Gender responsive budgeting was also a high priority.

d) Develop and institutionalize gender responsive budgets, monitor gender budget analysis and the utilization of these gender budgets

Up to 2003, there were 38 gender responsive development sector programs.

Indeed, UNIFEM was supporting gender responsive budgeting initiatives in every region.

A variety of tools such as gender disaggregated data, gender analysis, gender responsive budgeting, gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation systems and gender sensitive indicators have proven useful.

Gender responsive budgeting work is relevant to all UNIFEM goals and outcome areas.

2.1 Sex disaggregated data are available and used to devise and monitor gender responsive policies

Such initiatives contribute to national and local agreements to make budgetary processes more gender responsive.

39 UNIFEM, Gender responsive budgets programme results (2001 2004) (New York, UNIFEM, 2005), p. 4.

14. Also encourages the Fund to respond to country requests for the development or strengthening of accountability mechanisms for gender equality, including by building the capacity of Governments to undertake gender responsive budget analysis and to use sex disaggregated data as a basis for gender responsive public policy formulation

Also encourages the Fund to respond to country requests for the development or strengthening of accountability mechanisms for gender equality, including by building the capacity of Governments to undertake gender responsive budget analysis and to use sex disaggregated data as a basis for gender responsive public policy formulation

Also encourages the Fund to respond to country requests for the development or strengthening of accountability mechanisms for gender equality, including by building the capacity of Governments to undertake gender responsive budget analysis and to use sex disaggregated data as a basis for gender responsive public policy formulation

Middle managers Competence in organizational gender mainstreaming gender issues in management and gender responsive leadership, including identifying and dealing with sexual harassment competence in sector , theme , or region specific gender and development issues.

(e) Disseminate and replicate innovations in gender mainstreaming approaches, such as gender responsive budget processes and mandatory gender analysis in planning and review processes, in particular in the areas of health, education and employment

(l) Ensure adequate funding for gender sensitive development policies and programmes and for national mechanisms for gender equality, through national, regional and international resource mobilization and gender responsive budget processes in all sector areas

In order to facilitate sector ministries in formulating their gender responsive policies and programs, the National Development Planning Agency has designed a technical tool called Gender Analysis Pathway (GAP).

One outcome of this examination was that a pilot programme on gender responsive budgeting has been tentatively included in the PRSP.

18. Encourages the Fund to respond to country requests for the development or strengthening of accountability mechanisms for gender equality, including by supporting United Nations country team coordination, through providing its specific expertise and capacities in these fields, in building the capacity of Governments to undertake gender responsive budget analysis and to use sex disaggregated data as a basis for gender responsive public policy formulation

Gender responsive budgeting is being broadened or replicated by UNDP, UNICEF and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Morocco and Colombia.

In Senegal, parliamentarians requested that gender budgeting tools analyse women's vulnerability to HIV AIDS, and the steering committee of the gender budget project is undertaking a gender responsive budgeting exercise, in preparation for the country's third national plan for women.

For their part, agencies need to build institutional accountability, develop capacities at all levels of staff, perform gender audits and gender responsive budgeting and develop base line data and means for tracking change.

(l) Provide incentives for innovative measures at the workplace to achieve gender equality, for example, promoting positive action, provisions for parental leave for women and men, childcare facilities and gender responsive pension schemes

The gender action plan for 2006 2007 is designed to strengthen UNDP capacities at all levels and to enhance its delivery of gender responsive policies and programmes, in a systematic, visible and measurable way.

Packaged together to reinforce one another, they are free of gender biases and responsive to a wide range of needs and conditions of African women.

They include good governance, solid democratic institutions responsive to the needs of the people, improved infrastructure, peace and security, respect for human rights and gender equality.

9. Also encourages the Fund to support the development or strengthening of mechanisms to increase accountability for gender equality, at the request of countries, including by building the capacity of Governments to undertake gender responsive budget analysis

Its purpose was to provide an understanding of rural gender dynamics and to identify areas where there was a need for gender responsive technology, in order to assist the formulation of policies and programmes that promote agricultural technological development.

The largest UNIFEM programmes in this area are those which support gender responsive budgeting in 34 countries, the incorporation of gender considerations into land reform in Central Asia and programmes for women migrant workers in Asia and the Arab States.

Gender responsive budgeting initiatives in Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and the United Republic of Tanzania have generated data on women's economic contributions and needs which can influence poverty reduction strategies.

To motivate and support the institution agency organization unit to review and improve its mandate, policies, programs, projects, activities and budget to make them more gender responsive To facilitate training on gender sensitivity To stimulate good working relationships by improving coordination and cooperation with other institutions agencies units for gender mainstreaming.

Working relationships with the World Bank continue to expand, with concrete examples in 12 countries, such as activities that bring a gender perspective to Millennium Development Goal processes, gender responsive budgeting and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration activities in the Great Lakes region.

The establishment of a Vulnerable Persons Unit within the police force is noteworthy in this regard, although institutional capacities to implement gender responsive measures remain underdeveloped given the high number of reported incidents of gender based violence and sexual abuse in all districts.

(h) Promote capacity building, including gender training, for both women and men in government administrations so as to be more responsive to the needs and interests of women and gender equality, and develop their own capacity by making use of available national and international models and methodologies in the field of gender equality

The UNDP gender responsive budgeting initiative, co funded by the United Kingdom and Japan in the amount of 500,000, made the link between investing in poor women and achieving the MDGs by training gender budgeting experts to assist countries with their PRSPs and MDG assessments, leading to greater public investments in gender equality.

UNIFEM addresses the stigma and discrimination experienced by women affected and infected by HIV AIDS and supports gender responsive prevention strategies by means of media and pilot programmes in 10 countries.

Information is provided on the capacities supported by UNIFEM worldwide to promote the use of tools of accountability (i.e., gender responsive budgeting human rights commitments data and statistics and media and communications).

Under the 1997 Plan for Women's Health, significant steps had been taken to integrate a gender dimension into the health service and to make it responsive to the health needs of women.

The UNIFEM gender responsive budgeting programme, launched in 2001, has attracted support from the Governments of Belgium, Italy and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and from the European Union.

As a result, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has requested UNDP support to produce a gender responsive employment and vocational training policy to help ease the transition of displaced women garment workers.

Specific programmes were initiated on gender and the MDGs (DFID United Kingdom, Japan) land rights and HIV AIDS gender responsive budgeting training economists and knowledge sharing (UNDP Japan) women's unpaid work and the care economy (with Columbia University, Sciences Politiques Paris and the Levy Economics Institute New York).

The gender responsive budgeting initiative in Senegal formed a partnership between the Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring Unit at the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry for Women to establish a comprehensive framework for monitoring the process of implementation of the poverty reduction strategy from a gender perspective.

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Applied research conduct research on existing gender responsive policies to assess the implementation gaps promote the application of lessons learned and the replication of best practices, and feed back into local, regional and global policies.

In collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, a CD ROM addressing gender responsive technology for poverty alleviation was produced based on field work carried out in the provinces of Buriram, Nan, Phitsanulok and Songkhia.

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