pan island gender budgets conference

In June 2003 WBG hosted the first Pan-Island Gender Budgets Conference to bring together individuals and organisations with an interest or involvement in gender budget analysis from across England, Scotland, Wales, Eire and Northern Ireland.

A second conference was held in Scotland by the Scottish Women's Budget Group in March 2004. The theme of the conference was Tools: What Works?

2004 Conference Papers:

The WBG contributed the following paper to the conference:

Responding to Budget Statements: The UK Women's Budget Group Experience

Kate Bellamy, WBG

2003 Conference Papers:

The papers and presentations from the 2003 conference are available here:

Gender budgeting as a gender mainstreaming strategy
Prof Sylvia Walby, University of Leeds and UK WBG

Working outside government - the Scottish experience
Rona Fitzgerald, Scottish EOC, Morag Gillespie, Scottish WBG (93k)

Working inside government - the UK experience
Ann Taggart, WIPA, HM Treasury

Taking forward gender budget analysis - the Irish experience
Julia Long, Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Eire (80k)
Sheila Quinn, WRC, Social and Economic Consultants (85k)

Establishing a gender budget group - the Welsh experience
Adele Baumgardt, EOC Wales (128k)
Sian Swann, Chwarae Teg (24k)

Information support for gender budget analysis
Hazel Reeves, Bridge, IDS (186k)

Learning lessons from regional participatory budget initiatives - the
Salford experience
Bridget O'Rourke, Community Pride (100k)