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Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Ukraine — Institutionalising GRB at the Ministry of Finance and 24 Regional Administrations
Ukraine · Kyiv · See the Ukraine profile
A Sida-funded partnership between NIRAS/CPM and Ukraine's Ministry of Finance embedded gender-responsive budgeting nationally, lifting gender-tagged budget programmes from 6 to 1,075 and training ~3,000 officials; independently evaluated by Sida in 2023.
6 to 1,075
Gender-tagged budget programmes (2017 to project end)
~3,000
Civil servants trained
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, with NIRAS & CPM (Sida-funded) and UN Women Ukraine
- Period
- 2013–2020 (pilot 2012; follow-on GRB activity continuing to 2026)
- Keywords
- public finance management, gender budgeting, government reform, gender mainstreaming
Context
Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) in Ukraine grew from a 2012 two-oblast pilot into a formal Sida-funded project (November 2013-December 2020, ~EUR7.2 million) implemented by NIRAS and CPM with Ukraine's Ministry of Finance, plus a parallel UN Women-led track supporting municipal implementation across 24 regional administrations.
Results
By project end, 1,075 budget programmes incorporated a gender perspective, up from 6 in 2017; 218 programmes were specifically analysed and improved; 35% of ministries submitted gender-informed budget requests by 2020; 34 budget-related regulations were made gender-responsive; and roughly 3,000 civil servants were trained. The Ministry of Finance formally approved gender-based budgeting guidelines in January 2019.
Conclusions
Sida commissioned an independent decentralised evaluation, published in 2023. Evaluation commentary references institutional resistance to gender mainstreaming among senior Ministry of Finance management at points during implementation, and the output figures come primarily from the implementer's own reporting rather than the evaluation report's text directly.
Implementation
Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.
Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-07-12
- Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, with NIRAS & CPM (Sida-funded) and UN Women Ukraine — accessed 2026-07-12
- NIRAS project page — accessed 2026-07-12
- Sida evaluation listing — accessed 2026-07-12
- UN Women Ukraine — Gender-responsive budgeting on a local level (2020) — accessed 2026-07-12
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