Gender responsive budgeting was also a high priority.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Implement gender based budgeting

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.

Mauritius set up a high level committee on gender responsive budgeting to develop a three year action plan to ensure equitable budgetary distribution of resources in all ministries and departments.

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).

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 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.

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

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.

Moreover, gender budgeting was gaining importance in many States of the region.

In Ecuador, local level gender responsive budgeting initiatives resulted in a municipal decree making it a priority to hire women for infrastructure projects funded by the municipality of Cuenca, and in the establishment of a fund for local women's microenterprise initiatives.

In Mozambique, the support provided by UNIFEM and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to the training of trainers in gender responsive budgeting resulted in the creation of a special interest group comprised of representatives of government and civil society and donors.

Some countries developed a variety of tools and methodologies to support gender sensitive budgeting.

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.

In Ethiopia, gender budget audits are supported by a multi donor programme that includes a pro poor gender budgeting training funded by UNDP.

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

Endorses the priority given by the Administrator to gender mainstreaming and requests that the implications of the gender action plan for 2006 be reflected in the budgeting process

Finally, UNIFEM is working at the regional level with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean to produce analyses that support reporting on the Millennium Development Goals which takes into account gender concerns and with UNDP in francophone West Africa and Southern Africa to strengthen analytical and implementation capacities to link poverty reduction strategy papers, the Millennium Development Goals and gender responsive budgeting.

Gender sensitive budgeting provides an opportunity for dialogue that most countries have missed by confining those activities to the gender programme rather than mainstreaming them in poverty or governance.

In August, a newly trained expert in gender budgeting would conduct a seminar for State officials and representatives of other institutions.

In assessing the impact of implementing PRSPs and government budgets on disadvantaged groups, including women, attention is focused on the development of gender sensitive diagnostic tools such as gender budgeting.

In 2004, UNIFEM provided technical or financial support for the application of gender budgeting tools both nationally and locally in 34 countries.

(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.

The Government of the Czech Republic requested the Ministry of Finance to develop a methodology for gender budgeting at national, regional and local levels.

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

Results based budgeting

Results based budgeting

Results based budgeting

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.

Her Government continued to improve its strategies for mainstreaming the gender perspective in institutional mechanisms, including in budgeting processes, by developing tools and manuals and organizing seminars.

(f) Results based budgeting