Abstract

South Africa has ratified several international instruments that impose an obligation on the country to allocate sufficient budgetary resources to realise women’s rights. Gender budgeting has been recognised as a means through which states can implement this obligation. South Africa was the first African country to have adopted gender budgeting initiatives and despite being successful in the initial years, the initiatives phased out and did not become integral to the budgeting process. In this article, I propose sustainable gender budgeting initiatives for a better realisation of women’s rights in South Africa. While the article highlights the challenges, I put forward recommendations for integrating gender budgeting in the national budgeting process.

摘要

南非已批准多项国际文书，规定该国有义务分配充足的预算资源以实现妇女权利。性别预算已被认为是各国履行这一义务的一种手段。南非是第一个采用性别预算倡议的非洲国家，尽管在最初几年取得了成功，但这些倡议逐渐被淘汰，并且没有成为预算编制过程的组成部分。在本文中，我提出了可持续的性别预算倡议，以更好地实现南非妇女的权利。虽然本文强调了挑战，但我提出了将性别预算纳入国家预算过程的建议。