GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGETING –A STUDY ON STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES AND WAY FORWARD

Abstract

Today many countries across the globe have successfully incorporated gender perspective into their
macroeconomic operations. In this regard, Gender Responsive Budgeting has emerged as an important
fiscal macroeconomic policy to address gender issues in growth and development. Gender equality and
empowerment is not a choice but a prerequisite for countries to prosper and GRB is a fiscal innovation
tool to achieve this. At this juncture, as we head towards the global 2030 agenda of SDG, we need to
identify cross cutting themes of gender and development and map them in our plans and actions through
this fiscal innovation