RGBN Reports 2010

>Survey Report On The Use Of Related Knowledge Products by Partners In Southern Africa

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has a long history of working on gender and women’s rights around the world. According to a UNIFEM brief in Budlender (2009) , the organisation places the advancement of women’s human rights at the core of its work, and endeavours to reduce feminised poverty; end violence against women; reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS among women and girls; and achieve gender equality in democratic governance at all times. It does this through a number of activities including the production of knowledge materials for use by its partners and interested individuals. This report results from a survey of “usage of UNIFEM knowledge products in southern Africa”.

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Engendering National Development Policies & Strategies In Southern Africa

The purpose of this assignment is to review and provide recommendations for development of knowledge products for mainstreaming gender in National Development Policies, plans and strategies, including Common Country Assessments (CCAs), UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAFs), Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), and Sector Wide Approaches (SWAPs).

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Profile Of Gender Responsive Budgeting Expertise In Southern Africa

Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is one of the emerging planning and budgeting concepts and has seen a rise in policy debates the world over especially in the past decade. GRB concerns analyses of national budgeting structures, processes and outputs, and ensuring that the budgets conform to international expectations as far as eliminating discrimination against women or men is concerned. It is “about ensuring that government budgets and the policies and programmes that underlie them address the needs and interests of individuals that belong to different social groups … [and also] considers disadvantage[s] suffered as a result of ethnicity, caste, class or poverty status, location and age” (UNFPA and UNIFEM, 2006, p.12) .

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