Title:
Budgeting for Equality: An Alliance for Public Management Planning with a Gender Perspective
Agreement Number:
7438043 P011083001
Agreement Value:
$1,500,000.00
Agreement Date:
Feb 22, 2022 - Jul 30, 2024
Description:
This project seeks to promote and protect women’s and girls’ rights in Colombia. The project aims to strengthen the capacity of the women’s movement and civil society to advocate for public policies and budgets that respond to their needs and priorities. It also contributes to enhancing gender-sensitive public management by the national and local governments.
Gender-responsive budgeting is recognized as a strategic tool to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, by improving the allocation of existing resources more equitably. It also ensures that gender-differentiated needs and priorities reflects in public policies. This initiative delivers high-quality technical assistance to the Government of Colombia, women’s rights organizations and civil society for the systematic and sustainable integration of gender equality considerations into national and local planning and budgeting processes
Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Expected Results:
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) institutionalized use of the “Gender Budget Tracker” by key government bodies as well as in the new National Development Plan and key public policies; and (2) enhanced use of the “Gender Budget Tracker” by women’s rights organizations, civil society and prioritized territorial governments as a way to demand greater accountability on gender equality and to ensure the allocation of public resources toward these issues in Colombia.
Reference Number:
064-2021-2022-Q4-00078
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Additional Information:
The value of the agreement is changed to $1,500,000 CAD, The end date is changed to 2024-07-30.
Amendment Date
Mar 17, 2023
Recipient's Legal Name:
UN Women
Program:
International Development Assistance Program
Program Purpose:
The main purpose on the International Development Assistance Program is to reduce poverty for those living in countries where Global Affairs Canada engages in international development.