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10/07/22 04:53 AM IST

Niti unit pitches for gender Budgeting act

In News 
  • The Development, Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) has called for a National Policy for Women and mainstreaming of gender-based budgeting across all ministries through the formulation of the Gender Budgeting Act.
Reason 
  • As per the Global Gender Gap Report 2021, published by the World Economic Forum, India's rank fell by 28 places to 140 out of 156 countries with a score of 0.625 (out of 1) compared to 112 in 2020.
  • The report provides scores on Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI), which examines the gap between men and women in four dimensions, namely, economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment.
Recommendations 
  • Under report titled ‘Gender Mainstreaming in Governance’ also said there is a need to improve social acceptance of transgender persons in society.
  • The report recommended that the Ministry of Women & Child Development (MWCD) should encourage state governments to increase their budgetary allocation towards women and child development, protection and welfare schemes
  • There is a need to ‘finalise the National Policy for Women with revision in 2016 draft policy’.
  • Absence of such data makes it difficult to measure the true impact of the schemes resulting in poor strategy design.
Gender Budgeting 
  • Gender budgeting means preparing budgets or analyzing them from a gender perspective. Also referred to as gender-sensitive budgeting, this practice does not entail dividing budgets for women.
  • Gender Budgeting is a powerful tool for achieving gender mainstreaming so as to ensure that benefits of development reach women as much as men.
  • India has a gender budget component since 2005-06 wherein schemes having allocations at least 30% for women is highlighted.
    Beijing declaration and platform for action 1995: Recommended Gender Budgeting
Source- Economic Times 

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