WEBINAR | IPPN Knowledge Café: Intersectional Approaches to Disability-inclusive and Gender-responsive Budgeting

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About this webinar

While gender-responsive budgeting primarily consider the impacts of budget measures on gender equality, incorporating intersectional approach to gender budgeting can allow for consideration of how gender inequalities intersect with inequalities based on socio-economic class, race, disability, or other grounds of discrimination.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) includes provisions and obligations related to gender equality. To date, however, normative standards have not been consistently translated into national, sectoral and/or local gender-responsive, disability-inclusive policies and corresponding budgets. Experience with gender-responsive budgeting, and very nascent efforts on budgeting for gender and disability inclusion, provide entry points for intersectional analysis and its application across the policy-setting, planning and budgeting cycle. This Knowledge Café session aims to address knowledge gaps and promote policy discourse on budgeting for gender and disability inclusion.

Agenda

Join this Knowledge Café to better understand intersectional approaches to disability-inclusive and gender-responsive budgeting. Participants will take a deep dive in the recently launched policy and knowledge guidance on disability-inclusive and gender-responsive budgeting, and other resources and tools, and learn from the Joint Programme on “Disability Inclusive Development in Nepal” how to advance disability inclusion in the local governance, with a particular focus on representation of persons with disabilities in planning and budgeting process.

Keynote speakers for this session include:

Dr. A.H. Monjurul Kabir, Global Adviser and Team Leader for Gender and Disability Inclusion, UN Women
Santosh Acharya, Program Specialist, UN Women Nepal
Binda Magar, Governance Advisor, UNDP Nepal
Scherie Nicol, Lead on Gender Budgeting, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Session materials

Watch the session recording and find the PPT presentations, transcript, and all relevant links shared during the session, including the full transcript, in the comments section below.

Connection details

Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Time: 8:00 AM New York | 3:00 PM Addis Ababa/ Amman/ Istanbul | 7:00 PM Bangkok

The event will be held in English. International Sign (IS) interpretation and CART services will be provided.

About the speakers

Dr. A.H. Monjurul Kabir, an inclusive development, human rights, disability inclusion, and gender expert, is UN Coordination Adviser and Team Leader for Gender Equality and Disability Inclusion at UN Women HQ in New York. Prior to this, He was Chief of Asia-Pacific Section with UN Women HQ. Among others, he led the development of UN Women's approach to inclusive South-South and Triangular Cooperation, and Disability Inclusion. Mr. Kabir holds Ph.D in Politics and Aid Effectiveness with University of Hull, UK.

Santosh Acharya is Program Specialist at UN Women Nepal. He has 14 years of experience working in development sector with thematic focus on gender equality and women empowerment, women’s economic empowerment, electoral process, women’s political participation and leadership and disability rights and inclusion. He is working with UN Women since 2019. Currently, he leads UN Women portfolio on women’s economic empowerment. He has served as focal point on disability rights and inclusion since he joined UN Women.

Santosh is managing UNPRPD funded Joint programme for UN Women since last five years. He has good experience in organizing and engaging with organizations of persons with disabilities from gender and intersectional lens, capacity development and gender and disability responsive planning and budgeting. Before joining UN Women, he was with civil society organization on senior management and leadership level.

Binda Magar is a Policy Advisor (Governance) and Assistant Resident Representative at UNDP Nepal. She is a development professional with more than 20 years of experience and having a strong track record of strategic thinking, collaborative nature, high-level strategic advice, programme formulation and delivery, creative responses to complex challenges. Binda has experience across various sectors, particularly on constitution development process, federalism, devolution, governance, gender and social inclusion and Sustainable Development Goals. She is also well-versed in inter-agency, government (federal, provincial, and local level) and civil society coordination. Binda holds Master’s Degree in Law “International Development Law and Human Rights” and MA in Women’s Studies.

Scherie Nicol is the Lead on Gender Budgeting at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This includes managing the OECD Network on Gender Budgeting and authoring key publications such as OECD Best Practices on Gender Budgeting and the OECD Framework for Gender Budgeting. It also includes leading technical assistance missions with countries. This has led to her supporting gender budgeting efforts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Eqypt, Scotland, Thailand and – more recently - Brazil.

In addition to gender budgeting, Scherie has expertise across other public financial management topics including fiscal councils, fiscal frameworks, budget oversight, budget transparency, performance budgeting, green budgeting and spending review. She has a Masters degree in Applied Economics and experience working in both government and parliament.

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