Gender-Responsive Budgeting

Lecture 02

Reading a budget for who it reaches

PublishedReading lectureWritten by Tharindu Bandara

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  1. Block 1 · text

    Gender-neutral language is not gender-neutral spending

    A budget line written in gender-neutral language - 'agricultural extension services' - can still reach men and women in very different proportions if extension officers visit farms during hours or through channels that only one group can access. The line is neutral on paper and not neutral in effect.

  2. Block 2 · text

    Check before you conclude

    The only way to know whether a line is genuinely neutral in effect is to check who used it last year, disaggregated by sex where the data exists. Assuming neutrality from the wording alone is the single most common error in a first budget read-through.

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