Gender Responsive Budgeting in Rajasthan

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Gender Responsive Budgeting in Rajasthan

• Sara Pilot
• UNIFEM, New Delhi
• May 2007

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What is Gender Responsive Budgeting?

• Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) aims to
  analyse how effectively Governments policies,
  programmes and budgetary allocations respond to
  the needs and concerns of women and girls and
  what impact they have on Gender Equality and
  Womens Empowerment
• Six departments taken up initially Health,
  Education, Agriculture, WCD, Registration and
  Stamps and Social Welfare

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GRB for the Department of Health

• FINDINGS
• 24 of doctors of all health facilities are women
  but only 12 in PHCs
• 43 of OPD/IPD patients are women
• 95 of sterilizations done on women but easier,
  less costly, shorter for men
• 48 of immunization is for girls
• Women are 45 of beneficiaries of Sanjeevani Prog
  (for tribal and desert in 4 districts)
• No sex-disaggregated data for CM Relief and CM
  Life Saving Fund, Blindness Control Programme
• 80 patients in STD clinics are women
• 22 of HIV cases are women
• 45 of recipients of Micronutrient programme are
  girls/women

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Recommendations - Health

• Need for indicators that reflect the coverage and
  quality of services
• Need to look at the number of men and women
  requiring a particular service or treatment and
  not only the numbers being treated
• Need to ensure medicines, skilled staff presence
• For women employees residences, loans for
  2-wheelers, safety to be the panchayats
  responsibility
• Act urgently to reduce maternal mortality
• Government should partner with NGOs and private
  sector for service delivery
• Gap analysis of services, personnel, medicines
  equipment to be done and costed

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GRB for the Department of EducationPercentage
enrolment of girls in various educational
institutions (2004-05)
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Recommendations - Education

• To promote girls education
• - More women teachers
• - Separate toilets for girls
• - Make teachers responsible for results
• - More scholarships for girls
• - Provide Day Care Centres
• - More girls colleges at sub-divisional level
• - More hostels for girls
• Promote participation of NGOs and private sector
• Link incentives with vocational training
• Enhance quality and review curriculum

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GRB for the Department of Agriculture

• FINDINGS
• Women less than half the main workers, but are
  the majority of marginal workers
• In Dausa, women 12 of sprinkler beneficiaries,
  5 for demos of oilseeds, pulses maize 7.28
  for mini-kits
• No women beneficiaries of tractors or plant
  protection subsidies
• 206 training camps for 6180 women in 2005-06
  figure is decreasing annually
• 1349 girls provided financial incentives for
  studying agriculture

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Recommendations - Agriculture

• Provide easy loans to women farmers (WF)
• Have separate targets for WF
• Have reduced premium and quick settlement of
  insurance claims for WF
• Introduce women friendly activities like
  vermiculture, floriculture, organic farming
• Set up a gender Resource Centre in DoA
• Conduct Time Use Studies to assess quantum and
  kind of work done by w/men
• Reserve some posts in DoA for women run special
  courses, with more incentives for girls to become
  eligible
• Coordinate with Dept of Registration Stamps who
  register agriculture land in womens name
• Wide and innovative publicity for schemes for WF

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GRB for the Department of DWCD

• FINDINGS
• Adult Sex Ratio Rajasthan is 921, lower than the
  national average of 933. Child Sex Ration
  worsening.
• 35,821 Anganwadi Centres of ICDS provides
• - Supplementary nutrition to 15 lakh boys, 13.65
  lakh girls 6.44 lakh women, reaching 40
  eligible children and 52 eligible women
• - Immunization to 13 lakh children and 4 lakh
  pregnant women (Tetanus Toxoid) every year
• - 7th Campaign 95 children Vit A (to prevent
  blindness)
• - 13 lakh children (50 girls) pre-school
  education

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DWCD Cont

• - 1.39 lakh adolescent girls included in Kishori
  Shakti Kishori Balika Scheme
• - 21,609 Sahyoginis assist existing staff
• - Shishu Palna Grihas set up in 419 AWC to
  provide day care medical facilities(7mths 5
  yrs)
• Women Development Programme
• - 20,315 Self Help Groups formed in 2005-06
• - 7497 Sathins recruited last year
• Balika Samridhi Yojana provides Rs.500 to BPL
  family, on birth of up to 2 daughters

