the womens budget group in the united kingdom has generated research and analysis tracking inequalities between women and men in the implementation of the united kingdoms austerity programme following the global economic crisis the broad aim of the initiative is to make decisionmaking processes on policies budgets taxes and debts more democratic participatory and responsive to the needs and demands of marginalized women and their communities budget planners in priority sectors as well as members of parliament are sensitized regarding the importance of genderresponsive resource allocation in addition tgsp mtandao organizes local and regional courses on gender budgeting and macroeconomic policy for policy makers practitioners and civil society activists