Tracking Climate Change Funding: Learning from Gender-Responsive Budgeting
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This paper, commissioned by the International Budget Partnership, aims to guide lessonlearning from the experience of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) initiatives — and to a lesser extent child-friendly budgeting initiatives — that might inform initiatives in respect of budgeting for climate change. It draws on the author’s experience, over nearly 20 years, of working on GRB and child-friendly budgeting in more than 30 countries and advising even more countries long distance on these topics.
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