Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW (Concepts And Tools) - Softcover

Elson, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932827471 ISBN 13: 9781932827477

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

This title presents an insightful and thorough examination of the effect of budgets on women's lives in the developing world. It includes extensive case studies that illustrate the relation between monetary policy and women's choices in education, health care, employment and other areas. People's access to services and resources are determined by government budget policies. Gender budgets initiatives around the world have attempted to systematically examine how government budgets address discrimination with regard to women's access to housing, employment, health, education, and other services. Often, these exercises have been eye-openers: a budget analysis of domestic violence policies and laws in seven countries in Latin America, for example, revealed that appropriations for domestic violence programs and interventions were non-existent in cases. Similar evidence of gender discrimination is found when examining taxation policies. This publication 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). Combining substantive analysis with country examples, the publication explores how a rights-based budget analysis can be applied to public expenditure, public revenue, macroeconomics of the budget, and budget decision-making.

About this title

About the Authors

Diane Elson is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK and Senior Scholar and Co-director of the Levy Economics Institute s program on Gender Equality and the Economy.

Diane Elson is a professor at the University of Essex, Department of Sociology, U.K.

From the Inside Flap

People s access to services and resources are determined by government budget policies. Gender budgets initiatives around the world have attempted to systematically examine how government budgets address discrimination with regard to women s access to housing, employment, health, education, and other services. Often these exercises have been eye-openers: A budget analysis of domestic violence policies and laws in seven countries in Latin America, for example, revealed that appropriations for domestic violence programs and interventions were non-existent in cases. Similar evidence of gender discrimination is found when examining taxation policies. This publication 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). Combining substantive analysis with country examples, the publication explores how a rights-based budget analysis can be applied to public expenditure, public revenue, macroeconomics of the budget, and budget decision-making.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932827471
• ISBN 13: 9781932827477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172