 Gender
Budget Project
In
the spring of 2004 UNPAC began work on our own Gender Budget
Project.
Although we didn't have the resources to do a formal gender
analysis of the Manitoba budget, we decided to do consult women
and men in Manitoba and collect their suggestions on a Gender
Budget for Manitoba. We were thrilled with the number and creativity
of responses submitted. Our project culminated in a fun forum
held on April Fool's Day, April 1, 2004 with costumes, balloons,
and lots of great ideas.
See the pictures.
On April 15, 2004 UNPAC presented
the list of ideas to Manitoba Finance
Minister Greg Selinger along with a letter
encouraging him not to consider the budget balanced just because
the numbers crunch but rather to consider equality of outcome.
We also asked him to make the budget process more participatory
and expressed our desire to work with him on this.
We hope this will be the starting point
to a more involved and formal Gender Budget Project which
will give us the skills to analyze both the provincial and
federal budgets.
If you would like to be involved in
UNPAC's Gender Budget Project please contact inquiries@unpac.ca.
We are also looking for your suggestions as to the resources
you'd like to see us produce as part of our Gender Budget Project.
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Gender
Budget Forum
Gender
Budget Links
129 Suggestions
for a
Gender
Budget
Letter
to the Manitoba Minister
of Finance |
