This summary report highlights findings from the UN Secretary-General’s review of global progress on gender equality 30 years on from the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. While the findings point to advances such as anti-discrimination laws and gender-responsive climate plans, they also note persistent gender discrimination and emphasize the platform’s continued importance, including in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals.
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This paper offers a unified framework for increasing gender equality funding through macro policies and external finance. It explores government spending, taxation,…
Engendering fiscal space: Modelling alternative methods of financing investments for gender equality
This paper models how diverse gender equality policies impact various metrics unevenly across social groups and macroeconomic indicators. It emphasizes that “what”, “for…
This paper analyses how external debt, concessional finance, and special drawing rights (SDRs) impact fiscal space for gender equality amid the Global South’s debt…
This paper redefines fiscal space for gender equality investments beyond debt sustainability, emphasizing domestic resource mobilization and a supportive environment. It…
This comprehensive gender analysis of Cabo Verde will guide UN Women and the African Development Bank (AfDB) in assisting the Government to integrate and mainstream…
This brief discusses how migration could be mainstreamed into the Moldovan development framework, particularly from a gender perspective. This requires mainstreaming…
Towards a logical framework methodology with a gender perspective contains the main elements for mainstreaming gender in planning the public budget in Mexico, explains…
This booklet presents the cases of Australia, South Africa, Ecuador, Italy, Morocco, Nepal and the earmarking of resources in Mexico, and focuses on successful tools to…
Conceptual references for gender-responsive budgeting explains basic concepts such as gender, public budget, gender, gender equality, gender-responsive budgeting. It…
The publication is an introduction to the process of mainstreaming gender in public budgeting and synthesizes the Mexican experience, from signing international human…