Document Budget Genre — Senegal's Gender Budget Annex to the Finance Law

Senegal's Ministry of Finance and Budget, working with the Ministry of Family and Solidarities' Directorate of Equity and Gender Equality, has annexed a Document Budget Genre (Gender Budget Document) to the country's annual Finance Law since 2016. The document is built around two axes: how the gender dimension is operationalised across government, and a budgetary gender report submitted by each ministerial department, framed as implementing Senegal's constitutional commitments to equality between women and men (Articles 1 and 7 of the Constitution) and the National Gender Equality Strategy (SNEEG).

The practice has continued for a decade, with a Document Budget Genre again annexed to the 2024 Finance Law and further editions since, developed with technical support from UN Women, including through the Local Governance and Financing for Gender Equality (F4GE) programmes. In June 2026 the Ministry, UN Women and the Association of Gender Information Professionals (APIG) ran a workshop in Saly training journalists to read and report on gender-budget mechanisms and violence-against-women statistics, and in September 2026 the National Assembly's Defence and Security Commission held a session on the legislature's role in financing, monitoring and evaluating gender-responsive budgeting for women, peace and security.

Officials describe the exercise explicitly as a governance and transparency tool rather than 'a separate budget for women': it requires ministries to state how mainstream spending affects women and men differently, rather than ring-fencing a parallel pot of funds. No independent, quantified evaluation of the document's effect on actual resource allocation or on closing specific gender gaps was found in available sources, so this practice is best read as evidence of sustained institutionalisation and expanding civic-oversight capacity, not yet of measured impact.

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