Gender Budgeting Analysis

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.