Ondina da Barca Vieira

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GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGETING IN MOZAMBIQUE
PROCESS, ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES AND LESSONS

• Ondina da Barca Vieira
• Programme Coordinator, UNIFEM
• Dar-es-Salam, May 2009

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OUTLINE

• General Information
• Process and Achievements - ( Main dimensions
  enabling the environment and capacity building)
  
• Challenges
• Lessons learned
• Way Forward

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Basic Information

• GRB Programme - 2003 to 2008
• Objectives
• Raise awareness on GRB and support national
  partners in mainstreaming gender issues into
  the PRSP (2003-2005)
• Build national capacity to conduct Gender
  Responsive Budgeting
• Develop /Review models and tools to support
  national partners applying GRB

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Basic Information

• Partners
• Government Institutions - Ministries of Women and
  Social Action Planning and Finance Health
  Interior (Home Affairs)
• Civil Society Organizations FORUM Mulher
  Mozambican Debt Group
• Training Institutions University Eduardo
  Mondlane High Institute for Public
  Administration
• Focus Macro and Meso Level planning and
  budgeting process two sectors (Interior and
  Health) and topic Violence against Women
  gradually moving into budgeting tracking and
  impact and to the local level
• TGNP Specialized Technical Support

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Enabling The Environment FOR GRB

• Achievements Macro Level

• Process

• Gender Assessment of PARPA I - strengths,
  pitfalls and key advocacy issues
• Engagement with policy makers Gov Donors
  awareness raising and feedback ministers,
  national directors of planning permanent
  secretaries, donor economists

• More Gender Sensitive PARPA II including 1 /49
  related indicator in the strategic matrix and in
  PAF
• - gender issues reflected in sector plans and
  budgets
• (7 selected sectors)
• GDI adopted as a macro-level indicator

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Capacity Building for GRB USE

• Achievements Meso Level

• Process

• GRB training for planning, budgeting officers and
  gender focal points and Mentoring

• Call circulars requiring sectors to integrate
  gender issues into the plans and budgets
  (Ministry of Planning and Development) more
  attention to the national plan on the advancement
  of women
• Guidelines for production of Gender Budget
  Statements
• Guidelines for planners and budgeting officers on
  how to go about GRB in line item and
  performance based budgeting
• GRB guidelines for local level planners and
  budgeting officers

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Capacity Building FOR GRB USE

• Achievements Meso Level

• Process

• GRB training for planning, budgeting officers and
  gender focal points and Mentoring

• GRB compliant Health and Interior gender
  strategies - the gender issues (internal and
  service delivery related) to be addressed
  through sector plans an7d budgets clearly
  identified
• Costed gender Action Plan for the Ministry of
  Interior and allocation of state budget
  resources for service delivery to women
  victims of violence since 2007 female uniforms
  introduced gender focal point participating in
  decision making
• Health sector allocating resources to implement
  VAW related actions since 2007

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Capacity building for GRB Advocacy

• Achievements -

• Process

• Awareness raising ,of parlamentarians
• Training of CSOs and support to conduct gender
  budget related Analysis

• Gender Awareness raising to parlamentarians by
  CSOs (FORUM Mulher and Mozambican Debt Group)
• Piloted use of gender- disaggregated
  beneficiary assessment of quality of service
  delivery in the area of education in 3 districts
  (Mozambican Debt Group )
• Engagement of researchers with economics
  background from the MPD to conduct gender budget
  analysis - Pilot tracking studies of gender
  related allocations and expenditures from 2006
  to 2008 and trend of resources for gender
  within the context of Paris Declaration in
  Mozambique

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Capacity Building for GRB Sustainability

• Process

• Achievements

• Pool of national facilitators from Government
  (Ministries of Planning, Finance, Women and
  Social Action, Health and Interior) and CSOs
  (FORUM Mulher) blend of familiarity with
  economics, government and budgeting process and
  gender issues )
• Establishment of a GRB Interest Group on call
  expertise

• Training of trainers

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Capacity Building for GRB Sustainability

• Process

• Achievements

• Advocacy and technical support for teaching GRB
  within academic institutions
• Diversification of funding sources

• Public University and Public sector High
  Training Institute training initiating steps to
  bring GRB into the curriculum
• Integration of GRB related actions in the UN
  Joint Programmes

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Key Challenges

• Limited availability of gender disaggregated
  information and data to support GRB
• Limited familiarization of the GRB advocates
  (MMAS and CSOs) with macro-economic issues as
  well as planning and budgeting processes
• Unclear leading institution on GRB MMAS or
  MPD? Evidence indicates that MPD should play this
  role being the leading institution of planning
  and budgeting process
• Short term nature of GRB initiatives being GRB a
  long term endeavour
• Skepticism on the value of GRB some Gov and
  Donor community
• Limited gender expertise within the research
  community affecting evidence based advocacy
• Effectively engage with the parliamentarians in a
  context where they are loyal to their parties
  and not to constituencies

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LESSONS LEARNED

• GRB is a different way of doing planning and
  budgeting and a long term endeavour which
  requires a capacity development approach -
  involves investment on policies and tools,
  training and changes within institutions
• On-the job training is critical for GRB
• The roles of all budget stakeholders
  (coordinating institutions, sectors, local
  government and CSOs) need to be clear and
  capacity building efforts tailored accordingly .
  GRB is both a political and technical issue
• Contextualization of tools and solid technical
  expertise are fundamental when embarking on GRB
  efforts technical support from institutions
  rather than individuals worked better.

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LESSONS LEARNED

• GRB Training for Government by Planning staff
  more likely to pay off
• Gender Budget analysis require time particularly
  when gender expertise is limited not necessary
  
• Make sure to clarify that GRB mainly about
  prioritization not necessarily fresh money -
  includes allocations for gender and mainstream
  interventions
• A continuous engagement with policy makers and
  sharing of information is critical for the
  progress in GRB. This include participation in
  policy fora such as poverty observatories,
  donor-government joint reviews, sector working
  groups etc, etc.
• Keep abreast of developments in the public
  finance management arena in order to influence
  as possible.

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WAY FORWARD

• Work institutionalization of the GRB within the
  government which will provide for scaling up of
  the initiative at central and local level
• Support GRB at local level
• Invest more on analysis - tracking allocation,
  expenditures and expenditure
• Invest more in systematic capacity building

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