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National Committee Association for UNIFEM Launched in Hungary

3 Feb 2009

Klára Dobrev, President of the Hungarian National Committee Association for UNIFEM. Budapest — The Hungarian National Committee Association (NCA) for UNIFEM was launched on 28 January in Budapest, becoming the 17th UNIFEM National Committee. The Hungarian NCA will raise awareness and seek support for gender equality issues among the general population, decision-makers and the private sector, through local advocacy initiatives

The launch event included a conference on gender-budgeting, where Hungarian and international experts shared best practices from gender-budgeting experiences. The conference took place at the Central European University in Budapest and attracted a select group of 60 participants, including representatives from United Nations partner organizations, government and local authorities, non-profit organizations, academia and the private sector.

 

‘Women’s equality can be attributed to women’s economic independence, which is related to their equal participation in the labor market and equal pay,’ said Klára Dobrev, President of the Hungarian National Committee Association, in her speech at the event. UNIFEM was represented by Erika Kvapilova, Acting Regional Programme Director for the Central and Eastern Europe Regional Office in Bratislava. She expressed her hope that the new NCA in Hungary would benefit UNIFEM’s initiatives in the region along with awareness-raising on issues such as violence against women and gender-responsive budgeting.

 

Gerald Sirlinger, budgeting expert from the City Municipality of Vienna, gave specific examples of gender-responsive budgeting. Since 2000, more than a thousand chapters have been examined from the city’s €9.74 billion budget in order to analyze how it affects men and women differently. Maria Schadt, professor at the University of Pecs, introduced the findings of the first gender-budgeting research in Hungary. She noted that the gender audit was useful as decision-makers were not previously aware of the gender aspects of budgeting. At the closing round of the conference, several participants from local municipalities expressed their interest in carrying out similar research and introducing gender aspects into their budget-planning process.

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Source :UNIFEM