Gender Mainstreaming in Development Planning: A Reference Manual for Government and Other Stakeholders

Assists the reader in understanding current approaches to national development planning; the process of putting together a national plan; and the link between the national plan, the national budget, and sector plans. Explains how to mainstream gender at each key stage of various planning cycles: the medium-term planning cycle, the annual budget cycle, and the project cycle. Provides new diagrams, checklists of interventions, and case studies.