Gender Budgeting

This BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on CD provides key materials on gender-sensitive budgets as a tool for advancing gender equality. Sharing accessible explanations of key concepts, geographically and context diverse case studies, practical tools, guidelines, training materials, popular education materials, web resources and networking contacts, supports progress towards achieving the ultimate goal of the formulation of a gender-sensitive budget. If you are too busy implementing, designing and managing to have time to read a book, then this Pack can offer you concise, accessible information. We hope these resources will further encourage collaboration and networking. As this collection shows, there is no one way of "doing" gender budget work. The context for the work is everything. Whilst we have included examples of tools, guidelines, and training materials, we want to stress that there is no magic formula and any materials need to be adapted for the context.

This report discusses the trends and patterns of funding for organisations in South Africa that
address gender-based violence. This report is the result of the efforts of a number of people. Julia
Kuhn wrote the literature review, analysed the data from twenty-nine CSO questionnaires and
twelve CSO interviews and wrote up these findings, and conducted seven interviews with donors.
Debbie Budlender of Community Agency for Social Enquiry analysed the data from twelve
interviews with donors and wrote up these findings. The recommendations were compiled by Julia
Kuhn and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.

This resource provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks. It focuses primarily on health, particularly reproductive health; on HIV/AIDS; and on violence against women as it relates to health services.