1. Findings and recommendations
from the Latin-American
experience
Global Seminar on Costing Experiences and Methodologies for
Gender Equality
12 September, 2013
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Use of costing results:

2. What and How is/was carried out?
Costing experiences for gender equality in
Latin America and the Caribbean
Identification
of
experiences
Conceptual
approaches
Exchange of
experiences

3. UNDP and UN Women organized the “Reflection and Exchange of Experiences
Workshop on Costing of Social Policies and MDG3 in Latin America and the
Caribbean” in June 2013
In this workshop, gender specialists exchanged experiences and knowledge
accumulated in 8 countries of the region, focusing on those policies that directly
contribute to the achievement of gender equality and that have a greater potential to
have an incidence in fiscal policy.

4. “Costing of Public
Policies that Promote
Gender Equality in Latin
America and the
Caribbean”
Recommendations
document to promote
the development of
costing exercises of
interventions and
policies for gender
equality in the Latin
American and the
Caribbean region.
Result of this exchange

5. Challenges of costing of gender
equality policies in Latin
America and the Caribbean

6. Challenges in 5 dimensions
En América Latina y el
Caribe se han desarrollado
numerosas experiencias
de costeo de políticas de
igualdad.
Desafíos comunes que
pueden ser agrupados en
5 dimensiones:
política, institucional, técn
ica, de información y
financiera/ presupuestaria
Política
Técnica
FinancieraInformación
Institucional

7. Dimensión Política
Contar con un marco de política de igualdad de género (Plan
o Estrategia Nacional de Igualdad).
Falta más voluntad y compromiso político al más alto nivel
desde los ministerios de economía y finanzas.
Garantizar la sostenibilidad de los procesos para que
trasciendan los cambios gubernamentales.
Garantizar la participación sostenida y amplia de las
organizaciones de mujeres y mecanismos de igualdad.

8. Dimensión Institucional
Debilidades institucionales de los mecanismos de igualdad
Necesidad de mayor sinergia y cooperación interinstitucional
entre el mecanismo de igualdad y las instituciones sectoriales.
Limitadas capacidades institucionales y de recursos
humanos en temas de género y a su aplicación a la
planificación y el costeo.
Procesos de descentralización y territorialidad todavía en
construcción.
Limitaciones de los procesos de planificación y presupuesto
para tomar en cuenta las desigualdades de género existentes.

9. Dimensión Técnica
Desarticulación entre las herramientas que se utilizan para
el costeo y las que se utilizan en la planificación y
presupuestación.
El desarrollo metodológico de las herramientas de costeo
está todavía en construcción y sigue siendo complejo de
aplicar para políticas que requieren de intervenciones
multisectoriales.
Riesgo de que la dimensión política de la igualdad de
género se evapore y que lo político se transforme en algo
meramente técnico

10. Informative Dimension
Lack of updated information that supports the decision
making process in the design stage of the costing exercise.
Limited availability of data and information systems with
indicators and statistics that reflect the current situation of
gender gaps in different sectors.
Technical complexity when implementing this
multisectoral information systems with disaggregated data.

11. Financial Dimension
Lack of available information about public resources
allocated for gender equality.
Lack of specific and multisectoral resources for the
fulfillment of laws and policies that promote gender
equality(e.g. Laws against gender related violence, Gender
Equality Plans).
Lack of specific mechanisms that guarantee the financing of
gender equality policies.

12. Recommendations to promote
the use of costing exercises

13. What for?
a. Achieve greater fundraising to finance
social policies and policies that contribute to
gender equality (expand the fiscal space).
b. To improve the redistributive character and
the impact of fiscal policy.
c. Achieve a larger allocation of resources
towards plans, policies and programs or
interventions that contribute to gender
equality.
d. To improve public administration.

14. a. Achive greater fundraising capacities social policies as
well as policies that contribute to gender equality
(expand the fiscal space)
• Broaden the sources of financing of the
public sector.
• Improve tax-raising efficiency.
• Improve transparency in taxation.
• Review tax-reductions and exonerations.

15. Improve the redistribution scheme
and the impact of fiscal policy
• Analyze gender gaps and the progressive or
regressive nature of taxes.
• Review the redistribution scheme of fiscal
benefits and existing subsides.
• Analyze the pre-assignations established in
incomes and remote its redistribution for
more equitable uses.

16. c. Achieve a larger allocation of resources for
plans, policies, programs or interventions that
contribute to gender equality.
• Place the issue of gender equality as part of the political
agenda.
• Make visible the multidimensional character of gender
inequality and the need of mutisectoral efforts to address
them.
• Point out insufficient financing for the implementation of
specific laws and policies for gender equality.
• Make the implementation of laws and policies viable trough
the incorporation of enough resources to carry them out in
the processes of planning and public budgeting.
• Analyze other possible sources of financing and mobilize
external support.

17. d. To improve public administration
• Improve the quality of services and programs as
well as the efficiency of public spending.
• Improve and qualify the planning process of
instances and systems in charge of planning and
budgeting.
• Extend the capacities of public servants.
• Strengthen gender equality mechanisms.
• Improve information systems and contribute to
consolidate accountability mechanisms.