Gender-Responsive Budgeting

Lecture 01 of 7

What gender-responsive budgeting actually changes

What gender-responsive budgeting is not - a separate fund for women - and what it actually is: a way of reading and building an ordinary budget.

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In this lecture

  • Correct the most common misunderstanding of GRB
  • Explain what a gender-responsive budget actually contains
  • Locate GRB inside the existing budget cycle

It is not a separate budget

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The most persistent misconception about gender-responsive budgeting is that it means setting aside a fund earmarked for women. This opening lecture corrects that directly: GRB is a method for examining and adjusting the whole budget - every vote, not a new one - for who it actually reaches.

The same rupee, read differently

A road maintenance budget line looks gender-neutral until it is read against who walks, who drives, and whose unpaid care journeys depend on the footpath rather than the carriageway. GRB does not add spending; it changes how existing spending is examined and, where the reading shows a gap, adjusted.

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