THE GENDER APPROACH IN THE STATE BUDGET

1. THE GENDER APPROACH IN THESTATE BUDGET Documentation of the experience of the inclusion of the Gender Approach in the Ministry of Finance of Ecuador.

2. The State doesn’t investment in gender. General State Budget Dirección de Equidad y Género 2010 The K function It was incorporated in the Operating Budget Books First Prize for Global Initiatives in Contest Global Gender Initiatives organized by the Government of the Republic Germany. After evaluation and seeing its limitations we changed it for Classifier Expenditure in Gender Policy. Linkingplanningwithbudgeting Make it visible the job the State does on gender equality Linking the activities of the programs contained in institutional budgets with strategic goals and objectives of the overall planning or certain public policies to verify in what extent they are being incorporated in the budget, also to help to monitor budget execution Input in formulating public policy This information is used for resource redirection It will help register several transversalities It is applicable to all types of expense Facilitatesaccountability

3. USD 34’MM 2011 276 PublicEntities The K function Classifier Expenditure in Gender Policy. 740 PublicEntities USD 427.806.123,62 2012 What is the initiative about? 2014/ june 301 PublicEntities USD 444.488.066,67 These categories have full for Ecuadorian Women, which is also sheltered by the Constitution and international law. It is important to notice, the ease of use of the tool, not just the social sector entities have registered their gender investment, but not traditionals sectors such as Defense and Jurisdictional have as well used it. registration with the Plan of Good Living and Non-Discrimination

4. Who proposed the solution ? Just created the Gender Unit, it was possible to operationalize an agreement that was signed with the current UN Women, and it was included the collaboration with the German Technical Cooperation, GIZ joined today. Prior to the inclusion into the system of public finance an important and long validation process was done with all the coordination ministries and the entity of women that in Ecuador is the Transition Commission for Gender Equality.

5. How and when the initiative was implemented Budget with Gender Approach

6. Chronology of Implementation . .

7. Problems and Solutions Currently we are working with the General State Comptroller to report the inclusion of gender approach in the public service.

8. Resources and key benefits The Ministry of Finance, in these four years has used about $ 200,000. Resources come from the institutional budget. The activities have been funded by UN Women with a contribution of $ 150,000, plus technical assistance. Funds were obtained from the Belgian cooperation. The German Cooperation GIZ, has invested about $ 120,000 in addition to technical assistance. The resources were obtained from the budget for cooperation for Ecuador.

9. Sustentability of the Initiative Budgetary framework which supports the gender perspective ComputerSystem of PublicFinancial Ecuador e-Sigef Direction of Fiscal Gender Equity The initiative is fully sustainable and replicable because: Currently we have approaches that consider: disabilities, intercultural, intergenerational (childhood and adolescence, youth and elderly), human mobility and in 2016 we will include the environmental. Diffusion to several international forums

10. Impacts and lessons learned

11. CAROLA YANEZ CABRERA cyanez@finanzas.gob.ec