Mirna Acevedo Salas from Mexico presentation during 4th session of 6th Annual Meeting of the OECD Gender Budgeting Network held on
22-23 September 2022 in Paris
México. Implementation of gender budgeting is supported by capacity building
I. Background: México and gender budgeting
▪ The Budget Decree establishes the characteristics and
considerations that will state the budget exercise in all the
Programs of the public administration focus on gender equality.
▪ It also establishes that the Ministry of Finance will evaluate
quarterly the progress made on these targeted programs.
We launched the General Law on Equality
between Women and Men, which
establishes the Government's obligation to
include in the public budget the allocation of
resources for compliance with the National
Gender Equality Policy (NGEP).
The Expenditure Labeled for Women and
Gender Equality was institutionalized in the
public budget, and an specific Annex called
"Budget for women and gender equality"
was included in the Budget Decree. This
Annex was renamed later as "Expenditures
for equality between women and men”
(Annex 13 hereinafter).
2006 2008
The Federal Budget and Treasury Responsibility
Law establishes that the Revenue Law initiative
must have, at least, the same proportion of the
programmable expenditure approved in the
previous fiscal year, as long as the requirements
and objectives have been met .
From 2008 to 2022 the approved resources have increased
considerably each year, increasing at a real annual rate of 22.7%
México. Implementation of gender budgeting is supported by capacity building
I. Background: México and gender budgeting
During the first decade of the 21st century,
gender label resources were mainly to the health
care system.
Since 2008, this focus was broaden, and now
labeled resources are practically cross cutting
through all public sectors.
The ratio of the gender budget with respect to
Total Net Expenditure has increased, going
from a ratio of 0.3 in 2008, to one of 3.3 by 2022.
During this period (2008-2022), some areas have shown
important hikes, such as:
I. Background: México and gender budgeting
México. Implementation of gender budgeting is supported by capacity building
Year
Total
Expenditures
Annex 13 Ratio
2008 2,569,450.2 7,024.8 0.3
2009 3,045,478.6 8,981.6 0.3
2010 3,176,332.0 10,920.8 0.3
2011 3,438,895.5 14,916.5 0.4
2012 3,706,922.2 16,752.9 0.5
2013 3,956,361.6 18,760.6 0.5
2014 4,467,225.8 22,341.1 0.5
2015 4,694,677.4 24,308.2 0.5
2016 4,763,874.0 25,898.5 0.5
2017 4,888,892.5 27,424.6 0.6
2018 5,279,667.0 47,918.4 0.9
2019 5,838,059.7 64,656.2 1.1
2020 6,107,732.4 103,517.8 1.7
2021 6,107,732.4 128,353.6 2.1
2022 7,088,250.3 233,732.3 3.3
Average
Annual Growth
Rate
2.7 22.7
Annex 13
Expenditures for equality between
women and men
(Millions of Mexican pesos)
The resources of Annex 13 are allocated
primarily to the objectives outlined in the
National Program:
México. Implementation of gender budgeting is supported by capacity building
II. Capacity building and TIC’s
Economic autonomy of women
Recognize, reduce and redistribute the
domestic and care works.
Access welfare and health without any
form of discrimination.
Combat any modality of violence
against women, girls and teenagers.
Equal participation of women.
Safe and peaceful environments.
Chamber of
Deputies
Discuss, approve and audit
GB
Institutionalization of the National Policy and Public Budgets for Equality
National Institution
of Women
• Promotes the
incorporation of the
gender perspective in
planning, programming
and budgeting.
• Implements the
National Program
Evaluates and informs
the Chamber of
Deputies the progress
made and compliance
with commitments.
National System for
Equality between
Women and Men
Promote, contribute, assist
and implement strategies to
comply with the National
Policy on of Equality
between Women and Men
Gender Equality Units
Planning, programming,
budgeting, exercise,
monitoring, evaluation and
accountability of the
resources associated with
Annex 13.
Ministry of Finance
Develops manuals and guidelines for
the integration of the GB
Implements technological tols for
programming, budgeting, scheduling,
monitoring and evaluation.
Guide
to understand
public budgets
for equality
II. Capacity building and TIC’s
Mexico has deployed a strong structure to reach our gender
goals. Nevertheless, we believe that success can only occur
with constant building of capacities including all the public
entities.
The inter-institutional collaboration between the MoF, the NWI and
the Congress, have made useful to assess the capacity needs for the
executors of the expenditure.
México. Implementation of gender budgeting is supported by capacity building
México. Implementation of gender budgeting is supported by capacity building
III. Challenges
Generate effective methodologies to
ensure the incorporation of the gender
perspective in all the budget programs,
which requires strengthening the
capacities of public officials and key
actors, either during the budgeting
process, as well through the execution
of budget programs.
Continue promoting the gender
perspective in the design and
execution of programs in which, even
when are not aimed at mitigating or
solving gender inequalities, they have
clear benefits for women (and men).
Recognize that not only in the
programs whose population can be
identified and accounted for gender,
are the ones that must incorporate the
gender perspective and therefore
contribute to the resolution of gender
problems .
Increase the capacities and human,
technical and financial resources of
the National Institutes for Women and
the Gender Equality Units, in order to
foster their skills and abilities to
strengthen promotion, control and
application of gender equality policies.