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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

An organizational and advocacy assessment

In today’s rapidly changing environment, it is essential for civil society organizations, institutions, and networks to regularly assess their capacities, systems, and impact. An organizational and advocacy assessment is a powerful tool that helps you better understand where your organization stands today, what is working well, and where there is room for growth and improvement.
Through a structured and participatory process, the OACA examines key aspects of your organization, including governance, strategic planning, human and financial resources, communication, partnerships, and advocacy capacities. It provides an objective overviewof your organization’s strengths while identifying challenges that may limit its effectiveness and long-term development.
Beyond offering a clear picture of the current situation, the OACA delivers practical recommendations and guidance for strengthening your organization. This enables organizations to become more resilient, efficient, and better equipped to respond to communityneeds, attract support from donors and partners, and successfully influence public policies and decision-making processes.
Investing in an organizational and advocacy assessment is not simply an evaluation of your current performance. It is an investment in your organization’s future. Take the first step toward becoming a stronger, more sustainable, and more influential organization.Your potential deserves to be recognized, strengthened, and fully realized.

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

Kosovo

In Kosovo the Government finalized the Management Reform Strategy Public Finance 2022-2026 to which GBWN provided comments. KWN also contributed to recommendations for the World Bank's new Gender Strategy for 2024-2030, collaborating with Kvinna till Kvinna and other CSOs in the Western Balkans to prepare joint input for the strategy as well as advocate for it.
Albania

In Albania the Ministry of Finance and Economy has responded to the advocacy claim of GBWN to publish1 the Gender Responsive Budgeting programs for each Ministry on Gender Responsive Budgeting and their objectives.
Macedonia

In Macedonia, in February 2023 the changes of the Criminal Code aligning Macedonian legislation with Istanbul Convention were adopted; as well as the Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Value Added Tax was sent to Parliament in July 2023, responding to the GBWN advocacy to decrease impact on menstrual poverty.
Montenegro

In Montenegro the State Audit institution has for the first time prepared the Audit of the success of the implementation of gender equality policy encompassing gender responsive budgeting.
Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the State Audit Institution has announced a Gender Audit to be conducted in 2023.
Moldova

In Moldova the National Development Strategy "Moldova Europeana 2030" was adopted within which gender responsive budgeting is considered an important method for promoting gender equality and a priority measure to implement the objectives of the Strategy. GBWN contributed to the development of the National Program for accelerating gender equality in the Republic of Moldova for the years 2023-2027.
Serbia

In Serbia, a petition for reduction of VAT on menstrual product has been launched and so far, 48.038 signatures are collected. The petition is for the attention of the Minister of Finance, President of the Coordinating Body for Gender Equality and Prime Minister of Serbia.

GRB Courses

Course 1

Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) 

Course 2

Gender Budget Analysis

Course 3

Gender budget end user analysis tools

Course 4

Gender and Climate change

Course 5

Gender impact assesment

Course 6

Advocacy and lobbing on GRB and Climate Change

Course 7

Gender impact of crises, emergency and resilience funding

Course 8

Preparation of Gender Responsive Monitoring Reports

Course 9

Participatory budget community forums

Course 10

Budget Literacy

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GBWN podcasts

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