Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice

Bola Akanji is an International Development Consultant of Agriculture, Gender and Sustainable Development and teaches at Quinnipiac University. Funmi Soetan is professor of economics at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria.

Introduction: Gender Responsive Budgeting in Developing Countries: An Inclusive Development Tool in Muted Progress

Bola Akanji

Part 1: Conceptualizing Gender Responsive Budgeting for Traction



Chapter One: Rationale and Entry-Points for Gender Responsive Budgeting in Developing Countries

Bola Akanji

Chapter Two: “Speaking to Data”: Gender Statistics as an Imperative for GRBs

Bola Akanji, Funmi Soetan, and Tolulope Jerumeh



Part 2: Fiscal Policies, Budgets, and Gender Equality in Nigeria



Chapter Three: Does Research Influence Policies in Favor of Gender Responsive Budgeting? Evidence from Nigeria’s Education Sector

Adebukola Daramola, Bola Akanji and Abubakar Oladeji

Chapter Four: Policy Trends, Budgetary Practices, and Gender Equality in Nigeria’s Education Sector: A Historical Lens on Governance Regimes

Monica Adele Orisadare and Ayoola Helen Akinyemi

Chapter Five: The Paradox of Gender Policies and Gender Budgets: Critique of the Nigerian Agricultural Sector Policies and Budgets

Olanike. F. Deji, Bola Akanji, Dorcas L. Alabi, and Aanuoluwa O. Opayinka

Chapter Six: Does Presumptive Taxation Promote the Tenets of a Good Tax System? Stakeholder Assessment of Associational Tax Regime in the Informal Sector of Lagos State, Nigeria

Abiodun A. Adegboye, Funmi Soetan, and Adeniyi O. Adekanla

Chapter Seven: A Gender Audit of Financial Governance in Nigeria: Analysis of Participation in Budgetary Processes in Selected States

Fidelis Allen, Emem Okon, and Grace Isodiki Allen

Part 3: Cross-Country Learning Experiences of Gender Responsive Budgeting



Chapter Eight: Gender-Responsive Budgeting in South Korea

Reina Ichii

Chapter Nine: Designing and Using Indicators of Gender Equality: Lessons from Timor-Leste Siobhan Austen and Monica Costa

Chapter Ten: Gender Gap Analysis of the Budgeting Process in Ethiopia’s Public Financial Management System

Misrak Tamiru, Enat Shiferaw, and Neteru Wondwosen

Chapter Eleven: Gender Responsive Budgeting in Ghana: Reality or Rhetoric?

Vera Acheampong and Abena D. Oduro

Chapter Twelve: The Budget’s Impacts on Gender Equality: An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Aid in West Africa

Funmi Soetan, Phillip Olofin, and Ifeolu Olagbaju

Chapter Thirteen: Criss-crossing the West Africa Region: ISODEC’s Lessons of Experience in Gender Responsive Budgeting

Bishop Akolgo

Chapter Fourteen: Gender Responsive Budgeting: Lessons from the Eastern and Southern Africa Region

Judith Mulusa



Epilogues: Opportunities and Threats to GRB in Developing Countries: Looking Ahead



Epilogue One: GRB: From the Margins to the Mainstream

Zohra Khan

Epilogue Two: Imperatives and Politics of Financing Gender Equality in Developing Countries: GRB to the Rescue?

Olufunke Mojubaolu Okome