DMEO, which is an attached office under the NITI Aayog, has called for incentivising women participation in all training and capacity building programmes to help India achieve gender equality with a special focus on areas like health, agriculture,...
As per the Global Gender Gap Report 2021, published by the World Economic Forum, India's rank fell by 28 places to 140 out of 156 countries with a score of 0.625 (out of 1) compared to 112 in 2020.
The Development, Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) has called for a National Policy for Women and mainstreaming of gender-based budgeting across all ministries through the formulation of the Gender Budgeting Act.
DMEO, which is an attached office under the NITI Aayog, has called for incentivising women participation in all training and capacity building programmes to help India achieve gender equality with a special focus on areas like health, agriculture, environment and social inclusion.
As per the Global Gender Gap Report 2021, published by the World Economic Forum, India's rank fell by 28 places to 140 out of 156 countries with a score of 0.625 (out of 1) compared to 112 in 2020.
The report provides scores on Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI), which examines the gap between men and women in four dimensions, namely, economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment.
According to the report, while the targeted programmes have helped to reduce sectoral inequalities, they have a long way to go towards eliminating inequalities.
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"Specific incentives for women can be provided for promoting their participation and a certain percentage of women's participation may be mandated to promote gender mainstreaming," DMEO said in its report.
"Introduce Gender Budgeting Act to mainstream gender-based budgeting across all ministries and states/UTs and finalise the National Policy for Women after making the necessary amendments in the 2016 draft policy," it added.
DMEO has also suggested that the government legally mandate all data collecting institutions to analyse and publish gender-disaggregated statistics to help India reduce gender inequality though better targeted policies.
Gender Budgeting is an approach to government fiscal policy that seeks to use a country's budget(s) as a tool to resolve societal gender inequality and promote inclusive development. It is an outcome-oriented expenditure allocation.
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Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels to achieve gender equality.
