Budgeting for Women's Rights
Subtitle: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance With Cedaw (Concepts and Tools)
Publisher: United Nations Pubns
Published: June 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781932827477
Subjects: Human rights; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Budgeting; Sociology; Developing countries; Development - Economic Development; Expenditures, Public; Government policy; Women's rights
Description: "This publication elaborates on how budgets and budget policy-making processes can be monitored for compliance with human rights standards, in particular with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)." "Combining substantive analysis with country examples, the publication explores how a rights-based budget analysis can be applied to public expenditure, public revenue, macroeconomics of the budget, and budget decision-making."--BOOK JACKET.