BUDGETING FOR SOCIAL WELFARE A Rapid Gender Analysis to Inform Gender Responsive Budgeting in the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in Kosovo
Publisher: Kosovo Women's Network (KWN), Kosovo Date: 2014 Volume: 78 pages, pdf Description Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is a strategy that focuses on integrating a gender perspective into economic policy and government budgets. It aims to incorporate a perspective on how to improve equality between women and men based on a gender analysis in every stage of planning, programming, and execution of government budgets. Thus, it should not be seen as an additional budget, but as a way of doing better budgeting based on more specific evidence regarding men and women beneficiaries of policies and budgets. A successful GRB approach analyses the different impacts that various revenue-raising policies and allocations of resources have on men and women. The way public spending is allocated can increase or decrease inequalities within a society. Successfully implementing a GRB approach within a government budget can increase the effectiveness of resource allocations. Improving efficiency and effectiveness in spending can enable the government to allocate sufficient funds for implementing its existing roles and responsibilities. In the Budget Circular 2014/01, towards “increasing effectiveness and transparency of spending public money,” institutions have been encouraged to “disaggregate indicators and measures related to individuals by women and men.” This rapid gender analysis sought to assist the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MLSW) in doing this: assessing and planning its budget from a gender perspective. To this end, this report contains sub-chapters on each of the Ministry’s departments, divisions, and bodies. Key findings and recommendations are summarized here.