Amendments for: 064-2021-2022-Q4-00078

Agreement Value: $1,500,000.00
Agreement: Budgeting for Equality: An Alliance for Public Management Planning with a Gender Perspective (7438043 P011083001). 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

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.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada
Recipient: UN Women (Not-for-profit organization or charity)
Location: New York, Other, US
Type: Grant
Additional Information:

The value of the agreement is changed to $1,500,000 CAD, The end date is changed to 2024-07-30.

Program Name: International Development Assistance Program

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.

Agreement Value: $1,500,000.00
Agreement: Budgeting for Equality: An Alliance for Public Management Planning with a Gender Perspective - 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

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.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada
Recipient: -
Type: -
Additional Information:

The value of the agreement is changed to $1,500,000 CAD, The end date is changed to 2024-07-30.

Agreement Value: $1,000,000.00
Agreement: Gender Responsive Budgeting in Colombia (7438043 P011083001). Feb 22, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023
Description:

This project seeks to advance women and girls' empowerment in Colombia, promoting and protecting their rights, by strengthening gender-responsive public management approaches, and enhancing the capacity of the women’s movement and civil society to advocate for public policies and budgets which respond to their needs and priorities. Gender-responsive budgeting is recognized as a strategic tool to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, by improving the allocation of existing resources in a more equitable way and ensuring that gender-differentiated needs and priorities are reflected in public policies. This initiative will deliver 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.

Expected Results:

Expected results are: i) Institutionalized use of the "Gender Budget Tracker" by key government bodies as well as in the new National Development Plan and key public policies; ii) Enhanced use of the "Gender Budget Tracker" by local women’s organizations, civil society and prioritized territorial governments as a way to demand greater accountability from governments on gender equality and to ensure the allocation of public resources toward these issues.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada
Recipient: UN Women (Not-for-profit organization or charity)
Location: New York, Other, US
Type: Grant
Program Name: International Development Assistance Program

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.