What is Gender Responsive Budgeting?

Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) is an application of gender mainstreaming in the budgetary processes. It aims to create effective planning and budgeting through allocating sufficient resources for the different needs of women and men. It aims to create a society where gender equality is achieved, and women and men enjoy equal rights, services, and opportunities. GRB enables budgeting and planning processes to incorporate a gender perspective at all levels and meets different needs and priorities of women and men. Thus, it results in the eradication of gender-blind policies that aggravate gender inequalities, support achieving gender equality, advance women's rights, help alleviate poverty, enhance economic efficiency, accountability and transparency, and create equal societies. GRB enables central and local administrations to re-formulate policies, plans, and budgets, resulting in more effective policies to promote gender equality, more responsive plans to differing needs and priorities, and create more adequate budgets to achieve effective outcomes.