This presentation was made by Scherie NICOL, OECD, at the OECD-MENA Network meeting dedicated to Budgeting for Societal Outcomes:Gender, Youth and SDGs Budgeting held in Caserta, Italy, on 18-19 July 2019

1. Gender budgeting in OECD countries:
Where do we stand?
Scherie Nicol
Budgeting and Public Expenditures
18 July 2019, MENA-SBO, Italy

2. 1. THE RISE OF GENDER BUDGETING
2. HOW IS GENDER BUDGETING
IMPLEMENTED?
3. WHAT DOES GENDER BUDGETING
LOOK LIKE?
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CONTENTS

3. THE RISE OF GENDER
BUDGETING
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4. • First OECD report on gender budgeting
published June 2016
– At the time, 12 OECD countries
reported they had introduced GB
– Intervening years has seen
sea of change in relation to
gender attitudes
– 2018 survey puts the number of
OECD countries that have introduced
GB at 16
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The rise of gender budgeting across the OECD

5. 5
Gender budgeting across the OECD
AUS
CHE
CZE
DNK
EST
GBR
GRC
HUN
LUX
LVA
NLD
NZL
POL
SVK
SVN
FRA
TURAUT
BEL
CAN
CHL
DEU
ESP
FIN
IRL
ISL
ISR
ITA
JPN
KOR
MEX
NOR
PRT
SWE
Introduced
(17)
Under
Consideration (2)
Not practised
(15)
Source: OECD Budgeting Outlook Survey 2018

6. HOW IS GENDER BUDGETING
IMPLEMENTED?
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7. Outlines essential elements
that make gender budgeting
work effectively so that:
1. It links to an overarching
gender equality strategy
2. It builds on wider
government efforts to tackle
gender inequality
3. Its application strengthens,
rather than strains, the PFM
system
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Forthcoming OECD Publication:
Implementation guidelines for gender budgeting

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Implementation guidelines for gender budgeting:
Key elements
1 2
3
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
FRAMEWORK
SUPPORTIVE
ENABLING
ENVIRONMENT
IMPLEMENT
-ATION
TOOLS
1 2
3

9. • Important role of gender
equality strategy
– Ideally:
• Goals tied to an indicators
framework
• With political, societal and
legal validity
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1 - Good governance framework
Yes,
71%
No,
29%
Percentage of OECD countries doing
gender budgeting that have a national
gender equality strategy
Source: OECD Survey of Budget
Practices and Procedures 2018

10. 10
1 - Good governance framework
• Legal foundations for gender
budgeting
– Helps insulate from economic
and political fluctuations
47%
47%
35%
29%
12%
12%
High level political commitment/convention
Administrative practice (e.g. Budget Circular)
Budget law
Other specific legislation
Constitutional requirement
Compliance with international law or…
Legal foundation or authority for gender budgeting across OECD countries
Source: OECD Survey of Budget Practices and Procedures 2018

11. 11
• Clear guidance on how to
apply gender budgeting
– Compiled by MoF
– Provided to Line ministries
– E.g., as part of Budget Circular
• Inter-agency coordination
– MoF and Min Equality
partnership
– Line ministry engagement
– Opportunities for exchange of
good practice
1 – Good governance framework
71%
53%
47%
Standard guidelines
from central budget
authority on how to
apply gender budgeting
Annual budget circular
includes details and
instructions on the
application of gender
budgeting
Inter-agency group(s) to
ensure coordination
and/or exchange of good
practices on gender
budgeting
Guidance for gender budgeting across
OECD countries
Source: OECD Survey of Budget
Practices and Procedures 2018
47% have an
inter-agency working
group(s) to exchange
good practices on
gender budgeting

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2 – Implementation tools for gender budgeting
47%
53%
59%
53%
18%
41%
18%
24%
29%
24%
Source: OECD Survey of Budget Practices and Procedures 2018

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3 – Supportive enabling environment
A supportive
enabling
environment
for gender
budgeting
General availability
of gender
disaggregated data
Expert or
consultative
group
Training and
capacity
development
Structured
engagement with
civil society
65%
59%
41%
41%
Source: OECD Survey of Budget Practices and Procedures 2018
Percentage of OECD countries
doing gender budgeting with
each supportive mechanism

14. WHAT DOES GENDER
BUDGETING LOOK LIKE?
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15. 15
Direct funding for programmes tackling
gender inequality
MEXICO

16. 16
Adjustments to policies and
programmes to make them more equal
SWEDEN CANADA

17. A better understanding of the gender impact
of broader public expenditure & investment
ICELAND

18. Thank you