Wellbeing gender budgeting to localize the UN SDGs: examples from Turkey

Abstract

The wellbeing approach to gender budgeting enables accounting for quality of life in terms ofaccessibility. Social inclusion of vulnerable groups, especially women, is the main concern of theUN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and its achievement is conditional upon related localgovernment policy because local governments are the closest to citizens. Focusing on localizationof the SDG 5 and SDG 11 and on two capabilities (mobility and safety), this article proposes aframework of wellbeing gender budgeting and illustrates it with matrices for 2016–2019 for threecities at different stages of development in Turkey. The article discusses the need for policyconsistency and data availability, and the funding requirements necessary for achieving SDGs in developing countries.