If enacted, the provision would bar the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program from covering federal employees and their ...

Most striking is the omission of gender-responsive budgeting in the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, undermining the government’s top strategic priority of fostering inclusive economic growth.

Sulaiman-Ibrahim charged the FIRS to ensure that gender-responsive budgeting becomes integral to revenue policy, while recruitment, retention, and promotion efforts must reflect a deliberate drive ...

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 ...

As the Union Budget draws near, it would be appropriate to look at the importance of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) to give us an idea of how much of the budget is being used for promoting ...

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 ...

Since fiscal year 2009-10, Bangladesh has been preparing a gender budget to empower women, establish their rights and highlight the impact of government spending on women's advancement.

The 'Gender Budget' allocation has seen a sharp increase, reaching ₹4.49 lakh crore, in this year's Union Budget, a 37.5 per cent rise from last year's allocation, the Women and Child ...

The State’s Gender Budget outlay for 2025-26 is ₹4,840.12 crore, an increase of ₹178.61 crore in allocations for gender-specific schemes from ₹4,661.51 crore in the past financial year.

An allocation of Tk271,819 crore has been proposed for the gender budget in the financial year 2024-2025. According to the gender budget report, the gender-relevant allocations in both the development ...