{"id":3351151,"date":"2021-08-19T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/?p=3351151"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:45:46","slug":"recommendations-for-public-consultations-on-municipal-budget-allocations-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/recommendations-for-public-consultations-on-municipal-budget-allocations-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations for Public Consultations On Municipal Budget Allocations for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gender responsive budgeting requires that funds be spent among diverse\nmen, women, boys and girls to address their specific needs and priorities. Law\nno. 05 \/ L-020 on Gender Equality makes gender responsive budgeting mandatory\nfor public institutions in Kosovo, including municipalities<\/em>, ministries\nand other budget organizations. Pursuant to this law, non-implementation of\ngender responsive budgeting practices is considered a violation by the\ncompetent court and sanctions are imposed accordingly. Also, the Ministry of\nFinance, Labor and Transfers through the Budget Circular requires gender\nresponsive budgeting to be included as an annex to the budget allocations\nrequest for 2022. The Kosovo Women\u2019s Network (KWN) requests that each\nmunicipality ensure the inclusion of the required annex with gender responsive\nbudgeting related data when submitting annual budget requests, in accordance\nwith the Law on Gender Equality and budget circulars. According to the best\ngender responsive budgeting practices<\/a>, also used by the Kosovo Institute\nfor Public Administration (KIPA), this annex includes and\/or is based on: 1) an\nanalysis of the different needs of women and men in the municipality; 2) how\ndifferent women and men benefited from the previous budget, and any unaddressed\nneeds from the same; and 3) municipal targets with indicators towards\nincreasing gender equality through expenditures in 2022, addressing any\ninequalities identified by gender analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, we request for Gender Equality Officers\nto be involved in municipalities and women’s civil society organizations to be\nincluded in the process of organizing public consultations, as provided by Law\n03 \/ L-048 on Public Financial Management and Accountability, and to engage\nmore women in all budget processes. In addition to the requirements for\nintegrating gender responsive budgeting into all budget phases, we have some\nrecommendations for municipal budget lines for better funding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Ensure that economic recovery measures support men and women\naccording to their different needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Allocate funds for mandatory training by KIPA for all civil servants\nwith relevant responsibilities related to gender equality and gender responsive\nbudgeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Allocate a budget for training and mentoring officials and for\nbuilding their capacities related to gender mainstreaming in all public\npolicies at the local level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Allocate sufficient budget for the Office for Gender Equality to\nenable the implementation of activities related to the promotion of gender\nequality in their municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Allocate sufficient budget to conduct ex ante and ex post gender\nimpact assessments to inform all policies, actions, and budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women’s Economic\nEmpowerment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Approve fiscal policies and incentives to develop women’s\nbusinesses, including in the agricultural sector. The municipality should\nanalyze the main obstacles faced by women’s businesses during and after the\npandemic, as well as develop policies that would help overcome these obstacles.\nAffirmative measures could include but not necessarily be limited to\nfacilitating the payment of utility bills, tax relief, access to loans, as well\nas increasing the share of municipal expenditures in subsidies for women’s\nbusinesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Take special measures and make continuous efforts within the\nmedium-term measures to identify violations of rights by the informal economy,\nespecially, but not limited to the agricultural sector (example: increase the\nnumber of inspectors or build the capacity of current inspectors to develop a\ngender-responsive \u201cDo No Harm\u201d approach when addressing the informal economy,\naddressing the needs of women in this sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addressing\ngender-based violence<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Allocate sufficient resources, based on gender analysis and\ngender-responsive budgeting, to fully implement municipal responsibilities to\naddress all forms of gender-based violence, especially in terms of\nrehabilitation and reintegration into society (which hitherto has had\ninsufficient resources, as shown by findings from KWN’s \u201cFrom Words\nto Action<\/a>\u201d research). For example, allocate a sufficient budget for more\nsocial service officers and for implementing rehabilitation case management\nplans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Provide shelter facilities \/ buildings in municipalities where they\nare not available, as well as social housing for persons who have suffered\ngender-based violence to live independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Budget sufficiently for providing obligatory basic and\nmulti-sectoral training for government officials working within municipalities\non issues such as gender equality, gender-based violence, referrals and\nmunicipal budget commitments, and providing these services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equal, quality\neducation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Allocate funds to increase the number of child care centers and\npre-school centers in proportion to the number of children in need at the local\nlevel. This will also increase children’s educational performance, help create\nnew jobs, and enable more women to enter the workforce, according to KWN\u2019s\nresearch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Include in the Directorate of Education at the local level a budget\nfor teachers in Lower Secondary and Upper Secondary Education be trained on\ndelivering gender-transformative teaching towards reducing gender inequalities,\ntransforming gender roles and existing gender norms on power relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health care<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Provide sufficient budget for the provision of reproductive health\nservices in all municipalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gender responsive budgeting requires that funds be spent among diverse men, women, boys and girls to address their specific needs and priorities. Law no. 05 \/ L-020 on Gender Equality makes gender responsive budgeting mandatory for public institutions in Kosovo, including municipalities, ministries and other budget organizations. Pursuant to this law, non-implementation of gender responsive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3351144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351153,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351151\/revisions\/3351153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3351144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensnetwork.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}