Transcript Bild 1 - Indevelop

”Gender inequality is
unjust, unintelligent and
expensive”
Gender
equality
is smart
economics
Gender budgeting is an
application of gender
mainstreaming in the
budgetary process
Incorporating a gender
perspective at all levels of
the budgetary process
What is gender budgeting?
It is a way of linking gender equality
policy with macro economic policy
What is gender budgeting?
It is based on the premise that
budgets are not gender neutral
What is gender budgeting?
It applies both to revenue
and expenditure
What is gender budgeting?
It begins with an analysis of the
impact of the budget on women and
men, and then aims to integrate
gender into budget planning
What is gender budgeting?
It is a way of doing gender
mainstreaming
What is gender budgeting?
It does not mean a separate
budget for women
What is gender budgeting?
It allows for better targeting and
therefore more efficient allocation of
public expenditure
What is gender budgeting?
It calls for the participation of a
broder range of stakeholders and
thereby deepens the democratic
process
What is gender budgeting?
Its ultimate goal is that gender
is mainstreamed
Operational and financial planning and budget cycle
January
February
Negotiations
March
April
May
June
July
August
Sept
October
Nov
Dec
Preparing
and drafting
operating
and financial
plans of the
Ministeries
and the
agencies
Operating and
financial submission
to the MoF
Preparing
spending
limits
Government
discussion & decision
on spending limits
Budget
preparations of
the Ministries Budget proposal of Min.
Budget proposal
prepared by the
Ministry of
Finance (MoF)
Parliamentary
handling and
approval of the
Budget
Negotiations
Government budget
session
Budget proposal
submitted to the
Parliament
Role of civil society
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articulating the rationale for gender budgeting
demonstration of the analytic tools
public education initiatives
lobbying
conducting costing exercises
training and consultative services to public administrators
producing tools and handbooks
drafting shadow reports and other monitoring activities.
Examples
• Does an employment activity create more
employment for men or women, or equally?
• Does state activity benefit males more than
females or vice versa or do both benefit equally?
• Do measures to cut state spending result in more
women engaging in unpaid labour?
Data/information required
• Sex-disaggregated data
• Output and impact objectives and indicators
• Dialogue between government officials and civil
society
• The Capability Approach
• Gender-Disaggregated Beneficiary Assessment of Public Service
Delivery and Budget Priorities.
• Gender-Disaggregated Public Expenditure Incidence
• Analysis.
• Gender-Aware Policy Appraisal.
• Gender-Aware Budget Statement.
• Gender-Disaggregated Analysis of the Budget on Time Use.
• Gender Aware Medium Term Economic Policy Framework.
• Gender-Disaggregated Public Revenue Incidence Analysis.
• The network approach
• Gender budget pilot initiatives
• GenderAlp
World Café
Table 1: What is a government budget? How
does it relate to gender?
Table 2: What are the roles and function of a
budget? When can you “see” the impact of a
national budget?
Table 3: What do you need to do gender
budgeting? What are the benefits of gender
budgeting?
Thank you
Tack
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