Finance Ministries Accounting for Gender Equality

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Finance Ministries Accounting for Gender Equality

• Roundtable input
• Debbie Budlender
• Community Agency for Social Enquiry South Africa

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Call circulars

• Increasing number of countries ask for gender in
  call circulars gt opportunity plus challenge
• How is the call phrased?
• Projects or mainstream programmes?
• Women as special group?
• How is response supported?
• Manuals?
• Training over several years?
• Who does the work?
• Do budget examiners look for/ask about gender?
• How is gender reflected in publicly available
  documents?

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Lessons from Tanzania

• Special because
• beyond budget office
• Strong role of CSOs
• Started with NGO research - government followed
• Gender in call circular -gt NGO designed manual,
  training backup linked to introduction of MTEF
• NGO involvement in public expenditure reviews
• new questions/sections in general papers
• gender-specific papers e.g. WHH
• Disaggregation of labour factor in new SAM
• Planned time use survey will allow for unpaid
  care work in later SAM models
• Budget both REFLECTS INFLUENCES policy