The main findings of the study “Gender-responsive budgeting in Austria: The narrow line between implementation and confirmation”, co-authored by Tobias Polzer from the Institute of Organization Studies and Johann Seiwald from the Parliamentary Budget Office of the National Parliament Austria, were presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the OECD’s Gender Budgeting Network in Paris.

The presentation was the lead presentation in a session on “What aspects of gender budgeting deliver the most impact?”. The session sought to highlight frontier work that has been undertaken, as well as reflections on initiatives. The examples presented in the session demonstrated the impact of gender budgeting initiatives and the pathways to achieve greater buy-in for the practice across public administrations and civil society. In addition, the session also showed the more subtle ways in which gender budgeting can work and that can be difficult to capture. Subsequently, there was a broader discussion held about the aspects of gender budgeting that deliver the most interesting impacts.

The research can be retrieved here.