1) Gender budgeting is a process that incorporates a gender perspective into all stages of policymaking, from planning and resource allocation to implementation and review. It aims to promote gender equality and determine actions needed for policies, budgets, and programs to meet the needs of both women and men.
2) Key stages for gender budgeting include budget preparation, post-budget analysis, implementation, and post-implementation evaluation. Gender budgeting cells and focal points can help analyze budgets and policies from a gender perspective at each stage.
3) Guidelines for writing cabinet notes and appraisal memoranda explicitly ask for gender impact assessments. Outcome budgets also provide a way to assess programs' gendered impacts.
Presentation made for the Officials of the State Health Dept., Govt. of Bihar. An overview of Gender Budgeting - What has worked for India, Need for states like Bihar to adopt GB and take it forward is discussed. Some gender mainstreaming initiatives of the Government to understand the process has also been highlighted as GB is not about accounts, but gender sensitive policy and planning.
Gender responsive budgeting (GRB) aims to analyze government budgets through a gender lens. GRB seeks to highlight gaps between gender policies and resource allocation, and to promote more effective and equitable use of public funds. Key aspects of GRB include understanding the country's budget process, analyzing data on impacts of spending on men and women, and engaging stakeholders across government and civil society. Case studies demonstrate that sustainable GRB initiatives require institutionalization within government and ongoing support from civil society.
Session for State Resource Centres for Women to understand and identify entry points for doing Gender Budgeting in the changed fiscal scenario in India
The document summarizes gender responsive budgeting (GRB) concepts and experiences in South Asian countries. It begins by setting the context of gender roles and international commitments to GRB. It then defines GRB as a process that incorporates a gender perspective at various stages of the budget cycle. The document discusses why GRB is important and provides examples from several South Asian countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It highlights the diverse approaches taken and progress made in integrating gender perspectives into budgeting in different locations.
This document provides an overview of strategies and tools for gender responsive budgeting. It discusses the context and focus of GRB, including ensuring government departments address gender needs, gaps, and priorities in their policies, plans, programs and budgets. Key steps in GRB include gender analysis, assessing policy and budget allocations, and monitoring impacts. Tools mentioned include gender appraisals, sex-disaggregated data and analyses, gender markers, and engaging with parliamentarians. The document also discusses performance-based budgeting, types of indicators, and integrating GRB tools throughout the budget cycle.
The document discusses gender budget analysis in India. It defines gender budgeting as analyzing government budgets from a gender perspective to establish their differential impact and ensure gender-sensitive resource allocation. It outlines tools for gender budget analysis, including examining inputs, activities and outcomes from a gender lens. It also summarizes the current status of gender budgeting in India, constraints faced, and priority actions needed like improving gender disaggregated data and institutionalizing the process.
The session presents gender analysis tools that can be used during project design, implementation and evaluation. The gender analysis tools will help to make the development intervention gender sensitive, so that the benefits of project reach both women and men.
Presentation made for the Officials of the State Health Dept., Govt. of Bihar. An overview of Gender Budgeting - What has worked for India, Need for states like Bihar to adopt GB and take it forward is discussed. Some gender mainstreaming initiatives of the Government to understand the process has also been highlighted as GB is not about accounts, but gender sensitive policy and planning.
Gender responsive budgeting (GRB) aims to analyze government budgets through a gender lens. GRB seeks to highlight gaps between gender policies and resource allocation, and to promote more effective and equitable use of public funds. Key aspects of GRB include understanding the country's budget process, analyzing data on impacts of spending on men and women, and engaging stakeholders across government and civil society. Case studies demonstrate that sustainable GRB initiatives require institutionalization within government and ongoing support from civil society.
Session for State Resource Centres for Women to understand and identify entry points for doing Gender Budgeting in the changed fiscal scenario in India
The document summarizes gender responsive budgeting (GRB) concepts and experiences in South Asian countries. It begins by setting the context of gender roles and international commitments to GRB. It then defines GRB as a process that incorporates a gender perspective at various stages of the budget cycle. The document discusses why GRB is important and provides examples from several South Asian countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It highlights the diverse approaches taken and progress made in integrating gender perspectives into budgeting in different locations.
This document provides an overview of strategies and tools for gender responsive budgeting. It discusses the context and focus of GRB, including ensuring government departments address gender needs, gaps, and priorities in their policies, plans, programs and budgets. Key steps in GRB include gender analysis, assessing policy and budget allocations, and monitoring impacts. Tools mentioned include gender appraisals, sex-disaggregated data and analyses, gender markers, and engaging with parliamentarians. The document also discusses performance-based budgeting, types of indicators, and integrating GRB tools throughout the budget cycle.
The document discusses gender budget analysis in India. It defines gender budgeting as analyzing government budgets from a gender perspective to establish their differential impact and ensure gender-sensitive resource allocation. It outlines tools for gender budget analysis, including examining inputs, activities and outcomes from a gender lens. It also summarizes the current status of gender budgeting in India, constraints faced, and priority actions needed like improving gender disaggregated data and institutionalizing the process.
The session presents gender analysis tools that can be used during project design, implementation and evaluation. The gender analysis tools will help to make the development intervention gender sensitive, so that the benefits of project reach both women and men.
This document provides an overview of gender budgeting. It defines gender budgeting as assessing budgets through a gender lens to promote gender equality. The document outlines the history and evolution of gender budgeting in India. It describes the advantages of gender budgeting and key actors. Steps in the gender budgeting process include situation analysis, assessment of policies, budget allocation, monitoring, and impact assessment. The document also discusses gender auditing, responsive budgeting, and examples of gender budgeting initiatives in various sectors and governments.
This document provides definitions and concepts related to gender analysis. It defines key terms like sex, gender, equality and equity. It discusses different frameworks for gender analysis like Women in Development (WID), Gender and Development (GAD), and Gender Mainstreaming. The document outlines the purpose and stages of conducting a gender analysis. It also discusses tools and questions to consider in a gender analysis and tips for implementation.
The document discusses the concept of gender mainstreaming. It began in 1985 at the Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi and was further developed by the United Nations. Gender mainstreaming aims to promote gender equality by assessing how policies, programs, and legislation will impact men and women. It seeks to make gender perspectives central to all activities from policy development to implementation. The goal is to address inequalities that discriminate against both sexes and ensure initiatives work to reduce gender inequality.
