Gender gaps persist in education, employment, entrepreneurship and public life opportunities and outcomes. Gender budgeting is a way for governments to promote equality through the budget process. 

Since every ministry and level of government has a budget, planning the budget with the promotion of gender equality in mind has the potential to help policy-makers address a range of inequalities that have become embedded in public policies and the allocation of resources.

The number of OECD countries that have introduced gender budgeting increased from 12 in 2016 to 17 in 2018 (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden). France and Turkey have plans to introduce it.

Latest:

OECD Scan

• Gender Budgeting in Ireland

Publications 

• Gender and Capital Budgeting
• Gender Budgeting Framework
• Gender Budgeting Action Plan for Thailand
• Designing and Implementing Gender Budgeting
• Gender Budgeting in OECD Countries
• Gender Equality in Canada: Mainstreaming, Governance and Budgeting

Events

• Meeting of the Gender Budgeting Network, Virtual, 20 May 2021
• Workshop on Gender Budgeting and the COVID-19 crisis, Virtual, 10 July 2020
• Experts Meeting on Gender Budgeting, Paris, France, 2019
• Experts Meeting on Gender Budgeting, Vienna, Austria, 2018
• Experts Meeting on Gender Budgeting, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2017