DMPQ: What is gender budgeting? What is the rationale behind gender budgeting?

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Gender budgeting entails the dissection of government budget to establish its gender differential impacts and to ensure that gender commitments are translated in to budgetary commitments. Gender Budgeting is a powerful tool for achieving gender mainstreaming so as to ensure that benefits of development reach

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women as much as men. It was adopted in 2005.

 

The reason behind the gender budgeting are:

 

  • The national budget affect men and women differently through the pattern of resource allocation.
  • In India even though women constitute 48% of the population they lack way behind in social indices. Even world economic forum indices global gender gap report suggest the same thing.
  • This type of allocation has the potential to transform the existing gender inequalities.

 

 

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