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Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Jordan: Embedding Gender Analysis into the National Budget Cycle

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Jordan's Ministry of Finance and National Commission for Women, with UN Women and a €151.5m AFD-financed programme (2022-2025), wrote gender-responsive budgeting into the national budget circular and trained staff to apply it across four pilot ministries.

151.5 million EUR
AFD-financed GRB scale-up programme (2022-2025)
Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Jordan: Embedding Gender Analysis into the National Budget Cycle

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Jordanian National Commission for Women / General Budget Department, Ministry of Finance
Period
2016-present (pilot phase); 2022-2025 (AFD-financed scale-up)
Keywords
public finance, budgeting, governance, gender equality

Context

Jordan's General Budget Department, with the Jordanian National Commission for Women and UN Women support, has embedded gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) into the national budget cycle since around 2016, writing GRB principles into the National Budget Circular and establishing a national GRB network.

Results

From March 2022, a three-year EUR151.5 million programme financed by the French development agency AFD extended GRB piloting into four ministries (Health, Education, Labour, Political/Parliamentary Affairs), aligned with a new results-oriented Organic Budget Law.

Implementation
Indicative cost
High (€500k–€5M)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
General Budget Department, Ministry of Finance, Jordanian National Commission for Women, UN Women (technical support), Agence Francaise de Developpement

Conditions for success

  • Independent outcome evaluation beyond process reporting
  • GRB principles genuinely used in resource-allocation decisions

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