Abstract：Can participatory gender budget play an active role in promoting women's empowerment? This paper uses the experiment of gender budgeting in Wenling as a case to assess the effect of opportunities for women's equal participation, their capability and the outcome of their participation on the process and progress of their empowerment based on questionnaires, observation and an evaluation of the project. The paper recognizes that women's participation in the review of gender budgets waked up women's rights consciousness, and women's ability to participate in the budget review was not less than that of men's. Also, gender budgets have created a more equitable distribution of fiscal resources in favour of women as beneficiaries. Thus, participatory gender budgeting provides a strong systemic assurance for women's empowerment through its equitable design system, and mechanisms to promote women's participation and free expression.
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