Strategizing for improved gender budgeting in the 9th Parliament
Hon. Kadaga meeting members of UWOPA and FOWODE In a move to strengthen advocacy for gender budgeting in government sectors, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Kadaga convened a meeting attended by Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) and the Uganda Women’s Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) Executive Committee to discuss new strategies to enhance gender budgeting in the 9 th parliament. The Deputy Speaker noted that despite FOWODE’s engagement with parliamentarians and government technocrats at national and district level for improved gender budgeting, there is little progress registered in this area. Members then shared opinions on how to take gender budgeting advocacy to another level and both long and short-term strategies were proposed. These included the need to demystify gender perceptions through demonstrating how gender budgeting affects men and women as well as to unpack gender budgeting message as it is broad.