Country profile PDF files

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Afghanistan | Australia | Bangladesh | Brunei | Cambodia | China (including Hong Kong) | India |
Indonesia | Japan | Korea | Laos | Malaysia | Mongolia | Myanmar | Nepal | New Zealand |
Pacific Islands Countries and Territories | Pakistan | Philippines | Republic of the Marshall Islands |
Singapore | Sri Lanka | Taiwan | Thailand | Timor-Leste | Vietnam |

Map by Anuradha Mundkur 

Profile updates

Members of the research team have contributed to updates of the gender-responsive budgeting experiences of countries of the Asia Pacific region via several publications:

• A summary of these country profiles and an update of the gender responsive budgeting work of the region between 2010-2016 is provided by the UN Women study authored by Sheena Kanwar,  Gender Responsive Budgeting in the Asia Pacific Region: A Status Report (2016). Rhonda Sharp was a technical adviser for this report.
• Rhonda Sharp and Ray Broomhill developed the Australian federal government profile of the project with input from Monica Costa in Sharp, R., & Broomhill, R (2013). A case study of gender-responsive budgeting in Australia, research Report, Commonwealth Secretariat, London. Also published on Australian Policy Online https://apo.org.au/node/39500
• The first international study of gender-responsive budgeting in fragile states by Monica Costa provides an in-depth case study of Timor Leste. The study investigates what these forms of budgeting can deliver for gender equality and state reliance in contexts of a state that is weak or prone to violence. Costa, M. (2018) Gender Responsive Budgeting in Fragile States: The Case of Timor-Leste, Routledge, NY.
• Monica Costa and Rhonda Sharp trace the global evolution of gender-responsive budgeting as a challenge to mainstream economic governance. Initially developed in Australia they examine how this innovation has emerged as a global movement. Costa,M., and Sharp, R. (2023). ‘Gender-responsive budgeting’, chapter 11 in Sawer, M and Banaszak, L., True, J and Kantola, J., editors. Handbook of   Feminist Governance, Edward Elgar, pp., 138-149.