UN Women launches a report on ‘Budget Call Circulars and Gender Budget Statements in the Asia Pacific’ with the Ministries of Finance
Event description
More than 90 countries have engaged in gender-responsive budgeting worldwide, of which more than a quarter are found in the Asia Pacific region. In fact, Asia Pacific Region is home to some of the earliest and most innovative strategies of GRB. Of the wide range of GRB tools, gender budget statements and budget call circulars are the most popular strategies in the region.
The report published by UN Women collates experiences from 17 countries across the Asia Pacific Region to document the ways in which these two critical financial accountability tools have been adopted in different countries.
Agenda
| 5:30 – 6:15 PM | Welcome Remarks by Roberta Clarke, Regional Director, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Launch of UN Women’s Report ‘ Budget Call Circulars and Gender Budget Statements in the Asia Pacific’ Remarks by Debbie Budlender, Independent Research Consultant and author of the report (via skype) Discussant by Prof. Rhonda Sharp, Adjunct, Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia (via skype) Special Remarks by P. Imrana Jalal, Senior Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development), Asian Development Bank Open Discussion Moderated by Yamini Mishra, GRB Specialist Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UN Women |
| 7 PM onwards | Welcome dinner Co-hosted by Revenue Department, Ministry of Finance, Royal Thai Government and UN Women |