The training summary of Gender Responsive Budget Preparation Training Itahari

Training date: 29 to 31 October, 2021

Training Venue: Maa Kamakhya Hotel Triyuga, Itahari, Sunsari

Background: Nepal's constitution makes all citizens equal in terms of law, The right to equality is guaranteed to all citizens with the commitment to protection. Nepal is a party nation to various National and International Conventions. In line, Nepal government has committed for gender equality, women empowerment and social inclusion. It was mandatory provision to allocate the certain budget for women, dalit and ethnicity during unitary government system. But after transferring Nepal into federal system, the provision is not mandatory in Local Government. Only part of the budget is being allocated in gender responsive. Due to which a large part of women population is deprived of education, health, economic empowerment etc. That is why, it's important to make the gender responsive budget preparation guideline by province government. That can guide local government during budget planning.

To help with this process, the Province Training Centre organized the three-days gender responsive budget preparation training in Itahari. The programme was planned as per the PASIP work plan 2021/2022. The GRB training helps province government staffs to prepare, implement and monitor the gender responsive budget in province.

Objective of the training:

• To capacitate staffs of province government on gender responsive budget preparation, so that they can contribute for gender equality, empowerment and to mainstream gender in the development process.
• To achieve the result of PCGG/PLGSP under outcome 3 and output 13.2.4.

Outputs Delivered: Total 20 participants benefited from this training. The training found fruitful.

Disaggregate data of participants:

Testimonial:

Mrs. Pushpalata Upreti- Ministry of Economic affairs and Planning, gave her remarks during closing session of GRB training. " The training is very fruitful to us. The study of different organizations shows that the economic development of the country depends on equal development of men and women. In the context of Nepal most of women are engage in unpaid work. It's hard to grow the economic development of Nepal until economic empowerment of women. The overall training management was remarkable including hotel management."

 Mr Bidur Poudel- Department chief, "I realized that the training contents designed for basic knowledge which is very useful for us. The Province Training Centre have to develop the advanced level content for next training so that we can replicate the gained knowledge in our task. We always need support from Province Training Centre to enhance our capacity."