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Short Summary
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| Title |
A Report on Gender at the Heart of Economic Policy
Process: A Focus on the Budget (Workshop 25 –27 March, 2004) |
| Author |
Evers, B. and Wondimu A. |
| Publication
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April 2004 |
| Publisher |
British Council |
| Donor |
British Embassy’s Africa Directorate Programme
Budget |
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Short Summary |
Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the
world. Although general poverty indicators are available, there is
a severe shortage of gender-desegregated economic data and indicators.
It is therefore very difficult to understand how poverty affects women
differentially from men. The British Council held a workshop with
government employees in Addis Ababa, 2004 to discuss the use of gender
budgeting for generating better data and ensuring poverty reduction
strategies were gendered. This document outlines the workshop agenda
and outcomes. Purposes of the workshop included to raise awareness
and understanding of gender issues and impacts embedded in budgets
and policies; make government accountable for their budgetary and
policy commitments and to change and refine government budgets and
policies to promote gender equality. Discussions were held on the
subject of entry points for gender in the Ethiopian budget and experiences
of gender budgeting in Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa were presented.
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