PEFA SUPPLEMENTARY FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING GENDER RESPONSIVE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (PEFA GENDER)
The PEFA Supplementary Framework for assessing Gender Responsive Public Financial Management (GRPFM) is a set of nine indicators that measure the degree to which a country’s PFM systems address the government’s goals with regard to acknowledging different needs of men and women, and different subgroups of these categories, and promoting gender equality. The framework can be applied at both national and subnational levels. It is available in four languages: English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
PEFA Gender can be an independent evaluation or be applied together with the PEFA Framework at the national level (PEFA+) and/or combined with PEFA Climate (PEFA++).
PEFA GENDER PUBLICATIONS AND NEWS
PEFA Gender Framework in Languages
The PEFA Gender Framework introduces the framework and provides information on the definition and objectives of GRPFM. It presents detailed measurement guidance for a set of key indicators to assess a country’s performance in applying gender considerations to its public financial management.
It is available in four languages.
PEFA Gender in Brief: What You Need to Know
This brochure provides a summary of the key characteristics of the PEFA Gender Framework, highlighting the Gender responsiveness of public financial management systems and the approach to assessments. It introduces the nine indicators distributed across the budget cycle that can be applied at both national and subnational levels.
It is available in four languages.
PEFA Gender Guidance for Assessment Teams
The PEFA Gender Assessment Teams are following the Guidance of the PEFA Gender Framework. The Concept Note and Report templates are required to be used to prepare, implement, and report on PEFA gender responsive public financial management assessment findings.
For PEFA ++ Reports ( PEFA 2016 with PEFA Gender and PEFA Climate) the PEFA ++ Concept Note Template is available in three languages:
PEFA Gender News
The latest Gender PFM news from PEFA Secretariat:
- March 8, 2026, Published blog: What’s changing in gender-responsive public financial management
May 2025, Published “PEFA Gender Assessments (2020-2025): A Dashboard”
PEFA Gender Globally
PEFA Gender global experiences are country stories and lessons learned from PEFA Gender implementation around the world.
PEFA Assessments are a great source of knowledge on how Gender and Public financial management work together. In addition to the pilots implemented during the development of PEFA Gender, countries that have finalized PEFA Gender assessments share their knowledge on the whole process of evaluation, stakeholders involvement, usage of the results from the assessment in the future PFM and Gender strategies.
Some assessments are independent evaluations, others share their knowledge in applying PEFA Gender together with the PEFA National or Subnational Assessment and PEFA Gender.
The stories are in the form of short articles or video recordings.
Learn more from the shared countries' stories in the right column.
PEFA Gender Stories
Shared countries' stories on the application of the PEFA Gender framework and the plans to further strengthen gender responsiveness of PFM: click on the story to learn more.
PEFA GENDER ASSESSMENTS
February 2026
The PEFA Gender assessment is intended to be conducted on a voluntary basis concurrently with a PEFA assessment and presented in an annex to the PEFA report or as a separate report. While the PEFA Gender assessment can also be carried out as a stand-alone activity, it is preferable if this is done concurrently with a PEFA assessment to capitalize on data already collected during the PEFA assessment process.
You can find a list of countries that have applied the gender responsive public financial management framework (GRPFM) and the assessment results on the portal for PEFA assessments.
To search for PEFA GRPFM assessments, click on the link below, navigate to the filter on the right-hand side of the page, select ‘Framework,’ and click on 'Gender Framework' to view assessments results. View more here
To extract the data for the public PEFA Gender assessments, click on the link ‘Scores Download’ and select 'Gender Framework'.
There are options to browse regions, countries, type of assessments, pillars and indicators. Explore more here
February 2026
The PEFA Gender assessment is intended to be conducted on a voluntary basis concurrently with a PEFA assessment and presented in an annex to the PEFA report or as a separate report. While the PEFA Gender assessment can also be carried out as a stand-alone activity, it is preferable if this is done concurrently with a PEFA assessment to capitalize on data already collected during the PEFA assessment process.
You can find a list of countries that have applied the gender responsive public financial management framework (GRPFM) and the assessment results on the portal for PEFA assessments.
To search for PEFA GRPFM assessments, click on the link below, navigate to the filter on the right-hand side of the page, select ‘Framework,’ and click on 'Gender Framework' to view assessments results. View more here
To extract the data for the public PEFA Gender assessments, click on the link ‘Scores Download’ and select 'Gender Framework'.
There are options to browse regions, countries, type of assessments, pillars and indicators. Explore more here
USEFUL RESOURSES ON GENDER RESPONSIVE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Gender PFM Publications
Gender PFM Web Pages
OECD Best Practices for Gender Budgeting
UN Women GRB landing page and videos
EU-European Institute for Gender Equality
Gender PFM Publications
Gender PFM Web Pages
OECD Best Practices for Gender Budgeting
UN Women GRB landing page and videos
EU-European Institute for Gender Equality
