26-28 July | Rwanda

Global High Level Meeting

Increasing Accountability and
Development Effectiveness through
Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting

The global high level meeting, Increasing Accountability and Development Effectiveness through Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting, is taking place 26-28 July in Kigali, Rwanda.
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"An important tool for enhancing service delivery is gender responsive budgeting, which requires government officials to think about finances in a new way, and consider how budgets address the needs of different groups of women and men, girls and boys."

Michelle Bachelet
Executive Director of UN Women
March 2011

"As I said on many occasions, the more I visit countries, the more I meet people, the more I am convinced that without women's empowerment, there will be no development and exit from poverty. Women are the agents of change."

Andris Piebalgs
EU Commissioner for Development
March 2011

"You do not have to be scared of tackling gender issues on the pretext that it will cost more than the available budget - it is simply a matter of killing two birds with one stone through a more gender responsive budget."

Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya
Minister of Gender and
Family Promotion Rwanda
May 2009