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Monday, January 27, 2014
Beyond government: How can you inject political finance information in your life and why should anyone care? What’s next?
This webinar session will introduce some of the creative ideas that inject political finance information into the everyday life of people and brainstorm about the possible ways to make this information relevant on an individual level. We will also...
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Monday, January 27, 2014
How can the transparency of political finance be enhanced when we don’t have reliable government data?
How technology can be exploited to monitor election spendings or explore undue influence on the decision-making process. We will also identify examples of inspiring and innovative things that agencies/local governments are doing in this space,...
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Gender-responsive Public Procurement
The Government of Iraq is in the process of drafting a public procurement law. This drafting phase provides an opportunity to incorporate specific incentives for women within the law. It is expected that with these provisions, Iraqi women’s...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Money in Politics Keeps Women Out of Office, USA
Women make up less than 20 percent of Congress. Out of 100 senators, 20 are female; out of 435 representatives, there are 78 women. According to the World Economic Forum, that puts the United States at 60th in the world for political equality...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Report / White Paper
Budgeting for equity: Gender budget initiatives within a framework of performance oriented budgeting
The following paper by Rhonda Sharp (2003) brings forth research from a project commissioned by UNIFEM. The project upon which the paper is based, sought to develop strategies that would facilitate the achievement of gender responsive budget...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Report / White Paper
Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, Concepts, and Experiences
This book, published by UNIFEM in 2002, is a compilation of papers and statements made at the high level International Conference "Strengthening Economic and Fianncial Governance Through Gender Responsive Budgeting." The collection provides state of...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Report / White Paper
Engendering Budgets: A Practitioner's Guide to Understanding and Implementing Gender-Responsive
This practical guide by Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt, based on experiences of past gender budget initiatives, provides a comprehensive outline of how to engender budgets. Intended for practitioners of any level, this gender budgets handbook...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Report / White Paper
BRIDGE Cutting Edge Packs Gender and Budgets
Everyone who has struggled to mainstream gender into public policy recognises that programmed action without money attached amounts to inaction. While government budgets allocate resources in ways that perpetuate gender biases, budgets also offer...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Report / White Paper
Financing for Development: Aid Effectiveness and Gender-Responsive Budgets
Financing for Development: Aid Effectiveness and Gender-Responsive Budgets Background paper prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat in May 2007 by Debbie Budlender, Community Agency for Social Enquiry, Cape Town, South Africa This paper attempts...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Report / White Paper
Budgeting to Fulfill International Gender Commitments
Budgeting to Fulfill International Gender Commitments by Debbie Budlender, Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE).UNIFEM 2004 This booklet was commissioned by the Southern African Regional Office (SARO) of the United Nations Development Fund for...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Report / White Paper
Budgeting to end gender inequalities in the education sector
This paper prepared by Fatou Lo and Nisreen Alami explains how gender responsive budgeting tools can help address persistent gender inequalities in the education sector. Drawing on country experiences and a broad analysis of education sector...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Case Study
Breaking new frontiers for gender responsive budgeting: the Kerala Model
This article prepared by Yamini Mishra, Gender Responsive Budgeting Specialist, South, East and South East Asia, UN Women challenges us to think about what GRB has meant for the reality of women's lives? Has it translated into better outputs and...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Report / White Paper
Gender Budgets Make More Cents: Country Studies and Good Practice
This Commonwealth Secretariat publication by Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt (2002), documents "good practice" in gender budget work from across the globe. Practitioners share their first-hand experiences and in-depth knowledge of the why, where and...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Academic Paper / Article
Financing for Gender Equality: Reframing and Prioritizing Public Expenditures to Promote Gender Equality
Well-targeted public investments that reduce inequality can be self-sustaining insofar as they raise the productive capacity of the economy and thereby stimulate growth. With growth come higher incomes, generating the tax base to fund future public...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Academic Paper / Article
The Paradox of Gender Responsive Budgeting (India)
Despite the steps towards gender responsive budgeting, the budgetary allocations for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment show a decline. Not only has the magnitude of the gender budget as a proportion of the total expenditure of the...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Report / White Paper
Political Parties and Democracy in Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
The abuse of public roles and resources for private benefit, although in many societies terms like “public,” “private,” and “abuse” are matters of considerable political dispute. Much corruption in established democracies involves efforts by...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Case Study
Money in Politics: A study of Party Financing Practices in 22 countries
Corruption related to political party financing poses a great threat to democratic development worldwide.The study investigates party financing issues accross 22 countries.
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Guide / Training Material
Money in Politics Handbook: A guide to Increasing Transparency in Emerging Democracies
This handbook is a primer on the topic of money in politics with special emphasis on the role of disclosure. “Money in politics” refers to the funds used for electioneering and influencing political processes. “Political finance” is an umbrella term...
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