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Gender sensitive planning
entails an understanding of
existing gender relations, as
well as specific steps to
address these gender relations
in policies and programmes with
a view to promoting gender
equality. By adopting the
platform for action, governments
agreed to a common development
agenda with gender equality and
women's empowerment as
underlying principles. Thus
development plans in general,
and the specific policies and
programmes that elaborate them
further, should be formulated in
accordance with this agenda.
Doing so requires that policies
and programmes are analyzed to
determine any differential
impact on women and men, and
adjusted accordingly before
decisions are taken so as to
ensure that they support the
achievement of the gender
equality goal.
In recent years, there has been
an increased awareness of the
importance of resource
allocations for gender equality.
Gender sensitive budgeting is a
tool to hold those responsible
for national development
planning accountable to gender
equality commitments by ensuring
that such commitments are
matched with adequate resource
allocations. Gender sensitive
budgets are not separate budgets
for women and girls. Rather, the
impact of expenditures on women
and men is assessed during the
formulation of policies and
budgets.
Key stakeholders in
gender-sensitive planning and
budgeting are national
machineries for the advancement
of women and national planning
and budgeting agencies or
offices. The former are
responsible for promoting the
advancement of women and gender
equality and act as catalysts
for ensuring that gender
perspectives are mainstreamed
into policies and programmes in
all areas. The latter translate
agreed development agendas into
concrete policies and match them
with necessary resources. Both
sets of stakeholders require
institutional capacity to carry
out their respective tasks.
Resources
►WB
action plan for gender and
governance
►Engendering
Effective Planning
►Increasing
Women’s Participation in Local
Government Processes
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