Gender responsive budgeting

A couple winnows rice paddy at Rajshahi cultivation area of Bangladesh during harvesting time of rice. Local finance enterprise of Rajshahi district helped farmers for cultivation paddy. They got good crops this year, so they can easily return their loan and will get a good profit. Rajsshahi, Bangladesh. Photo: United Nations/M. Yousuf Tushar

UN Women in Bangladesh supports the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs and Ministry of Finance to reinforce government’s ongoing GRB mechanism to ensure adequate financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment. We are developing trainings and orientation programmes for government officials and a GRB monitoring and evaluation framework to measure progress of GRB interventions in the country. Ministry of Women and Children Affairs will be supported to pilot a database for administrative data which will be sex-disaggregated and participatory gender responsive budgeting in local government institutions.