Gender Budgeting Initiatives in Serbia and Bulgaria: Experiences and Challenges
By Tatjana Djuric Kuzmanovic, Mirjana Dokmanovic and Genoveva Tisheva

Gender budgeting includes range of strategies examining whether gender rhetoric are reflected in government spending and taxation policy. It links gender equality with budget and promotes more equitable and transparent budgetary process and more efficient use of public resources. Thus, gender budgeting is very successful both in economic and gender sense.

A Glance at Some Gender Budgeting Initiatives Throughout Europe
By Elisabeth Klatzer. Ph.D.

Gender Budgeting initiatives have started in many European countries, initially inspired by the work in Australia, South Africa and the UK. In recent years a diversification of strategies, methodologies and practices adopting to country-specific circumstances can be observed throughout Europe. In several countries there is work on its way to implement Gender Budgeting into the regular tasks of public administration.

Gender Budgeting and Initiatives in Serbia
By Tatjana Djuric  Kuzmanovic, Ph.D.

A major problem of standard budgeting processes is that they are based on prevailing economic opinion that assumes the rational behaviour of individuals who are exclusively market-oriented and led by their own best interests, without considering gender, class, age, or ethnicity. Such individuals live beyond specific historical, geographic, and social contexts. It is also assumed that the decisions made by such individuals are not affected by ruling power relations. Differences between men and women remain unrecognised due to the assumption that economic policy objectives and instruments are broadly applicable and “gender neutral” accordingly.