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Ranking Municipal de Inversion en Igualdad y Equidad de Genero — Bolivia's Civil-Society Gender-Budget Scorecard

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Since 2016 a Bolivian civil-society coalition has ranked all 339 municipalities on gender-equity investment, finding a 3.29% average share of budgets, and since 2019, with OXFAM and Fundacion Aru, tracked seven municipalities with baseline and endline surveys.

3.29 %
Average share of municipal investment budgets allocated to gender equity (2016)
466.6 million Bolivianos
Total gender-equity investment identified (2016)
17.98 %
Top-ranked municipality's share (Pelechuco, La Paz department) (2016)
339 municipalities
Municipalities assessed (2016)

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Centro de Promocion de la Mujer Gregoria Apaza, ACOBOL and OXFAM Bolivia (Plataforma de Justicia Fiscal desde las Mujeres)
Period
2016-2023
Keywords
fiscal justice, municipal budgeting, gender equality, civil-society monitoring

Context

Bolivia's Centro de Promocion de la Mujer Gregoria Apaza, the national councilwomen's association ACOBOL and allied women's organisations publish an annual Ranking Municipal de Inversion en Igualdad y Equidad de Genero, scoring how much of each municipality's executed investment budget (Presupuesto Sensible a Genero, PSG) goes to gender-equality programmes, violence prevention and women's political participation.

Activities

The 2016 edition assessed all 339 Bolivian municipalities; department-level editions followed for La Paz, Santa Cruz and Tarija in 2017. Since 2019, the project 'Mujeres de Bolivia: tus derechos en el presupuesto' — run by OXFAM Bolivia, the Instituto de Formacion Femenina Integral, Colectivo Rebeldia, Coordinadora de la Mujer and the Gregoria Apaza centre, funded by Global Affairs Canada — has narrowed the lens to seven municipalities (La Paz, El Alto, Viacha, Cochabamba, Colcapirhua, Santa Cruz and Pailon), with independent baseline and endline surveys run by Fundacion Aru to track change over time.

Results

The 2016 edition found an average of 3.29% of investment budgets (466.6 million Bolivianos) allocated to gender equity, with Pelechuco (La Paz department) ranking first at 17.98%.

Conclusions

The ranking is a transparency and advocacy tool, not a randomized evaluation: it measures budget allocation, not verified downstream impact on women's lives, and the 3.29% national average shows how small gender-equity investment remains even where a formal PSG framework exists.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
Led by Centro de Promocion de la Mujer Gregoria Apaza, ACOBOL and OXFAM Bolivia (Plataforma de Justicia Fiscal desde las Mujeres), Since 2019 the seven-municipality baseline/endline tracking is run by Fundacion Aru, with the Instituto de Formacion Femenina Integral, Colectivo Rebeldia and Coordinadora de la Mujer, funded by Global Affairs Canada

Conditions for success

  • An existing formal Presupuesto Sensible a Genero (PSG) budget category to score municipalities against
  • A sustained coalition of women's organisations and the national councilwomen's association (ACOBOL) publishing annual/biennial editions

Common failure modes

  • The ranking measures budget allocation only, not verified downstream impact on women's lives
  • The national average share (3.29%) remains small even where a formal PSG framework exists

Where it fits

Governance type
civil-society monitoring of municipal government
Scale
national scorecard (339 municipalities), narrowed to 7 municipalities for the tracked project

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