Title: Facilitating evidence-based and gender-responsive budgeting through the use of CBMS : lessons from pilot projects

Authors: Budlender, Debbie and Melesse, Martha and Reyes, Celia

Place: [New York, NY

Publisher: United nations capital development fund (UNCDF)]

Year: 2008

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Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: decentralization in government, gender, budgeting, local government, community participation

Abstract: Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) is a low-cost system for collecting local data on core poverty indicators. Pilots in the Philippines and Senegal combined it with gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) to facilitate gender-responsive and participatory planning and budgeting.

URL: http://www.uncdf.org/gfld/docs/CBMS-GRB.pdf

Document type: Portal