Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW
- Document number
- 1978
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Media, Information Campaigns, Empowerment, Advocacy, Civil society,
- Summary
- This report adds a landmark to the discourse on the link between human rights standards and government budgets. It elaborates on how budgets and budget policy making processes can be monitored for compliance with human rights standards, in particular with the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The report is based on the premise that accountability to women's rights needs to be translated into mobilising the necessary resources to meet the commitments made by the ratification of CEDAW. Combining substantive analysis with country examples, provides a framework for applying a rights-approach to budgets from a gender perspective that defines the requirements of good budget performance in the planning, formulation and execution stages. It also details the elements that require a critical assessment of budget policy making processes, the appropriateness of budget allocations, and the standard principles for non-discriminatory economic and budgets policies.
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