Working Papers - Working Paper 4: Developing Gender Budgeting in Northern Ireland:

Gender budgeting measures have been adopted in the other devolved regions of the UK and in the Republic Ireland (ROI): Ireland The Irish government expressed its commitment to gender equal budgeting in its 2016 Programme for a Partnership Government which it reiterated in the National Strategy for Women and Girls (Government of Ireland, 2016; Department of Justice and Equality, 2017). [...] The focus group questions were designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the training for the civil society stakeholders engaged in the pilot and obtain their views on how the modules could be developed for the other stakeholder groups. [...] First, analysis of the quantitative data from the baseline and endline surveys demonstrates the impact of the training on participants’ knowledge and understanding of gender budgeting principles and processes. [...] The volume of comments on the role of the trainers in ensuring the effectiveness and impact of the training should be noted as it suggests a need to ensure that future training delivery models are supported by the same level of subject matter expertise and training skills. [...] The analysis of baseline and endline surveys captures the impact of the three pilot workshops, demonstrating improvements in the knowledge and understanding of civil society actors with regard to what gender budgeting is, how it works, how the NI budget works and how existing gender budgeting tools could be applied.