regional workshop on gender budgeting organized by department of women and child development-goi in...
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REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENDER REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENDER BUDGETINGBUDGETING
Organized byOrganized by Department of Women and Child Development-GOIDepartment of Women and Child Development-GOI
In Collaboration withIn Collaboration with
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) And And
Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA)Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA)New Delhi, New Delhi,
23-24, November 200523-24, November 2005
Building Budgets from BelowBuilding Budgets from Belowpresentation bypresentation by
Ahalya S Bhat, SSF Ahalya S Bhat, SSF on theon the
Methodology and Tool Developed in Karnataka to Enable Women in Methodology and Tool Developed in Karnataka to Enable Women in Local Government to Design Fiscal PolicyLocal Government to Design Fiscal Policy
Presentation shows the STEPS required to ensure an outcome out of a process.
It emphasizes the importance of process in generating outcome
The following slides represent • Process used• Value of partnership• Adoption of other methodologies• Merging of methodologies to generate outcome
Prelude
Women at the grassroots, have always and world wide shown their capacity to design,build and manage development .
However , women’s participation in governance including budget matters, education, employment , etc has not materialized
Yet in India there has been recognition of the need to include women in governance for many decades
Background
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Review of Government initiativesReview of Government initiatives
First Women's Association with village panchayatby Balwant Rai Mehta Committee in 1957
First Women's Association with village panchayatby Balwant Rai Mehta Committee in 1957
1983 Karnataka introduced reservation of 25% of seats1983 Karnataka introduced reservation of 25% of seats
73rd & 74th amendments 1993, was the next major stepwhich provides 1/3rd reservation for women
73rd & 74th amendments 1993, was the next major stepwhich provides 1/3rd reservation for women
Singamma Sreenivasan FoundationSingamma Sreenivasan Foundation-A profile-A profileSSF is a public charitable trust dedicated towards the empowerment of women and conservation of nature.
Objectives:Objectives:To facilitate the advancement of women To improve their conditions of living and employment . To document and disseminate information related to women.Few activities undertakenFew activities undertaken
Strengthening Women’s participation in District Level Governance Creating infrastructure facilities for training rural women in growing and processing of medicinal plants Human Rights Education Evaluation of schemes for Women in Karnataka
Need to link Economic Governance to Political Governance
With federation formed there was a need to develop technical skills.
Need of the hour – Empowerment of women in Economic Governance
`Building Budgets from Below’ was built on the foundation (Women federation) that was already laid by SSF
Federation members expressing their views
Aim of the Foundation
Enabling the women from Grassroot level
to develop plan and Building Budgets from Below
in local self government with women’s leadership
Building Budgets From BelowBuilding Budgets From Below
Objectives
1. Linking economic governance to political governance.
2. Examining and analyzing the budget of both the State
and the Local Governments and helping elected women
to participate in budget preparation.
Project was implemented in 3 phases
Over a period of three years a tool/ a methodology has been evolved in enabling elected women to know and participate in development planning and financing at local level. This process has been in partnership with
•UNIFEM/ European Union•State Government of Karnataka•Janagraha (Citizen's movement committed to increasing citizen participation in local government: the practice of participatory democracy).
Designing a methodology
Steps required to achieve the outcome in summary
Women’s connectivity, Intense process of participation Statistical data/surveys Women’s political will
The experience proved that women elected to local councils whoare never exposed to Budget, Politics/ Education can be agentsof change & can learn techniques and use them.
Sites Location: Federation Sites Location: Federation of womenof women
In Karnataka the federation was formed in 9 districts
The Federations were also formed in 3 southern states –Kerala, Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu
W orkshop to influence theensuing budget
III round of m eetingunderstand relation betw een
revenue & expenditure
II round of m eetingprioritize the problem s &
preparing vision statem ent
I round of m eetingproblem s identification in sites
Im plem enting Janaagraha technique
Dem ystify the budget
Data collectionPrim ary & Secondary
Quantita ive & qualitative
Selection of sites
W om en to be organised by collective
Outline of nine steps
The process required 9 Steps to enable the outcome
The First Brick- Women to be organised in a collective. Usually this is done by women’s organisations.
