1. Costing Experiences and Methodologies for Gender
Equality
Increasing Financing for Gender Equality: Strategies
and Challenges
Sta Cruz, Bolivia, 10-12 September
2013

2. CHALLENGES
• What needs to be assessed?
 High economic volatility
 Donors and multilaterals
 High fragmentation of aid
 Core vs non-core
 Reduced budgets in some multilateral and bi-lateral
agencies
 Countries
 Weak and narrow tax bases
 Weak re-distribution
 Strengthening extractive industry to increase revenues
 Fiscal and budgetary reforms
 Fiscal evasion
 Trade

3. OPPORTUNITIES
– Inclusion of gender equality in the post 2015
development agenda
– Inclusion of gender equality in the commitments
relating to aid effectiveness (Busan)
– Inclusion of gender equality in other processes and
international commitments and recommendations
(Rio+20, social protection floor, etc.)
– Interagency work (UN)
– Rationalization of the aid efforts on the part of donors
(reduction of fragmentation and joint work with
multilaterals to increase the impact of aid)

4. STRATEGIES
GRB
• Widen horizon
COSTING
• Methodologies
• Approach
PRODUCTION
AND ANALYSIS
OF DATA
• Quantitative
• Qualitative

5. STRATEGIES
• RIGHTS
– Legal frameworks (national and international) should be
used to strengthen the evidence based approach in favour of
more resources or improving their use
– Intergovernmental processes for monitoring international
commitments should include monitoring of financial
resources to achieve them
– National legislations should also include budgets for
implementation
– THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND
PARLIAMENTS (SHOULD NOT FORGET THE POLITICAL
DIMENSION)

6. STRATEGIES
• GRB: widen the horizon of this strategy of gender
mainstsreaming
– More fiscal analysis and proposals (micro-simulations,
statistical analysis and modeling of time use surveys, joint
analysis of these and other available surveys)
– Monitoring of the impacts of GRB (earmarked budgetary
resources, classifications, etc.)
– Develop tools to measure the impact on gender equality of
other sectors
– Use GRB to increase the number and proportion of women
in the higher spheres of government (technical, management
and political)

7. STRATEGIES
• COSTING: different tools and approaches for
governments and advocates
– Costing of gender equality plans and legislations (measures
and or impacts)
– Costing of problems and crimes (VAW, maternal mortality,
under employment, wage gap and access to resources,
informality, multiple discrimination, low activity and
employment, glass ceiling)…
– ….and of solutions (improvement of prevention and services,
universal access, inclusion of unpaid care work in the design
of fiscal and para-fiscal policies, programmes to promote
women and elimination of wage gaps, transition to formality,
employment policies

8. STRATEGIES
• DATA PRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS: Quantitative
and qualitative, survey and administrative
– Make better use of data in countries where statistical
institutes are being strengthened in the area of gender
statistics and continue to support and continue to build
capacity in those where they are lagging
– Improve the research capacity (modeling and software) in
the statistical and academic institutes in order to improve the
analysis and improve the analysis and policy design and
implementation through better use of surveys and
administrative data
– Combine quantitative and qualitative methods and promote
multidisciplinary teams

9. THANKS!