Chapter 1: Gender Budgeting Response in African Economies: Access and Future Matter -- Chapter 2: Gender Budgeting Responses on Gender-based Violence (GBV) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Lessons from Selected Countries -- Chapter 3: Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Climate Change Financing: A Panacea for Confronting Climate Change Vulnerability in South Africa?- Chapter 4: The Political Economy of Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Nigeria -- Chapter 5: Parliamentary Female Representation and Party Candidate Selection Methods in Zambia -- Chapter 6: The Role of Legislature in Achieving Gender Responsive Budgeting in Nigeria.-Chapter 7: Gender Pay Gap and Pension Fund for Women in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Financial Inclusion for Women in Nigeria: Much Ado About Access -- Chapter 9: Financial Exclusion, Gender, and the Lure of Boko Haram Vesna Markovic and Sven Botha -- Chapter 10: The Role of Gender-budgeting in Mainstreaming Women in Peacebuilding in Africa -- Chapter 11: Can women put their breasts on a hot paraffin lantern and go to sleep? Interrogating the anguish of financing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) with microcredits in Nigeria. .

Africa is the leading region in the world in the expansion of mobile money transactions, according to Global Findex. The book presents several significant themes and African states' efforts to address the political and economic factors influencing budget allocation to women-oriented programmes and projects in African communities. The book further investigates the impact of gender-responsive budgeting on women's empowerment and gender equality in these communities. The findings intend to analyse the effectiveness of the countries' approaches and share lessons that different African economies, whether currently booming or struggling, can enhance or implement toward gender budgeting response at all structural levels. Gender budgeting is an important tool in response to the growth and development of the economy. The themes identified will guide gender budgeting response, and how gender is incorporated into these approaches (if at all). The main objective of this volume is to understand different processes of gender budgeting in response to gender issues at a national level. And to help encourage reflection on what lessons could be learnt between states and what factors cause divergence in multilateral settings so that they can be understood and hopefully addressed.