This was the thrust at a two-day refresher training for CSOs and media organisations on Gender Responsive Budgeting and Advocacy in Lagos organised by Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC). xThe training, which seeks to increase awareness on gender budgeting advocacy, is a joint UN-EU Spotlight Initiative project focused on promoting an empowered civil society and autonomous women’s movement. “We are not asking for a women’s budget, we are asking for a budget to respond to the needs of men, boys, girls, and women. The ultimate goal of gender-responsive budgeting is that there is inclusion and people are not excluded in the expenditure pattern. The demand for women is not to exclude the others; it is to build better societies.”

Source: The Guardian May 01, 2021 03:00 UTC