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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

Context

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


Debate / approval

ExecutionEvaluation

Formulation

Budget Cycle

Legal Framework

National development plans

Priority laws and policies

Planning and budgeting system


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



• 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.


• 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).

II. Tools for each stage of the budgetary cycle. Practical examples: SDG Indicator 5.c.1

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)

Criterion 1

Criterion 2

Criterion 3

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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