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Consultation
on Missing Children in India
24th
January 2007
The gruesome
incidence of Nithari village made us realize how
vulnerable our children are! So to address this
issue, Centre for Social Research in
collaboration with Institute of Social Sciences
organised a consultation on " Missing Children
in India" on 24th January 2007 at office of
Centre for Social Research, New Delhi. The main
objective was to chalk out a strategy to prevent
and develop recovery methods of these millions
of children.
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Gender Budgeting
Gender Budgeting looks at the government budget from a gender perspective to assess how it addresses the needs of women in areas like health, education, employment etc. The main aim of gender budgets is to highlight the gap between policy statements and the resources committed to their implementation, ensuring that public money is spent in more gender equitable ways.
Gender Budgeting must be adopted to address socio-economic discrimination against women because many policy commitments can only be achieved if sufficient funds are allocated for their implementation. Women's and men's needs, concerns and priorities differ due to their different roles in society and in case these differences are not recognized, the way a government raises and spends money can have a negative impact on women by perpetuating the existing inequalities.
Conducting gender budgeting in India is all the more relevant with the growing evidence of gender discrimination even before birth from the trends in juvenile sex ratio; and other socio-economic indicators showing how the bias is getting accentuated in many parts of India. While it is incorrect to say that there is deliberate built-in gender bias in the formulation of budgets in India, but as women and men are at the asymmetric levels of socio-economic development of in India, the existing gender neutrality of budgets can lead to many unintentional negative consequences and this gender inequality can in turn translate into gender blindness.
Gender Budgeting in India
Gender Budgeting
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