Gender Budgeting: a tool for change?

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Gender Budgetinga tool for change?

• By Dono Abdurazakova, UNDP
• Regional Gender Adviser
• Bratislava, Slovakia

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Millennium Development Goals
By 2015
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Basic terms and definitions

• Sex biologically determined, universal
• Gender - social differences, learned, changeable
  over time, and with wide variations within and
  between cultures

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Gender Budgets are
.not about separate budgets for women!
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Gender Budgets are

• ..but an approach to examine or scrutinize
  government and other budgets, ALL its sectors
  through gender lens for their contribution to
  gender equity and equality, and re-allocating, or
  re-prioritizing existing budgets

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Objectives

• Mainstream gender issues within government
  policies
• Promote greater accountability for governments
  commitments to gender equality
• Change budgets and policies

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Ways for gender analysis

• Gender Mainstreaming
• Gender Impact Analysis

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What is Gender Mainstreaming?

• the process of assessing the implications for
  women and men of any planned action, including
  legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas
  and at all levels. It is a strategy for making
  womens as well as mens concerns and experiences
  an integral dimension of the design,
  implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
  policies and programmes in all political,
  economic and societal spheres so that women and
  men benefit equally and inequality is not
  perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve
  gender equality.
• The Report of the Economic and Social Council for
  1997. United Nations, 1997.

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Gender Impact Assessment

means to compare and assess, according to
gender relevant criteria, the relevant situation
and trend with the expected development resulting
from the introduction of the proposed policy
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Tools for gender analysis of budgets

1. Gender-aware policy appraisal
2. Gender-disaggregated beneficiary assessments
3. Gender-disaggregated public expenditure incidence
   analysis
4. Gender-disaggregated tax incidence analysis
5. Gender-disaggregated analysis of the impact of
   the budget on time use
6. Gender-aware medium term economic policy
   framework
7. Gender-aware budget statement

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Gender sensitive budgets

imply a variety of processes and tools to assess
the impact of government budgets, both
expenditure and revenue, at national or local
level, on the social and economic position of
women, men, girls and boys.
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More than 50 GSB initiatives worldwide

• Participants researchers, activists, NGOs,
  parliament, government
• Scope of the exercise national, local,
  expenditure, revenue, all or selected portfolios
• Activities -- research, publication, material
  development, advocacy, training
• Audience -- government officials,
  parliamentarians, advocacy NGOs, citizens
  groups, researchers, media, public
• Targeted policy process planning,
  implementation, monitoring and evaluation

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UNDP- supported Best Practices from the region

• Mandatory gender courses for government officials
  (Russia, Ukraine)
• Gender Mainstreaming of Local policies
  (Kazakhstan)
• Creation of Institutional mechanisms (Kyrgyzstan)

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Existing tools methodologies

• Financing for Development Gender Policy Briefing
  Kit by UNDP/Womens Environment and Development
  Organization (WEDO) joint project,
  http//www.wedo.org/ffd/kit.htm
• The same in Russian gender.undp.sk

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Existing tools methodologies

• Gender Mainstreaming in Practice A Handbook
• Drafting Gender-Aware LegislationHow to Promote
  and Protect Gender Equality in the Central and
  Eastern Europe and in the CIS
• -by UNDP RBEC Regional Center, Bratislava.
• Available at UNDP RBEC Gender Virtual Gender
  Library, http//gender.undp.sk

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Existing tools and methodologies

• Gender Mainstreaming
• In Practice A Handbook
• UNDP, Bratislava, 2002
• http//gender.undp.sk/

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