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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.| Tanzania |
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Title: Tanzania Author: UNIFEM Date: 2002-2005 This report highlights the progress of the Tanzania Gender Networking programme (TGNP) and its coalition Feminist Activism (FemAct). The gender budget initiative was developed in the context of cost sharing and retrenchment policies implemented as part of the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) in the 1980s. The SAPs precipitated cuts in vital social services particularly health care and education, while liberalisation and privatisation caused massive layoffs of government workers. Concurrently, the majority of civil society was left out in terms of policymaking and budgetary decisions in the country. The PRSP process in Tanzania began in 2000. Implementing Partners Tanzania gender networking programme (TGNP) in collaboration with other coalition organizations such as FemAct and Intermediary Gender Networks (IGNs) and the outreach groups. Also, some government actors including politicians were involved in parts of the gender budgets initiative Starting date: August 2002 End Date of Report: February 2005 Background The gender budget initiative was developed in the context of cost sharing and retrenchment policies implemented as part of the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) in the 1980s. The SAPs precipitated cuts in vital social services particularly health care and education, while liberalisation and privatisation caused massive layoffs of government workers. Concurrently, the majority of civil society was left out in terms of policymaking and budgetary decisions in the country. The PRSP process in Tanzania began in 2000. Justification The gender budgets initiative process has been conducted in two phases thus far. Phase one (1997-2000) focused primarily on building working relationship with relevant government structures, information collection, research and dissemination, and capacity building. The second phase of this process, starting in the year 2001, has continued with data collection, and capacity building of various actors, and on gender budgeting and influencing the macro-economic policies and frameworks to adopt gender interpretations. An additional recent focus is on advocacy, through a campaign that has begun with collective articulation and planning regarding the direction, issues, process, and messages of the gender budgeting process. The focus of the campaign is the general public/civil society at large, in order to strengthen their capacity to advocate for participation in planning, budgeting and implementation, as well as monitoring development programmes and allocation of resources in the country. Expected Outcomes - New African, gender responsive macro-economic models and frameworks for policy makers developed and disseminated - Contribution to the on-going efforts in influencing macro economic framework tools and policies to adopt a gender perspective - FemAct and intermediate local-level gender budgets network members mobilized to lobby policy- makers and advocate for gender responsive budgeting What has been realized The gender budgets initiative initiated in Tanzania by TGNP has been conducted in two phases. The first phase which extended from 1997-2000 focused primarily on information collection, research and dissemination, and capacity building. The second phase of this process, starting in the year 2001, has focused on influencing the macro-economic policies and frameworks to adopt gender while continuing its investment in data collection and capacity building of various budgeting actors. The second phase launched a campaign for gender responsive budgeting as a policy advocacy tool. The focus of the campaign was to mobilize the general public and civil society in order to strengthen their capacity to demand for participation in planning, budgeting and implementing as well as monitoring development programmes and allocation of resources. Key results: - Willingness of the government of Tanzania to link gender budget work with the ongoing macroeconomic policy processes (GDP, SAM, and MACMOD) is a good indication of further institutionalization of gender budgeting in Tanzania’s budgetary and planning processes - The effort of Tanzania government to attempt to institutionalize gender budgeting work in macro economic modeling provides a role model to other regional countries as well those countries outside Africa - Gender Budgeting work has broken new grounds for closer collaboration between key government policy and planning departments and the civil society organizations. National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), for example, has been working closely with TGNP in trying to mainstream unpaid labor into macro-economic models used to forecast economic growth such as GDP. As result, National Bureau of Statistics has agreed to include Time–Use survey as part of its Integrated Labor force Survey scheduled for next year 2005 - Gender budgeting work continues to draw support from different stakeholders such as donors’ Gender Desks under Gender MACRO Policy Group (GMPWG) have become interested in the issue of Time-Use survey and started selling the idea to solicit financial support for the activity - There is an increase in the gender capacities of key government actors in the macro modeling review Success Indicators - Contribution to the on-going efforts in influencing macro economic framework tools and policies to adopt a gender perspective - FemAct and intermediate local-level gender budgets network members mobilized to lobby policy- makers and advocate for gender responsive budgeting Sustainability Strategy TGNP closely works with 40 FemAct organizations, 12 Intermediary Gender Networks each with a number of member organizations, and Outreach Groups. Also, as recommended by the mid term review, two staff members have been recruited to strengthen Policy Analysis desk within the organization. The coalition members are becoming increasingly committed to the work done in GBI and particularly macro–economic modeling. There is involvement of more actors in implementation of the GBI activities, such as the IGNs and Outreach groups. FemAct member organizations are now institutionalizing GBI in their own programmes, such as TAMWA with the Gender Violence campaign as the campaign of the resource and WLAC with the inheritance campaign. Working with local level actors in various processes of programme implementation proved to be effective in terms of ownership and hence continued support throughout the programme period. Furthermore, the strategy had been instrumental in drawing the attention of the government, donors and other targeted groups over the issues advocated and lobbied for by TGNP. Last Updated: March 2005 |
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