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Five Lessons Learned from Gender Equality
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Lesson 1 - While most developing countries have made progress in grounding Gender Equality in national development and sectoral plans, gender mainstreaming has often been limited to areas of social and human development. Gender mainstreaming is much less evident in economic and productive sectors such as agriculture, transport, infrastructure, etc.
Lesson 2 - While progress has been made on making Gender Equality visible in national policies and plans, the financial resources provided by donors and governments are not always sufficient to match these commitments, which hampers implementation.
Lesson 3 - Sex disaggregated data is crucial for mainstreaming gender in policy, planning and public financial management yet, in most countries, sex disaggregated data is rarely collected or analysed systematically in decision-making.
Lesson 4 - There is a need for a dual approach involving support to both gender mainstreaming as well as specific and targeted initiatives to support women’s empowerment.
Lesson 5 - Gender responsive budgeting is crucial to ensure government resources are effectively used and benefit the entire population, based on differing needs and priorities. Gender-responsive financial management of public resources can be constrained by lack of political will or the perception that it means preferential treatment for certain groups of people. Gender responsive budgeting should not be a one-off process as it requires commitment and capacity building over time.
Implications for CRM: Share best practices on CRM in social sectors such as education and health, and demonstrate how this could be applied to economic and productive sectors. Gather and disseminate evidence on how CRM can help strengthen aid effectiveness in all sectors while supporting democratic space for policy dialogue on these issues. Use synergies with parallel processes to inform policy and planning decision-makers on child rights(UN CRC Committee Report, Alternative Report from NGOs, Concluding Observations of the Committee, etc.)
Implications for CRM: Identify like-minded donors on CRM and engage with them in evidence-based policy dialogue on the link between child rights and aid effectiveness. Fund special studies and research to support this policy dialogue. Undertake policy dialogue and provide training to primary duty-bearers on their duties and obligations relative to the CRC. Develop capacities of primary duty-bearers and child-focused civil society in policy analysis and child rights budgeting.
Implications for CRM: Develop the capcity of national statistics institutions to disaggregate data by sex and age. Promote the use of sex/age disaggregated indicators in national and sectoral performance measurement frameworks. Strengthen the capacity of Government representatives, partners, writing teams and civil society to analyse and use this data for decision-making.
Implications for CRM: While ensuring that Child Rights are mainstreamed in national plans and priorities, it is important to support special initiatives for the most marginalised girls and boys as well as supporting civil society and child rights advocates in their targeted activities for child rights promotion and children’s empowerment.
Implications for CRM: There is a need to strengthen capacities of both national financial institutions as well as sectoral ministries in terms of child rights commitments and processes. Capacity building for child-oriented civil society and child rights advocates (along with children themselves) in child-responsive budgeting is also effective in holding primary duty bearers to account.