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Linkages/Collaboration
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GRBI - Synergies and Collaborative Efforts
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The GRBI project has been intensively involved in
working and collaborating with a number of government
and civil society institutions, in introducing the concept
of gender budgeting in their on-going activities. These
interactions with a variety of stakeholders and players
will eventually lead to GRB becoming an accepted and
respected form of raising issues of gender equality
and empowerment. Some of the collaborations are highlighted
below:
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The Commonwealth Secretariat (ComSec)
is one of the leading international voices on gender equality
and it has been extensively involved in gender responsive
budgeting work in many countries. After due discussions
with Gender Unit/GRBI, ComSec has decided to collaborate
with Gender Unit/GRBI to undertake activities in the Education
sector in the province of Sindh. A detailed work plan
with budget has been prepared and agreed upon by UNDP,
ComSec and GRBI. The Govt. of Sindh has also agreed to
the proposed intervention and the concerned departments
in Sindh i.e. Education Department, Finance Department
and District Government Jacobabad, Sindh have nominated
their focal persons. A Cost sharing agreement has also
been signed for the purpose.
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In order to build consensus on gender responsive
budgeting, the GRBI project has entered into a strategic
alliance with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
(PRSP) Secretariat. As part of supporting PRSP secretariat
in developing PRSP II document, GRBI developed a series
of papers which included:
- How gender-responsive budgeting can contribute
to the PRSP
- PRSP - Monitoring Indicators for Gender
- PRSP - MDGs and Gender
As a result of these efforts, the draft document of PRSP
II reflects an enhanced scope and coverage of gender responsive
budgeting thus supporting the process of mainstreaming
GRB in PRSP.
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The Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) is
a leading organization for community development in
the Northern Areas of Pakistan with a widespread network.
AKRSP has decided to launch gender responsive budgeting
in the Northern Areas with the technical support of
GRBI. Incidentally, AKRSP's staff member in charge of
this initiative is GRBI's trained master trainer. This
is a source of great pride for GRBI that its trained
personnel are being utilized to explore and implement
their training in far-reaching areas of Pakistan.
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With the support of the project, Social
Policy Development Centre (SPDC) has incorporated
gender analysis in its 'Annual Budget Review 2006'. As
the 'Annual Budget Review' is a regular annual publication
of SPDC which critically analyze the current budget, incorporation
of gender aspect would go a long way in practice of looking
at the budgets from a gender lens by an independent research
institute.
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The Pakistan Institute of Legislative
Development and Transparency (PILDAT) is an independent,
non-partisan and not-for-profit research and training
institution which has been actively involved in building
the capacities of Parliamentarians. As a result of synergies,
GRBI supported and conducted an awareness raising session
'Demystifying the Budget and a gender-based analysis of
the Budget' as part of parliamentary development course
organized by the PILDAT. Further, a briefing paper for
Parliamentarians, scribed by National Expert GRBI, was
also prepared for PILDAT.
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Decentralization Support Program (DSP),
is currently working on fiscal decentralization as well
as on a gender reform program at the national level. As
a result of synergies, GRB concept material has been incorporated
in the DSP's Training Manual for Nazims and Naib Nazims
of local governments which would help in awareness raising
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The Medium Term Development Framework Secretariat
was provided with the Gender Aware Policy Appraisal reports
by GRBI. With due acknowledgment the reports have been
used as one of the sources for drawing up the official
'Ministry Strategic Review' reports of Ministry of Education
and Health. These reports will help in facilitating the
engendering process of the relevant ministries. |
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Coordination with Gender Support Program
(GSP) Projects: GRB concept material was provided
to the Women's Political School, a sister UNDP
gender project which has been incorporated in their training
manual for women councilors. This help in widespread awareness
raising of the basic concept of GRB at the local level
amongst women councilors. Suggestions for amendments in
the social sector PC I were shared with the Gender
Mainstreaming in P&DD project which are being
used by the project to gender sensitize the officials
of Planning and Development Division/Departments |
