Gender Equality in Australia
This OECD Review assists Australia in embedding gender considerations in policy and budget decisions. It draws upon best practices across OECD countries and sets out a series of actions to enable the federal government to strengthen gender impact assessments and gender budgeting. This.
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris :
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009786730506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Executive summary
- 1 Summary of recommendations to strengthen gender considerations in policy and budget decisions
- 1.1. Short term (next 1-2 years)
- 1.2. Medium-long term (year 3 and beyond)
- 2 Strengthening gender mainstreaming and gender impact assessment in Australia
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Background and history of gender mainstreaming in Australia
- 2.3. Assessment and recommendations for gender mainstreaming and gender impact assessment in Australia
- 2.3.1. Institutional architecture
- Leverage political responsibility for the gender equality portfolio to accelerate progress
- Strengthen the Office for Women as the lead institution co-ordinating and facilitating the implementation of the gender equality agenda
- Develop a clear Centre-of-Government arrangement for the implementation of gender mainstreaming
- Leverage the Women's Economic Equality Taskforce to promote gender equality in sector-specific plans and strategies
- Strengthen institutional arrangements within departments to support gender mainstreaming
- Reinforce support role of the Australian Bureau of Statistics for gender-sensitive policymaking
- 2.3.2. Strategic framework
- 2.3.3. Legal framework
- 2.3.4. Gender mainstreaming tools: gender impact assessments
- 2.3.5. Gender-disaggregated data and intersectional analysis
- Increase the understanding of the concepts of sex and gender across the government
- Strengthen the breadth and depth of gender-disaggregated data
- Continue efforts to foster data integration and expand availability and accessibility of cross-sectional data
- Improve data collection to support broader equality and intersectional analysis
- Develop a data action plan to increase awareness of existing data holdings.
- 2.3.6. Guidance, training, and capacity development
- 2.3.7. Transparency and accountability
- Foster transparency and citizen engagement
- Strengthen the accountability role of the parliament to promote gender equality
- Strengthen accountability for gender equality and mainstreaming through independent oversight institutions
- 2.4. Roadmap for the future
- 2.4.1. Short term (next 1-2 years)
- 2.4.2. Medium-long term (year 3 and beyond)
- References
- Note
- 3 Strengthening gender budgeting in Australia
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Background and history of gender budgeting in Australia
- 3.3. Assessment and recommendations for gender budgeting in Australia
- 3.3.1. Strategic framework for gender budgeting
- Gender budgeting should create a strong link between the objectives in the National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality and the budget
- Establish a Gender Budgeting Steering Group to lead gender budgeting efforts
- A "hub and spoke" model across government to support the implementation of gender budgeting
- Provide legal underpinning for gender budgeting to ensure an enduring practice
- 3.3.2. Tools of implementation
- Gender impact assessment as a core tool of gender budgeting
- Gender budget tagging to link budget measures to the National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality
- Use the strategic briefings provided to the ERC to highlight the gender impacts of new policy proposals and support budget decision making
- Further develop the Women's Budget Statement as a tool of accountability and transparency in relation to gender budgeting
- Integrate a gender dimension to a strengthened evaluation process
- Integrate a gender dimension to planning, performance setting and reporting
- The Australian National Audit Office could incorporate a gender dimension to performance audits.
- Further integrate gender budgeting into any forthcoming budget reforms
- Overview of proposed approach to gender budgeting in Australia
- 3.3.3. Enabling environment
- Developing guidance and training in relation to gender budgeting to support its rollout in the short and medium term
- Independent oversight of gender budgeting
- Develop a framework to measure the impact of gender budgeting
- 3.4. Gender budgeting and well-being
- 3.5. Roadmap for the future
- 3.5.1. Short term (next 1-2 years)
- 3.5.2. Medium-long term (year 3 and beyond)
- References
- Notes
- Glossary
- References.
