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

GBWN Advances Gender-Responsive Citizens Budgets Across the Region

From 24–27 June 2026, the Gender Budget Watchdog Network (GBWN) organized a regional workshop in Ulcinj, Montenegro, bringing together experts and network members from Albania,

06/29/2026

Gender Responsive Budgeting Training Strengthens Civil Society Capacities in Albania

On 23rd of June 2026, the Gender Alliance for Development Center (GADC) organized the training on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB): Strengthening Capacities for Public Policy

06/25/2026

Keystone Moldova organized an innovative workshop on GRB and advocacy with the use of AI

Keystone Moldova, within the GBWN project, brought together civil society organizations for a practical and innovative workshop on Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) and advocacy for inclusive

06/23/2026

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."

Parascovia Munteanu

Alliance of Organizations for Persons with Disabilities (AOPD)