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11 February 2018, World Government Summit - Experts from the International Monetary Fund, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Gender Balance Council and the Ministry of Finance, United Arab Emirates, and UN Women exchanged best practices in implementing gender responsive budgeting around the world. During the high-level panel Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, said gender budgeting can make a difference in the lives of women and men...
The third International Conference on Financing for Development will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 13 to 16 July 2015. The meeting will bring together Heads of State, Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, as well as non-governmental organizations and business and private sector representatives. The Conference is expected to result in an intergovernmental negotiation and an agreed outcome, which will contribute to efforts on the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda.
UN Women and the World Bank launched the global initiative, Gender Equality Community of Practice (CoP) of Finance Ministers in Spring 2014 at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund. The initiative was first proposed by Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, during the October 2013 Annual Meetings. The CoP aims to promote financing for gender equality and make national budgets more effective in supporting women’s and girl’s opportunities. The CoP promotes learning and exchange by supporting innovative approaches led by the ministries of finance.
FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT (FfD) WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR GENDER EQUALITY V oice, P articipation and C o ntributions of civil society organizations and the women’s movement within Financing for Development (FfD) discussions MUST increase at all levels!!! WHAT is Financing for Development really about? The (re) distribution, allocation and utilization of financial resources to meet development needs. Transforming investment into concrete action in order...
(Cross posted on www.unwomen.org) From letting women have a say in where village water holes are built, to ensuring cash-transfer programmes benefit all, to making sure women have maternal health clinics nearby and can access them when the need arises – financing for gender equality is the means to ensure that women’s needs are met in development planning.Financing for development is about money. For development to reach people in all parts of the world, adequate financing is required so that commitments made by world leaders translate into action. For funds to benefit everyone equally and equitably, targeted efforts are often needed. For example, if women don’t have access to safe transportation or low-cost childcare, few will be able to take advantage of important social or vocational programmes.
The documentary provides practical ways in which sectoral plans and budgets can be made gender responsive. The video captures exemplary work done in India by the Department of Science and Technology and Department of Agriculture and Cooperation at the Union (local) level. The experiences show that how in the two so called ‘women unrelated’ sectors, gender issues have been recognized and addressed in sector policies and programmes. At the level of State government, the documentary covers the initiatives taken by the Kerala State Planning Board and highlights gender targeted programmes in sectors such as Public Works Department and Police. To capture these experiences, interviews were conducted with officials of the Departments at the Union and State level and women's testimonies were collected from the field.<p class="pull-right"><a title="Watch the Video " target="_blank" class="btn-u btn-u-small" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1f_YUIyyj10"> <em class="fa fa-location-arrow"></em> Watch the Video</a> </p>
The Third International Conference on Financing for Development in July 2015 provides a critical opportunity to ensure that financing strategies are capable of delivering on gender equality and women’s rights commitments. Women’s rights can be integrated into the Financing for Development (FfD) process by focusing on advancing gender equality through public expenditure, revenue raising, accountability of private sector investments, monitoring and evaluation, and direct financing. A side event was held on the margins of the informal sessions on the FfD to discuss how financing for development should support the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights. The side event brought together representatives from governments in the global north and south, and civil society. The event made an important contribution to generating political will and momentum behind gender equality and women’s rights as an essential pillar of the new financing for development agenda.
This side event explored options to finance the new set of global commitments on gender equality and women’s rights based on the proposal of the Open Working Group and in consideration of the forthcoming report of the ICESDF; and strengthen political support for this. It provided an opportunity for governments, development partners and civil society to formulate recommendations on financing gender equality ahead of the intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda, and in preparation for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development.
Women-led CSOs play a crucial role in gender responsive budgeting processes. The Association Fenomena (CSO) in Serbia led an initiative to demand better service delivery for women and girls in selected municipalities and towns. The CSO worked with eight women’s organisations from seven towns/municipalities to influence local budgets and plans in a wide range of sectors that affect women's lives. Analysis of municipal budgets was conducted to assess whether women and men benefitted equally from budget allocations.
In Cameroon, UN Women supported efforts to institutionalize gender responsive budgeting (GRB) in local councils and build accountability of local governments. The project strengthened the technical capacities of local councils to integrate gender priorities into planning and budgeting processes and to develop the capacities of women’s groups to monitor and enforce output based budgets in councils. As a result, 10 out of 16 local councils have adopted decisions to increase financing for gender equality, and all 16 councils have established Women Foundations for Inclusive Governance (WOFIG) and Gender Committees whose members hold key political positions in local decision-making, especially on the allocation of resources and budgets.