Gender budgeting and Transparency : Understandingthe National and Sub-Nationa...Paramita Majumdar (Ph.D)
It talks about the importance of budget transparency vis-a-vis Gender Budgeting. Gender Budgeting Statement has emerged as an accountability and transparency tool, But the local governments have not yet adopted GRB as a strategy for empowering women. Recent initiatives in Kerala and by the Ministry of Panchaytai Raj has ushered in a new beginning.
This project has been created for EDRD*6000 Qualitative Methods- a graduate level course at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph. Please reference the author or appropriate sources when using any of the information presented here.
Gender mainstreaming aims to promote gender equality by making women's and men's concerns an integral part of policymaking. It involves assessing how gender norms can affect development programs and identifying opportunities to address inequalities. Key aspects of gender mainstreaming include political commitment, building technical capacity, and establishing accountability measures to ensure the process transforms unequal power structures over time. The ultimate goal is to achieve equitable and sustainable development outcomes where both women and men can equally participate in and benefit from development.
This document discusses the role of IMED and project directors in monitoring and evaluation of development projects in Bangladesh. It provides background on IMED, outlining its functions in monitoring ongoing projects through collection of data and field inspections. IMED also conducts evaluations of completed projects through terminal evaluations and impact assessments of selected projects. The document contrasts monitoring as a continuous process to ensure progress against plans, with evaluation as a periodic assessment of outcomes and impacts. It describes various IMED tools and formats used for data collection and monitoring of projects over their life cycles.
1. The document discusses gender mainstreaming in organizational structures and practices, defining it as assessing implications for women and men of any planned action to achieve gender equality.
2. It provides guidelines for mainstreaming gender, including conducting gender analysis, ensuring women's participation in decision-making, and establishing accountability mechanisms and gender targets.
3. Barriers to gender mainstreaming mentioned include lack of resources, capacity, and gender-disaggregated data, as well as socio-cultural restrictions on women.
This document discusses gender mainstreaming in organizations, policies, programs and projects. It begins by distinguishing between gender and sex, noting the biological differences but also harmful stereotypes. It then discusses case studies and questions about gifts for a new baby boy and girl that could perpetuate stereotypes. The document outlines why gender mainstreaming is important, noting gender inequalities and disadvantages women face in Pakistan. It provides strategies for making organizations gender responsive, including ensuring gender equity in vision/objectives, policies, practices, and decision-making. It also discusses integrating a gender perspective into situation assessments, goals/objectives, implementation, and monitoring/evaluation of projects. The Gender Analysis Matrix tool is introduced to analyze different impacts of projects on women
Integrating Gender in Extension in BangladeshINGENAES
Agricultural extension services to farmers
Training: Farmers, extension workers, other stakeholders
Technology Transfer: New technologies to farmers
Issues DAE
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Others
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Organizational Commitment DAE
Issues DAE
Achievements
- Reached to farmers at grassroots level
- Introduced new technologies
- Organized farmers into groups
- Conducted training
- Published leaflets, booklets
Gaps
- Lack of gender sensitive approach
- Women participation is
This document discusses gender auditing and gender building. It defines key terms like gender, sex, and gender equality. Gender is socially and culturally determined ideas about appropriate behavior for men and women, while sex refers to biological differences. Gender equality means equal rights, opportunities, treatment, and valuation of both women and men. The document also discusses gender mainstreaming, which is assessing plans and policies to ensure gender equality and that inequality is not perpetuated. A gender audit is a participatory tool used to promote organizational learning and effectiveness in mainstreaming gender through self-assessment at the individual, work unit, and organizational levels. It identifies strengths and weaknesses and recommends improvements to achieve gender equality.
This power-point analyses the Indian government and Sri Lankan's plans and budgets from a gender and equity lens. It argues that they are not gender and diversity transformative, do not focus on strengthening services for 'care' and engaging with men and boys on masculinities. Neither are budgets responsive to gender and diversity concerns. Finally, the paradigm of development is not consistent with gender and social equity
The document discusses different theoretical frameworks related to women and development including WID, WAD, GAD, and WED. WID focuses on integrating women into development and includes approaches like welfare, equity, anti-poverty, efficiency, and empowerment. WAD emerged as a critique of WID and modernization theory, viewing women as important economic actors and focusing on relationships between women and development. GAD offers a holistic perspective and questions gender roles and patriarchy. It emphasizes women's agency and legal/policy reforms. WED examines links between environmental decline, patriarchy, and development planning. The document also distinguishes between practical and strategic gender needs/interests in development work.
The document discusses several gender analysis frameworks that can be used to assess how policies, programs, and projects differentially impact men and women. It describes frameworks like the Harvard Analytical Framework, Moser's triple roles framework, and Longwe's Women's Empowerment Framework. Each framework asks different questions to analyze factors like who does what work, who has access to and control over resources, and how interventions may affect gender roles, status, and responsibilities.
This document outlines a gender training module that covers various topics related to women's empowerment. The module contains 12 sections that address issues such as gender sensitization, gender planning, policies and programs for women, the girl child, women and law, economic empowerment of women, and political empowerment. Each section includes multiple sub-modules that provide objectives, contents, and training methods for workshops addressing different gender issues. The document also includes a bibliography and descriptions of 122 short films that can be used as audio-visual aids in gender training.
The document provides an overview of gender mainstreaming in Nepal's national plans and programs. It discusses how gender mainstreaming was first introduced at the 1985 Nairobi conference and established as a strategy through the 1995 Beijing conference. It summarizes Nepal's approach in its periodic plans since the 6th five-year plan in 1981, which initially took a welfare approach but has since shifted to focus on gender equality, women's empowerment, and mainstreaming gender. Key policies and programs discussed include Nepal's constitution, SDGs, UN Women, and efforts by the government to mainstream gender across sectors in line with its international commitments.
This document discusses various tools and methods for conducting gender analysis. It defines gender as a socially constructed concept of femininity and masculinity that varies across cultures. Several specific tools are introduced, including the 4R Method from Sweden, Gender Impact Assessment, Gender Analysis, Gender Analysis Matrix, and Participatory Rural Appraisal tools for gender analysis. Each tool is briefly described in one or two sentences. The document provides examples of aspects to analyze using these tools, such as representation, resource allocation, and conditions that influence gender distributions.
This short-but-thorough presentation from IWMI’s Valentine J Gandhi provides a valuable introduction to the gender analysis in agricultural research. Covering the many reasons for undertaking gender-sensitive research and the tools available for the job, it also looks at the skills required in an effective gender researcher, and ways to analyze and interpret results.
