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Gender Budgeting and Gender Based Analysis

 

FAFIA and Gender Budgeting

Tue, 12 May 2009

The Auditor General Reports on Gender-Based Analysis

In April 2008, the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women recommended, in its ninth report, that the Auditor General's Office examine the implementation of gender-based analysis in the federal government.

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Wed, 26 Mar 2008

FAFIA'S FEDERAL GENDER BUDGETING INITIATIVE

FAFIA launched its gender budgeting project in October 2007 with the support of Oxfam Canada and the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. This project has a national focus and relies on the ongoing engagement of many of FAFIA’s members and partners who are dedicated to substantive equality in Canada.

Gender budgeting addresses women’s inequality by examining a government’s budgets through a gender lens and, in particular, where its tax and spending priorities lie.

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Federal Budgets

Sun, 01 Mar 2009

Federal Budget 2009:As the rich get richer, women are still left in the cold

Budget 2009 was promised as an ‘economic recovery’ and ‘stimulus’ budget, and a plan to ensure that those who are most economically vulnerable would get support during a period of recession.

Women had every reason to hope they would be seen as equally able to stimulate the economy and would enjoy protections too, as women make up over half the population in Canada and many women are among the most economically vulnerable.

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Fri, 14 Mar 2008

Budget 2008: What's In It For Women?

"Canadian women make up half the electorate and almost half the nation’s income tax payers. They contribute $42.4 billion in personal income taxes to the well-being of all Canadians. Despite this heft, the 2008 budget is written as if women are afterthoughts, mere asterisks in the larger Canadian."

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CST

Wed, 17 Oct 2007

Women and the Canada Social Transfer (CST)

Shelagh Day and Gwen Brodsky have authored a study entitled: Women and the Canada Social Transfer:Securing the Social Union (in PDF). The report explains how social assistance and legal aid have been in decline in Canada for the past decade and how this has had devastating effects on poor women. The report calls for national standards, federal legislation, and new mechanisms to rescue the social union and to meet Canada's human rights obligations.

To download the report, click here:

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Fri, 10 Aug 2007

Canada by Mondrian: Networked Federalism in an Era of Globalization

In 2006, the Conference Board of Canada hosted the CBIC Scholar-In-Residence Lecture Canada by Picasso: The faces of Federalism. Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, was a contributor at this lecture, and emphasized the need for national standards.

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