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 EU external financing to the project countries

Networking

  • Enhancing network’s visibility
  • Strengthening network’s learning capacity
  • Furthering network’s development

Capacity building

  • GSWN 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)

Provided training to coordinators and network members and developed 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.”

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)

Provided training to coordinators and network members and developed 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

Trainers

Marija Risteska

Marija Risteska with 20 years of experience in the field of gender equality and gender-responsive budgeting (GRB), covers modules on the basic concepts of gender equality and GRB, best practices, public policy monitoring regarding gender mainstreaming and development of comprehensive reports.

Riste Jurukovski

Riste Jurukovski holds a Master's degree in Economics. He is specialized in public policy analysis and regulatory impact assessment, as well as feasibility studies. Riste is in charge of the modules related to budget execution, gender revenue and expenditure planning from gender perspective.

Mirela Arqimandriti

Mirela Arqimandriti is a passionate activist and human rights defender. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Sheffield University in the UK. Mirela is responsible for transferring knowledge related to gender equality concepts.

Slavica Striković

Slavica Striković has graduated with a degree from the Electro- technical faculty on University of Montenegro and holds MA on Gender Studies, from the Faculty of Humanities, University of Donja Gorica. Slavica covers the module that refers to the gender expenditures analysis.

Natalia Vozian

Natalia Vozian is an experienced and multilingual Public Policy and Gender Consultant. In the last 9 years, she has worked across multiple projects and gender equality consultancy areas, including EVAW, GRB and GM in leading global companies and UN organizations.