Joomla! site syndication http://www.gender-budgets.org 2008-05-12T09:47:18+01:00 http://www.gender-budgets.org http://www.gender-budgets.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2007-06-21T10:42:38+01:00 http://www.gender-budgets.org http://www.gender-budgets.org/content/view/260/142/ the United Nations (index.php?option=com_content task=view id=15 Itemid=187)Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Commonwealth Secretariat (http://www.thecommonwealth.org/) and Canada's International Development Research Centre (http://www.idrc.ca/index_en.html) (IDRC), (http://www.idrc.ca/index_en.html) which was launched in 2001. The website strives to support efforts of governments, women’s organizations, members of parliaments and academics to ensure that planning and budgeting effectively respond to gender equality goals. The site also provides practitioners with a variety of resources, assessments and training materials on gender responsive budgeting. Finally, it aims to promote cross-regional information-sharing on country experiences and facilitates networking and collaboration amongst countries, civil society and international organizations. text/html 2008-04-11T12:55:08+01:00 http://www.gender-budgets.org http://www.gender-budgets.org/content/view/498/215/   Original title Zimbabwe's remarkable Progress Recorded in Gender Equity Programmes Posted on All Africa.com 10 March 2008, added on this website April 2008   Harare   The Governement of Zimbabwe has made tremendous strides in implementing gender equity programmes that need to be complemented through a budget that pushes women empowerment , the Minister of Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development , Oppah Muchinguri said yesterday. Although this year's international commemorations are being held under the theme; Financing for Gender Equality, Zimbabwe has adopted a national theme of Gender budgeting for women empowerment. Speaking at the launch of the International Women's Day, Muchinguri said this year's theme has come at a time when Government is implementing the gender budgeting programme launched in April last year. text/html 2008-04-11T13:06:46+01:00 http://www.gender-budgets.org http://www.gender-budgets.org/content/view/499/215/   Posted on Thaindian News on February 6th, 2008 - added on the website April 2008 New Delhi, 6 Feb 2008   The Ministry of Women and Child Development is organising a workshop to sensitise senior officials of various Central Ministries towards gender responsive budgeting. The officials of 35 Ministries will attend the residential workshop on 7th-8th February at Kuchesar, District Bulandshehar.   The objective of the workshop is to sensitise senior officials to the needs and realities of women at the grass roots. The Government has already set up gender budgeting cells in 35 Ministries to ensure a gender perspective at various stages like programme policy formulation, review of extant policies and guidelines, reprioritisation and allocation of resources.   The two-day workshop will make assessment of needs of target groups and impact of the gender budgeting so far. Case studies and feedback on the initiative and future plan of action will be deliberated upon. The Ministry has taken a number of initiatives to use gender budgeting as a tool for empowerment of women.   The Ministry has adopted budgeting for gender equity as a mission statement. A strategic framework of activities to implement this mission has been framed and disseminated across all departments of the Central Government. The Ministry of finance has also mandated all Ministries to establish gender budgeting cells and has issued a gender charter for the same.   text/html 2008-04-11T12:43:30+01:00 http://www.gender-budgets.org http://www.gender-budgets.org/content/view/497/215/   An innovative way to analyze federal spending recognizes women's needs as well as men's. An article by Martha Burk published by Ms Magazine (Weekly Feminist News). Added to this website April 2008   President Bush has unveiled his budget request for the next fiscal year, and it's hardly surprising: a dramatic increase in defense spending, an even larger deficit and proposed cuts in a wide range of domestic programs such as education, childcare, health research, Medicaid, Medicare and job training. Those programs being cut, not coincidentally, are those that disproportionately impact women.   Bush's budget proposal is consistent with what author Riane Eisler, in her book The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics ( Berrett-Koehler, 2007) , calls a “dominator” economic system. Such a system is characterized by a distribution of resources to those on top, heavy investment in armaments and a lack of investment in meeting human needs. The result is an economic double standard in which programs associated with “femininity” (such as caregiving) are devalued, while “masculine” priorities (such as war) are highly valued.   Read full article http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2008/GenderBudgetsAnyone.asp (http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2008/GenderBudgetsAnyone.asp) text/html 2008-03-03T18:24:30+01:00 http://www.gender-budgets.org http://www.gender-budgets.org/content/view/496/153/   3 MARCH 2008   UNIFEM's Gender Budget Programme is pleased to announce the GRB Newsletter Issue 1 (index.php?option=com_docman task=doc_download gid=357)