Last week, Michelle M. Ebanks, President of Essence Communications Inc., was just one of several movers and shakers in the business world who participated in UN Women’s and Global Innovation Coalition ...

A GENDER-RESPONSIVE budget (GRB) looks at how government spending affects women, men, girls and boys differently, based on their roles, needs and lived experiences, says the Gender Budget Group (GBG).

Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB), also known as gender budgeting, is an approach to budgeting that takes into account the various needs of a diverse population by using an intersectional gender lens ...

ILOILO CITY (PIA) — The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) 6 held a two-day capacity development training on the Harmonized Gender and Development Guidelines (HGDG) to strengthen the ...

Last week, the White House launched the National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality. Led by the White House Gender Policy Council, this first-ever government-wide national gender strategy seeks to ...

A newly adopted UN resolution on Tackling Illicit Trafficking in Wildlife (IWT) calling for gender-mainstreaming presents a welcome opportunity for more inclusive and effective responses to IWT. Women ...

With the next Medium-Term Expenditure Framework being drafted, South Africa has a significant opportunity to reimagine and implement the Gender Budget Statement as a meaningful document, but only if ...

Before we get to the pluses and minuses (mostly pluses!) of this increasingly popular treatment approach, let’s define two key terms first: gender-specific treatment versus gender-responsive treatment ...

Gender-responsive reforms continued when the Parliament passed the first national law to combat violence against women in 2017. Although progress is being made, the legal environment for women and ...