• UPCOMING EVENTS

Certificate Course on Budgetary Process from a Gender Perspective

Human Rights and Justice Group International 

Human Rights and Justice Group International is pleased to announce a new specialized online Certificate course in Budgetary Process: Including from a Gender Perspective to be held from 1st May 2008 to 13th June 2008.

The course was developed to strengthen the capacity of legislators, civil society actors to effectively participate in budgetary process. It will equally seek to advance institutional capacity of agencies involved in budgeting to make a positive impact on the budget, and to equip them, with the necessary tools to examine the budget from a gender perspective. It will further "x-ray" the mechanisms and methods for developing a gender-sensitive budget, factors and obstacles militating against people-oriented budget so as to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs.

The maximum number of course participants is 30. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Participation from the Institute.

COST: US$200. There is a limited amount of partial scholarships available for this course for applicants from developing countries, based on financial need.

LOCATION: Online Application Procedure The deadline for application is 28th April 2008. However, applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Application forms can be downloaded from our website at http://justicegroup.org/training/application.htm or contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

• PAST EVENTS

52 session of the CSW

February 25- March 7, 2008

On the occasion of the 52nd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of women (CSW) held at the United Nations headquarters (25 February to 7 March 2008), a number of side events are taking place that highlight country experiences and key issues related to the theme of the CSW “financing for Gender Equality”.  Several of these events will focus on the relevance of GRB in Financing for Gender Equality and showcase GRB experiences from around the world.

For more information visit the UNIFEM Event website at http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/csw/2008/ where UNIFEM materials and the CSW agenda, background documents and calendar of events are available.

January 10-11, 2008 

International Conference on Gender Responsive Budgeting and Social Justice: The Nordic/Baltic Network on Gender Responsive Budgeting calls for contributions for an international conference on gender responsive budgeting to be held on 10-11 January 2008, at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania. The main theme of the conference will be the normative basis for gender budgeting. In addition to the plenary sessions, there will be separate sessions to launch the three proposed Nordic/Baltic working groups on tax, welfare benefits, and labour market issues. The closing date for the submission of abstracts is 15 October 2007. Abstracts of papers must be sent to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

For more information please visit:

http://www.oekonomi.uio.no/grb/Callfor.pdf 

http://www.thecommonwealth.org/subhomepage/164316

November 19-23, 2007 

An introduction to gender budgeting in organizations and institutions. This course organized by ILO International Training Center targets policy makers, national and local public services staff;civil society representatives; United Nations and other international organization staff; representatives from employers and workers' organizations.

For more information, click on the link below

http://www.itcilo.org/pub/page_calendar_list.php

October 17th, 2007

The Gender Impacts of Debt and the IFIs Wednesday, October 17th 3- 4:15pm at Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 East Capitol St., NE, Washington DC

Gender Action will hold this education session on gender, debt and the IFIs as part of Jubilee USA's National Lobby Day for debt cancellation. At the event we will discuss how the often illegitimate and unpayable debt burden of poor countries disproportionately falls on women and girls. Indebted governments are forced to prioritize payments to rich country creditors over spending on essential services such as healthcare, education and clean water. Women and girls must make up for the shortfall, for example, by quitting their jobs to care for sick family members when public health services are reduced.

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund require indebted countries to implement painful reforms such as water privatization. When water becomes unaffordable, women's time spent collecting water increases. Another common IFI reform requires poor countries to impose user fees for basic services such as education. Girls are the first to be taken out of school when fees are imposed. We will also highlight debt relief successes, such as how Kenya and Uganda abolished user fees for primary school after receiving partial debt relief, which led to an immediate increase in girls' enrollment!

 19-21 September 2007

Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including from a Gender Perspective,

This seminar convened by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva.is the sixth in a series of regional meetings for parliaments which aim to strengthen parliaments' capacity to contribute effectively to the budgetary process, with a specific focus on gender. The previous regional seminars took place in Kenya (2000), Mali (2001), the Philippines (2002), Sri Lanka (2003), Lebanon (2004), and El Salvador (2005).

The overall objective of the seminar is to contribute to a better functioning of parliaments in the European and Central Asian region so that these parliaments can in turn participate more effectively in the improvement of democracy and good governance as the foundations for development.

Information note 

4-7 September 2007  

Expert Group Meeting on Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women Oslo, Norway

In accordance with its multi-year programme of work for 2007-2009, the Commission on the Status of Women will consider “Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women” as its priority theme during its fifty-second session in 2008.

In order to contribute to a further understanding of the issue and to assist the Commission in its deliberations, the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women will convene an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on the topic. The EGM will be hosted by the Government of Norway in Oslo, from 4 to 7 September 2007.

In preparation for the Expert Group Meeting, the Division also hosted an online discussion on the theme. Related documents and resources:

Aide-Mémoire

Online Discussion  

August 13-24, 2007 

Regional Training on Gender and Macro Economics, Policy, Planning and Budgeting

The Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP) is a Non Governmental and an Advocacy Organization that has promoted gender equality and equity principles, women’s empowerment and social transformation over the last 10 years within Tanzania and beyond.

As part of its on-going training programmes, TGNP is organizing a Regional Training on Gender and Macro Economics, Policy, Planning and Budgeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at TGNP - Gender Resource Centre from 13th to 24th August 2007.

The training is the result of the growing realization that lack of female pro poor gender inequalities approaches in development process apart from being unfair are also costly to women, men and entire communities and nations.

Participants are expected to gain understanding of key gender concepts in macro economic policy, planning and budgeting and gain relevant skills in analysis of the existing gaps and opportunities in their respective sectors and development programmes among others.

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July 28th to August 3rd, 2007

"Henrich Boll Foundation Summer School Course on ""Engendering Economic Policies in a Globalizing World“. The Fifth Heinrich Boell Foundation Summer School on Gender and Macroeconomics will take place in Washington, DC (USA). The meeting will highlight the gender-unawareness of the IFIs in the pursuit of their macroeconomic policies and dispel the myth of the supposed gender neutrality of these policies.

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July 9 – 11, 2007 

The workshop "Building an Asian community of practice on monitoring and budget analysis" will be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, next July 9 – 11, 2007. The workshop is organized by SILAKA and Social Watch in collaboration with OXFAM- Novib/KIC. 

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18 June to 15 July 2007

"The Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) is currently hosting an online discussion on “Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women”. The discussion is part of the preparatory process of the 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which will take place 25 February to 7 March 2008, on the theme “Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women”.

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June 4-5 2007

European symposium on gender budgeting in Frankfurt from 4-5 June 2007 on the theme: “Let's share the benefit - with gender budgeting towards social justice and equal opportunities”. The main objective of the symposium organized by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens and Youth was the introduction of gender budgeting within the European Union.

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April 26-27, 2007

The Korean Women’s Development Institute (KWDI), a gender policy think-tank of the Korean Government organized an expert group meeting on gender and international development from April 26-27, 2007 in Seoul, Korea. The meeting expected to contribute to the advancement of Official Development Assistance (ODA) strategies in gender perspectives and the dialogue between donor countries and recipient countries in Asia included a session on Gender equality and budget support.