Gender Auditing and Gender Budgeting is a powerful tool for achieving gender mainstreaming and it is a significant concept in the Gender and Development Studies. It is also a methodology to assist and facilitate the government to bring the gender perspective in the budget. Budget is an important instrument to address the needs of the women, men, girls, boys and children in the society. To ensure benefits reach both women and men, the budget should reflect gender perspectives. Gender Budgeting is not mere allocation of a certain percent of resources for men and women. It is also not an accounting exercise but an ongoing process of keeping a gender perspective in policy/ programme formulation, its implementation and review. The review of gender budgeting could be carried out through gender auditing at the grassroots levels through appropriate participatory tools and techniques. Gender budgeting recognize that men and women perform different roles in society. Due to role differences, their needs are also different. To address the needs of the women and men, the budget also should reflect gender perspectives. Along with addressing needs of the women and men, the national the budget will have a different impact on women and men. When we analyze gender disaggregated data, women lag behind men in all sectors and all levels. By keeping all this in mind, the course gender auditing and gender budgeting was designed. The Course is part of the MA (Gender and Development Studies) as electives and it is offered in the second year.
The Course will have specific learning objectives which include:
Familiarize the learner about the genesis of gender budgeting at the global and national levels;
Enable learners to critically analyze the concepts of gender audit and gender budgeting and its best practices for addressing needs of all genders specifically women and other marginalized sections in the society; and
Identifying innovative policies, practices and programme related to gender audit and gender budgeting.
| Course Status : | Ongoing |
| Course Type : | Not Applicable |
| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 12 weeks |
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| Credit Points : | 4 |
| Level : | Postgraduate |
| Start Date : | 01 Jan 2025 |
| End Date : | 30 Apr 2025 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 28 Feb 2025 |
| Exam Date : | 25 May 2025 IST |
| Exam Shift : | Shift-II |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
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Dr. G.Uma is an Associate Professor in the School of Gender and Development Studies at Indira Gandhi National Open University. Her primary focus areas are Grassroots Governance, Gender and Development, with a focus on agriculture, Public Policy and Social Capital. She is part of the Programme Development team of the Master Programme in Gender and Development Studies at IGNOU. She has contributed to designing and developing Courses in the Master Programme in Gender and Development Studies. She is also the programme coordinator for the postgraduate certificate programme ‘Gender, Agriculture and Sustainable Development’ and the Bachelor Development Programme (BDP) Elective Course ‘Gender Sensitization: Culture, Society and Change’. Currently, she is working on an M.A. (Gender and Development Studies), a PG Certificate Programme (Gender et al.) and a BDP Course (Gender Sensitization: Culture, Society and Change).
She holds a PhD in Gender and Governance. Her PhD thesis focuses on grassroots governance and critical mass theory. Her research outcomes serve to redefine policy at the micro level, ensure stakeholders recognize the significance of federating women leaders at the grassroots level to realize the affirmative action given through reservation at the Panchayat level in India and provide better service delivery.
Central European University has awarded Dr. Uma a fellowship to complete the “Fiscal Decentralization and Local Financial Management” course. She served as Albert Global Guest Researcher in the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Faculty of Economics and Social Science from September 2014 to December 2014 and November 2012 to December 2012. DAAD sponsored her research assistance.
She has 15 years of work experience in governance and development with a gender perspective, including six years of teaching experience in the Central and State Universities. Since completing her post-graduation, she has been associated with research activities in the areas of local self-governance, social capital, and development issues with a gender perspective.
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