality and Economic Growth Perspectives....Pages 87-104 Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Latin America: Regional Learning to Advance Financing for Gender Equality....Pages 105-139 Gender Incursions in the Domain of Budgets: The Practice of GRB in Asia Pacific....Pages 141-175 Politics, Policies and Money: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals for Women....Pages 177-203 From Commitment to Action: Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals....Pages 205-225 Financing for Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding: Setting Financial Targets as a Tool for Increasing Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Recovery....Pages 227-246 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....Pages 247-271 Climate Finance: Why Does It Matter for Women?....Pages 273-311 Back Matter....Pages 313-333 "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." -- Publisher's web site