1. Gender Responsive Budgeting Millennium Developmental Goals for 2015

2. United Nations Millennium Goals 2015 Goal 3 Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Establish financial management capabilities

3. Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB)  Helps governments decide how policies need to be adjusted, and where resources need to be reallocated to address poverty and gender inequalities.

4. UNIFEM  United Nations Development Fund for Women, Gender Response Budgeting “Ensuring that national planning, budgeting and monitoring and evaluation processes incorporate a gender perspective.”

5. UNIFEM  UNIFEM began initiative in 2001  As of 2009, UNIFEM is supporting GRB work in 45 countries

6. Early Years of GRB (2001-2005)  Focused on making gender budgeting tools available Increase capacity to carry out gender budget analysis Improve budgeting and planning process to enhance gender equality Increase implementation of gender equality plans and policies

7. Later Years of GRB (2005-Now)  Ensure the national budgeting reflect in poor women’s priorities National budget reflect gender equality principles Priorities of poor and excluded women reflect in budget allocations

8. GRB at the Local Level  Strengthen women’s representation in local bodies  Support their participation in the budget process  Create awareness of gender budget analysis and allocation for local women’s priorities

9. What do you think?

10. References United Nations. (2010). UNIFEM’s work in support of gender responsive budgeting. Retrieved on September 13, 2010 from http://www.gender- budgets.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=214http://www.gender- budgets.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=214 United Nations. (2010). Work for the people and the planet. Retrieved on September 13 2010 from http://www.un.org/works/sub3.asp?lang=en&id=22 http://www.un.org/works/sub3.asp?lang=en&id=22 Photographs: United Nations Development Fund for Women. (2010). Retrieved on September 13, 2010 from http://www.gender-budgets.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=586 http://www.gender-budgets.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=586 Kiva. (2010). Loans that change lives. Retrieved on September 14 from http://www.kiva.org/press/imagegallery http://www.kiva.org/press/imagegallery Kate Perkins University Scholars Program Hazel Forsythe, Ph.D. RD. LD. Associate Professor March, 2010 Educational programs of Kentucky Cooperative Extension serve all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin.