6.5. Gender Budgeting

Gender budgeting is a strategy for ensuring gender sensitive resource allocation and a tool for engendering macro economic policy, not a separate budget for women.

The 2005-06 Indian Budget introduced a statement highlighting the gender sensitivities of the budgetary allocations. Gender budgeting is an exercise to translate the stated gender commitments of the government into budgetary commitments, involving special initiatives for empowering women and examination of the utilisation of resources allocated for women and the impact of public expenditure and policies of the government on women. The 2006-07 budget enlarged the earlier statement.