Youth Responsive Budgeting

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Youth Responsive Budgeting

• Workshop for Senior Government Officials
• 25 26 February 2003
• Apia, Samoa

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Opening Address

• Deputy Secretary of Finance

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Introductions

• Please state your name and Ministry

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Messages given to youth

• The messages given to any group in society has
  important implications for programs and budgets
  as they are the norms and values which
  governments will reinforce or seek to change
• These messages may be given by parents and
  relatives, friends, co-workers, the church,
  traditional leaders, employers, sporting
  organisations, and government.
• These messages may be about how children should
  be raised, household tasks, education, community
  roles and duties, independence, respect for
  parents etc.

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Activity 1 Norms and values associated with
youth in Samoa

• What messages do youth get about what they should
  do?
• What messages do youth get about what they
  shouldnt do?

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Activity 1 The should and should not
messages associated with youth
What should young men do in Samoa? What shouldnt young men do in Samoa?
What should young women do in Samoa? What shouldnt young women do in Samoa?
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Integrating youth issues into public expenditure
management in the Pacific

• Project summary

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The youth responsive budget pilot project in Samoa

• ADB RETA training and capacity building in
  public expenditure management
• Coordinated by the Ministry of Finance
• Seven pilot ministries

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Project context

• Economic reforms in Samoa
• Social planning and budgeting
• Growth in people centred budgeting
  internationally

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Project goals and activities

• The project has adopted 3 core goals and involves
  a series of activities that seek to further the
  goals.

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Goals are a) interdependent b) hierarchical
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Filling in the circles with a range of activities
A variety of tasks are undertaken to achieve the
3 goals of a youth responsive budget
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Awareness raising activities

• Youth census data presentation
• Youth disaggregated data base on early school
  leaving
• Exercises in understanding youth
• Framework that government expenditures that
  impact on youth can be specifically targeted to
  youth, related to public sector employment or
  general/non youth specific
• Audit of ministry programs for their direct and
  indirect impacts on youth
• Project website
• ADB development of a publication of the Samoan
  and RMI pilot for its annual general meeting.

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Transparency and accountability activities

• Ministry of Finance coordination of the pilot
  project
• Linking youth issues to national planning
  priorities of the SDS and other planning
  processes
• Youth impact assessments case studies by
  ministries
• Developing youth sensitive performance measures
  and other monitoring mechanisms
• Audit of services by NGOs to youth
• Heads of Department meeting with Ministry of
  Finance to discuss improvements.

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Changing budgets and programs activities

• Develop the Action Plans for the national youth
  policy
• Identify cross ministry youth issues and
  strategies
• Re-design existing programs to improve youth
  outcomes
• Develop new programs and budget proposals
• Improve the relationship between social planning
  and budgeting??
• Develop advocacy capacity of NGOs??

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Workshop objectives

• Clarify the norms and values associated with
  Samoan youth
• Understand the role of youth impact assessments
  in program and budget development
• Develop and in-depth knowledge of a major youth
  issue in Samoa
• Identify cross ministry youth issues and
  strategies
• Draft a youth proposal and budget and argue its
  case
• Establish the next steps for your ministry in the
  project.

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Samoan project proposal
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Report on the services to youth provided by
community groups
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Report on school retention and drop out in Samoa
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Youth impact assessment

• What is a youth impact assessment?
• How do budgets and programs impact on different
  groups of young people?
• Why do youth impact assessments?
• What are the tools?
• What are the ways of using youth impact
  assessments in Samoa?

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What is a youth impact assessment?

• Research and analysis that identifies the ways
  in which young people are affected by government
  policies, programs and their funding.

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All budgets have impacts

• Policies, programs and budgets can impact on
  youth
• Directly (eg secondary schooling)
• Indirectly (eg poison handling in agriculture)
• Intentionally (eg provision of youth
  apprenticeships in public sector to reduce
  unemployment)
• Unintentionally (eg cuts-backs in public sector
  employment can reduce the availability of youth
  apprenticeships)

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Different types of impacts

• Policies, programs and budgets through their
  direct, indirect , intentional or unintentional
  impacts can affect people lives by changing the
  circumstances of
• Young people
• Families and villages
• Samoan society and economy
• .

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Why analyse the impact on youth of policies,
programs and budgets?

• It helps to understand the impact of a program on
  youth and other groups in order to
• develop new programs
• improve existing programs
• defend existing programs from budget cuts

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Why analyse the impact on youth of policies,
programs and budgets?

• To know the impacts of your program in order to
  ensure
• fairness
• efficiency or value for money
• effectiveness in meeting the needs of Samoans

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Why analyse the impact on youth of policies,
programs and budgets?

• To promote budget transparency and
  accountability
• within government
• to community stakeholders
• to program recipients
• to donors

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Tools for assessing the impact of budgets on
young women and young men

• Program and policy appraisals
• Beneficiary assessments
• Public expenditure incidence analysis
• A youth budget impact statement

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Youth aware policy appraisal

• An analysis, from a youth perspective, of
  particular policies and programmes funded through
  the budget
• Seeks to discover the ways that policies and
  programmes, and their funding, reduce or increase
  youth participation, protection, justice etc.
• Involves an detailed investigation of the
  implications for youth of government activities
• Example South Australian Review of School
  Retention

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Youth beneficiary assessments

• A means of finding out what young people think of
  a program or service
• Asks those who receive public services how well
  the spending on the service is meeting their
  needs
• Data gathering methods include surveys, group
  discussions, individual interviews
• Example Samoan MYSCA Youth Survey

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Youth disaggregated public expenditure incidence
analysis

• Estimates how the budget is distributed by age
  group.
• It involves a complex technique of measuring the
  unit cost of a service and multiplying that cost
  by the number of young males and females using
  the service
• The information from this assessment could be
  used in a variety of ways including better
  targeting of programs to young people.
• Example In Pakistan, government spending on
  public education was estimated to be 26 rupees
  per female and 56 rupees per male per year in the
  1990s.

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Youth responsive budget statement

• This is a report by government, usually in the
  budget papers, summarising the direct and
  indirect impacts of its budget and Ministry
  programs on young men and young women, girls and
  boys
• It involves using a variety of youth sensitive
  indicators along with selective use of any of the
  above tools for analysing impacts
• Example A youth budget impact statement by the
  Federal Australian government in the late 1980s
  to demonstrate to the community that youth
  concerns were being incorporated into the budget.

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Youth impact assessment

• A case study of early school leavers

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Activity 2 Unpacking the impacts of early school
leavers

• What are the impacts of early school leavers in
  Samoa in terms of
• Consequences for young people who dont complete
  their education?
• Consequences for the families/villages of early
  school leavers?
• Consequences for Samoan society as a whole?

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Activity 3 Defining and responding to the problem

• Consider why early school leavers are seen as a
  problem in Samoa, and by whom.
• Identify programs/activities from your Ministry
  that impact directly or indirectly on the issue
  of early school leavers.
• Discuss the reasoning behind your Ministrys
  programs/activities that have an impact on early
  school leavers.