Resolution: Inspecting the budget for gender equality and empowerment, and ask governments to increase the amount/ratio

Recognizing the importance of the macro finance to progress gender equality and gender empowerment;

Recognizing the purport of the priority theme of 52nd UNCSW; “Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women;

Recognizing that the importance of official budgets by the government and other organizations like UNIFEM as the direction of discussion at NGO workshop at 52nd CSW;
Each affiliate should inspect their country’s national budget from the standpoint for gender equality and empowerment, and should ask for their government to annually increase 1% of the amount and/or ratio to total budgets, and appeal and suggest the appropriateness of the gender equality budget.

All the activities and actions can be started based on the budget, and the biggest financial backers are the governments. To act toward the empowerment of women, and to release women from the circumstances of not being able to have the human right, it is very important to recognize the amount of budget allocated for gender equality. For these reasons, analyzing the amount of the budget to total budget, making it public, and cooperate each other to improve the following year’s budget.

IMPLEMENTATION:

Each federation checks their national budget focusing on gender related items and amount, and the categories divided as gender budget by their government. For this activity, explanatory meetings by government officials must be organized. Each federation proposes the increase of amount and the amendment of items after exchanging ideas and data among other federations. Analyzing the budget focused on gender equality in ODA will be also included.