Gender-Responsive Budgeting

Lecture 03 of 7

Gender budget statements: what goes in one

What a gender budget statement actually contains, and how to write one that a treasury officer will accept rather than return.

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In this lecture

  • Structure a gender budget statement
  • Support each claim with data
  • Avoid a statement that restates the budget without analysis

Analysis, not a restated budget

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A gender budget statement that lists spending by ministry without analysing who it reaches is rejected as often as it is approved. This lecture builds a statement from a real sector budget, showing the analysis a treasury officer is actually checking for underneath the required format.

Every claim needs a number behind it

'This programme benefits women and men equally' is a claim, not evidence. A statement that instead says '58% of participants in 2025 were women, against a target beneficiary population that is 51% women' gives a reviewer something to check, and something that survives scrutiny.

Materials

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  • Gender budget statement templatePDF · 920 KB

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