Financing for Gender Equality

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   • Zohra Khan, Nalini Burn

   Pages 1-4

3. Financing for Gender Equality: Reframing and Prioritizing Public Expenditures to Promote Gender Equality

   • Stephanie Seguino

   Pages 5-24

4. Financing for Gender Equality: How to Budget in Compliance with Human Rights Standards

   • Diane Elson

   Pages 25-48

5. Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Africa: Chequered Trajectories, Enduring Pathways

   • Nalini Burn

   Pages 49-86

6. GRB Initiative in Andalusia: Reconciling Gender Equality and Economic Growth Perspectives

   • Buenaventura Aguilera Díaz, Paula Cirujano Campano, Alicia del Olmo Garrudo

   Pages 87-104

7. Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Latin America: Regional Learning to Advance Financing for Gender Equality

   • Lorena Barba, Raquel Coello

   Pages 105-139

8. Gender Incursions in the Domain of Budgets: The Practice of GRB in Asia Pacific

   • Yamini Mishra, Navanita Sinha

   Pages 141-175

9. Politics, Policies and Money: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals for Women

   • Zohra Khan

   Pages 177-203

10. From Commitment to Action: Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Emily Esplen, Patti O’Neill

    Pages 205-225

11. Financing for Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding: Setting Financial Targets as a Tool for Increasing Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Recovery

    • Sarah Douglas, Cécile Mazzacurati

    Pages 227-246

12. 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

    Pages 247-271

13. Climate Finance: Why Does It Matter for Women?

    • Mariama Williams

    Pages 273-311

14. Back Matter

    Pages 313-333

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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.   

• Public investment
• Gender equality
• Development aid
• Peacebuilding
• Women's rights
• Climate financing
• Gender responsive budgeting
• GRB
• Africa
• Asia-Pacific
• Andalucia
• Macroeconomics
• Financial austerity
• accounting
• budget
• business
• equality
• gender
• management
• quality
• women

• United Nations, New York, USA

  Zohra Khan

• Flic en Flac, Mauritius

  Nalini Burn

Zohra Khan is Policy Advisor to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, New York, USA. She has over 15 years’ experience in international and non-governmental organizations providing policy advice and technical assistance on gender responsive planning and budgeting.

Nalini Burn is an independent researcher, who has worked for over 20 years as a hands-on practitioner of gender-responsive policy planning and budgeting in a wide number of countries. She has held academic posts at the University of Mauritius, and the University of Brighton, Sussex, UK.   

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