Submission to Inquiry into gender responsive budgeting

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Submission to Inquiry into gender responsive budgeting

Submission to Inquiry into gender responsive budgeting

Women's Health Victoria

Published: 29 November 2019

This submission draws on WHV's specialist expertise in gender equity and women's health to demonstrate the importance of a comprehensive approach to Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) in achieving gender equality.

WHV recommends that Victoria’s gender responsive budgeting process:

Mainstream a gender perspective throughout the budget cycle
Use a gender analysis to inform decisions across all areas of policy and programming
Assess the gender impact of output and asset investment, as well as savings and revenue initiatives
Mainstream gender responsive budgeting across all policy portfolios, including but not limited to economic policy
Ensure a gender transformative framework informs GRB processes
Ensure an intersectional approach is applied to GRB processes
Align GRB with government gender equality goals
Embed gender expertise, tools and resources across all departments, and particularly within the Department of Treasury and Finance
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the GRB approach
Incorporate external GRB expertise to promote accountability and transparency of a GRB process

More information about the Inquiry Into Gender Responsive Budgeting can be found here.

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Women's Health Victoria (2019) Submission to Inquiry into gender responsive budgeting. Women's Health Victoria. Melbourne.

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