Why Gender Responsive Budgeting ?

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Why Gender Responsive Budgeting ?

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• Assumption 1 the economy is not a gendered
  structure
• Economic theory is based onmarket rationale
• The economy appears gender neutral, when in fact
  it has very different impacts on women and men
• Economic policies often regards family as the
  smallest unit not individuals
• Assumes that women and men has equal power

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Assumption 2 un-paid work is free
private sector
Formal paid work
public sector
NGO sector
Formal paid work
Formal paid work
Formal unpaid work
domestic sector
Unpaid care work
Re-visioning the economy to include the
contribution of care activities
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Assumption 3 Economic policy are not gender bias

• Economic institutions carry and transmit gender
  biases/stereotypin
• The male lifestyle is the role model
• Women are often discriminated
• Gender segregated labor market

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
estimates that the value of the invisible work
done by women is 11 trillion per year, and that
the sum of global output would be almost 50
greater if this work was included in the
assessment of the economy.
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Performance indicators
Cost Quality Quantity Timeliness equity
Actual outcome Appropriateness equity
Cost equity
Policy objectives
Budget allocations
inputs
outputs
outcomes
Policy objectives
economy
efficiency
effectiveness
Criteria for assessment of value for money Cost
effectiveness of achieving government objectives
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Gender budgeting provides a range of
methodologies for analysis of expenditure and
revenue streams by gender, enabling policy
makers, analysts and governments to understand
any differential impacts on men and women of
policy decisions. Gender Budgeting does not
imply an increased focus on gender specific
expenditure or revenue.
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Three core goals of gender budget initiatives
Make governments accountable for their gender
budgetary and policy commitments.
Raise awareness and understanding of gender
issues and impacts of budgets and policies.
Change and refine government budgets And
policies to promote gender Equality.
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Impact of integrating a gender perspective in the
budgetary process
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Tools for gender analysis of the National Budget

• Requires simultaneous actions at three levels
• Application of policy tools
• Use of gender disaggregated data
• Strengthening dialogue

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• The Beijing Platform for Action
• One of the Strategic Objectives adopted is for
  governments to
• restructure and target the allocation of public
  expenditures to promote womens economic
  opportunities and equal access to productive
  resources and to address the basic social,
  educational and health needs of women
• facilitate more open and transparent budget
  processes
• review, adopt and maintain macro-economic
  policies and development strategies that address
  the needs and efforts of women in poverty

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GRB is supported by major international
organizations

• OECD
• The World Bank
• UNDP
• EU
• Beijing 5
• The Nordic Council of Ministers
• The Commonwealth governments At their meeting in
  
• September 2002, Commonwealth finance ministers,
  as part of a
• wider commitment to work towards gender equality
  in economic
• policy-makingagreed to make substantial progress
  on
• implementing gender-responsive budgets within
  their respective
• budget setting processes

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More information can be achieved from the Nordic
Council of Ministers Gender Responsive Budgeting
Project www.norden.org Project Director
catharina.schmitz_at_publicmanagement.se