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

2. General State Budget The State doesn’t investment in gender. The K function First Prize for Global Initiatives in Contest Global Gender Initiatives organized by the Government of the Republic Germany. It was incorporated in the Operating Budget Books After evaluation and seeing its limitations we changed it for Classifier Expenditure in Gender Policy. 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 Linking planning with budgeting Make it visible the job the State does on gender equality Make it visible the job the State does on gender equality 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 Facilitates accountability 2010 Dirección de Equidad y Género

3. 2011 The K function 276 Public Entities 276 Public Entities USD 34’MM 2012 Classifier Expenditure in Gender Policy. 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 USD 427.806.123,62 2014/ june USD 444.488.0 66,67 740 Public Entities 740 Public Entities 301 Public Entities 301 Public Entities What is the initiative about ?

4. 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. Who proposed the solution ?

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

6. . The first phase was the decision of the Ministry of Finance staff to work on gender issues. The second phase was the operativization of an agreement that was signed with UN Women and the incorporation of GIZ The staff of the Gender Unit was trained which created technical responsiven ess in gender percpective The third phase was the awareness of staff of the Ministry of Finance and subsequentl y other public entities In parallel tools were created to register resources for gender Gender Reports were created in the web of the Ministry of Finance. There people can see the resource aimed at reducing gender gaps. Reports to the National Assembly that comes with the annual budget each year in addition to other periodic reports are made Chronology of Implementation

7. Resistance of personal of other public entities in areas of planning and budgeting, because the tool involves a commitment of resources and activities. The resistance of part of the Finance Ministry staff. One of the main problems is the general ignorance of what is involved in gender approach, this is being worked out with sensitization and training. Currently we are working with the General State Comptroller to report the inclusion of gender approach in the public service. Problems and Solutions

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 The initiative is fully sustainable and replicable because: Budgetary framework which supports the gender perspective Computer System of Public Financial Ecuador e-Sigef Direction of Fiscal Gender Equity 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