Management Response

Recommendation:

Develop a roadmap prioritizing the ways in which stakeholders at central, state, and local levels can better integrate a gender lens across the planning, budgeting, and auditing cycle. This roadmap should be developed in close consultation with key GRB stakeholders, including the Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Women and Child Development, sectoral ministries, civil society organizations, women?s rights advocates, other funders, etc

Management Response:

Accepted

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments The new GRB programme initiated in 2012 with support from the Ford Foundation includes a work plan for every initiative in consultation with key implementing partners. Over and above that, the unit also has also developed a detailed work plan outlining the objectives, outcomes and indicators in consultation with key partners. GRB Unit 2012/08 Completed

Recommendation:	Once the roadmap is developed, UN Women should work with stakeholders to develop a clear Plan of Action for how the prioritized practices and tools can be institutionalized by creating conditions for on-going use of the practices and tools through mandates, directives, or other incentives
Management Response:	Partially Accepted

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments A comprehensive roadmap is not feasible at this stage. However, effort are already underway to ensure that GRB work in India is clearly aligned with the regional and global strategy and action plan of UN Women on GRB as well as UNDAF GRB UNIT 2012/12 Overdue-Initiated

Recommendation:	UN Women should work with stakeholders to develop tactics for building capacity to execute GRB at central, state, and local levels of government.
Management Response:	Accepted

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments GRB unit supports capacity building at the central, state and local levels of government, directly and indirectly through consultants placed in MWCD. The primary purpose of these consultants and their trainings is to promote execution of GRB at various levels of government. Plans are underway to follow up with participants of the capacity building training by MWCD to measure their impact and to capture the impact of the trainings conducted directly by the GRB unit. GRB Unit and MWCD SSA 2012/12 Overdue-Initiated

Recommendation:	Beyond government stakeholders, UN Women should support building the capacity of CSOs and women?s advocates to encourage government stakeholders to incorporate gender into planning, budgeting, and auditing.
Management Response:	Accepted

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments Under new and on-going programmes, the UN Women GRB programme continues to build capacity of CSOs (such as Dalit groups (Swadhikar and Social Watch, Tamil Nadu) as well as North East Network to incorporate gender into planning, budgeting and auditing. The GRB programme also works closely with women?s rights advocates such as the WGFE (working group of feminist economists) in India to promote gender responsive national planning and budgeting. GRB Unit 2012/12 Overdue-Initiated

Recommendation:	In supporting its GRB activities, UN Women should leverage its key strengths ? data-driven advocacy, sharing knowledge across its network, and partnering with other funders.
Management Response:	Accepted

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments The new GRB programme initiated in 2012 with support from the Ford Foundation consists of data driven advocacy activities. The on-going work with WGFE is also data-driven. GRB unit 2012/01 Overdue-Initiated