OSCE Mission to Montenegro continues to support ministries in gender-responsive budgeting process
In co-operation with the Secretariat to the Competitiveness Council of Montenegro and the Ministry of Finance, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized the training course for six ministries on gender-responsive budget analysis on 11 May 2022 in Podgorica.
The workshop supported the Ministries of: Defence; Finance; Economic Development; Human and Minority Rights; Science and Technological Development; Culture and Media and of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management to conduct gender analysis in the budget process.
More than 20 participants learned about gender-responsive budgeting; its impact on budgetary policies and methods to conduct gender analysis. Emphasis was on practical work that included data collection, defining and reporting on indicators.
Aleksandra Crvenica, Mission’s Democratization Senior Programme Assistant, said that the Mission is committed to integrating a gender perspective into policies, including the budget, to create a more equal and just society and correct inequalities.
Natasa Obradović, a consultant for gender responsive budgeting, said that gender-responsive budget analysis in five steps is the basis for developing gender-responsive budgeting. “Its development creates preconditions for improving fiscal and sectoral policies as well as planning budget programmes, to respond to the needs of different genders and social groups,” said Obradović.
The Mission will continue to support the government and its institutions in their efforts to adopt and implement gender-responsive policies.