Financing for Gender Equality (eBook)

Realising Women’s Rights through Gender Responsive Budgeting

Zohra Khan, Nalini Burn (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XXI, 333 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-46101-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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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 Andalucia. 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.   

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Reframing and Prioritizing Public Expenditures to Promote Gender Equality; Stephanie Seguino, Professor of Economics, University of Vermont, USAChapter 2. How to Budget in Compliance with Human Rights Standards; Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor, University of EssexChapter 3 Gender-responsive budgeting in Africa: chequered trajectories, enduring pathways by Nalini BurnChapter 4. GRB in Andalusia: Reconciling Gender Equality and Economic Growth Perspectives; Buenaventura Aguilera Díaz, Paula Cirujano Campano and Alicia del Olmo GarrudoChapter 5. Gender Responsive Budgeting in Latin America: Regional Learning to Advance Financing for Gender Equality; Lorena Barba and Raquel CoelloChapter 6. Gender incursions in the domain of budgets: The practice of GRB in Asia Pacific; Yamini Mishra and Navanita SinhaChapter 7. Politics, Policies and Money: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals for Women; Zohra KhanChapter 8. From commitment to action: Aid in support of gender equality and women’s rights in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals;  Emily Esplen with Patti O’NeillChapter 9. Financing for Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding: Setting Financial Targets as a Tool for Increasing Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Recovery; Sarah Douglas and Cécile MazzacuratiChapter 10. Climate Finance: Why does it matter for women; Mariama WilliamsChapter 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Gender, Development and Social Change
• Reihe/Serie: Gender, Development and Social Change
• Zusatzinfo: XXI, 333 p. 28 illus., 7 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Accounting • Africa • Andalucia • Asia-Pacific • Budget • business • Climate financing • development aid • Equality • Financial austerity • Gender • Gender equality • Gender responsive budgeting • GRB • Macroeconomics • Management • Peacebuilding • Public Investment • quality • Women • women's rights
• ISBN-10: 1-137-46101-2 / 1137461012
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-46101-8 / 9781137461018