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Gender responsive budgeting: A tool for implementing the 2030 Agenda
10th Gathering of the ParlAmericas Parliamentary Network for Gender Equality:
Gender-Responsive Climate Action Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
May 22, 2018
I. Introduction to Gender Responsive Budgets
II. Tools for each stage of the budget cycle. Practical examples: SDG indicator 5.c.1
III. Analysing budgets with a gender lens
IV. Final thoughts
Contents
Global Progress on Legal Reform:
173 countries guarantee paid maternity leave
143 constitutions guarantee gender equality
125 countries prohibit domestic violence
117 countries prohibit sexual harassment
117 countries have equal pay laws
115 countries guarantee property rights for women
Source: Progress of the World’s Women. In Pursuit of Justice. 2011
I. Introduction
A gender responsive budget:
Recognizes the different needs, interests, and realities of women and men in society and the underlying inequities that arise from these, and provides resources to address them.
Recognizes the contributions, remunerated or not, that men and women differentially contribute in the production of goods and services, as well as in work, and takes them into account in mobilizing and distributing resources.
Basic Concepts
Characteristics of gender responsive budgeting:
• Incorporates a gender perspective in all aspects of its development and at all budget levels (national and local).
• Promotes citizens’ active commitment and participation enabling them to define their interests and the specific demands of men and women differently.
• Allows for follow-up and evaluation of the different impact that government costs and income have on men and women.
• Promotes the most effective use of resources to achieve both gender equity and human development.
• Seeks to rework spending priorities and not to increase public spending in general.
• Seeks to restructure programs within sectors rather than attempting to change the overall amounts allocated to specific sectors.
Basic Concepts
They are not separate budgets for women and men but rather for both. Put simply, in the analysis there is a differentiation between how the budget affects each gender.
It does not imply an increase in public spending but rather a more efficient allocation of the current budget.
They seek to encourage the cross-cutting inclusion of a gender perspective in policies and national programs.
They translate commitments from governments for gender equity into monetary commitments.
Basic Concepts
The experiences and progress in gender responsive planning and budgeting will serve to integrate the 2030 Agenda into
national planning processes, responding to the commitments with gender equality and
translating the SDGs into strategies for development and fiscal plans that benefit
women and girls.
Contributions to the 2030 Agenda
Solid regulatory framework to anchor
the Sustainable Development Goals
Common goal of achieving substantive
equality
Contributions to the 2030 Agenda
Positioning
• Prioritizing the reduction of inequalities in National Plans
Principles
• Leave no one behind: the status of women
Implementation strategies
• Ensuring strong and transformative investments
Gender Responsive Budgets and the Role of Parliament
Parliament
Legislate
Audit
Budget Approval
Political representation
Specialist
Committees
Technical
Offices
Parliamentary
groupsPartnerships
with civil society
Gender Responsive Budgets and the Role of Parliament
Debate / approval
ExecutionEvaluation
Formulation
Budget Cycle
Legal Framework
National development plans
Priority laws and policies
Planning and budgeting system
Gender Responsive Budgets and the Role of Parliament
Role Actions can be taken
Law-making Support for incorporating gender in planning and public finance frameworks.
Oversight Request information from public institutions about investments in gender equality.
Knowledge and use of parliamentary analysis of resources for gender equality.
Political representation Placement of key topics on the agenda, aligned with resource allocations as an essential part of guaranteeing rights.
Budget approval Advocacy for resource mobilization.
Defence and advocacy for gender equality and women’s rights
Gender Responsive Budgets and the Role of Parliament
Gender Responsive Budgets and the Role of Parliament
• Linking parliamentary work promoting legislation with the integration of advances in planning tools and government administration bringing together key actors.
• Promoting legislative bills on gender and the economy: changing patterns of inequality and redistributing wealth. Alliances of Economic Commissions and Parliamentary Groups advocating for women’s rights.
• Disseminating achievements and budget standards to citizens: women know and can influence part of the budget being allocated to pressing topics.
Gender Responsive Budgets and the Role of Parliament
• Viability of the standards being applied and subsequently monitored
• Forming Specialist Committees and priority agendas
• Audit and political scrutiny with concrete evidence
• Qualifying the involvement of Parliaments in approving budgets.
• Improving accountability and transparency
Discussion – budget approval:
• Public presentation of budgets by the Ministry of Finance to the Congress’ Economic Commission and to the Machinery for Women in Peru.
Budgetary information for Parliament:
• Reports on public resource use with a Gender Responsive Budget: includes allocation and performance for priority programs (Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico).
Metholodology for measuring Indicator 5.c.1
• Proposed by UN Women, OECD, and UNDP
Methodology for measurement
• Tested as a pilot in 15 countries
• To be applied globally in 2019
• Measures 3 criteria:
• Criteria 1: Gender equality goals/measures are included in government
programs with budgets allocated to them
• Criteria 2: Gender responsive budgeting is incorporated into public
finance management systems
•Criteria 3: Budget allocations for gender equality are publicly available
(transparency)
The method of computation for global aggregation of the indicator 5.c.1 is defined as follows:
5.c.1 Computation
The following two country classification global proportions will also be reported:
𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 × 100
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠
𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 × 100
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠
Criterion 1:• All 15 countries have explicit programs to
address GEWE goals and, in general they have procedures to ensure resources executed as budgeted (13 countries).
• 7 countries reported adequate resources allocated to address GEWE goals.
Criterion 2:• Almost all countries (14) issue call
circulars.• Less than half implement ex-ante and
gender audits. 8 countries implement ex-post impact assessments.
Criterion 3:• 9 countries made information publicly
available in accessible and timely manner.
Main Pilot Results
1 country did not meet the indicator requirements, 7 countries approached the requirements, and 7 countries fully met the requirements.
Indicator 5.c.1 for the pilot sample is equal to 47 percent.
Gender equality goals/measures are included in government programs with budgets assigned to them
• Colombia: Municipality of Villavicencio, strategy to address violence against women implemented in administration and programmatic units with concrete actions and resources.
• Mexico: Equality Plan and methods to close gaps in the National Development Plan and implementation through sectorial actions.
Some Examples
Gender responsive budgeting incorporated into administrative systems
• Bolivia: Specific resources are allocated to decentralized governments to address violence against women.
• Guatemala: Budgetary Category with Gender Focus.
• Dominican Republic: Budgetary Guidelines that mandate that resources be allocated to gender equality. Methodological guide to gender responsive budgeting, budgeting and categorizing activity.
Some examples
• Budget allocations for gender equality are publicly available (transparency).
• Ecuador: Budget Category for Gender Equality Policieswith information available on the web page and reportson approval, follow-up and evaluation of the budget.
• Information and/or analysis: Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico,Guatemala, Dominican Republic.
Some Examples
• By 2030 countries around the world are committed to having systems to monitor resources allocated to gender equality and the empowerment of women and
• These monitoring systems are essential to strengthening the link between policy and implementation
• Many experiences of GRB in Latin America and the Caribbean show that it is achievable Shared proposals adapted to each context
• GRB requires long-term processes with a comprehensive focus and with the commitment of many concerned actors
Conclusions
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