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Financing for Gender Equality and The Empowerment of Women: Experiences from Tanzania
August 2007
Edward Hiza Mhina
Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP)

Between 1997 and 1999, Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), an NGO based in Tanzania, has been engaged in researching how the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education & Culture, Ministry of Science, Technology & Higher Education, Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperatives, Ministry of Health and The President’s Office, Planning Commission, and the Ministry of Industries and Trade, allocate resources to men and women in the Tanzanian communities through budgetary processes. This “TGNP Gender Budgeting Initiative” participatory action research is part of TGNP’s endeavour to trace gender gaps within the budgeting process and procedures, and therefore address these by means of lobbying and advocacy.

It is a fact that gender responsive budgets provide a means for determining the effect of government revenue and expenditure policies on women and men. GRB initiatives consist of different components and vary considerably across countries and regions. These initiatives are led either by governments or civil society groups, or a combination thereof. They mainly involve the examination of how budgetary allocations affect economic and social opportunities for women and men. To date, GRB initiatives have been implemented in more than 40 countries world wide. The nature of GRB initiatives varies from country to country.

The main focus in this paper is on: gender responsive budgeting initiatives in Tanzania; achievements so far in addressing gender responsive initiatives in government and other public development activities; the role of various stakeholders in such initiatives; and the impact of such initiatives in increasing resources for gender equality. This paper is created from the personal experiences of the writer as one of the researchers, as a full member of TGNP, a TGNP Board Member, and as an active and committed protagonist of gender equality and equity within the local and global development contexts.

Quite a handful of people assisted and facilitated in different ways in making this paper and its composition successful. I should thus convey my gratitude to the staff the GAD Consult Ms. Khalila A. Shariff, Ms. Zainab Abdallah, and Ms. Farida Katuli for their research in enabling me accomplish this engagement, and, Ms. Asha Sarota, the from Ministry of Community Development, Gender & Children Development. It is my sincere belief that support from all the above mentioned people, and many others, enabled me accomplish this paper comfortably.

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