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Gender responsive budgeting in education (pdf 371kb)

In the mid-1980s, the Australian government pioneered the first analysis of government budgets from a gender perspective. By 2003, similar initiatives were underway in more than sixty countries, on every continent.

This paper uses the gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) approach to demonstrate how gender equality in education can be supported through financing to ensure that gender-related issues are considered and addressed in all government policies and programmes.

It addresses the impact of the government budget and the policies and programmes regarding women and men, girls and boys that it funds

 

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