WORKSHOP ON GENDER BUDGETING

For State Governments 23 rd and 24 th November 2005 Tools of Gender Budgeting

Presentation by Anjali Goyal, Director (Finance) Department of Women and Child Development

Tools of Gender Budgeting

Commitment to Women

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Women Empowerment

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Agenda of successive Governments

Gender Budgeting

– Serves as a powerful tool for achieving women’s empowerment.

Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Seventh

Plan

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1985

- Department for Women and Child Development constituted in HRD Ministry

27 major women specific schemes

identified for monitoring to assess quantum of funds/benefits flowing to women Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Eighth Plan

• The Eighth Plan (1992-97) for the first time highlighted the need to ensure a definite flow of funds from general developmental sectors to women • It commented: “ … special programmes on women should complement the general development programmes. The latter in turn should reflect greater gender sensitivity ” Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

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Ninth Plan

Women’s Component Plan

- 30% of funds were sought to be ear-marked in all women related sectors – inter-sectoral review and multi-sector approach • • Special vigil to be kept on the flow of the earmarked funds/benefits Tenth Plan indicates 42.9% of gross budgetary support in 15 women related Ministries/Departments has gone to women Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

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Indian Experience

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Women’s Component Plan

-Earmarking resources for women • Implementing

Women Specific Schemes

• • Monitoring

macro indicators

like MMR Literacy rates, work participation

Quantum and Trend analysis

of resources allocated and spent on women

Gender Audit

of schemes and programmes- implementation and impact analysis Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Gender Mainstreaming covers Gender Audit

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Policies Programmes Budgetary allocations and Expenditure Outcomes and Benefit incidence

Tools have to be applied accordingly Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Tools of Gender Budgeting

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Distinction between Budgeting and Budget

– Process and Results

Tools for the Process

– – Preparation of

Gender based profile of public expenditure

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Beneficiary Needs Assessment

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Guidelines

for Gender sensitive Review of Public Expenditure and Policy

Impact Analysis

of public expenditure and policies • policy & programme design • change in quantum of allocation • implementation guidelines – –

Beneficiary Incidence Analysis Participative Budgeting

Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Tools of Gender Budgeting

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Analysis of the Budget from a gender perspective

• • Gender based

profile of Public Expenditure

- quantum and trend analysis

Situational Analysis

and Reality check on adequacy of resource allocation and utilization

Macro Indicators

- MMR, Access to Health, Employment etc Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Ongoing Spiral

Gender Audit Affirmative/ Corrective Action by Government

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Advocacy

Women’s empowerment- An alternative Strategy

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Women First

-Macro Level Planning for Micro Needs • Spatial Mapping of –

Infrastructure

(Water, Sanitation, Electricity, Roads) –

Employment Opportunities (sustained, productive)

• Centralized Coordination- planning for –

Synergy in allocation

of Resources across various levels of governance –

Monitoring

universal access and coverage Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Holistic approach to Empowerment

Health & Nut

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Education Water & San.

Political Participation Asset base Skills Marketing Technology Credit

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Women’s Empowerment

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Basic socio-economic infrastructure

Health, Education, Water & sanitation

Economic Empowerment

- Economic identity, Employment, Assets, Credit, Skills, Markets, Risk coverage

Social and political empowerment

Political participation, Gender Equality in inheritance, marital laws, security Anjali Goyal 2005 ©opyright Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Action areas

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Spatial Maps & Yardsticks

Resources and Opportunities for Availability of •

Synergy in Resource allocation

across levels of governance to ensure universal coverage • •

Redesign programmes

from gender perspective build in women’s participation- break gender barriers in access to public expenditure • • Planning for access to

Sustained Employment

habitations and

Social Security Capacity Building

processes, leadership, collective power in all for Women- budgeting, political

Training

in high end skills and entrepreneurship for more productivity and remuneration

Collection of gender dis-aggregated data

Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Gender Sensitive Finances

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Translate

gender based spatial requirements in to resource allocations •

Re-prioritize

resource allocations to address- regional imbalances, infrastructure gaps • Gender perspective on

revenue raising policies/subsidies

• Gender perspective in

monetary and fiscal policies

Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Gender Sensitive Administration

• Better

monitoring

of programmes- MIS based on spatial progress • Better

implementation of laws

• Better

Fiscal Management

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Social re-engineering

- Education at all levels • Training &

Gender sensitization of administrative cadres

• Bridging

gap between Research and Administration

- Evaluations, Surveys, Research Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Expected outcomes of Workshop

Consensus

on

Strategy

for

Gender Budgeting

• Prepare gender based profile of public expenditure • Identification of priority areas for gender sensitive investment – Sustained Employment and Economic security • Ownership of Economic Assets – Access to Health and Education – Water, Sanitation and Fuel – Others • Identification of all

related critical schemes

• Identification of

key gender sensitive performance indicators

for critical schemes related to priority areas Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Expected outcomes of Workshop

• Review all schemes from gender perspective to amend

operational guidelines

– Conducting

beneficiary needs assessments

– Undertaking

impact analysis

• Identification of schemes for beneficiary incidence analysis • Pilot projects for gender based Revenue Incidence Analysis • Adoption of

Action Plan 2006-07

and progress milestones - dates for periodic regrouping and review Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005

Thank you

Anjali Goyal, Dir(F), DWCD,Nov.2005