No 2: Dedicated body
Parliament has a dedicated body or bodies responsible for supporting gender-responsive budgeting, which have established procedures and authority to obtain supplementary information from the executive.
No 1: Gender budget statement
The legal framework requires the executive to produce a gender budget statement to accompany the draft budget.
No 5: Resources
Training on gender issues is provided for all MPs. Parliamentary research and committee staff have the capacity to provide expert analysis and briefings on gender issues, including gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data.
No 4: CEDAW Committee
Parliament participates in the preparation and presentation of national reports to international bodies including the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) and holds debates on the resulting recommendations.
No 3: Consultation
National women’s groups, gender rights advocates, CSOs, the private sector, academia and other outside sources of expertise are routinely consulted in the work of parliament and its committees.
No 2: Law-making and oversight
Parliament has established a gender equality committee or other dedicated body with a mandate to scrutinize legislation and oversee the executive from a gender perspective. Mechanisms exist to support the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the work of all parliamentary committees.
No 1: Commitment to gender mainstreaming
A commitment to gender mainstreaming is publicly manifested in parliamentary rules, strategic planning documents and practices. Parliament regularly monitors and reports on its performance on gender mainstreaming.
No 4: Practice
In practice, parliament routinely analyses impact assessments provided by the executive, conducts or commissions its own impact assessments, and uses the related findings and reports to inform its work.
No 3: Publication
The findings and reports of impact assessments, whether carried out by parliament or by the executive, are made available to MPs and the public.
No 2: Expertise
Parliament has the necessary expertise, among parliamentary staff, advisory bodies or external experts, to analyse impact assessments reports or to conduct or commission its own impact assessments.
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