Gender-Responsive Budgeting: A Task Ahead for India's 15 Finance Commission
ORF Occasional Paper #163, Observer Research Foundation
2018
Working Paper
National Policy Planning and Budgeting
This paper outlines gender-budgeting norms for resource allocations as an essential prerequisite for India to progress towards the SDG-5 on gender equality. Further, based on a review of the principles of financial devolution and central government budget documents, it is apparent that gender-sensitive concerns remain a neglected aspect of India's fiscal policy. Gender budgeting should receive adequate focus and be accorded high priority by the 15th Finance Commission of India.