Executive summary
Since its inception about 30 years ago in Australia, gender budgeting has spread to over 80 countries. Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting that uses fiscal policy and public financial management to promote gender equality and women’s and girls’ development. It has been recognized as an important, if inadequately implemented, tool for improving access to education, health care, and the labor force for women and girls and for empowering them economically and politically. Gender budgeting also calls attention to the role that fiscal policies and public financial management can play in promoting gender equality, even when ingrained cultural influences and traditional practices present countervailing pressures.
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