Gender perspectives in spending
reviews
The Icelandic experience
Marta Birna Baldursdóttir
23 September 2022

Vision
• Spending reviews are a fairly new
practice in Iceland and a gender
perspective should be
incorporated from the beginning
Challenges
• Still fine tuning the general
approach to spending reviews
• Lack of examples on how to
incorporate a gender perspective
• Lack of understanding on why and
how to incorporate a gender
perspective

Moving forward
Build on gender budgeting tools and information already available:
• Gender analysis
• Baseline report
• Gender-disaggregated performance indicators
• Gender impact assessments
Update spending review guidelines and templates to better guide the incorporation
of gender perspectives