OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized two workshops on gender-responsive budgeting
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized two workshops on gender-responsive budgeting in Kolašin and Tivat, on 29 and 30 November and 3 and 4 December, respectively. The Mission engaged experts who delivered the training sessions and conducted a gender budgeting analysis for 14 participants representing municipalities in Kolasin and Tivat. The aim of the events was to help municipal institutions with gender mainstreaming. They were organized in partnership with the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights and its Department for Gender Equality.
The participants were familiarized with the concept of gender responsive budgeting, which ensures that gender equality obligations are reflected in the public budgets. The experts discussed concepts and principles related to gender responsive budgeting and explained how to apply gender mainstreaming to planning and budgeting processes at the municipal level.
They also discussed concrete initiatives relating to gender-responsive budgeting in their municipalities. The initiatives included creating additional funds for women’s sports clubs, providing financial support for a day care centre for school children and a health care facility with a gynecology chair for women with disabilities.
“Gender-responsive budgeting is taking into consideration social differences and structural inequalities for women and men and finding opportunities to eliminate them,” said Goran Ojdanić, Senior Programme Support Assistant at the OSCE Mission to Montenegro.
The Mission will continue to support capacity-building and awareness-raising activities in this area, both at the local and central levels, in the upcoming year.