The 2022 OECD Gender Budgeting Index uses the data collected from the 2022 survey to compare the level of implementation of gender budgeting across the five building blocks of the 2023 OECD Framework for Gender Budgeting (Gatt Rapa and Nicol, 2023, forthcoming[1]): 1) institutional and strategic arrangements; 2) methods and tools; 3) enabling environment; 4) accountability and transparency; and 5) impact. The OECD Gender Budgeting Index methodology is presented in Annex A.
The Index ranges from 0 to 1, with countries having an advanced gender budgeting practice with a score of 0.6 and above, an intermediate practice with a score between 0.3 and 0.6, and an introductory practice with a score of 0.3 and below. Scores are useful to enable cross-country comparison, but a full score should not imply that the gender budgeting practice is functioning effectively and there is no further room for improvement.
The 2022 Index shows seven countries achieved an advanced practice score (0.6 or above). Canada, which legislated for gender budgeting in 2018, obtained the highest score overall. Austria, Iceland, Korea, Mexico, Spain and Sweden achieved similar advanced practice scores. Although the approaches to gender budgeting in each of these countries vary, each country receiving an advanced score has a comprehensive approach that displays a range of measures across the building blocks (Figure 3.1).
