Outcome JOR_D_1.2

More national and local plans are gender responsive

Government of Jordan under the leadership of General Budget Department and Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation launched the Gender-Responsive Budgeting national implementation in line with the government's economic reform agenda, National Strategy for Women and performance budgeting. GoJ has nominated 4 line ministries of education, health, parliamentary affairs and labour to pilot the GRB tools including revising the female calculation method for the programmes budgets. The General Budget Department (GBD) introduced a new calculation method to define the female allocations based on the percentage of female staff employed. Furthermore,UN Women provided technical support and advise to review the budget planning tools for GRB and to provide capacity building workshops for GBD and pilot ministries how to apply the GRB as a tool for budget planning and expenditure.