First Results of Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Austria
(World News UK)

Posted by Johann Seiwald and Tobias Polzer[1] A recent paper[2] analyses the implementation of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) in Austria, a country which pioneered reforms in this field and has been internationally recognized for its approach in making GRB a constitutional principle. A succession of awareness-building exercises and pilot projects led to the the design, preparation and implementation of the budget reform which incorporated GRB. This federal budget law reform was unanimously approved by Parliament in 2007. The paper analyses two types of official documents published between 2013 and 2018: (i) the gender...