Disasters, like national budgets, are not gender neutral. Women and girls must become key to effective disaster risk management. Governments can use their national budgets to ensure such programs receive adequate resource allocation
“Initiatives like gender or green budgeting are really about good budgeting. We must think through who are the recipients of budget policies, public services, and public programs and acknowledge that people in society have diverging needs. We must think about how to design our budget to respond to said needs.”
“All these ways to integrate policy with budget need to be focused on the government’s priorities. Gender budgeting where we have seen governments succeed has a clear articulation of gender gaps and is not just about women’s issues: it is about the issues faced by boys, girls, men, women, and people with disabilities. We must analyze if the policies we are designing are the right policies to address those issues. And you can argue that for disaster risk management and climate change.”
