Gender Responsive Budgeting in India: A Comparative Study for greater effectiveness

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10.2991/978-94-6463-714-4_16How to use a DOI?

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Gender equality; participatory budgeting; sustainable development

Abstract

Incorporating a gender perspective into the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public policy Gender Responsive Budgeting is a strategy to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment by mainstreaming gender into budgeting. It aims to ensure that public resources are allocated and spent in a way that responds to the different needs and priorities of women and men, girls and boys. This paper aims to provide an overview of gender budgetingg, its implementation in India, challenges, the GRB practices of different countries and lessons for India. The paper draws on the existing literature and data on gender budgeting, as well as the experiences of different countries across the world. It analyses gender budgeting in India, identifies challenges in effective implementation and undertakes a comparative study of gender budgeting practices across the world and examples of gender budgeting initiatives of some countries, their best practices, legal and institutional frameworks, methods/approaches and tools for gender budgeting such as gender analysis, gender impact assessment, gender-responsive budget statements, gender budget indicators, and gender-disaggregated data that enable the identification, assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of the gender implications and outcomes of public policies and budgets. The paper concludes with some lessons and recommendations for gender budgeting in India on aspects of the legal framework, transparency and accountability, institutionalization, expenditure on gender-neutral sectors, and gender-disaggregated data.

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AU  - Bhavana Komma
AU  - Radha Raghuramapatruni
AU  - Vamsi Krushna Atmakuri
AU  - Kasthuri Godey
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/05/05
TI  - Gender Responsive Budgeting in India: A Comparative Study for greater effectiveness
BT  - Proceedings of Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Equity and Digital Strategies (SEEDS 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 264
EP  - 287
SN  - 2667-1271
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DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-714-4_16
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