Status of Women committee  Yes, they're on the third page of my slide. I was specifically referring to the slide that is titled “Lessons learned to date”.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question. I think it's a very important one. There is an example in my research—I just can't find it in my notes right away—of a specific country where they found that cuts to a health program that looked like budgetary savings, because they reduced expenditur

Status of Women committee  Can you give an example of what you mean by constraints or limits?

Status of Women committee  That's a good question. I guess this is where I would point to the importance of information. You want the information that you need to make the appropriate decisions. In many ways it goes back to what Professor Russell said at the beginning, that if you don't know the impacts

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  No, I have not. I think the closest thing I've done that might help is looking at existing data in the U.S. to try to determine how well we could proceed with it to analyze tax incidence by gender. The answer is that are some data, even though we've never tried to collect it fr

Status of Women committee  Yes, I would agree. I think you make it transparent by having full disclosure. You will have the details from the analysts on how they did it in a technical appendix, or something like that, which would probably be mostly for other analysts to look at. But as with anything, if so

Status of Women committee  Sure. One thing I would suggest is that you do some pilot projects. In many ways what you're considering is an innovation, and as with any innovation the question is how you innovate. How do you do it? We know from other policy examples of innovation what tends to work. I woul

Status of Women committee  I guess I'd go back to my earlier answer--you see if it altered the basis for making the decision, you see if it affected the decision-making that happened. That's a hard thing to look at, to know, because I suppose you don't know what would have happened otherwise. But to me,

Status of Women committee  I think in many cases it was because the goals of the leadership changed and the degree of commitment to gender equity, at least in the form of a gender budget analysis, was not maintained. That's why in the long run they weren't sustained.

Status of Women committee  I think that the people who do the budget preparation and budget analysis, and also the spending of money, need to know how to do it. It needs to be part of what they do on a daily basis. That can be done, again, through a variety of means, training incentives, but it has to be i

Status of Women committee  I have to confess ignorance on that. I don't know the details.

Status of Women committee  What they've done, I understand, is they've looked at specific programs. They've looked at six different departments and have had some analysis of their programs to see the impact on gender. I don't know all the details, but to my understanding, it's not a gender budget in the s

Status of Women committee  I would mention three things. I think there need to be well-placed coordinators in the different agencies to do this. There needs to be someone whose role it is, at least in part, so that when people in the agency or department have questions, they know who to go to. It helps if

Status of Women committee  I don't think it's as much about collecting data as it is about making the decision to do it. So I think the data can help, but I think as Dr. Russell said earlier, you can do some kind of an analysis with existing data. It may then suggest new data that you need, but I would do