Gender-Responsive Budgeting: Between Desired and Successful Practices of Redistribution of Public Finances at Local, National, and Regional Levels for the Needs of Women and Men

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.

Network Activities and Events

GRB Impact Story: Bringing Women’s Voices into Budgets in South Mitrovica

The Mitrovica Women’s Association for Human Rights (MWAHR), a member of the Gender Budget Watchdog Network (GBWN) and a sub-grantee of the project “Gender Budgeting

09/01/2025

When Crisis Plans Miss Half the Story: Gender-Responsive Crisis Management in North Macedonia

When a crisis strikes, whether it’s a fire, a flood, or a pandemic, every second counts. But what happens when the very plans designed to

09/01/2025

Workshop: Mapping Opportunities for CSO participation in International Events & Planning of the Network’s Global Expansion

Between August 18 and 21, 2025, the coordinators of the Gender Budget Watchdog Network (GBWN) gathered in the green surroundings of Vučje, Nikšić, Montenegro, for

08/26/2025

Trainers

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 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 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 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 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.

"The training on gender responsive budgeting has given me the opportunity to have a better insight into social inclusion policies, especially in terms of advancing the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Sustainable Development Goals. The acquired knowledge and skills indicate that budgets are the most important tools for including access to human rights for women and girls, as well as for the most marginalized groups and persons with disabilities within the policies, including in the context of dealing with COVID-19. Thanks to GBWN, we were able to gain knowledge of policy assessment and analysis to ensure that all public utilities, information, goods and services are available according to age, gender and disability."