Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts

By Janet Gale Stotsky, Lisa L Kolovich, Suhaib Kebhaj

July 28, 2016

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Janet Gale Stotsky, Lisa L Kolovich, and Suhaib Kebhaj. Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

Gender budgeting is an initiative to use fiscal policy and administration to address gender inequality and women’s advancement. A large number of sub-Saharan African countries have adopted gender budgeting. Two countries that have achieved notable success in their efforts are Uganda and Rwanda, both of which have integrated gender-oriented goals into budget policies, programs, and processes in fundamental ways. Other countries have made more limited progress in introducing gender budgeting into their budget-making. Leadership by the ministry of finance is critical for enduring effects, although nongovernmental organizations and parliamentary bodies in sub-Saharan Africa play an essential role in advocating for gender budgeting.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Gender, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Public financial management (PFM), Women

Keywords: Africa, Budget planning and preparation, Country, Economic planning, Fiscal policy and administration, Gender budgeting, Gender inequality, Government, Government institution, Local government, National budget, State reform, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women, WP, Zero rating

Publication Details

Pages:

50
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2016/152
Stock No:

WPIEA2016152
ISBN:

9781475520033
ISSN:

1018-5941

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