Guidelines to Enable Transformative Gender Responsive Budgeting in Bangladesh

Joshi, Deepa; Khan, Md. Tarikul Islam; Rahman, Shadlee; Ramakrishnan, Harini; Mannan, Fouzia; Sarker, Mou Rani

Guidelines to Enable Transformative Gender Responsive Budgeting in Bangladesh

Autores

Joshi, Deepa

Khan, Md. Tarikul Islam

Editor

CGIAR Scaling for Impact Program

Descripción

CGIAR Scaling for Impact co-designed a study with the Finance Division, Ministry of Finance (MoF), to assess the institutional environment for GRB implementation and identify limitations to planning for and tracking outputs and outcomes. Following this, at a policy workshop co-convened with the Finance Division in December 2025 to validate the study findings (Joshi et al., 2025), there was consensus on the urgent need for a framework and approach to support transitioning from tracking finances to planning for outcomes and impact. This document provides guidelines and steps that can enable transition to transformative gender responsive budgeting, which are adapted from documentation on GRB best practices (UNESCAP, 2018), designed to complement increased financing for gender with gender-responsive planning and budgeting. We suggested five steps that will enable implementing performance-driven GRB: Assessing contextual gender inequalities; Aligning KPI’s with line ministry’s goals; Prioritizing gender budget allocations; Monitoring Outputs and Outcomes of Spend; Assessing Impact on gender KPIs.