Gender Budgeting (GB)
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Training Program Overview
- This course trains participants on the fundamentals of gender budgeting drawing on the IMF's analytical work, capacity development initiatives on gender budgeting, and different country practices.
- The focus is on explaining and anchoring understanding of key gender budgeting concepts and tools with practical examples of how they are applied in practice.
- Topic: Fiscal Issues
Target Audience
- Professionals from ministries of finance and planning.
- Officials from line ministries working in the budget and planning departments.
- Staff from entities responsible for the design and/or oversight of gender equality policies such as the Ministry of gender, the legislature, audit institutions, etc.
Qualifications
- Participants are expected to be junior- to senior-level professionals with at least two years of experience in PFM areas such as:
- budget analysis and planning
- fiscal policy analysis
- fiscal reporting
- financial and performance monitoring
- policy appraisal and evaluation
- external audit
Course Objectives
- ¿ Explain the fundamental concepts of gender budgeting.
- ¿ Explain why gender equality is macro-critical and how gender budgeting can help advance gender equality.
- ¿ Explain the public financial management foundations for gender budgeting and describe how gender budgeting tools and practices can be integrated into the PFM system.
- ¿ Describe the four key gender budgeting tools namely gender impact assessments, gender budget statements, gender tagging and the gender budget circular, their purposes and features, and significance for the implementation of gender budgeting.
- ¿ Describe the enabling legal and regulatory frameworks and institutional arrangements required to support the implementation of gender budgeting.
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