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Short Summary
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| Title |
Budgeting for Equity: Gender Budget Initiatives
within a Framework of Performance Oriented Budgeting |
| Author |
Sharp, R. |
| Publication
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July 2003 |
| Publisher |
United Nations Development Fund for Women
(UNIFEM) |
| Donor |
United Nations Development Fund for Women
(UNIFEM) |
| Short
Summary |
Can performance-oriented budgeting serve as a
framework for making budgets more gender responsive? This question
is set in the context of recent public sector reforms to make public
expenditure more 'results based' as part of the 'good governance'
agenda. This framework looks at outcomes (i.e., what does the
government want to achieve?), outputs (i.e., how does the government
achieve this?) and performance reporting (i.e., how does it know if
it is succeeding?). This fits well with the aims of gender
responsive budget initiatives (GRBIs) and their concern with the
impact on women and men of budgetary allocations. However, this
paper also identifies limitations of performance-oriented budgeting,
including the over emphasis in practice on efficiency rather than
effectiveness indicators, as well as on quantitative rather than
qualitative measures. A framework is outlined that links
performance-oriented budgeting and gender responsive budgets. To
make this work, a radical change to the conventional model is
required. An important aspect of this is to reassess the meanings of
economy, efficiency and effectiveness from a gender perspective, and
to add a fourth 'e', equity. |
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