PH lauded in gender budgeting efforts

THE Philippines has made remarkable achievements in genderresponsive budget policy initiatives, according to a working paper published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Gender budgeting is ideally a gender-related goals into budgetary commitments. A few countries in the region have begun such efforts, and can help more countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals with regard to gender equality, it explained.

For instance, the legislative mandates for gender budgeting in the Philippines and South Korea are remarkable achievements and are contributing to their efforts.

“The Philippines provides an example of how gender budgeting can be applied at both national and subnational levels,” it said.

The publication noted that gender-responsive budget policy initiatives started at the national level in the Philippines with the Gender and Development (GAD) budget in 1995.

The GAD budget made a provision for earmarking at least 5 percent of all departmental expenditure on programs for women in national and sub-national budgets.

“The GAD budget policy led

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