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When (begins) : 2006-06-12 11:29 (Ottawa) 2006-06-13 11:29 (Ottawa) - THE EAST AFRICAN GENDER BUDGET NETWORK (EAGBN) presents:
Call for participation
Training Workshop in Gender Budgeting For HIV/AIDS and EAGBN Annual Meeting, 12 – 14th June 2006 Introduction
Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) on behalf of the Eastern Africa Gender Budget Network (EAGBN) is pleased to announce activities of the EAGBN to take place from 12th – 14th June 2006 at Colline Hotel Mukono, Uganda. The activities include;:
a) A two-day Gender budget training workshop in HIV/AIDS The training will run for two days from 12th – 13th while the annual meeting will be held on 14th May 2006.
Background to the EAGBN
In June 2002, FOWODE organized the first EAGBN Conference on the theme “investing in Women: Towards gender responsive poverty reduction strategies, economic policies and budgets.” The conference was attended by over 50 sub-regional stakeholders from government institutions, civil society organizations, research centers, and the media as well as international researchers and activists working on gender budgeting. The countries represented were; Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It was at this conference that the Eastern African Gender Budget Network (EAGBN) was formed to ensure the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of local and national poverty reduction strategies, macroeconomic policies and budgets of the member countries were gender responsive.
EAGBN organized a skills training workshop on gender budgeting for its members in May 2003. It was agreed in the training that the future focus should be on trade, governance and HIV/AIDS. The participants agreed that there was need to prioritize HIV/AIDS programmes and policies to take gender into consideration and training in this area would be a good start. This was because it was realized that HIV/AIDS funds were not spent equitably and that the current levels of HIV/AIDS funding would have done much more in terms of reducing the spread of AIDS and taking care of the sick if gender issues were taken seriously in spending priorities. It was therefore thought that since women and men benefit from resources differently, it is important to understand the gender issues in HIV/AIDS in order to look for ways in which they can be addressed in terms of resource allocation. The first step in this direction will be through building capacity in this area so that the available resources are spent equitably.
In August 2003, the TGNP a member of the EAGBN organized an EAGBN meeting in Dar es Salaam. The aim of this meeting was to share and critique positively the budgets of the three East African countries; Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania from a gender perspective by the Network members.
In November 2003, FOWODE on behalf of the EAGBN organized the second Regional EAGBN conference whose overall mission was to share experiences in the region on gender budgeting in the context of globalization. The conference had four major themes; Good governance, Gender and trade, Gender and HIV/Aids, and Domestic Violence. The outcome of this conference was an action plan that entailed interventions, which among other things called for regular annual meetings on the programme of gender budgeting in the region.
1. Gender Budget Training in HIV/AIDS workshop
The goal of the training workshop is to impart skills and techniques on how to use gender budgeting to analyze HIV/AIDS programmes. The specific objectives of the workshop are:
Ø To increase awareness about the importance of gender budgeting in analyzing HIV/AIDS
Expected outputs
2. The 5th regional annual gender budget Network meeting
3. Integrating Gender into the Budget Process: Practical Experiences
The goal of this meeting is to understand the progress of gender budgeting in the Eastern Africa Region and design strategies on how to influence the regional global economic policies and programmes.
This meeting will provide the participants with an opportunity to:
Ø Learn and share recent gender budgeting experiences in the region.
Expected Outputs
Ø Gender Budget experiences shared in the region
The annual meeting will be divided into three components. They include: Shifting gender budget from awareness level to practical level; second component, Gender Budgeting in East Africa: Sharing experiences, and the third; Developing a mechanism of engaging CSOs for Gender Budgeting in the East African Community as an institution.
a) Shifting gender budgeting from awareness level to practical level
For the last eight years, awareness has been created in gender budgeting at various fora. In Uganda, FOWODE has been at the forefront, in Tanzania the mantle was held by Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP) and in Kenya ABANTU for Development has been active. The various member organisations created awareness through organizing dialogues, carrying out research and disseminating the findings. The time has now come for focus to shift to actual implementation of gender budgeting. In Uganda, FOWODE has been able to put government to task to implement gender budgeting through developing gender and equity guidelines. The government actually made provisions through including a gender and equity provision in the budget call circular 2006/07. This is just one of the means which the member organisations could adapt and lobby their respective governments to take on the gender budget mantle. During this session, strategies will be drawn out on how to practice gender budgeting in the region in order to ensure that women and men’s needs are actually captured in regional, national and lower level budgets.
4. Gender Budgeting in East Africa: Sharing experiences
Whenever the annual meetings are organized, the EAGBN member countries share their experiences over the year. This is important because the various countries are at different stages in terms of Gender Budget implementation in the Eastern Africa region. Therefore in order to share successful strategies and challenges, countries will present their experiences in Gender Budgeting over the last one year. The aim of this session is to draw lessons for each country and learn the best practices on how to effectively and efficiently achieve the intended goals since all the EAGBN member countries are all aiming at achieving gender balanced budgets.
Since the East African Community is becoming a reality, there is need for CSOs in the region to come together and develop a mechanism for engaging the EAC in Gender Budgeting as an institution. It is important for the EAGBN members to create a space within the EAC in order to effectively influence the EAC in as far as gender budgeting is concerned. Therefore, during this session, the members will brainstorm on how this can be achieved.
6. The Way Forward
Following a thorough review of the regional gender budget experience and an attempt to influence the EAC, and bearing in mind that much will have been said during this meeting, a practical way forward will be developed. Each country/organization will commit itself on how to incorporate the ideas debated during the meeting.
Participation
Self-sponsorship is highly encouraged from other participants for both foreign and host country. Those who are interested in participating should submit their profiles by either fax or email to the conference coordinator. Cost to the conference will include registration fee ($100USD), travel, accommodation and meals
FOWODE will sponsor 10 participants from the region: 2 from Kenya, 2 from Tanzania, 2 from Rwanda, 2 from Ethiopian, 2 from Southern Sudan and 30 from the host country. This will cover the cost of travel, accommodation and meals. Those interested in participating should submit their profiles by either fax or email to the conference coordinator.
Arrival date
Participants will be expected to report on 11th June 2006 at the hotel of residence at 16:00hrs.
For more information contact:
Mr. Mukunda Julius |
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