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About Women's Budget Forum

The Women’s Budget Forum includes more than 20 Israeli organizations: women’s organizations, human rights and social change organizations, and academic associations. Its purpose is to promote social policies that contribute to the advancement of women and girls in Israel, through gender-sensitive budgeting.

Women's Budget Forum: Aims

Create public and parliamentary awareness of the gender implications of economic policies
Serve in an advisory capacity for government ministries and public agencies in the development of tools and strategies for gender-sensitive budgeting
Increase transparency by gathering, analyzing and publishing budget analyses disaggregated by gender
Encouraging the State Comptroller to utilize a gender lens in its examination of government actions
Advocate for the creation of a new position in government ministries and public agencies: gender-sensitive budgeting experts
Inculcate the necessity of taking gender considerations into account in budget debates in Knesset committees and plenary sessions
Increase cooperation among women’s, human rights and social change organizations on economic issues, so that these are designed to promote gender equality

Women's Budget Forum: Activities

Performing gender audits of government programs and decisions
Writing and disseminating position papers on gender-budget issues
Doing advocacy work at the Knesset, government ministries, local authorities and economic associations
Conducting workshops and study days for decision-makers, media people and the general public
Promoting gender equality in economic decisions through media work

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