ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the opportunities and obstacles of Community of Practice (CoP) in developing and implementing gender budgeting to challenge gender biases in decision-making of research performing organisations (RPOs). Through ‘Targeted Implementation Projects’ (TIPs), the CoP aims to develop shared knowledge on how to implement gender budgeting, a relatively new strategy, to progress the objective of gender equality in decision-making within RPOs. Drawing on a case study based on the GenBUDGET CoP, including 21 representatives in 14 RPOs, the analysis explores the potential for an international CoP to harness inter-institutional cooperation and create knowledge about gender budgeting, when CoP members’ knowledge about that strategy is at different place. How has the CoP approach, by the means of TIPs, supported gender budgeting in the participating organisations? The findings reveal a successful collaboration in advancing the CoP members knowledge on how to apply the gender budgeting strategy in RPOs. The TIPs are useful in developing shared knowledge on how financial management mechanism maintain and produce inequality regimes. The resistance some CoP members experience is counteracted by being part of an international intra-institutional CoP, that has also proved to be a supporting factor in progressing the work towards gender equality.
