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HARJEET SINGH harjeet@kpwkm.my Deputy Secretary-General (Strategic)

GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGET IN MALAYSIA 13 JUNE 2012. HARJEET SINGH harjeet@kpwkm.gov.my Deputy Secretary-General (Strategic) Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, MALAYSIA. 6 TH MALAYSIA PLAN (1991-1995). SPECIAL CHAPTER: WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT. 10 TH MALAYSIA PLAN

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HARJEET SINGH harjeet@kpwkm.my Deputy Secretary-General (Strategic)

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  1. GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGET IN MALAYSIA 13 JUNE 2012 HARJEET SINGH harjeet@kpwkm.gov.my Deputy Secretary-General (Strategic) Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, MALAYSIA

  2. 6TH MALAYSIA PLAN (1991-1995) SPECIAL CHAPTER: WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT

  3. 10TH MALAYSIA PLAN (2011-2015) FOSTERING PROGRESSIVE AND INCLUSIVE SOCIETY Women are the basis of a happy family and essence of a successful nation. Measures to be taken to increase women's participation at all levels, including decision makers and entrepreneurship. 3

  4. 10TH MALAYSIA PLAN (2011-2015) Related existing laws and regulations will be reviewed to create a more conducive environment to encourage more participation of women in the labour force. Private sector to increase the representation of women, particularly in senior positions such as chief executive officer and members of the board of directors. 4

  5. 10TH MALAYSIA PLAN (2011-2015) To increase women involvement in the labour force Key Programmes To increase women participation at the decision making level To increase allocation to support women with low income and those who are single mother To eliminate all discrimination against women

  6. 10TH MALAYSIA PLAN (2011-2015) • In 2011, the female labour force participation rate is 47.9% compared to men which is 79.8%. • National target is to increase the female labour force participation rate to 55% in 2015.

  7. GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGET

  8. BACKGROUND 2001 Introductory workshops were organised by the Ministry of Women and Family Development

  9. BACKGROUND November 2002 4 ministries were selected A working group was formed An international gender expert and two local consultants were appointed Ministry of Higher Education became part of the pilot ministries March 2004

  10. Human Resources Health Education PILOT MINISTRIES Higher Education Rural Development

  11. INITIATIVES TAKEN Trainings: Workshop for officers of pilot ministries and central agencies July 2003 January & August 2004 Hands-on workshops Training for Budget Review Officers December 2004 Training of trainers June 2005 Trainings by National Institute for Public Administration (INTAN) July 2007 July 2008 Nov 2008 Apr 2009

  12. INITIATIVES TAKEN

  13. INITIATIVES TAKEN • TREASURY CALL CIRCULAR NO. 10 YEAR 2004 & CIRCULAR NO. 2 YEAR 2007 A directive to the pilot ministries to implement gender budgeting for selected programmes for the operating budget for the years 2006 and 2007. • TREASURY CALL CIRCULAR NO. 2 YEAR 2009 Other ministries are encouraged to implement gender budgeting.

  14. Paragraph 21TREASURY CIRCULAR No. 2/2007 • Controlling officers of the pilot ministries are mandated to use gender budget analysis in preparing their budget submissions; • Other ministries are encouraged to do so; • Gender issues could be incorporated in the Objective, Needs/policy analysis, Clients, Functions and Programme evaluation plan; and • Output specification and Impact indicators should based on sex-disaggregated data wherever possible.

  15. Paragraph 34TREASURY CIRCULAR No. 3/2012 • To ensure the continuation of the implementation of gender equality in national budget system, all the ministries and agencies must ensure gender-based needs have been taken account of the planning process.

  16. NOVEMBER Determination of ET by Treasury JANUARY Call Circular for New Year Estimates MARCH Receive submissions and BRO makes Individual Study APRIL Preliminary Analysis MAY-JULY Budget examination JULY - AUGUST Approval of New Year Estimates by the Minister of Finance and Cabinet Agencies prepare and Submit New Year Estimates SEPTEMBER Budget Document Printed and submitted to Parliament Disbursement/Reporting by Accountant General END OF DECEMBER Minister of Finance issues Warrant of Expenditure Budget Execution by Agencies BUDGET CYCLE FEDERAL TREASURY (BUDGET MANAGEMENT DIVISION) SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER Parliament Debates and Approves New Year Budget

  17. Categories of Expenditure Approach Targeted gender-based expenditures of government agencies 1 Equal employment expenditure on government employers 2 General (mainstreaming) budget expenditure judged on its impact on women and men, girls and boys. 3 17

  18. Five-step approach of gender budget analysis Describe the situation of men and women, boys and girls in the sector (Needs analysis/ Clients) 1 Asses the policy, programmes, and projects in terms of their gender sensitivity (Policy/Programme) 2 Asses whether adequate financial and other resources are allocated to implement the gender sensitive policy effectively (Input) 3 18

  19. Programme Agreement (ABM-2) An agreement between the agency and the Ministry of Finance on the input to be used, expected output and the impact of each planned activity. Programme Agreement

  20. FORMAT ABM-2 Items could incorporate gender issues • Supply Head • Agency • Programme • Activity • Code • Source of Authority • Objective • Needs Analysis / Policy • Clients

