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2013 United Nations Public Service Forum Day and Awards Ceremony “Transformative e-Government and Innovation: Creating

FORUM FOR WOMEN IN DEMOCRACY. Developing capacity of public institutions to formulate gender sensitive plans and budgets: Uganda’s Experience A presentation by Mukunda Julius Mugisha, Senior Program Director Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) Kampala, Uganda julius.mukunda@fowode.org.

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2013 United Nations Public Service Forum Day and Awards Ceremony “Transformative e-Government and Innovation: Creating

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  1. FORUM FOR WOMEN IN DEMOCRACY Developing capacity of public institutions to formulate gender sensitive plans and budgets: Uganda’s ExperienceA presentation by Mukunda Julius Mugisha, Senior Program Director Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE)Kampala, Uganda julius.mukunda@fowode.org 2013 United Nations Public Service Forum Day and Awards Ceremony “Transformative e-Government and Innovation: Creating a Better Future for All” 24-27 June 2013 Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain

  2. Background

  3. Background

  4. Recent institutional Developments for GRB in Uganda

  5. Recent institutional Developments for GRB in Uganda

  6. Recent institutional Developments for GRB in Uganda

  7. Recent institutional Developments for GRB in Uganda

  8. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB

  9. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB

  10. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB • Content development for GRB in Uganda • The five step approach

  11. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB

  12. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB

  13. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB

  14. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB

  15. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB

  16. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB • COURSE CONTENT • Key components of the modules include: • Gender and Economics • Gender-responsive policy analysis • Unpaid care work • Gender, data and indices • Employment and labor markets • Gender and poverty • Gender and Macroeconomics • Gender and macroeconomic strategies in Africa, part I • Gender and macroeconomic strategies in Africa, part II • Gender and trade • Gender and access to finance • Public finance and gender-responsive budgeting

  17. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB

  18. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB

  19. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB • Target groups • The Communities • We have discovered that when communities are organized, mobilized and empowered serviced delivery improves and corruption in harder to sustain • We have introduced in Uganda the concept of Village Budget Clubs • These are groups of grassroots women and men who are training in gender budget monitoring and service delivery tracking

  20. Building Capacities of Public Institutions in GRB • The group is charged with monitoring money flow into their community and how it has been utilized • The groups monitors government facilities to find out how resources are being utilized • The groups organizes the communities at larger and share their experiences in the budget monitoring exercises • The groups interfaces with duty bearers on the issues raised during

  21. Challenges of building Capacities of Public Institutions on GRB

  22. Conclusion • Investing in capacity development initiatives is crucial in fighting gender inequality. Whereas most of the training initiative have focused on policy makers, its now time to look at grassroots communities.. When communities are organized and trained in gender budgeting corruption is harder to sustain and service delivery improves.

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