Developments in Practice: Methodologies and Approaches to Gender Budgeting

Klatzer, Elisabeth; Addabbo, Tindara; Alarcón-García, Gloria; O’Hagan, Angela

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64891-0_6

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“…The Finnish GB approach could be described as a combination of ex-ante analysis, elements related to performance-based budgeting and a form of gender budget statement (see Downes et al, 2016;Klatzer, Addabbo, et al, 2018). A distinctive feature of the Finnish approach is that it has not been explicitly characterized as GB but has been embedded in a broader gender mainstreaming strategy.…”

Section: Gender Budgeting In the Shadow Of Gender Mainstreamingmentioning

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Gender budgeting in the crossroad of gender policy and public financial management: The Finnish case

Elomäki

Ylöstalo

2021

Public Money & Management

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Finland has been using gender budgets (GB) for over 10 years; however, very little is known internationally about the Finnish GB experience. Finland's experience provides several lessons for GB practitioners in other countries. It highlights the importance of clear national gender equality goals for effective GB implementation, as well as the need to pay attention to mid-term fiscal frameworks. It also shows how the lack of feminist economic expertise and a clear conceptual framework can reduce GB to technical processes and calculations, and the importance of outside-government actors drawing attention to the gendered impacts of economic policies.

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Section: Gender Budgeting In the Shadow Of Gender Mainstreamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender budgeting in the crossroad of gender policy and public financial management: The Finnish case

Elomäki

Ylöstalo

2021

Public Money & Management

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“…GB is probably the most relevant tool in pursuing gender equity since it consists of a "gender-based assessment of budgets, incorporating a gender perspective at all levels of the budgetary process" (Council of Europe, 2005: 10). Furthermore, it fosters the concept of gender equality in rights and duties between females and males, also in terms of equal treatment in accessing resources and opportunities (Klatzer et al, 2018;Pastore & Tommaso, 2020).…”

Section: Participatory Gender Budgetingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…GB could be implemented in several ways and could produce various results (Klatzer et al, 2018;Pastore & Tommaso, 2020). Specifically, it could be set with different methodologies, namely ex-ante, concurrent and expost approaches (Rubin & Bartle, 2005).…”

Section: Participatory Gender Budgetingmentioning

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Fostering Participation in Gender Budgeting: A proposal for an online system to enhance citizens' engagement in gender-responsive budgeting

Mattei

Santolamazza

Elia

2022

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A controversial issue in the public management literature is the role attributed to women. Analyzing the existing literature, few works have been written about how the presence of women is valued in the public sector. From this analysis, several discriminatory elements are still present, and gender equality seems to be far away. However, this objective must continue to be pursued, also considering the relevance given to the gender equality issue by the United Nations in the Sustainable Development Goals. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to implement political, economic and societal legislation, programs and policies to minimize the differences between men and women. In this perspective, Gender Budgeting (GB) could be an interesting field of research. It consists of a systematic review about how women benefit from public sector expenditures, an adjustment of budgets to ensure equality of access to public sector expenditures, enhancing productive capacity and meeting social needs. However, GB could be adopted differently and could produce several results. In particular, the implementation of GB as a participatory tool is still nowadays a challenge and could be fascinating to analyze, considering the various benefits that a participatory approach could imply. One of the main reasons for the lack of direct citizens involvement in GB is that it was initially developed from a macro-perspective at the national budget. On the other hand, other participatory tools, such as the participatory budget, originate at the local level. Therefore, examining the existing literature and focusing on two different processes, but with some overlapping characteristics elements, namely participatory budgeting and gender budgeting, the present research aims to create a participatory GB framework, investigating the insertion of a participatory perspective in the process, specifically women’s engagement, not neglecting the relevance of digitalization to this end.

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“…In Europe in particular, a legislative framework, from national and regional governments, has developed across countries to support gender budgeting implementation. Legislation began with the Beijing Platform for Actionformed in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Womenwhich first institutionalized gender budgeting but despite this, the adoption of gender budgeting remains a challenge in different contexts (Quinn, 2017;O'Hagan & Klatzer, 2018).…”

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“…By the mid-1990s, it had been introduced in numerous countries throughout the world thanks to the impetus of the Beijing Platform for Action of United Nations in 1995, which called for the integration of a gender dimension into budgetary processes (Sharp & Broomhill, 2002). Today, gender budgeting initiatives have been introduced worldwide both at the national and subnational levels, with varying forms, aims, approaches, scopes and outcomes based on the different political contexts in which they are implemented (Stotsky, 2006;Chakraborty, 2016;Klatzer et al, 2018). Scholarly studies on these initiatives have also increases since the 1990s by highlighting that gender budgeting has been used --as a disruptive and radical approach to decision-making on public resources and public policy‖ (O'Hagan, 2018: p.37)to engender macroeconomic policy aimed at reducing gender inequalities and advancing gender issues, such as tackling violence against women or enhancing women's rights, their status, their access to education or their working conditions, etc.…”

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Gender Budgeting Implementation in Italian Regional Governments: Institutional Behavior for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Gesso¹

2019

IBR

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Gender budgeting has great potential to promote the United Nations 2030 Agenda concerning gender equality and women’s empowerment. This article shares some reflections on the need to implement and institutionalize gender budgeting at the regional level, both by embedding gender issues into the overall regional government budgetary process and by promoting gender equality disclosures. An empirical insight into the institutional behavior of Italian regional governments is provided. The study seeks to understand how the gender perspective is integrated into the governmental strategy that informs the entire budgetary cycle of Italian regional governments, by performing a thematic analysis of the key regional planning documents. The local promotion of gender budgeting implementation through institutional norms and the practice of gender performance reporting in Italian regional governments are also addressed. The results highlight that although there are differing degrees of commitment to gender equality and women’s advancement within the regions, the gender perspective is quite homogeneously integrated into the governmental strategy. Four gendered transversal thematic priorities are identified: the encouragement of women’s employment, the promotion of equal gender opportunities, the enhancement of social inclusion, and the combatting of gender-based violence. Furthermore, although nine regional laws establish gender performance reporting, additional reporting tools integrating non-financial information on gender issues are included solely in a small part of the regional government performance reporting systems. A greater organizational and cultural commitment to the institutionalization of the gender budgeting idea is needed in order to allow stakeholders to appreciate the government’s value outcomes in all their dimensions, including the gender-related social dimension.

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Developments in Practice: Methodologies and Approaches to Gender Budgeting

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Gender budgeting in the crossroad of gender policy and public financial management: The Finnish case

Gender budgeting in the crossroad of gender policy and public financial management: The Finnish case

Fostering Participation in Gender Budgeting: A proposal for an online system to enhance citizens' engagement in gender-responsive budgeting

Gender Budgeting Implementation in Italian Regional Governments: Institutional Behavior for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

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