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.

Botswana held workshops on gender responsive budgeting for senior Government officials.

15. Training workshops continued to be held to ensure more gender sensitive and gender responsive programme planning.

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.

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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.

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

12. 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

68. Throughout the region, training workshops and other activities were held to ensure a more gender sensitive and gender responsive approach to programme planning.

Countries reporting high levels of coverage of gender responsive intervention in all environments would obtain the maximum score.

(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.

In 20 countries UNIFEM has supported the development of gender responsive budgets that look at how the allocation of public resources benefits women and men and addresses gender equality requirements.

They applauded UNIFEM for fostering innovative approaches to gender equality and promoting gender responsive budgeting and policies promoting human rights based programming, and encouraged all United Nations organizations to follow suit, in particular by issuing regular gender mainstreaming reports.

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.

7. We are committed to ensure that institutional culture is both gender sensitive and gender responsive and that our staff policies, programme budgets and resource allocations reflect our commitment to goals of gender equality. pp. 23 24 are offset pages

In 2002, UNESCO facilitated the establishment of the regional gender in education network in Asia, in 15 countries, which aims to promote gender equality in education in terms of access, retention, performance and self realization through developing gender responsive education policies and challenging societal gender stereotypes.

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

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.

Promoting the development of gender responsive HIV AIDS policies for health care which address discriminatory practices for pregnant women and equal access to anti retroviral drugs.

Although there are some Gender equality and equity programmes (e.g. Affirmative Action and Women's Empowerment Projects), in many sectors and institutions gender equality commitments and plans are generally not translated into a gender responsive programme of action because, to a certain extent attitudes to women's advancement and gender equality, are still negative.

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

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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.

13. Reiterates the Council apos s request to the Secretariat to present issues and approaches in a gender sensitive manner when preparing reports so as to provide the intergovernmental machinery with an analytical basis for gender responsive policy formulation

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.

The NGP and NGPA have been instrumental in guiding the planning of various gender focussed activities within different ministries and NGO's in Namibia, and some categories of government employees have participated in training that was aimed at enhancing gender responsive planning.

As the Government of India began to work on the plan in 1997, UNIFEM convened a group of influential women s leaders to work as a think tank to advise the Government on gender inclusive and gender responsive approaches to national planning.

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.