Main goals & pillars of the network

1.

Development of policy documents and institutionalizing of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB)

2.

Capacity building and training for CSOs on monitoring resilience response and climate change financing

3.

Mentoring and financial support to CSOs to engage with governments for gender transformative use of public finance

4.

Developing the methodology for gender budget watchdogging in climate change and resilience emergency response

5.

Developing monitoring and shadow reports on SDG 5c1 with continuous advocacy

6.

Producing gender responsive citizens budgets

7.

Boosting parliamentary hearings and strengthening advocacy for gender-responsive public financial management using the PEFA framework in Finance Ministries

8.

Monitoring of EU external financing to the project countries

Networking
  • Enhancing network's visibility
  • Strengthening network's learning capacity
  • Furthering network's development
Capacity building
  • GRB academy
  • Training to watchdog COVID-19 recovery programs and climate change financing
  • Re-granting
  • Webinars, Podcasts, Gender budget brief
Participation and accountability
  • Monitoring SDG5c1 progress
  • Assessing EU financing
  • Parliamentary hearings
  • Citizens' budgets
  • UNFCCC national communications
  • Climate change (CC) gender case studies
Networking
  • Enhancing network’s visibility
  • Strengthening network’s learning capacity
  • Furthering network’s development

Capacity building

  • GRB Academy
  • Training to watchdog COVID-19 recovery programs and climate change financing
  • Re-granting
  • Webinars, Podcasts, Gender budget brief
Participation and accountability
  • Monitoring SDG5c1 progress
  • Assessing EU financing
  • Parliamentary hearings
  • Citizens’ budgets
  • UNFCCC national communications
  • Climate change (CC) gender case studies

What is gender responsive budgeting?

Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is a strategy that focuses on integrating a gender perspective in government planning and budgeting. It aims to incorporate a perspective on how to improve equality between women and men based on a gender analysis in every stage of planning, programming, and execution of government budgets. Thus, it should not be seen as an additional budget, but as a way of doing better planning and budgeting based on more specific evidence regarding men and women as beneficiaries of policies and budgets.

Key Outputs

32 Grants to Be Distributed

(28 national + 4 regional); with continuous support and mentoring to all the sub-grantees.

Organizational and Advocacy Capacity Assessment (OACA)

Providing training to coordinators and network members and developing tailored capacity development plans for GBWN members.

GRB Forum

“Going Glocal: Gender Responsive Budgeting in the Western Balkans & Moldova, Advancing good governance through empowering CSOs to use GRB tools" with 80+ participants from 20+ countries.

Policy impact results