Gender mainstreaming aims to promote gender equality by integrating gender perspectives into all policies, programs, and activities. It seeks to address inequalities that discriminate against both women and men. Gender mainstreaming is not just about improving access or balancing statistics - it targets major economic and social policies to ensure both women and men participate fully and benefit equally from development. It recognizes that gender affects lives from birth and aims to establish a balanced distribution of responsibilities between women and men through determined political action and support.
Gender planing as an input to engender governance coloured 11-2-09VIBHUTI PATEL
“We need a vision of mankind not as patients whose interests have to be looked after, but as agents who can do effective things- both individually and jointly. We also have to go beyond the role of human beings specifically as ‘consumers’ or as ‘people with need’, and consider, more broadly, their general role as agents of change who can- given opportunity- think, assess, evaluate, resolve, inspire, agitate, and through these means, reshape the world.” Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen
Gender budgetting w.r. to health 12 1-07VIBHUTI PATEL
The document discusses gender audits of budgets with respect to women's health in India. It explains that gender audits are important to analyze how budgets allocate resources between men and women and to promote gender equality. The document provides historical context on the evolution of considering gender in India's Five Year Plans since the 1950s. It outlines the key components of conducting a gender audit to analyze budgets through a gender lens.
This document provides an overview of gender budgeting. It defines gender budgeting as assessing budgets through a gender lens to promote gender equality. The document outlines the history and evolution of gender budgeting in India. It describes the advantages of gender budgeting and key actors. Steps in the gender budgeting process include situation analysis, assessment of policies, budget allocation, monitoring, and impact assessment. The document also discusses gender auditing, responsive budgeting, and examples of gender budgeting initiatives in various sectors and governments.
This document provides definitions and concepts related to gender analysis. It defines key terms like sex, gender, equality and equity. It discusses different frameworks for gender analysis like Women in Development (WID), Gender and Development (GAD), and Gender Mainstreaming. The document outlines the purpose and stages of conducting a gender analysis. It also discusses tools and questions to consider in a gender analysis and tips for implementation.
The document discusses the concept of gender mainstreaming. It began in 1985 at the Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi and was further developed by the United Nations. Gender mainstreaming aims to promote gender equality by assessing how policies, programs, and legislation will impact men and women. It seeks to make gender perspectives central to all activities from policy development to implementation. The goal is to address inequalities that discriminate against both sexes and ensure initiatives work to reduce gender inequality.
Gender budgeting and Transparency : Understandingthe National and Sub-Nationa...Paramita Majumdar (Ph.D)
It talks about the importance of budget transparency vis-a-vis Gender Budgeting. Gender Budgeting Statement has emerged as an accountability and transparency tool, But the local governments have not yet adopted GRB as a strategy for empowering women. Recent initiatives in Kerala and by the Ministry of Panchaytai Raj has ushered in a new beginning.
This project has been created for EDRD*6000 Qualitative Methods- a graduate level course at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph. Please reference the author or appropriate sources when using any of the information presented here.
Gender mainstreaming aims to promote gender equality by making women's and men's concerns an integral part of policymaking. It involves assessing how gender norms can affect development programs and identifying opportunities to address inequalities. Key aspects of gender mainstreaming include political commitment, building technical capacity, and establishing accountability measures to ensure the process transforms unequal power structures over time. The ultimate goal is to achieve equitable and sustainable development outcomes where both women and men can equally participate in and benefit from development.
This document discusses the role of IMED and project directors in monitoring and evaluation of development projects in Bangladesh. It provides background on IMED, outlining its functions in monitoring ongoing projects through collection of data and field inspections. IMED also conducts evaluations of completed projects through terminal evaluations and impact assessments of selected projects. The document contrasts monitoring as a continuous process to ensure progress against plans, with evaluation as a periodic assessment of outcomes and impacts. It describes various IMED tools and formats used for data collection and monitoring of projects over their life cycles.
1. The document discusses gender mainstreaming in organizational structures and practices, defining it as assessing implications for women and men of any planned action to achieve gender equality.
2. It provides guidelines for mainstreaming gender, including conducting gender analysis, ensuring women's participation in decision-making, and establishing accountability mechanisms and gender targets.
3. Barriers to gender mainstreaming mentioned include lack of resources, capacity, and gender-disaggregated data, as well as socio-cultural restrictions on women.
This document discusses gender mainstreaming in organizations, policies, programs and projects. It begins by distinguishing between gender and sex, noting the biological differences but also harmful stereotypes. It then discusses case studies and questions about gifts for a new baby boy and girl that could perpetuate stereotypes. The document outlines why gender mainstreaming is important, noting gender inequalities and disadvantages women face in Pakistan. It provides strategies for making organizations gender responsive, including ensuring gender equity in vision/objectives, policies, practices, and decision-making. It also discusses integrating a gender perspective into situation assessments, goals/objectives, implementation, and monitoring/evaluation of projects. The Gender Analysis Matrix tool is introduced to analyze different impacts of projects on women
Integrating Gender in Extension in BangladeshINGENAES
Agricultural extension services to farmers
Training: Farmers, extension workers, other stakeholders
Technology Transfer: New technologies to farmers
Issues DAE
Reviewed Documents No. 100
Relevant to gender and extension 50
4/10/2017
50
Gender & Extension
Others
50
DAE
4/10/2017
22
Organizational Commitment DAE
Issues DAE
Achievements
- Reached to farmers at grassroots level
- Introduced new technologies
- Organized farmers into groups
- Conducted training
- Published leaflets, booklets
Gaps
- Lack of gender sensitive approach
- Women participation is
This document discusses gender auditing and gender building. It defines key terms like gender, sex, and gender equality. Gender is socially and culturally determined ideas about appropriate behavior for men and women, while sex refers to biological differences. Gender equality means equal rights, opportunities, treatment, and valuation of both women and men. The document also discusses gender mainstreaming, which is assessing plans and policies to ensure gender equality and that inequality is not perpetuated. A gender audit is a participatory tool used to promote organizational learning and effectiveness in mainstreaming gender through self-assessment at the individual, work unit, and organizational levels. It identifies strengths and weaknesses and recommends improvements to achieve gender equality.
This power-point analyses the Indian government and Sri Lankan's plans and budgets from a gender and equity lens. It argues that they are not gender and diversity transformative, do not focus on strengthening services for 'care' and engaging with men and boys on masculinities. Neither are budgets responsive to gender and diversity concerns. Finally, the paradigm of development is not consistent with gender and social equity
The document discusses different theoretical frameworks related to women and development including WID, WAD, GAD, and WED. WID focuses on integrating women into development and includes approaches like welfare, equity, anti-poverty, efficiency, and empowerment. WAD emerged as a critique of WID and modernization theory, viewing women as important economic actors and focusing on relationships between women and development. GAD offers a holistic perspective and questions gender roles and patriarchy. It emphasizes women's agency and legal/policy reforms. WED examines links between environmental decline, patriarchy, and development planning. The document also distinguishes between practical and strategic gender needs/interests in development work.
