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Gender-responsive budgeting is a crucial tool for women’s empowerment. In Morocco, UNIFEM has worked with the government to create a more tailored approach in which budgeting can have a more effective and immediate impact. As this documentary illustrates, when the needs of women living in a particular geographical and cultural context are addressed, the entire community benefits. In the past four years, the Finance Ministry of Morocco has made substantial progress in developing both gender-responsive and results-oriented budgetary reform.| CSW 2008 to focus on Financing for Gender Equality |
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28 February 2007
In prelude to the 2008 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Financing for Gender Equality, the Bureau of the CSW convened on February 28, 2007 at the UN Secretariat in New York an informal experts’ panel on “Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women”.
The panel was organized to review existing mechanisms and processes for financing gender equality and the empowerment of women at the national, regional and global levels, identify good practices and lessons learned, and highlight gaps and challenges requiring further attention.
Different sources of financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women, including official development assistance (ODA), debt cancellations, national budgets and private sector funding were discussed during the interactive panel.
The Norwegian Ambassador for Women and Gender Equality shared the experience of her country where a “specific budget line for women and gender equality had been introduced and new funds allocated for targeted measures across other budget lines.”
In her presentation, Rhonda Sharp highlighted that “it is through the budget that a government’s commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment is translated into practical policies, programmes and activities. Therefore GRB initiatives are a crucial means by which governments finance gender equality and women’s empowerment.”
The panel recommended that the CSW 2008 focuses on ways and means to create political will for gender-responsive budgets, increased allocation of resources for national machineries, support to the work of civil society and integration of gender equality and women’s rights into the framework and implementation mechanisms of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
Proceedings of the panel discussion are available at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/51sess.htm |
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