approaches to participatory and genderresponsive budgeting offer prospects for genderresponsive decisions in funding allocation decisions and for ensuring accountability for tracking and reporting on genderspecific financing benchmarks international human rights frameworks offer important standards for holding states accountable however to achieve sustainable development with gender equality at its centre women s rights need to be brought far more fully into policy frameworks global efforts to integrate gender equality and sustainable development thus far have been mixed ranging from exclusion to nominal inclusion cela dankelman and stern