Just Budgets - Increasing Accountability and Aid Effectiveness through Gender Responsive Budgeting
In 2007 One World Action launched a two-year research and advocacy programme, Just Budgets, in partnership with four leading African civil society organizations. The aim of the programme was to explore how gender responsive budgeting (GRB) could be applied to the new aid modalities articulated in the 2005 Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness.
GRB analyses the implications of public spending and revenue-raising for matching gender policy commitments. By ensuring that a gender perspective is integrated in budgetary planning, GRB can also help to ensure that development cooperation responds to gender inequalities in society.
However, it is unclear how to track national and donor government commitments to gender equality within the new aid architecture defined by the Paris Declaration. Focusing on South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, Just Budgets aims to provide practical guidance to donors, governments and civil society on increasing accountability and aid effectiveness through GRB.
To view the Just Budgets Synthesis Report please click here.
Increasing Accountability and Aid Effectiveness through Gender Budget Analysis in South Africa
Increasing Aid Effectiveness Through Gender Responsive Budgeting
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Increasing Accountability and Aid Effectiveness Throught Gender Budgeting Analysis in Tanzania
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Please check back soon for the Just Budget studies on South Africa and Mozambique. For more information on the Just Budgets project, please contact Zohra Khan at