The document discusses several gender analysis frameworks that can be used to assess how policies, programs, and projects differentially impact men and women. It describes frameworks like the Harvard Analytical Framework, Moser's triple roles framework, and Longwe's Women's Empowerment Framework. Each framework asks different questions to analyze factors like who does what work, who has access to and control over resources, and how interventions may affect gender roles, status, and responsibilities.
This document outlines a gender training module that covers various topics related to women's empowerment. The module contains 12 sections that address issues such as gender sensitization, gender planning, policies and programs for women, the girl child, women and law, economic empowerment of women, and political empowerment. Each section includes multiple sub-modules that provide objectives, contents, and training methods for workshops addressing different gender issues. The document also includes a bibliography and descriptions of 122 short films that can be used as audio-visual aids in gender training.
The document provides an overview of gender mainstreaming in Nepal's national plans and programs. It discusses how gender mainstreaming was first introduced at the 1985 Nairobi conference and established as a strategy through the 1995 Beijing conference. It summarizes Nepal's approach in its periodic plans since the 6th five-year plan in 1981, which initially took a welfare approach but has since shifted to focus on gender equality, women's empowerment, and mainstreaming gender. Key policies and programs discussed include Nepal's constitution, SDGs, UN Women, and efforts by the government to mainstream gender across sectors in line with its international commitments.
This document discusses various tools and methods for conducting gender analysis. It defines gender as a socially constructed concept of femininity and masculinity that varies across cultures. Several specific tools are introduced, including the 4R Method from Sweden, Gender Impact Assessment, Gender Analysis, Gender Analysis Matrix, and Participatory Rural Appraisal tools for gender analysis. Each tool is briefly described in one or two sentences. The document provides examples of aspects to analyze using these tools, such as representation, resource allocation, and conditions that influence gender distributions.
This short-but-thorough presentation from IWMI’s Valentine J Gandhi provides a valuable introduction to the gender analysis in agricultural research. Covering the many reasons for undertaking gender-sensitive research and the tools available for the job, it also looks at the skills required in an effective gender researcher, and ways to analyze and interpret results.
Gender mainstreaming aims to promote gender equality by integrating gender perspectives into all policies, programs, and activities. It seeks to address inequalities that discriminate against both women and men. Gender mainstreaming is not just about improving access or balancing statistics - it targets major economic and social policies to ensure both women and men participate fully and benefit equally from development. It recognizes that gender affects lives from birth and aims to establish a balanced distribution of responsibilities between women and men through determined political action and support.
Gender planing as an input to engender governance coloured 11-2-09VIBHUTI PATEL
“We need a vision of mankind not as patients whose interests have to be looked after, but as agents who can do effective things- both individually and jointly. We also have to go beyond the role of human beings specifically as ‘consumers’ or as ‘people with need’, and consider, more broadly, their general role as agents of change who can- given opportunity- think, assess, evaluate, resolve, inspire, agitate, and through these means, reshape the world.” Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen
Gender budgetting w.r. to health 12 1-07VIBHUTI PATEL
The document discusses gender audits of budgets with respect to women's health in India. It explains that gender audits are important to analyze how budgets allocate resources between men and women and to promote gender equality. The document provides historical context on the evolution of considering gender in India's Five Year Plans since the 1950s. It outlines the key components of conducting a gender audit to analyze budgets through a gender lens.
This document provides an overview of gender budgeting. It defines gender budgeting as a process to analyze government expenditures and revenues from a gender perspective to ensure budgets address the specific needs of women. It also examines trends in female workforce participation in India over time. Additionally, it outlines how gender budgeting has been institutionalized in India through the establishment of gender budgeting cells in ministries, requiring gender budget statements, and conducting training programs. It discusses key challenges to gender budgeting such as social and cultural practices that curb female potential as well as issues with implementing gender-sensitive legislation and policies.
The document outlines strategies for mainstreaming gender in the PROCEED project, which aims to increase citizen participation in sub-national governance in Cambodia. It discusses integrating gender considerations into project design, implementation, and monitoring. For implementation, it provides guidance on mainstreaming gender across project activities like training, public forums, and engagement with commune councils. The goal is for women and men to equally participate in and influence sub-national decision making.
Better Governance for Gender Equality OECD FlyerOECD Governance
The document discusses governance strategies for achieving gender equality according to the 2015 OECD Recommendation. It focuses on three areas: good governance and accountability for gender equality; closing gender gaps in leadership; and gender equality in public employment. While progress has been made, more work is needed to fully include women in decision-making and address remaining challenges. The OECD provides tools to help countries implement the Recommendation, including a policy toolkit, surveys, studies, and guides to share best practices in governance for gender equality.
This document discusses understanding gender and gender concepts such as gender, sex, gender stereotypes, and gender sensitivity. It defines gender as socially constructed relationships between men and women that change over time and context. Sex refers to biological differences. Gender stereotypes produce expectations that influence behavior and stand in the way of social change. Gender sensitivity means awareness is translated into practices that change perceptions and activities to make institutions more inclusive. It discusses analyzing the gender culture of departments and comparing them. It also addresses mainstreaming gender through context-specific analysis, profiling, gender audits and indicators.
Institutional framework for equity: Towards gender budgeting - Ronnie DOWNES...OECD Governance
This presentation was made by Ronnie DOWNES & Scherie NICOL, OECD, at the Experts Meeting on Gender Budgeting held in Reykjaviik, Iceland, on 18-19 May 2017.
Catalyzing Equitable Development: An Initiative to Institutionalize a Gender...Dr Lendy Spires
The Catalyzing Equitable Development (CED) Program responded to two questions that are key to gender equality and effective development. First, can organizations effectively integrate gender in their programs and operations? And second, to the extent they can, does gender integration enhance development outcomes?
The CED program demonstrated that the answer to both of these questions is a strong “yes.” InterAction’s Commission on the Advancement of Women (CAW) implemented this program from January 2003-September 2006. The aim of the program was to institutionalize a gender perspective in the work of development and humanitarian assistance PVOs and NGOs as a necessary means to improve living conditions for poor communities in Africa and Asia. The program focused on building the capacity of PVOs and NGOs through training and technical assistance in Inter-Action’s Gender Audit Organizational Self Assessment and Action Planning methodology.
