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Date Added
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Short
Summary |
| Title |
The Philippines: Getting Smart With Local
Budgets |
| Author |
Flor, C. and Lizares-Si, A. |
| Publication
Date |
June 2002 |
| Publisher |
Commonwealth Secretariat |
| Donor |
Commonwealth Secretariat |
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Short Summary |
How can gender budget work be conducted
at the local level? One way is to design projects where civil
society organisations work closely with local governments in
a mutually beneficial arrangement. This case study from the
book Gender Budgets Make More Cents: Country studies and good
practice examines the Gender Budget Initiative (GBI) in the
Philippines. This GBI was started in the late 1990s and operates
at both national and municipal levels. It works within the context
of the Filipino government's gender budget directive which states
that 5 per cent of budgets must be allocated to the promotion
of gender equality. In the GBI of the City of Bacolod, budgetary
know-how of government officials is used by the NGO Development
Through Active Women Networking Foundation (DAWN) in return
for GAD input and training. DAWN has analysed both the GAD element
of the budget and the budget as a whole (including functions,
objectives, activities and decision-making of departmental programmes),
and has made suggestions to government officials in the light
of this analysis. Research was also conducted through focus
group discussions and interviews with government officials (within
budget planning and other departmental roles), civil society
leaders and village heads. Recommendations included the importance
of looking at the interconnectedness of the departments and
their budgets, and the need to introduce gender and development
considerations into additional key departments such as those
responsible for data gathering, human resource management services,
and the police command. A further result of the project has
been that the capacity built in the research process itself
has increased the experience and confidence of DAWN in conducting
advocacy work more generally. |
| Summary
Source |
from the publication 'Gender Budgets Make
More Cents: Country Studies and Good Practice' - Budlender and
Hewitt |
| Complete
Document |
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PostScript Document (pdf) |
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