Switzerland-28th Session November 2017-Gender perspective in policies, programmes

Para 21) The introduction of gender budgeting in the Federal Government has been considered in the past and rejected on various grounds.40 Such a narrow focus might run counter to other sociopolitical objectives, for example ensuring a regional balance in the allocation of budgetary resources, which should be taken into account in the same way as gender-specific objectives. However, the various federal services and departments are free to conduct analyses of the impact of expenditure on equality objectives, where they deem these to be useful. Para 22) In the context of Swiss international cooperation, however, gender budgeting has long been an important element of programme work. In 2018 and 2019, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and its project partners carried out a development exercise on the topic of socially inclusive and gender-responsive budgeting and developed a related work tool. A corresponding performance indicator has been developed to enable monitoring at the institutional level.