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outcome XM-DAC-41146-BGD_D_1.1
Government planning and budgeting process, Govt. accountability mechanism, including electoral management system are strengthened to achieve National GE priorities, aligning with international normative standards.
The government has been increasing GRB allocation for sectoral ministries and divisions, the 8th Five Year Plan identified financing for gender equality as critical to achieve gender quality and women's empowerment. The five-year plan is projected to increase GRB allocation from 31% in 2021 to 35% by 2026. BCO is jointly implementing gender responsive planning and budgeting project for last three years jointly with the National Women ’s Machinery. The project has strengthened capacity of gender focal points of 25 ministries/divisions for effective gender responsive planning and budgeting. In addition, the National Action Plan of the National Women Development policy is being updated through the project . Though the project ended in June 2021, the National Women ’s Machinery decided to extend the project for effective gender mainstreaming using GRB as a tool. The next
outcome XM-DAC-41146-BGD_D_1.2
Supportive and well-coordinated policy environment is in place to ensure gender-responsive localization and effective monitoring of the SDGs
BCO worked jointly with Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) to establish a well-coordinated mechanism for the generation, analysis, and dissemination of gender statistics in Bangladesh. The Women Count project supported the creation of a national inter-ministerial governing body for gender statistics, which has helped bring attention to gender data across the country. In addition, with UN Women’s support a gender statistics cell has been established within BBS to regularly collect gender statistics in relation to SDGs requirement. This is expected to help the government to secure resources and expand the collection of gender data for effective localization of SDGs in Bangladesh. The Women Count project also supported the design and implementation of a Time Use Survey and several studies and helped strengthen gender statistics cell to be knowledgeable and independent for gender mainstreaming across surveys of BBS. BCO provided technical and financial support to create an enabling environment within the National Statistical Office to bring gender statistics as a critical issue to be highlighted.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-BGD_D_1.3
Quality, comparable and regular gender statistics are available to address national data gaps and meet policy and reporting commitments under the SDGs, CEDAW and Beijing Platform for Action
In collaboration with the National Statistical office, BCO conducted a national Time Use Survey for the first time in Bangladesh. The survey was planned under Women Count project and field work for the survey was conducted during January-April 2021. The Time Use Survey will help generate new dimension in the context of unpaid care work in Bangladesh. The Women Count project also supported BBS to conduct a study on SDGs indicators. The study helped to understand and prioritize gender related indicators of SDGs, BBS will further use the study findings to mainstream gender equality in other survey's, particularly in HEIS and LFS. BCO supported the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs to develop the Beijing+25 national review report and State Party report on CEDAW, for both reporting data was used from the existing surveys of BBS. As a result of UN Women’s partnership with BBS, a systematic process to generate gender statistics in BBS is now in place, with organized structural arrangements developed with support from BCO.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-BGD_D_1.4
Gender statistics are accessible to all users (including governments, civil society, academia and the private sector) and can be analysed to inform research, advocacy, policies and programmes, and to promote accountability
BBS produced two policy briefs under Women Count project and conducted a national Time Use Survey. As per plan series of user-producer dialogues were planned to disseminate findings and information on gender statistics with the users. However, due to COVID situation there was option to organize user-producer dialogues in 2021.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-BGD_D_2.1