These organizations are major contributors to global development, collectively implementing about 40% of US government funded development assistance as well as administering over $7 billion annually in assistance from private sources and in-kind contributions. The program targeted the very way PVOs and NGOs do their work and enhanced the effectiveness of their field programs by reducing gender inequalities and promoting women’s and girls’ full participation throughout their operations.
However, the program did not stop at capacity building, but assessed the impact of capacity building at the field level. A unique feature of the program was a study on the impact of gender mainstreaming in four African countries, one of the few such impact studies that has been carried out globally by donors, governments, or the United Nations. In addition, the program documented innovative practices in gender integration from the Asia-Pacific region and drew out lessons learned to guide other planners and practitioners. Major accomplishments of the program are: 287 individuals and approximately 173 organizations (or country offices) participated in eight Gender Audit Courses and seven Gender Audit Workshops in the US and overseas. The Courses were offered in the U.S., Ghana, Kenya, and the Philippines. The workshops were offered in New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
This presentation by Mpumelelo Tshabalala (Competition Tribunal of South Africa), Betty Mkhatshwa (Gilbert & Tobin) and Sonia Phalatse (Institute for Economic Justice), was made during the workshop on Gender inclusive competition policy held virtually on 25 February 2021. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/gicp.
Vibhuti patel on gender audit of budgets in india, Nivedini, 2010VIBHUTI PATEL
Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce economic inequalities, between men and women as well as between the rich and the poor Hence, the budgetary policies need to keep into considerations the gender dynamics operating in the economy and in the civil society. There is a need to highlight participatory approaches bottom up budget, child budget, green budgeting, local and global implications of pro-poor and pro-women budgeting and inter-linkages between gender-sensitive budgeting and women’s empowerment. Understanding the relationship between macroeconomic policies and the Union Budget, state budgets and the local self government institutions in the context of economic reforms and globalisation is a MUST as it has influenced women’s lives in several ways. It is good economic sense to make national budgets gender-sensitive, as this will enable more effective targeting of government expenditure to women specific activities and reduce inequitable consequences of previous fiscal policies. The Gender Budget Initiative is a policy framework, methodology and set of tools to assist governments to integrate a gender perspective into the budget as the main national plan of public expenditure. It also aims to facilitate attention to gender analysis in review of macroeconomic performance, ministerial budget preparations, parliamentary debate and mainstream media coverage. Budget impacts women’s lives in several ways. It directly promotes women’s development through allocation of budgetary funds for women’s programmes or reduces opportunities for empowerment of women through budgetary cuts.
Vibhuti patel on gender audit of budgets in india, nivedini, 2010VIBHUTI PATEL
This document provides an overview of gender budgeting in India from 2001-2010. It discusses how gender budgeting aims to integrate a gender perspective into national budgets to promote women's development and reduce gender inequalities. The document outlines the history of gender budgeting efforts in India, including the establishment of gender budgeting cells in ministries in 2005. It also summarizes key issues that have been part of the discourse on gender budgeting, such as declining child sex ratios, health programs, and budget allocations related to water and energy.
Gender Budgeting - Ronnie Downes, Elena Gentili, OECDOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Ronnie Downes and Elena Gentili, OECD, at the 37th Annual Meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials held in Stockholm on 9-10 June 2016
Women's participation in the labour market is dependent on a number of factors. The policies and the budget has to be gender sensitive to create an enabling environment for the women workers. We need to shift from the gender neutral approach to the gender sensitive approach.by asking the right questions during budget preparation.
This document presents a framework for gender-responsive planning, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation and auditing (GRPBMEA) in South Africa. It outlines that while advances have been made in gender equality, women still face political, economic and social exclusion. It also notes weaknesses in institutionalizing gender mainstreaming across the state. The framework is needed to address these issues and ensure better outcomes for women through a comprehensive, multi-sectoral approach to mainstreaming gender throughout the policy cycle. The document discusses South Africa's commitments to gender equality, previous GRB initiatives, and an approach incorporating planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation to advance the country's vision of a non-sexist society.
The document discusses how India has improved its ranking in ease of doing business and paying taxes. It then outlines key gender indicators from an NFHS survey and discusses the need for effective gender mainstreaming through qualitative analysis and tools like gender profiling, analysis, auditing and responsive budgeting. The rest of the document provides more details on gender budgeting and recommendations for reforming tax policy and administration to ensure gender equality.
This presentation discusses gender budgeting in India. Gender budgeting aims to achieve gender equality in public resource allocation and ensure equal benefits and burdens from government budgets for both men and women. It involves assessing how government budgets and policies differentially impact men and women. Key aspects of gender budgeting in India include quantifying allocations for women, auditing policies for gender impact, analyzing resource allocation and outcomes for women's indicators, and institutionalizing gender-disaggregated data collection. While expenditures on women's development have increased over decades for both central and state governments, a holistic approach is needed to empower women through areas like health, education, skills, and political participation. Educating children and awareness programs are important for promoting new
Training Manual on Human Rights and Local GovernanceShankor Paul
1. Human rights are basic rights and freedoms that belong to all people regardless of nationality, sex, race or religion. They include civil and political rights like the right to life and liberty as well as economic, social and cultural rights.
2. Fundamental rights refer specifically to rights enshrined in a country's constitution while human rights are universal and inherent to all humans. Fundamental rights are justiciable in a court of law.
3. The modern human rights movement emerged after World War II when the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. This was followed by core international human rights treaties and the establishment of international standards
Report on National Review and Monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nepal
This report is a result of nine months qualitative and quantitative study on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3, 5, 8, 13, out of which Goal 3 and 5 are being reviewed in High Level Political Forum (HLPF) as the government presents the Voluntary National Review (VNR) stating the national progress on SDGs.
