This handbook is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to costing gender equality priorities. Building on UN Women’s decade long work on gender responsive planning and budgeting, it responds to the growing global demand for guidance on estimating the financing gaps and requirements for achieving gender equality commitments.
Handbook on Costing Gender Equality is designed to support governments, multilateral and bilateral organizations, civil society and others in costing gender equality outcomes. Good data support good decisions. Well planned costing exercises allow for the redistribution of public spending to bridge existing financing gaps. Appropriately designed social protection schemes, including pensions, child and family allowances, reduce gender gaps in poverty rates, enhance women’s access to personal income and help to reduce and redistribute unpaid care work.