Industrial Relations Institute (IRI), labour and human resource department has organised a series of trainings on “Gender Responsive Budgeting” (GRB) in collaboration with United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), under its project “Strengthening Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring”.The focal person and trainer, Mr Tahir Manzoor, Deputy Director IRI, told the participants that Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is the approach to mainstream the gender dimension into all stages of the budget cycle. He briefed the goals of GRB that it is process of skill and attitude, raise of awareness of gender issues of budgets and programmes, promotion of transparency and accountability of the gender impacts of government budget and demonstration of the programmes and budget to promote gender equality. GRB is not a separate budget for women, it refers to the variety of processes and tools aimed at facilitating an assessment of the impact of the government expenditures, he added, while training the participants. He also briefed the tools and analysis of GRB. IRI and UNDP have organised four trainings till now where 122 officials participated. The purpose of these trainings was to develop capacities of myriad of stakeholders including, government officials, it concluded.
