Waseem Ahmad BhatAIR 7 · CSE 2022 · 151 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Gender budgeting is the proactive adoption of gender sensitiveness & perspective in the budgetary process. It was adopted since 2004-05 with gender budget statement, gender budget cells, etc.
⇒ Issues
⊙ Insufficient budgetary allocation :
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→ only < 1% of GDP.
⊙ Underutilisation of funds : → Around 90% of Nirbhaya fund is still unused.
⊙ Concentration of funds : → 90% or more funds to only four
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ministries - Family welfare, Rural, Health & Education.
⊙ Problems at state level : ↳ Only 16 States have adopted gender budgeting (They are responsible for 60% of total expenditure)
⇒ Measures needed
⊙ Clear delineation of budgetary amount in the budget. ⊙ Follow the models of successful states at centre e.g: Kerala, Rajasthan, etc ⊙ Focus on pro-women development schemes e.g: Womenomics plan of Japan is a good case.
Gender budgeting is needed to fulfill the gender egalitarian outcome budgeting (SDG 5)
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