  21. FORMAT ABM-2 Items could incorporate gender issues • Sources • Functions • Output specification • Impact indicators • Programme evaluation plan

  22. Five-step approach of gender budget analysis Describe the situation of men and women, boys and girls in the sector (Needs analysis/ Clients) 1 Asses the policy, programmes, and projects in terms of their gender sensitivity (Policy/Programme) 2 Asses whether adequate financial and other resources are allocated to implement the gender sensitive policy effectively (Input) 3

  23. Five-step approach of gender budget analysis Monitor whether the expenditure allocated in Step 3 is spent as planned (Output) 4 Assess whether the policy, together with the associated expenditure, has promoted gender equity as intended, and changed the situation described in Step 1 (Impact/Result) 5

  24. PROGRAMME AGREEMENT Stage 1-Preparation of Programme Agreement Stage 2-Implementation of Programme Agreement Implement activities Objective Budget Approval G E N D E R I S S U E S Clients Clients problems Measuring &Monitoring Needs Analysis/Policy Function Alternative policy Performance Report Output Specification Strategy Impact Indicators Continuous Improvement Programme evaluation plan Programme Evaluation

  25. PILOT MINISTRIES AND SELECTED PROGRAMMES

  26. MINISTRIES WHICH INCORPORATED GENDER PERSPECTIVES

  27. GENDER SENSITIVE NATIONAL POLICY AND NATIONAL ECONOMY PLAN

  28. GENDER EQUALITY INTERVENTION Gender Equality Intervention National Budget 2012 • RM 50 million has allocated for HPV vaccination for catch-up group. • RM700 million to build Hospital for women and children • RM 10 million has been allocated to conduct training programmes to attract women professional back to labour force and to increase women in decision-making in the corporate sector.

  29. ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME • Gender perspective has been incorporated into national economy plan, Economic Transformation Programme. • Leveraging Women’s Talent To Increase Productivity is one of the themes under the Human Capital Development Strategic Initiatives Reforms.

  30. PRO POOR GROWTH • programme for the elimination of poverty has a specific target to increase income of poor women household. • Programme 1 Azam – 4,000 women entrepreneurs by 2012 . • RM300 million has been allocated to TabungEkonomi Kumpulan Usaha Niaga (TEKUN) and RM2.1 million has been allocated to TabungKeusahawananAmanahIkhtiar Malaysia for entrepreneurs especially women to be involved in entrepreneurial activities and explore new economy activities.

  31. PUBLIC EXPENDITURE • Annual budget by the ministries National Budget – gender equality intervention • Programme for Pro Poor Growth – 1 Azam Incorporation of gender perspective in Economic Transformation Programme

  32. CHALLENGES

  33. Lack of emphasis on the implementation of gender budgeting Role of BROs in the implementation of gender budget analysis CHALLENGES

  34. Lack of Monitoring Lack of understanding of gender concept and issues Lack of sex disaggregated data Lack of expertise CHALLENGES

  35. CHALLENGES • Gender equality must be one of the national agenda. • With gender equality is one of the national agenda, the national budget must take account of gender perspective and issues. • Each component of the cycle of public sector management system must be gender sensitive.

  36. CHALLENGES • The challenge now is monitoring and evaluation to ensure the effectiveness of the government expenditure as well as to assess the impact of government expenditure on people. • Sex disaggregated data plays an important role in monitoring and evaluation. • Lack of understanding the importance of sex disaggregated data and lack of gender analysis skills among the policy makers.

  37. SEX DISAGGREGATED DATA • Effort to collect and collate sex-disaggregated data in order to identify specific gender issues that affect women and men differently • 2008: Directive by Chief Secretary to all Government agencies to produce sex-disaggregated data • Treasury Call Circular No. 2 Year 2011 : Government agencies to produce sex-disaggregated data for preparation of annual budget

  38. GENDER FOCAL POINT (GFP) • 42 GFPs have been appointed among Deputy Secretary General and Deputy Director General of all ministries and agencies. • Roles of GFP: • to assist the Government in the implementation of gender mainstreaming initiatives; and • to ensure policies and legislation or programmes implemented take into account the gender perspective.

  39. THE WAY FORWARD • Ministry of Finance • Issuance of specific Treasury Circular on gender budgeting • Emphasise on gender budget analysis during the budget examination • Monitor the implementation of Gender Budgeting in accordance with the Circular

  40. THE WAY FORWARD…con’t • Ministries/Agencies • Obligate relevant officers to attend courses on gender budgeting organised by INTAN • INTAN • To develop a pool of trainers (officers from various ministries / agencies to act as resource persons

  41. THE WAY FORWARD…con’t • MWFCD • Intensify training on gender sensitisation to officers in the public sector Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development

  42. THE WAY FORWARD…con’t • Malaysia is moving towards the implementation of outcome-based budgeting (OBB). • MWFCD is cooperating with MOF to include GRB in OBB as: • Both are people oriented budgeting system which based on the needs identified; and • Both are result-based management.

  43. THE WAY FORWARD…con’t • May 2012: Discussions held between MWFCD and MOF • both have common view that GRB can be included in OBB. • Each component of OBB from the needs of clients/stakeholders, strategies, output and outcome must be gender responsive.

  44. THANK YOU

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