This was undertaken by SSF through a project “Associating Women in Local Self Government”
SSF formed association of 684 Elected members of panchayats in Karnataka in 9 districts during 2000- 2005
On a common platform
Out of these 9 districts where women had formed federations, SSF choose 2 GPs and 2 Urban areas for enabling women’s participation in economic governance
Step II- sites selection
1. Honaganahalli Gram Panchayat in Bijapur district.
2. Kogali Gram Panchayat in Bellary district.
3. Udupi City Municipal Council & Tumkur City Municipal Council.
4. Mysore City Corporation In Phase II and Phase
III – Tumkur was selected in place of Udupi
Step III – Data Collection
Two levels of data collection was doneQuantitative data:
Collecting state level budgetary allocations & of selected sites i.e. Secondary Data
Primary data collection in the selected sites Socio-economic profiles of EWRsSocio-economic profiles of SitesWorking of Public distribution systemsAvailability of health servicesMAPS showing the resources available
Qualitative information on their knowledge of budgets was collected from EWRs through check list
EWRs, women folk participating in the deliberation
Step IV - Demystify the budget
Enabled EWRs to demystify the budget by presenting the data to them through participatory mock sessions 1. Engaging women in number of meetings used to
understand the area and develop a Budget as they would like to see
it i.e., the “Ought” Budget
2. Presenting them the actual budget and the ought budget and letting them understand the gap between the Actual Budget and Ought Budget
3. Through this process the women were enabled to understand –
• What was a Budget• How Budget was prepared• How to influence the Budget
Findings :
Awareness : Women were kept in dark
Perception : Lack of knowledge in governance
Participation : Very minimal and opportunity was not given
No System to impart knowledge to elected representatives. No linkage between Actual Budget and the `Ought Budget’ prepared by women Given an opportunity with training, women are capable of participating in the budget process.
Bridging the Gap – Between Logistics and execution to bring measurable outcome
• Problems were identified
• Data collected and analysis was done
• Lacked technique/Methodology to solve the problem
• There was need for intervention to bridge this gap
In this backdrop Janaagraha joined hands with SSF
SSF adopted the technique of Janaagraha
In order to bridge the gap..
• Collecting data on revenue & expenditure• Community participation/ participatory democracy• Citizens engage with the government as communities and not as individuals• Bringing awareness to the citizens• Having three cornered meeting
SSF adopted this technique in the GPs and Municipalities to achieve the outcome
In case of Janaagraha it is limited to urban body and with citizen represented by ward committee in the city
Step V- Site Interventions
The technique of Janaagraha was implemented .
The stakeholders i.e, SHG members, EWRs, Bureaucrats, Decision Makers, other NGOs participated.
Focus on identifying critical issues, find suitable solutions and arrive at financial requirements.
Women lobby was formed to influence the budget
25 round of meetings were held
Women participating in the meeting & learning about the budget process
Meetings/DeliberationsStep VI Round I
Discussions with EWRs, SHG members, local women folk & decision makers. Providing platform for involvement of women Identification of problems in the sites
Step VIIRound II
Women identified and prioritized problems , recommended solutions to authorities in GP & wards Prepared `vision document’ for ward /GP which enabled EWRs to allocate in the ensuing budget The concerned corporators, Presidents accepted accountability.
Step VIIIRound III
Ensure that the EWRs are aware of the appropriate budget head under which to seek allocation Enable EWRs to identify the streams of revenue in their area Understand the relationship between the available revenue and the required expenditure.
Step IXWorkshop
Organized before the beginning of financial year so EWRs could influence the budget 2005-06.
Positive outcome in 2005-06 Budget
Mysore City Corporation:
- An ad hoc “Women and Child Welfare Committee” to be constituted
- IWDP enhanced- Rs 5-10 lakhs
- To buy sewing machines for women enhanced-Rs 7-10 lakhs
- New head `Nirmala Nagara Yojana’ created with Rs 10000 to each local habitat group
- Number of women self groups increased from 2-4.
00.10.20.30.40.50.60.70.80.9
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(Rs in million)
Acc RE BE
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06
Expenditure towards Schemes exclusively for Women
(IWDP) (IWWA)
Formation residential association Sewing machines for(EBP)
Training Assistance to PH & LP(Women)
Const of SSS Contribution to girls hostel
Tumkur City Municipal Council:
A separate head for women in the budget earmarking 1% of the total budget to women’s development was introduced
Honaganahalli GP:
Budget was allocated for construction of bus stop in Jumnal village as well as to raise the compound walls of public toilet for women Allocations were made for repairing of toilets for women
Kogali GP:
The EWRs & President of GP assured that suitable allocations would be made for improving the roads, distribution of ration cards, toilets facilities
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