Gender Budgeting Initiative

Social Accountability Stocktaking Exercise
FOR AFRICA

GENDER BUDGETING INITIATIVE (GBI), TANZANIA GENDER NETWOKING PROGRAMME (TGNP) TANZANIA

|Methodology Type |Specify whether (i) PB, (ii) IBA, (iii) BPET, or (iv) PPM (can select more than one option as some SA |
| |initiatives do not fit neatly into these categories) |
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|Basic Information |Name of Intervention |Gender Budgeting Initiative (GBI) |
| |Primary Agency Running Intervention |Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), Intermediary |
| | |Gender Networks, Outreach groups and Feminist Activism |
| | |Coalition (FEMACT) |
| |Location |Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar |
| |Sector or Level of Focus |National-Education, Health, Local government and Water sector |
| |Type of Engagement |Continuous |
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|Context and Scope |What is the driving force behind the SA |Policy, Legal and Budget framework of Tanzania has been one of |
| |initiative? |the most patriarchal in the history of Africa |
| | |Very low level of awareness on gender budgeting and other |
| | |equity methodologies of resource mobilization and allocation |
| |What are the main objectives and what a key |Equitable resource allocation and redistribution to reduce |
| |accountability problem does it seek to |inequities in terms of gender, class, age, colour, domicile etc|
| |address? |Creating a policy framework in which Tanzanians can equitably |
| | |participate in the development process |
| |Who is the target audience or demographic |Marginalized and impoverished groups of the Tanzanian society |
| |focus? |such as Women, Youth, Disabled, People living with HIV/AIDS, |
| | |Poor men, the elderly etc. |
| |What is the political culture or environment?|Democratic, but weakened by corruption and historical |
| | |background of being in a socialistic and one party state for |
| | |more than 20 years |
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|Tools and Methodologies |What specific SA tools and methodologies are | |
|Used |being used? |Gender Budget tracking tools and models |
| | |GBI campaign concept note |
| | |Gender Budgeting manuals |
| |Briefly describe the methodology (/ies) or | |
| |tools used. |The return resources to the people campaign of the Gender |
| | |Budgeting Initiative (GBI) is the rallying |
| | |framework/methodology around which gender budgeting training, |
| | |Lobbying, Awareness raising, advocacy and information |
| | |dissemination is implemented of which the following |
| | |methodologies and tools are used: |
| | |Policy analysis and engagement, budget review/analysis and |
| | |tracking; and |
| | |Pilot studies on gender budgets, lobbying and advocacy to |
| | |influence national and local government budgets |
| |What advocacy and media activities support |The gender festival, gender and development seminars, campaign |
| |the initiative? |task teams and ad hoc campaign activities such as press |
| | |releases and conferences do play a profiling role of the gender|
| | |budgeting initiative in addition to the campaign. The recent |
| | |introduction of the FEMACT coalition radio should further |
| | |improve matters. |
| |How inclusive was the intervention? |The GBI campaign brings on board various groupings of the |
| | |Tanzanian society including youth groups, rural women groups, |
| | |IGNs, women production and economic societies, the academia, |
| | |CSOs, People living with HIV/AIDS, workers unions, disabled |
| | |groups, farmers, pastoralists and other rural setting |
| | |societies. |
| |Other Important Information or Comments |The gender budgeting initiative is a new intervention that has |
| | |shown a number of successes including being received by |
| | |decision making authority both at local and central government,|
| | |donors, Parliamentarians, CSOs and the business community. |
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|Results and Impact |What (if any) has been the impact of the |One of the most notable impacts of the GBI has been a high |
| |initiative? What have been the incentives? |demand from various stakeholders for learning more on the |
| | |initiative including how to do budget tracking |
| |Is the methodology or initiative |Yes. The Gender Budgeting Initiative from inception involved a |
| |institutionalized? Are there any |number of stakeholders as targets, planners, implementers or |
| |institutional linkages and partnerships been |evaluators of the initiative. Groups like Parliamentarians, |
| |established with the government, parliaments,|NGOs, and Faith based groups; Media, CBOs, Opinion makers etc |
| |media, NGOs, communities etc.? Describe. |have been part of the initiative. This ensures a high level of |
| | |sustainability for the campaign and the initiative. |
| |(If applicable) Has the initiative been |Since the start of GBI phase II there has been a demand for the|
| |scaled up? Repeated? |initiative from amongst communities including trying some of |
| | |the sub-strategies that GBI has used including mini-gender and |
| | |development seminars at various grassroots/community locations |
| | |such as Kigamboni, Kongowe, Chalinze, Kibaha, Temeke, Dodoma |
| | |and Sumbawanga to name a few. |
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|Further References |Web sources |www.tgnp.org |
| |Documents and Reports |GBI campaign concept note, 2004/5 Tanzania budget review from a|
| | |gender perspective |
| |Resource Persons/Contacts |Mary Rusimbi (Executive Director) |
| | |Tel+255 22 244 3205,244 3450,244 3286, |
| | |Fax+255 22 244 3244 |
| | |Email :info@tgnp.org |

References: |Web sources |www.tgnp.org | | |Documents and Reports |GBI campaign concept note, 2004/5 Tanzania budget review from a| | | |gender perspective | | |Resource Persons/Contacts |Mary Rusimbi (Executive Director) | | | |Tel+255 22 244 3205,244 3450,244 3286, | | | |Fax+255 22 244 3244 | | | |Email :info@tgnp.org |