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Recommendations - DWCD

• Need to address the declining sex ratio
• Quality of services needs to be monitored
• Sub-optimal utilisation of funds must be analysed
• Women and girls should not be clubbed together
  need to compare boys to girls
• Some schemes been running for many years. Need an
  impact assessment e.g. ICDS 30 yrs old
• Study why ICDS is reaching only 50 of the
  eligible
• Consider bifurcation of ICDS and WDP to ensure a
  women focus

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GRB for the Department of Registration and Stamps

• FINDINGS
• Stamp duty only 5.5 (8 for men) if agriculture
  land registered in womens name
• From Jan 2004 to Dec 05, over 2,00,000
  registrations in womens name
• Stamp duty for gift deeds in womens name down
  from 8 to 5
• Mandatory registration (Rs. 50 stamp duty only)
  of divorce instrument to safeguard women

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Recommendations R S

• Carry out impact assessment of reduction in stamp
  duty on agriculture transaction if in womens
  name has her status changed? Does she
  physically have the deed and realise its
  implications
• Introduce similar reduction for urban property
  could start with single women, widows and
  divorcees
• For joint ownership could have a stamp duty rate
  lower than for men only
• Consider stamp duty concessions for the other 30
  transactions registered by the department, where
  the women are beneficiaries
• Women friendly procedures must be ensured

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GRB for the Department of Social Welfare

• FINDINGS
• The share of girl SC ST and OBC are
• - 15 in hostels
• - 15-25 of scholarships
• - 20 under Book Bank for higher education
• - 50-60 in residential schools
• Less than a quarter students given scholarships
  from STs are girls for post matric study.
• Under atrocities alleviation scheme 33
  beneficiaries are women
• Only 20 children enrolled under the child
  welfare programme are girls
• Only 10 of orphans in the orphanages are girls

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Social Welfare Cont

• 60 of children in Shishu Grihas are girls
• 33 of children of Palanhaar scheme are girls
• 33 hostels provide accommodation to working women
  
• Widows daughters provided Rs.10,000 grant for
  marriage (was 5,000)
• Women are about 33 of beneficiaries of
  Disabilities Scheme Viswas (provides artificial
  limbs/appliances)
• 60 of old age pensioners are women

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Recommendations Social Welfare

• Consider revising name of department to Social
  Justice and Empowerment
• Study why though more deprived women,
  beneficiaries are less change modalities,
  conditions to suit women
• Link Marriage grant to daughters of widows to
  some vocational activity/course. Only 2
  daughters?
• Do beneficiary assessment studies for WWHostels
  and Short Stay Homes
• Along with Old Age Pension, give aged a role and
  responsibility in society
• Change name of Home for Mentally Retarded
• Study adequacy of scholarship
• No utilisation of inter-caste marriage scheme.

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Common Recommendations for all departments

• MIS must ensure sex-disaggregated data
• Impact assessment of at least 2 key programmes /
  schemes each year
• Study reasons for gap between Budget Estimates
  (BE) and Revised Estimates (RE)
• All departments to do GRB every alternate year
• Employ more women, especially in departments
  dealing more with girls and women, like health,
  education, agriculture, DWCD SW (15.8 women)
• Construct living quarters (in one area) in bigger
  villages or block HQ for all female village level
  staff like ANMs, teachers, AWW, doctors etc.

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Progress

• Education Discussion on the need for safe
  transport/cycles for girls going to secondary
  school
• Agriculture Scholarships for girls in higher
  secondary class and college raised
• Agriculture Train more women (6,000 to 20,000)
• DWCD ICDS and WDP have been segregated
• Social Welfare Revised MIS introduced to
  generate sex disaggregated data
• Social Welfare Suggestion to change the Dept
  name has been submitted to the Cabinet

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Decisions Taken in Nov

• GRB to be conducted in Local Self Govt, Tribal
  Area Development, Industries, Cooprative, Forest,
  Horticulture and Animal Husbandry
• 6 previous departments to develop an updated GRB
  report
• Plan Department to undertake an in-depth study
  for pension schemes in the State
• All depts to include a chapter on GRB in annual
  administrative reports
• All secretaries and HODs to be sensitised on
  gender issues

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THANK YOU