Budgeting for Equality: An Alliance for Public Management Planning with a Gender Perspective

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

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.