Financing for Gender Equality

Zohra Khan is Policy Advisor to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, New York, USA. She has over 15 years’ experience in international and non-governmental organizations providing policy advice and technical assistance on gender responsive planning and budgeting. Nalini Burn is an independent researcher, who has worked for over 20 years as a hands-on practitioner of gender-responsive policy planning and budgeting in a wide number of countries. She has held academic posts at the University of Mauritius, and the University of Brighton, Sussex, UK.

• Chapter 1. Reframing and Prioritizing Public Expenditures to Promote Gender Equality; Stephanie Seguino, Professor of Economics, University of Vermont, USA.- Chapter 2. How to Budget in Compliance with Human Rights Standards; Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor, University of Essex.- Chapter 3 Gender-responsive budgeting in Africa: chequered trajectories, enduring pathways by Nalini Burn.- Chapter 4. GRB in Andalusia: Reconciling Gender Equality and Economic Growth Perspectives; Buenaventura Aguilera Díaz, Paula Cirujano Campano and Alicia del Olmo Garrudo.- Chapter 5. Gender Responsive Budgeting in Latin America: Regional Learning to Advance Financing for Gender Equality; Lorena Barba and Raquel Coello.- Chapter 6. Gender incursions in the domain of budgets: The practice of GRB in Asia Pacific; Yamini Mishra and Navanita Sinha.- Chapter 7. Politics, Policies and Money: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals for Women; Zohra Khan.- Chapter 8. From commitment to action: Aid in support of gender equality and women’s rights in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals;  Emily Esplen with Patti O’Neill.- Chapter 9. Financing for Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding: Setting Financial Targets as a Tool for Increasing Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Recovery; Sarah Douglas and Cécile Mazzacurati.- Chapter 10. Climate Finance: Why does it matter for women; Mariama Williams.- Chapter 11. Beyond Investing in Women and Girls: Why Sustainable Long Term Support to Women’s Rights Organizations and Movements is Key to Achieving Women’s Rights and Gender Equality; Angelika Arutyunova.