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	Gender Mainstreaming Assessment	Gender Budgeting Analysis
Field	Gender Studies	Gender Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1997	2002
Originator	UN Economic and Social Council (gender mainstreaming, 1997); European Institute for Gender Equality (gender impact assessment methodology)	Diane Elson (analytical tools); Debbie Budlender, Diane Elson, Guy Hewitt & Tanni Mukhopadhyay (Commonwealth synthesis)
Type	Policy gender analysis method	Policy and fiscal gender analysis method
Seminal source	United Nations Economic and Social Council (1997). Mainstreaming the gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system (Agreed Conclusions 1997/2). UN ECOSOC, New York.	Budlender, D., Elson, D., Hewitt, G., & Mukhopadhyay, T. (2002). Gender Budgets Make Cents: Understanding Gender Responsive Budgets. Commonwealth Secretariat, London. ISBN: 9780850926811
Aliases	Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Impact Assessment, GIA	Gender-Responsive Budgeting, Gender Budget Analysis, GRB
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Summary	Gender mainstreaming assessment, operationalised most concretely as gender impact assessment (GIA), is the method used to put into practice the strategy of gender mainstreaming defined by the UN Economic and Social Council in 1997: assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action — legislation, policies, or programmes — in all areas and at all levels, so that gender equality becomes an integral dimension of policy design rather than an afterthought. As a method it screens a proposed policy for gender relevance, gathers sex-disaggregated evidence, evaluates how the policy will affect women and men differently, and recommends adjustments, with monitoring built in.	Gender budgeting analysis, also called gender-responsive budgeting (GRB), is a method for examining government budgets to reveal their differing impacts on women and men and to reallocate resources toward gender equality. It is emphatically not about creating separate budgets for women; instead it applies a gender lens to the whole of public revenue and expenditure, using a set of analytical tools — pioneered by Diane Elson — including gender-aware policy appraisal, beneficiary assessment, expenditure incidence analysis, revenue incidence analysis, and the gender-aware budget statement, and it links fiscal choices to the often-invisible unpaid care economy.