Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting: Imperatives for Equitable Public Expenditure

✍ Scribed by Cecilia Ng (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace 22
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting. It explores the possibilities for gender sensitive budgeting when implemented using techniques that have been popularized by participatory governance activists. A combination of the two allows for a whole new way of ensuring public budgets are used equitably.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Making Public Expenditures Equitable: Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Interlinking Gender Responsiveness and Participation in Public Budgeting Processes....Pages 18-31
Women in Budgeting: A Critical Assessment of Participatory Budgeting Experiences....Pages 33-53
Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting in Penang: The People-Oriented Model....Pages 55-79
Community Participation and Women’s Empowerment: The Kerala Experience of Participatory Planning and Budgeting....Pages 81-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Integrating Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Participation in the Budget Process: A Survey of Entry Points and Practical Examples....Pages 98-122
Malaybalay City Integrated Survey System: A Tool for Gender Responsive Budgeting in Local Governance....Pages 123-139
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Localizing Gender and Participatory Budgeting: Challenges of Institutionalization in Penang, Malaysia....Pages 142-162
Institutionalizing Gender Responsive Budgeting in National and Local Governments in Nepal....Pages 163-178
Gender Responsive Budgeting: State and Civil Society Initiatives at National and Sub-national Levels in Indonesia....Pages 179-193
Back Matter....Pages 195-212

✦ Subjects

Gender Studies;Economic Geography;Public Policy