Vibhuti Patel Gender Budgeting, Journal of Asian Business Management, Vol. 7,...VIBHUTI PATEL
Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for
improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development
process. It can help to reduce economic inequalities, between men and women as well as
between the rich and the poor Hence, the budgetary policies need to keep into considerations
the gender dynamics operating in the economy and in the civil society. There is a need to
highlight participatory approaches bottom up budget, child budget, green budgeting,
local and global implications of pro-poor and pro-women budgeting and inter-linkages
between gender-sensitive budgeting and women’s empowerment. Understanding the
relationship between macroeconomic policies and the Union Budget, state budgets and
the local self government institutions in the context of economic reforms and globalisation
is a MUST as it has influenced women’s lives in several ways. It is good economic sense to
make national budgets gender-sensitive, as this will enable more effective targeting of
government expenditure to women specific activities and reduce inequitable consequences
of previous fiscal policies. The Gender Budget Initiative is a policy framework, methodology
and set of tools to assist governments to integrate a gender perspective into the budget as
the main national plan of public expenditure. It also aims to facilitate attention to gender
analysis in review of macroeconomic performance, ministerial budget preparations,
parliamentary debate and mainstream media coverage. Budget impacts women’s lives in
several ways. It directly promotes women’s development through allocation of budgetary
funds for women’s programmes or reduces opportunities for empowerment of women
through budgetary cuts.
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Gender Responsive Budgeting and Planning
1. Towards a new dawn
Gender Responsive Budgeting and Planning
Dr. Paramita Majumdar
Senior Consultant, Gender Budgeting and Auditing
Ministry of Women and Child Development
21 September, 2016
National Training Programme on
Public Financial Management & Accountability
for
Group A & Group B Officers, Lok Sabha Secretariat
International Centre for Information Systems and Audit (iCISA)
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
2. Towards a new dawnUnderstanding Gender
• Gender refers to the socially constructed relationships between
men and women.
• These relationships change over time, space and circumstances.
• Each institution has its own gender culture, that is relationships
between women and men.
• For instance, many Organisations interpret gender issues as
issues only concerning women. This results in only women being
sent to represent the institution at gender forums – resulting in the
marginalisation of gender issues as women’s issues.
Activity – What is the gender culture of your Department?
Compare with any other institution.
List the gender similarities and differences & Identify the reasons
Activity – What is the gender culture of your Department?
Compare with any other institution.
List the gender similarities and differences & Identify the reasons
3. Towards a new dawn
Exercise: Understanding Gender
Heads
Access to Resources
Decision
Making/Control
regarding the resources
Male Female Male Female
Land
Bank Account
Car
Jewellery
Cash
4. Towards a new dawn
What are gender commitments in the
Indian context ?
Public Expenditure Programmes
Constitutional Provisions
Legal Framework
Policies
5. Towards a new dawn
Constitutional Mandate
Article 14 Equal Rights and Opportunities in Political Economic
and Social Spheres
Article 15 Prohibits discrimination on grounds of sex
Article 15(3) Enables affirmative discrimination in favour of women
Article 39 Equal means of livelihood and equal pay for equal
work
Article 42 Just and Humane conditions of work and maternity
relief
Article 51(A)(e) Fundamental Duty to renounce practices, derogatory to
dignity of women
5
6. Towards a new dawn
Key Legislations with a Gender
perspective
• The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013
• Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and
Redressal) Act, 2013
• Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2010
• National Employment Guarantee Act 2006
• Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994
• The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
• Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
• The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
• Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
• Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (Maternity Benefit Amendment Bill 2016 passed in
Rajya Sabha. The bill provides 12 weeks leave for commissioning and adopting mothers and makes it
mandatory to provide creche facility for establishment where the number of workers is 50 and above.
September 23, 2016 6
7. Towards a new dawn
Institutional Mechanism –
Creating Spaces for Gender Equality
September 23, 2016 7
State
District
Block
Village
• District Collector
• Development Officer/ PO
• Anganwadi Worker
National
State
• State Commission for Women
9. Towards a new dawn
Literacy Rate
Share of Literates and Illiterates
September 23, 2016 9
82.14
65.46
74.04
Literacy Rate 1951-2011
Source: Census of India, 2011
10. Towards a new dawn
Effective Literacy Rate
September 23, 2016 10
2001
2011
Female
FemaleMale
Male
Source: Census of India http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/data_files/india/Final_PPT_2011_chapter6.pdf
11. Towards a new dawn
Source: Registrar General of India
Safety & Security - Declining Child Sex Ratio
2011
2001
09/23/16 11
12. Towards a new dawn
Crime Against Women
September 23, 2016 12
Source: National Crime Records Bureau, 2014
13. Towards a new dawn
Levels of Maternal Mortality Ratio,
1997-2012
13
Source: A Presentation on Maternal Mortality Levels (2010-12), Registrar General, India 20th
December 2013
September 23, 2016
14. Towards a new dawnFemale Workforce Participation 1971-2011
Source - Labour Bureau, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India
15. Towards a new dawn
Male-Female Ratio in Civil Services
September 23, 2016 15Source: Civil Services Survey 2010, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and
Pensions, Dept. of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances
17. Towards a new dawn
September 23, 2016 17
Source: Dept. of Justice, GOI
Women Judges
18. Towards a new dawn
Turnout of Women Voters in Parliamentary
General Elections
Year Total
Turnout(%)
Men's
Turnout(%)
Women's
Turnout(%)
Difference in
Turnout(%)
Third (1962) 55.4 63.3 46.6 16.7
Tenth (1991) 57.0 61.6 51.4 10.2
Eleventh (1996) 58.0 62.1 53.4 8.7
Twelfth (1998) 62.0 66.0 58.0 8.0
Thirteenth
(1999)
60.0 64.0 55.7 8.3
Fourteenth
(2004)
58.8 61.7 53.3 8.4
Fifteenth (2009) 58.2 60.2 55.8 4.4
Sixteenth (2014) 66.4 67.09 65.63 1.46
Source: Election Commission of India
September 23, 2016 18
19. Towards a new dawn
September 23, 2016 19
Percentage of Women MPs in Lok Sabha
Source: Election Commission of India
20. Towards a new dawn
...... women in powerful
positions are still an exception…
September 23, 2016 20
21. Towards a new dawn
Gendered India….
• India’s HDI (2015) - 0.609 score (130th
among 188 countries)
based on 3 basic dimensions of human development - a long and healthy life,
access to knowledge and a decent standard of living.
• Improvement in HDI 2015 from 2014 (0.586 score) is attributed
to rise in life expectancy and per capita income
• India’s Neighbours: Sri Lanka (73 rank), China (90), Bhutan
(132), Bangladesh (142), Nepal (145), Pakistan (147) and
Afghanistan (171)
• BRICS Nations: Brazil (75 rank),Russia (50), India(130), China
(90) and South Africa (116)
• Top 3 Countries: Norway, Australia and Switzerland
• Gender Inequality Index (2014) - 0.563 score (130th among
155 countries)
September 23, 2016 21
22. Towards a new dawn
Gender Budgeting – 10 Years
September 23, 2016 22
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2009-10
2011-12
2013-14
2015-16
GB Statement
Charter for GBC
GB Scheme for
Cap.Bldg.
