Gender Budgeting in Morocco

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What is gender budgeting?

 

Gender budgeting involves the analysis of the national budget’s impact on men and women. It allows :

 

·     An effective, participative, and equitable management of the budget ;

·     A practical   follow-up and a more general evaluation of public expenses ;

 

·     To increase transparency and to encourage accountability towards citizens, men and women.

 

Gender Budgeting  in Morocco

 

The importance of Gender budgeting is already recognized in Morocco as a tool to:

·     Make public policies and budgeting more transparent and efficient ;

·     Reduce differentgender dimensions of poverty and inequalities ;

·      Integrate gender dimension in human resources, capacity building, knowledge management, and in corporate communication practices on a daily basis. 

Actions

A set of reforms have already been realized by the Kingdom with an integrated Gender approach in budget planning and execution. The objective of the reforms were to reinforce equality and equity principles as in the reform of the family code, nationality code, labor code, and electoral code.  

The National initiative for human development (INDH) has recently maintained again this approach by insisting on the autonomy (empowerment) of women and men, young and old persons, as a strategic pillar to achieve human development objectives of the country.

 

Every year, the Ministry of Finances releases a "Gender Report" on gender budgeting achievements elaborated by the management, in terms of policies pursued, programs set up, budgeting allocations, and their impact on Gender.

 

Support of the World Bank in gender budgeting

 

The Bank's support was first defined by a methodological feasibility study of gender in 2002. Then, a Gender analysis of the 1997-98 national budget was achieved in the Public Expenditures Review's framework.

 

In regards to gender related work, an analytical study was achieved in 2007 ("The Environment for Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa"), and recently an overview of women associations - created in the context of the World Bank rural development project,centered on small and medium hydraulics (DRI-PMH) –was achieved in 2008. A study on gender and employment will be soon released.

 

Workshop on gender budgeting – October 21-22, 2008 in Rabat

 

Through the Technical Assistance's framework, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Financial Studies and Prospects direction – DEPF) and the World Bank organized a capacity building workshop on 21-22 October, 2008 on gender budgeting gathering more than 40 technical staff  of line ministries.

 

Among the issues discussed during the workshop were gender budgeting initiatives, the World Bank's experience in integrating gender dimension in Public expenditures reviews, and also the different mechanisms on how to integrate gender in policies formulation in national planning, and budget processes.

>> Presentations (PDF) :  World Bank's experience, Gender and Public expenditures, Case of Chile and Case of Liberia.

 

Working groups by sectoral Ministry focused then on action steps to take in order to integrate gender budgeting mechanisms in their departmental programs. The actions listed by the participants were institutional reforms, concrete projects proposals or impact studies, ideas of trainings and awareness campaigns.