Gender Responsive Budgeting in Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Globally Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) has come to light as an important tool in the ongoing struggle to make budgets and policies more gender responsive, the last two decades have witnessed an overwhelming endorsement of GRB as a valuable tool for engendering budgets and policies all over the world.

The government of Saudi Arabia, has been aware of the importance of female education, to fulfil a comprehensive development, it is committed to implement the convention of all kinds of discrimination against women. Since financial resources are one of the most powerful factors to ensure gender quality, the government has realized its urgency through the series of gender responsive budgets. This paper attempts to examine the impact of these budgets on elimination gender inequality, using for this purpose different technical of statistical analysis.

This paper found that the government of Saudi Arabia has succeeded in eliminating all kinds of discrimination against female education and could provide equal enrolment opportunity for both gender.

Keywords:GRB,Saudi Arabia, Educational Expenditure