Institutionalizing and scaling-up Gender-responsive budgeting

ongoing

The development policy loan contributes to the inclusion of GRB in Jordan’s budget cycle, and its pilot implementation by four line ministries. Besides, it sets the grounds for the implementation of consolidated commitments to gender equality. A technical assistance program, implemented by UN Women, supports direct GRB stakeholders: the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, the General Budget Department, the National Commission for Women and the four pilot ministries (Health, Education, Labor, Political and Parliamentary Affairs). The pro-gram also seeks to mobilize a second circle of actors, respectively and according to their mandate on the production of data and the monitoring of the Jordanian Government’s commitments