Report titled ‘Charting New Paths for Gender Equality and Empowerment: Asia-Pacific Regional Report on Beijing + 30 Review’ highlighted that adoption of GRB by India demonstrated strong commitment to ensure the efficient allocation of resources.
- Report has been published by UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and UN Women.
What is GRB or Gender Budgeting?
- A tool for gender mainstreaming which uses the Budget as an entry point to apply a gender lens to the entire policy process.
- It is not a separate Budget and also not about spending the same on women and men.
- GRB in India
- Genesis: Institutionalized by the Ministry of Finance in 2005–2006.
- Gender Budget Statement is presented by the Government in budget session.
- Nodal Agency: Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD)
- Consists of two parts:
- Part A: Encompasses schemes that allocate funds exclusively for women.
- Part B: Represents the dominant share in the budget – comprises schemes that allocate a minimum of 30% of funds towards women.
- It also comes under the Samarthya, sub-scheme of Mission Shakti.
- Genesis: Institutionalized by the Ministry of Finance in 2005–2006.
Key Challenges in implementation: Exclusion of key programmes that benefit women, lack of sex- disaggregated data, etc.
Recommendations of the UN report for improving the Efficiency of GRB
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