Virtual : Gender Budgeting (GB)

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Qualifications: Mid-level to senior officers with experience in fiscal policy or budgeting.
Target Audience: Government officials from various agencies involved in gender budgeting, including gender policy coordination units, ministries of finance, and ministries of women.
Preferred background: Participants should preferably have some familiarity with the concepts or practice of gender budgeting.

The workshop provides an intermediate-level approach to gender budgeting, drawing on the IMF's Public Financial Management (PFM) framework.
Rationale: Gender equality is on the government's policy agenda in many countries, and the budget system is a primary policy instrument that can play a central role in implementing governments' gender policies and goals.
Methods: The workshop will combine exposition of practices with participant country workshops and dialogues among participating countries and regional experts (such as UN Women).
Participant role: Participants will be invited to explain specific practices in their own countries, assess their own and other countries' challenges, and propose solutions.

Upon completion of the workshop, participants should be able to:

Identify institutional perspectives on gender-responsive budgeting and gender equality.
Better understand the levels of practice of gender budgeting at each stage of the PFM cycle and the interrelations between these stages.
Identify the level of practice of gender budgeting currently being implemented in their own countries and how this can be affected by PFM challenges.
Identify precise steps in moving towards improved practice in their own countries as well as the possible synergies of these steps with ongoing PFM reforms.