Gender Budget Tagging & Expenditure Tracking (GBT&ET) Training Workshop for Government of Punjab
Gender Budget Tagging & Expenditure Tracking (GBT&ET)
Training Workshop for Government of Punjab
20 December 2023, Lahore
On 20 December 2023, Omar Asghar Khan Foundation designed and conducted a training on Gender Budget Tagging & Expenditure Tracking for about 50 government officials from key departments including Finance, Planning & Development, Women Development, Social Welfare, Health, Education, Population Welfare, Home, Agriculture, Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries, etc.
The training was part of the technical assistance provided by the Foundation since February 2023 through the Sub-National Governance Project to the Government of Punjab to design a Gender Budget Tagging & Expenditure Tracking (GBT&ET) Methodology. The methodology designed by the Foundation was approved by the Working Group chaired by Secretary, Planning & Development Board (P&DB) in September 2023. This was followed by the Foundation using the methodology to analyze Punjab’s budgets of three financial years (FY2020-21, FY2021-22 and FY2022-23). The findings of the analysis were documented and presented to the P&DB, Government of Punjab.
The training helped participants better understand Gender Responsive Budgeting and become familiar with the methodology designed for GBT&ET. In 2024, continued engagement with the Government of Punjab is planned, under which technical assistance will be provided for the uptake and institutionalization of the GBT&ET.