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Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Twenty-Eighth Sitting of the Gender Equality Committee
The sitting of the Gender Equality Committee held on 10 November in the form of a roundtable, focused on examples of good practice in the introduction of the gender equality principle into public policies, plans and budgets.
The sitting of the Gender Equality Committee held on 10 November in the form of a roundtable, focused on examples of good practice in the introduction of the gender equality principle into public policies, plans and budgets. The sitting, held in cooperation with the Serbian Government’s Gender Equality Council and support of UNIFEM, was chaired by Gordana Paunovic-Milosavljevic, Committee Chairperson.
Chairperson Paunovic-Milosavljevic briefed the participants on the Committee’s competencies and work, stressing that the topic of gender sensitive budgeting receives special attention. Although the term and practice of gender budgeting are fairly recent, they are already the standard in more democratically developed countries, and Serbia still has to adopt these standards, primarily by acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills. The roundtable aims to consider the issues related to improving the position of women in
The Committee Chairperson stated that the legal and institutional framework necessary for the achievement of equality have been established in the previous period, but the improvement of the situation in this sphere necessitates financial means for the realisation of the measures, programmes and actions necessary to achieve the principle of equal opportunities for women and men. It is particularly important to strengthen the economic position of women and increase their presence on the job market and thus help suppress discrimination in other spheres of life.
Asya Varbanova, Head of the UNIFEM Office in
President of the Serbian Government’s Gender Equality Council and State Secretary at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy Snezana Lakicevic-Stojacic pointed out that the state should to take more responsibility for gender equality and called for a higher participation of women in policy planning and budgeting on all levels.
Anita Beretic of the Provincial Secretariat for Labour, Employment and Gender Equality listed a number of examples of good practice in the introduction of the gender equality principle into public policies, plans and budgets in AP Vojvodina. Spomenka Krunic, Director of the
In her closing address, Prof. Dr Tatjana Djuric-Kuzmanovic, Vice-President of the Gender Equality Council, proposed several conclusions that the Committee members would vote on at the next sitting.