The Women's Parliamentary Caucus (WPC), led by Dr. Shahida Rehmani, held a high-level roundtable in Islamabad on Wednesday to critically examine the Federal Budget 2025-26 through a gender lens and ...

Women and men experience life differently, as they have different needs and realities and this is why gender responsive budgeting is important: It takes these differences into account when ...

Regner said conversations about policy are good but frank conversations about resources, feminist taxation and gender budgeting are also needed to result in tangible change. Carlien Scheele ...

One such recent addition, that is already been implemented in many countries is the Gender Budget or the Gender Responsive Budget. Gender-responsive budgeting is a strategy that creates budgets ...

This article seeks to build a fresh narrative on the priority that Gender Budgeting deserves amid several schemes rolled out by both Central and State Governments and how budget 2024 is another ...

However, women’s rights and advocates who have been pushing for a gender responsive budget are disappointed. They say overall, the budget provides “limited gender perspective” and is “not ...

Speakers at an event yesterday stressed for a gender-sensitive national action plan, proper budget allocation, and a robust monitoring system to improve women's status and empowerment. They also ...

Chandigarh: Nearly two decades after gender responsive budgeting (GRB) was adopted by the central government, the state government has started the process for the formulation of gender budget.

This commitment to women empowerment was reflected in Budget allocations to pro-women programmes, as reported by the Gender Budget Statement (GBS). The GB reached 1% of GDP estimates in 2024-25 ...

The proposed budget also requires that driver’s licenses or birth certificates reflect transgender people’s sex assigned at ...