The UNDP Asia Pacific Gender Equality Dispatch #6

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16 The UNDP Asia Pacific Gender Equality Dispatch November 2020 Photo: UNDP Fiji A new way of working: Fiji Parliament implements the Floating Budget Office, including a new briefing on gender-responsive budgeting On 25 November 2020, at the inauguration of the National Consultation for the Development of the National Action Plan to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls, Prime Minister Hon. Voreqe Bainimarama remarked in his speech, “It pains me to say that two of every three women in Fiji have experienced physical or sexual violence from a male intimate partner in their lifetime. One in five women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. One in three women in Fiji have experienced physical or sexual violence from a man who is not their partner and in 2019 alone, 10 women were killed by their intimate partners.” The prevention of gender-based violence must be transformational such that it improves the health of women and children, enhances economic productivity, facilitates educational attainment, reduces the risks of mental illness and substance abuse and accelerates the achievement of the sustainable development goals among other benefits. Thus, in response to this, the Fiji Parliament has worked extensively to design, execute and implement a gender-responsive budget which can drive gender transformations, monitor the results and can be combined with evidence-based policymaking.
The UNDP Asia Pacific Gender Equality Dispatch November 2020 17 The Fiji Parliament continues to break new ground as they were able to mobilize 20 (eight male and 12 female) staff members from across its departments to undertake the analysis of the 2020/2021 budget in order to produce budget briefs under an extremely tight deadline. With the investments made by the Fiji Parliament Support Project (FPSP) implemented by UNDP since 2014, the Fiji Parliament is now the only Pacific Parliament (excluding the Australian and New Zealand Parliament) that has the internal capacity to produce these analyses without the requirement for additional external support. The project provides support to the Fiji Parliament in undertaking its legislative, oversight and representation functions, and is jointly funded by the Governments of New Zealand, Japan and Australia. However, in the spirit of South-South cooperation and learning, the Staff from the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands joined the exercise remotely as part of their capacity development. The Floating Budget Office exercise was also supported by two parliamentary researchers from the Victoria State Parliament (Australia) and two parliamentary researchers from the Parliament of New Zealand. Photo: UNDP Fiji
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