Asian Regional Conference
24th - 25th February 2014,
Penang, Malaysia
Communities
GRB enables communities to identify and help meet the different needs of different people within the community.
Gender Responsive Budgeting
The GRB team works with communities and with local authorities, to help bring them together to ensure different needs of different people are identified and met.
Local Government
The Penang State government and the two municipal councils (MPPP and MPSP) in Penang are supporting the GRB project. Their involvement and commitment are essential to success.
Benefits of GRB
Gender Responsive Budgeting offers the following benefits:
- Responsiveness to different needs of different people.
- Inclusion of all stakeholders in budget planning and delivery.
- Improvement in policy analysis because of better data collection.
- Effective resource allocation to those who are most in need.
- Stronger links between policy and outcomes.
- Respect for the principles of good governance.
- Compliance with national and international gender commitments such as national gender policies and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
