Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW

People’s access to services and resources are determined by government budget policies. Gender budgets initiatives around the world have attempted to systematically examine how government budgets address discrimination with regard to women’s access to housing, employment, health, education, and other services.

Often these exercises have been eye-openers: A budget analysis of domestic violence policies and laws in seven countries in Latin America, for example, revealed that appropriations fo...