Day Two Integrating Gender Issues into Public Expenditure Management Government workshop RMI

International programs on teen pregnancy Refer to the examples of teen pregnancy programmes provided: What issues/problems do these programmes seek to address? What are the results or indicators of success used? Relevance for the RMI?

Linking gender impact assessments to budgeting Gender impact assessments can feed into: Revising existing programmes Designing new programmes Cross ministry strategies Budget proposals.

Activity 3: Developing a new programme or changing an existing one Identify a programme or activity that your Ministry might adapt, or develop in response to the problem of teen pregnancy and its impacts. What results/outcomes would you seek to achieve by implementing these changes? What performance measures would you put in place to indicate that you have achieved your results?

Activity 4: Developing the budget to fund the proposed program Identify what resources would be required for your proposed programme? How would you put your proposal to the Ministry of Finance? Who would be responsible for developing a proposal?

Budgets and cross ministry issues OBJECTIVES: Review & integrate what has been learned so far; Develop an understanding of cross- cutting issues Identify issues re. working/consulting with community groups

A budget is: A tool for putting government policy into practice Income and expenditure planned for the coming year

RMI 2003 Budget (Total $98.5m) EXPENDITURE RMI Trust Fund17.3% Kwajalein rental11.4% Education15.8% Health13.1% Interagency Dev. Fund11.8% Justice 3.3% Internal Affairs 2.6% Finance 2.5% Resources & Development 0.8% Other19.5%

Issue Teenage Pregnancy

Activity 5: Budget game – a cross- ministry role play of a youth issue  Collect your Ministry’s lolly allocation for the year  Read your Ministry’s extra instructions (to be provided).  Rules must be obeyed. (to be provided)  Some of your lollies are for fixed commitments and cannot be reallocated  A proportion of your lollies can be reallocated by cutting or stopping existing projects (ie discretionary funds).  New projects must identify  Cost – how many lollies  Where the lollies have/will come from  Each lolly is worth 10,000 units of currency

Discretionary Budgets (1 lolly = $10,000) MINISTRIES Education30 lollies Health27 lollies Internal affairs5 lollies Finance5 lollies Resources and Development2 lollies Interagency Development Fund 22 lollies

Cross-ministry issues Challenges & Responses

Challenges Understanding the complex and interrelated nature of social issues Understanding that cross-cutting issues have both budgetary & policy dimensions Understanding/acknowledging inter- agency rivalry and “silo” behaviour (ownership of policies & budgets)

Responses Informal co-operation between ministries (+/- often relies on networks/personalities/contacts) Treasury summation of individual agency/ministry contribution to a government social priority (+/- requires clear description of program/output and funds expended) Formal co-operation & multi-lateral approach to budget development (+/- requires commitment to addressing issues & usually includes consultation/input from private sector & NGOs)

Different cross-ministry budget and planning models

Making the RMI budget gender sensitive Issues to be addressed Possible strategies

Next steps and timelines for the pilot ministries

Workshop evaluation Please complete your evaluation forms in your packs and give them to Sanjugta