Revised Guidelines for
Outcome Budget issued
Guidelines issued to states
Gender Audit - WG
EFC
Nodal Centres
GA pilot as
part of Internal
Audit
2004 - Expert Group constituted
14th
FC Devolution –
flexibility &
autonomy to the
states
14th
FC Devolution –
flexibility &
autonomy to the
states
24. Towards a new dawn
What is Gender Budgeting?
• Gender Budgeting is a process of incorporating a gender
perspective at all stages of policy making:
- Legislation
- Policy formulation
- Planning
- Programme and Scheme formulation,
- Resource allocation
- Implementation and
- Review and impact assessment.
• It tries to determine corrective actions that are required so that
Government Policies, Plans, Programmes, Schemes and Budgets
meet the needs of women and girls as well as men and boys.
• Gender Budgets are not separate budgets for women or for men.
25. Towards a new dawn
What is Gender Budgeting?
(contd)
• Policies have different outcomes for men and women.
• Gender Budgeting analyses ANY budget in terms of its impact on
women & men, girls & boys. And beyond that for its impact on the
rich and poor, caste, tribe, etc
• It is not about setting aside x% for gender/women or 50% for men
and 50% for women
• It is an approach to developing plans in a participatory way, based
on identifying priority needs – not just of those with voice.
• It requires that women are treated as equal partners in decision
making and implementation rather than only as beneficiaries.
• It challenges gender biases in social norms
• It seeks to attain equity in outcomes
• And corrective reprioritization and reallocation of resources.
26. Towards a new dawnPFM – At a Glance
WHAT? Public financial management (PFM) is a critical
element in how governments raise and use resources to
meet the public’s needs. The budget process is central
to PFM. PFM deals with the management of public
resources. 3 basic elements of public finance:
1. Public expenditure
2. Revenues
3. Public debt
WHY? Governments have a crucial part to play in generating
economic development. To achieve this, the national
budget is a key policy instrument for setting priorities
over the short and medium term.
27. Towards a new dawn
PFM – At a Glance
HOW? PFM and the national budget constitute a process – not a
document. The Ministry of Finance usually initiates the process
through Budget Circular, requesting line ministries to submit
projected costs and earnings for the coming financial year. A
political debate takes place, in Parliament/ State Assembly,
before the agreed budget is turned into legislation. The budget
is then implemented, usually by line ministries and other
government agencies. As part of the annual audits and
reviews, implementation is checked against plans and the
original budget. The audits, ideally, feed into an iterative and
cyclical process as a basis for the following year’s budget
proposal. Budget reforms typically attempt to change practices
and reporting to better reflect and demonstrate whether the
underlying objectives are met (programme-based budgets).
28. Towards a new dawnProcesses of GB
Conceiving
Planning
Approving
Executing
Monitoring
Analysing &
Auditing
How do you
decide for a
new scheme?
Is the Planning
participatory?
Are Plan
Documents Gender
Sensitive
Who plans?
Capacity to plan?
Who approves?
Whether they are
Gender sensitive?
What is approved?
Whether Adequate Staff (M/F) available?
Availability and Adequacy of Resources
Executed as per Guidelines/Flexible?
What to observe and check?
How often?
What to do with the
Monitoring report?
Checking against
what is planned
What is audited? Why?
Who does the audit?
What happens to the audit
report?
Does it impact the planning
process of your Dept.?
29. Towards a new dawnPFM & GB
Political Parties
Civil Society
Academia/
Research Bodies
The
Legislature
Political
Parties
Civil Society
Internal Audit
Procurement
Boards
Accountant
General
The
Legislature
Civil
Society
30. Towards a new dawn
Gender Budgeting can be taken up at various
stages:
budget preparation,
post – budget preparation,
implementation and
post-implementation.
Stages of Gender Budgeting
31. Towards a new dawn
Stages….
GRB a continuous process and can be done
1. At the budget preparation stage1. At the budget preparation stage
(a) Ensure financial appropriations made in budgets match the
needs
(b) Analyse budget estimates (B.E.) for the current year vis-a-vis
revised estimates (R.E.) or actual expenditure (A.E.) of the
previous year and ensure corrective steps are provided for
sufficient and proper and full utilization of budgets of current
year.
2. When the budget is tabled2. When the budget is tabled
(a) Analyse sector wise or ministry/department wise shares of
allocations and expenditure (indicates government’s priorities.)
(b) Analyse the revenue side too – what are the sources of revenue,
subsidies etc and how will they impact men and women)
32. Towards a new dawn
3. At the budget implementation stage3. At the budget implementation stage
(a) Is the budget being spent in the way it was intended and to
the full extent?
(b) What are the delivery costs ?
(c) Who is receiving subsidies?
(d) Is the budget being spent for the purpose and the people for
which/ whom it is intended?
4. At the post implementation stage4. At the post implementation stage
(a) What have been the outcomes and impact of progs/projects
and schemes and their related budgets?
(b) Assess the impact - Have they met their objectives and
purposes?
34. Towards a new dawn
Flexi-fund guidelines for CSS
• Ministry of Finance issued fresh flexi-fund guidelines for the Centrally
Sponsored Schemes, based on the instructions issued by NITI Aayog for
rationalisation of CSS.
• Key Facts -
• Under the new norms, flexi-funds in each CSS has been increased from
the current 10% to 25% for states and 30% for Union Territories. This
means that states if they so desire can set aside 25% of any CSS as flexi-
fund to be spent on any sub-scheme or innovation or component that is in
line with the overall aim and objective of the approved Centrally Sponsored
Scheme.
• States can use the fund to satisfy local requirements in areas affected by
internal security disturbances or to undertake mitigation or restoration
activities in case of natural calamities.
• State governments will have to constitute a state-level sanctioning
committee (SLSC) to avail of the flexi-fund facility. This facility is not for
CSS which emanate from a legislation, like MGNREGA.
Source: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/month/current-affairs-september-2016
35. Towards a new dawn
process product process product process product
policy
formulation
policy
statement
budget
compilation budget
expenditure
on activities outcomes
revenue
collection
Strategy for GB
Analysis at all levels - From Policy to Outcomes
Policy appraisal
(Gender appraisal) Audit
(Gender Audit)
Budget appraisal
(Gender responsive
activities /budget )
36. Towards a new dawn
September 23, 2016 36
At the Policy level –
Cabinet Notes
Cabinet Notes are central to policy making and successful
execution of different programmes. Gender equity can be
addressed through detailed Cabinet Notes.
