Guinea: Technical Assistance Report-Climate Change and Gender Budgeting

Technical Assistance Reports, May 24, 2024

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Canonical URL: Guinea: Technical Assistance Report-Climate Change and Gender Budgeting

Report language: French only ("[This report is only available in French]").
Purpose: Discusses ways to introduce climate and gender budgeting (CGB) in Guinea’s budget cycle by developing an integrated approach to incorporate both climate and gender (CG) aspects as part of priorities-based budgeting.
Relationship to program budgeting: There was no program-based budget; tagging climate and gender expenditures at the level of a program is more comprehensive and commonly suggested. The report supports that the introduction of CGB would facilitate and inform program budgeting initiatives.
Scope and contents: Proposes a method for CGB tagging, six high-priority recommendations to integrate CG in the budget cycle in the short to medium term, and includes a couple of tools to help introduce and present CG aspects in the budget cycle.

Institutional challenges:
- Integrating climate aspects in the budget cycle faces several challenges, including a proliferation of institutions involved.
Gender data and implementation gaps:
- Despite the adoption of key legislation and a national strategy on gender equality, there were limited sectoral diagnostics and sex-disaggregated statistics to cover gender transversality.
- The implementation of CG related national strategies is not completely translated into measures, actions, and associated costs.

The report proposes six high-priority recommendations that could significantly help integrate CG in the budget cycle in the short to medium term.
It also proposes a method for CGB tagging to operationalize climate and gender considerations in budget processes.

The report includes a couple of tools designed to help successfully introduce and present CG aspects in the budget cycle.

Guinea; Climate change; gender inequality; Budget cycle; budget planning and preparation; program-based budgeting; public investment spending; fiscal reporting; expending tagging; public financial management.