1. 1 Financing Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Presented by Aloisea Inyumba Minister of Gender and Family Promotion 10/9/2015

2. 2 Outline  Introduction  Financing Gender Equality priorities  Role of Gender Machineries in mainstreaming gender in planning and budgeting processes  Collaboration between Gender Machineries and MINECOFIN, sector ministries and women organizations  Supporting Gender Machineries to advance financing for Gender Equality goals  Challenges  Way forward  Conclusion

3. 10/9/20153 Introduction: Gender Equality priorities  Gender equality is regarded as a development issue  Ensure participation of all people (men and women, girls and boys) in governance and in pursuing the entire development agenda. The priorities are enshrined in various policy, legal and institutional frameworks;  The 2003 Constitution as amended to date (Affirmative Action)  EDPRS and Vision 2020, MDGs instruments (Gender is a cross cutting issue)  The major priority for gender equality in Rwanda is mainstreaming gender in all development pillars: Governance, Economic development, Social welfare and Justice;

4. Gender Machineries/Mechanisms  Ministry of Gender under the Prime Minister’s office  Gender Monitoring Office  National Women Councils  Gender focal points in all ministries (directors of planning, per Prime Minister’s instructions)  Gender officers in each district throughout Rwanda  Gender standing committee in Parliament  Political and governance standing committee in Senate  Gender Responsive Budgeting Project in MINECOFIN, Gender Desks in National Police and Rwanda Defense Forces  Gender clubs in all high institutions of learning, etc. 10/9/20154

5. 5 How Gender Equality priorities are financed  Financing GE priorities is made through 4 main channels:  Budget re- prioritization (The budget is not increased but rather redistributed to suit programs that are Gender sensitive);  Pro poor and gender sensitive programs, special programs based on affirmative action principle are funded as stand alone interventions; One Cow per poor family, Mutuelles de sante, Bye Bye Nyakatsi, Ubudehe, VUP, Agaseke, Anti- Malaria, etc.

6. Financing cont’d Targeted and specific Gender Equality programs: budget is earmarked to target for instance, affirmative actions that enhance gender equality like girls education, encouraging girls to go for Science and Technology subjects/courses; Off-budget financing: From development partners, Civil Society Organizations, charity organizations to support Gender Equality, joint programming efforts 10/9/20156

7. Financing priorities cont’d  However, even though these channels are in place, the actual financing may not be sufficient for the machineries to actually carry out the huge mandate.  Gender Responsive Budgeting ought to target the capacities of the machineries themselves. 10/9/20157

8. 8 Role of Gender machineries in mainstreaming gender in planning and budgeting processes Gender machinery plays critical role in:  Coordination of the gender equality promotion agenda;  Policy advocacy, resource mobilization and influencing for gender equality;  Capacity building and empowerment for gender equality  Provide inputs in national gender equality tools, e.g. the budget call circular, the Gender Budget Statements;  Development of Gender Sensitive indicators;  Participate in Monitoring and Evaluation of the implementation of gender equality commitments.

9. 10/9/20159 Collaboration between Gender machinery and MINECOFIN and women organizations  Gender cluster  Joint sector review  Reviewing their action plans  Technical core team  Sector working groups  Public expenditure tracking by Civil Society Organizations

10. Challenges  Weak synergy and coordination between gender machineries.  Poor gender analysis and planning  Limited availability of sex disaggregated data  Poor attitude towards gender responsive budgeting  Need to focus on economic development 10/9/201510

11. Supporting gender machinery to advance financing for Gender Equality goals  Capacity building  Develop a common gender communication strategy  Establish clear gender databanks 10/9/201511

12. The Way Forward  Allocate more resources to build the capacity of gender machineries  Grow more expertise on gender analysis  Strengthen communication and advocacy about gender issues  Increased dialogue on funding 10/9/201512

13. Conclusion  Harnessing the positive political will and strengthening the institutions is the key to creating more effective development. 10/9/201513

14. Thank you for your attention 10/9/201514