The Handbook on writing Cabinet notes, September 2014
explicitly mentions that the aspects of equity, innovation and
public accountability would, to the extent relevant, be
incorporated as Appendix II to the Note. Also focuses on
socio-economic equity in the context of disadvantaged
communities, gender, poverty, etc.
37. Towards a new dawnAt the Policy level –
EFC/PIB Memorandum
• The specific questions are given below:
• 5.1 Briefly explain the specific objectives of the proposal relating
only to women.
• 5.2 In case the proposal has gender components, please provide the
following information in tabular form as shown below.
Gender Component % of total expenditure on this
component
Component1 ……………
Component 2 …………..
38. Towards a new dawn
Who will do?
• Different Units and Bureaus / Divisions
• Gender Budget Cells
• Gender Focal Points
• Financial Advisers
• Statistical Units / M&E Units
September 23, 2016 38
39. Towards a new dawnAt Budget Appraisal Level
• Outcome Budget of the previous year
• The Outcome Budget is a progress card on how Ministries
have used the outlays or funds announced in the annual
budget.
• First introduced as performance budgeting in 1969 to focus
on what is done with the money, for example what is
delivered (outputs) and to whom alongside the traditional
focus on bookkeeping and accounting.
• Since 2005-06, Outcome Budgets have become an integral
part of the budget making process. In 2007-08, gender
integrated in the Outcome Budget guidelines.
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40. Towards a new dawnBudget Circular 2016-17
• 3.2.6 Under the standing instructions of this Ministry, no provision should
normally be made in the Budget without completion of pre-Budget
scrutiny of a project/scheme. However, where provision has been made
without the necessary scrutiny, such scrutiny should be completed and
appropriate approvals obtained therefor, before the commencement of the
financial year or latest by the time the Budget is passed by the Parliament.
• 11.1 Statement No.20 "Gender Budgeting” in Expenditure Budget Vol.1.
For Budget 2016-2017, all the Ministries are required to prepare the
statement (Budget Estimates 2015-2016, Revised Estimates 2015-2016 and
Budget Estimates 2016-2017, Plan and Non-Plan) which reflect the
respective beneficiary class identification in order to highlight the
quantum of public expenditure earmarked for (a) women specific
programmes (100% provision) and (b) pro-women allocations (at least
30% provision) for gender neutral programmes, in respect of the budget
provisions, administered by various Ministries/Departments and send to
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Magnitude of Gender Budget
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42%
tax
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states
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Assessing Outcomes
Through Gender Audit
The general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person,
organization, system, process, enterprise, project or product. The
word ‘auditing’ has been derived from Latin word “audire” which
means “to hear”
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit)
• Gender Audit is a tool to assess the extent of Gender mainstreaming
accomplished – it helps to assess the differential impact of projects
and policies on women and men.
• The basic assumption of gender audits is that public policy
impacts differently on men and women. The purpose of gender
audits is to lead to changes in public policy that contribute to an
increase in gender equality.
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Why Gender Audit?
• To monitor and assess the relative progress made in gender
mainstreaming
• To identify areas/schemes/programmes where
district/block/GPs are performing effectively and to pin-point
areas that need attention, i.e. to identify critical gaps and
challenges
• To recommend ways of addressing them and suggest new and
more effective strategies
• To document good practices towards the achievement of
gender equality
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Dimensions of Gender Audit
Programmatic DimensionsProgrammatic Dimensions Organisational DimensionsOrganisational Dimensions
1. Situational Analysis including
participatory and conventional planning
processes and Annual Plan
Development
2. Policy Analysis including program
design and scheme guidelines and
framework of implementation
3. Budgetary Allocations & Expenditure
4. Monitoring of Implementation progress
including physical achievements,
beneficiary incidence, delivery
mechanisms and partner organisations
5. Evaluation Procedures
1. Gender Policy & Staffing
2. Capacity Building
3. Management Information
Systems
4. Monitoring Systems
(Outcome Budget & RFD)
5. Advocacy, marketing and
communications
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If budget is an organizational plan stated in monetary
terms, what is the scope for GB?
• Recruitment: Are there aspects of recruitment and induction process
which act as barriers to women?
How successful have measures such quotas for women has been?
What results have they yielded? How can these be improved?
• Training: What kind of discrimination do women trainees face?
What is the attitude of trainers towards women? What has the
experience of women recruits been? Are equal opportunities
available to both men and women for refresher and mid-career
training?
• Promotion: Why is there low representation of women at senior
levels? What barriers do women face? Are there sufficient
opportunities of growth for women officers?
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Part A
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If budget is an organizational plan..............
• Welfare: Are HR policies and facilities suitable for women,
such as crèches/restroom/maternity leave etc.?
• Sexual harassment: How are allegations of sexual harassment
dealt with by the officers/Committee? Do policies /
mechanisms exist? What difficulties do women officers face in
reporting sexual harassment / accessing mechanisms?
• Functions/Deployment: What are the duties and functions
assigned to women officers? What are the attitudes of male
colleagues and how do they manifest?
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49. Towards a new dawnIf budget is an organizational plan.........
Gender Focal Points in each Office can :
– Guide their Department in understanding and implementing legislation,
policies and programmes from gender perspective.
– Assess the situation of women and men and girls and boys in the context
of the services that are delivered across all levels
– Identify factors which prevent women from accessing the service
provided
– Initiate action to correct existing gender gaps.
– Assess the adequacy of budgetary allocations for meeting gender needs
and correcting gender gaps.
– Reprioritize budgetary allocation to address these gaps
– Ensure provisions for gender disaggregated data collection and
compilation. Build expertise /outsource to undertake gender analysis of
data, because data speaks
Part B
Child Sex Ratio (0-6 Years): 1991 (945); 2001 (927); 2011 (919)
State wise decline in Child Sex Ratio from 2001 to 2011: Improved 13; States (10) & UTs (3); +48 in Punjab to +1 Tamil Nadu, No Change 1; Puducherry, Decline 21; States (18) & UTs (3); -3 in Meghalaya to -79 in Jammu & Kashmir
Of course, processes are not linear and e.g. on policy, drafts will be published for discussion
And the budget process is a long and drawn out one with circulars issued in December and the Budget finally announced in July
Proper M&E learns from successes and mistakes of the passed with respect to outcomes and impacts
Point to make: fit GB firmly with the political economy of decision makers (recognising that GB includes an analysis of who those decision makers are!)
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