Supplementary Framework for Assessing Gender
Responsive Public Financial Management
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.
Click on the indicators below to learn more about what each of them measures.
Framework
PEFA’s Nine GRPFM Indicators
Featured
PEFA GRPFM Framework and Guidance for Assessment Teams
PEFA GRPFM Assessments
This is the PEFA assessment portal where you can find a list of countries that have applied the gender responsive public financial management framework and the assessment results.
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 assessment results.
PEFA GRPFM Templates
These are the templates required to prepare, implement, and report on PEFA gender responsive public financial management assessment findings.
GRPFM Case Studies
The PEFA Secretariat is collecting case studies showcasing country experience in integrating gender considerations in budget policies.
PEFA GRPFM News
Learn more about PEFA GRPFM.
- March 9, 2021: Who Benefits from Public Spending? Gender Responsive Budget Policies Support Inclusive Societies - PEFA Blog Published on WB Governance for Development Website
- February 27, 2020: IMF PFM Blog. Can Public Financial Management Encourage More Opportunities for Men and Women? PEFA Can Tell you How! Posted by Martin Bowen and Urška Zrinsk
- January 23, 2020: PEFA Launches Supplementary Framework for Assessing Gender Responsive Public Financial Management
PEFA GRPFM Events
Join our events and learn more about the PEFA framework for assessing GRPFM
- July 13, 2022: Webinar on “Who Benefits from Public Spending? The Role of Public Finance in Accelerating Gender Equality”
- January 20, 2022: Webinar “What is gender-responsive budgeting and how to do it” on 20 January, organized by the UK Women’s Budget Group
- May 14, 2020: Webinar on Integrating Gender into Public Financial Management: How PEFA Can Help?
GRPFM Stories
Read countries stories on the application of the PEFA GRPFM framework and their plans to further strengthen gender responsiveness of PFM.
GRPFM Knowledge
To learn more about gender responsive public financial management and receive updates on recent developments , please find useful recent publications.
- Gender Budgeting in Public Financial Management:
Gender budgeting calls for including a gender perspective at all levels of governmental budgetary processes. This study uses a literature review to examine the current debate on gender budgeting and to elicit avenues for future research - How can PFM Reforms Contribute to Gender Equality Outcomes (unwomen.org): This joint UNWomen and DFID paper provides guidance on how to make Public Finance Management (PFM) reforms gender responsive
- How to share public money fairly: TED Talk by Maja Bosnic, Public Finance Expert, who says "We have the right to demand budgets to be equitable, to be fair," making the case for gender considerations to be integrated in all budgets
- The need to “double mainstream” gender and climate in public finance: International Budget Partnership
- PFM and Gender responsive budgeting - GSDRC - video and summary guide
- GRPFM and Fiji: How to use gender responsive budgeting to better manage public finances | Pamela Wyatt, ADB
Useful Resources on Gender Responsive Public Financial Management
Bill & Melinda Gates Fundation
The Gender Equality team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works with program teams across the foundation and with external partners in the field to accelerate progress toward gender equality.
European Institute for Gender Equality
The European Institute for Gender Equality is an autonomous body of the European Union (EU), established to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality, including gender mainstreaming in all EU and resulting national policies, to fight against discrimination based on sex, and to raise EU citizens’ awareness of gender equality.
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization (ILO) promotes opportunities for women and men to obtain decent work in conditions of freedom, equity, security, and human dignity.
International Monetary Fund
Through its Gender theme, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recognizes that labor markets across the world remain divided along gender lines, despite the significant progress made in recent decades.
The IMF also has a two-part toolkit including gender budgeting and gender equality indexes. The gender budgeting data set contains information on 84 national gender budgeting initiatives around the world, of which 23 national initiatives are investigated in depth in six regional surveys.
Organization For Economic Co-Operation and Development
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) “Toolkit for Mainstreaming and Implementing Gender Equality” focuses on strengthening governance and accountability for gender equality as a means to improving the gender-responsiveness of public policy.
The OECD Gender Initiative examines existing barriers to gender equality in education, employment, and entrepreneurship. This website monitors the progress made by governments to promote gender equality in both OECD and non-OECD countries and provides good practices based on analytical tools and reliable data.
The OECD’s Gender Budgeting website provides information on the importance of planning the budget for promoting gender equality, which has the potential to help policy makers to address a range of inequalities that have become embedded in public policies and the allocation of resources.
United Nations
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 5.c.1, “Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment,” measures progress toward SDG Target 5c, “Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.”
UN Women's work on financing for gender equality supports the implementation of government and donor policy commitments to gender equality and women’s rights.
The Beijing Platform for Action is an agenda for women's empowerment. It aims to accelerate the advancement of women, to remove all obstacles to women's active participation in all spheres of public and private life, and to enable women to have a full and equal share in economic, social, cultural, and political decision making.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Gender Inequality Index (GII) measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development: reproductive health, measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates; empowerment, measured by the proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and the proportion of adult females and males ages 25 years and older with at least some secondary education; and economic status, expressed as labor market participation and measured by the labor force participation rates of female and male populations ages 15 years and older.
The UNDP Gender Development Index (GDI) measures gender gaps in human development by accounting for disparities between women and men in three basic dimensions of human development—health, knowledge, and living standards—using the same component indicators as in the Human Development Index (HDI). The GDI is a ratio of the HDIs calculated separately for females and males using the same methodology as in the HDI. It is a direct measure of gender gap showing female HDI as a percentage of male HDI.
World Bank
The Gender Data portal is the World Bank Group’s comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision making, and agency.
The World Bank Group works with public and private sector clients to close the gaps between males and females globally in order to tackle poverty and drive sustainable economic growth that benefits all. Major challenges affecting boys, girls, men, and women differently include climate change, forced migration, pandemics, and the global jobs crisis. Less recognized is the unique role that women and girls play as drivers of growth and progress and as powerful agents of change.
Women, Business, and the Law is a World Bank Group project that collects unique data on the laws and regulations that restrict women's economic opportunities. The data set identifies barriers to women’s economic participation and encourages the reform of discriminatory laws.
The World Development Indicators are the primary World Bank collection of development indicators compiled from officially recognized international sources. The database contains the most current and accurate global development data available and includes national, regional, and global estimates. A subset of data focuses on women and development.
