COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

6.31 The representative of the Ministry participated as
resource person in a workshop organized by the Rajasthan
and Gujarat Governments, to gender analyse their budgets
State level orientation workshop on Budgeting for Gender equity under the aegis of Sardar Patel Institute of Public
Administration at Ahmedabad.
Strengthening Partnerships: Consultations
with experts
6.32 Consultations on Gender Budgeting are also held
by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to
ensure that views of various stake holders are obtained
while formulating action plans. On 9.1.2007, a meeting
was held with representatives of UNIFEM, UNDP and
various experts to prepare a Manual For Gender Budgeting
for the Central Ministries and States for the Eleventh Plan.
Path ahead
Working Group Recommendation for Gender Budgeting
in the Eleventh Plan
6.33 A Sub-Group on Gender Budgeting was set-up as
part of the Working Group on Empowerment of Women
for Eleventh Five Year plan. Two meetings of the Sub-
Group were held along with consultations. The Report of
the Sub Group was incorporated as a part of the Working
Group on Women and submitted to the Planning
Commission.
Major recommendations of the Working
Group
6.34 Gender Budgeting cannot be restricted only to
government programmes and schemes. If it is to be truly
successful and beneficial to women, the process has to
permeate and penetrate to all sectors (government and non
government), policies and strategies and reach out to all
sections of the governance and the community. Only then
can gender budgeting completely fulfill its objective of
truly empowering women keeping in view this macro
vision of gender budgeting. The recommendations for the
Eleventh plan are as follows :
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