Gender Responsive Budgeting for South Australia Seminar

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Gender Responsive Budgeting for South Australia Seminar

This seminar features experts in gender analysis & Gender Responsive Budgeting in SA & internationally to demonstrate its necessity.

By Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender

Date and time

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM ACST

Location

Room 706 Level 7 Nexus 10 Building 10 Pulteney Street, Adelaide 5005

Nexus 10 Building, 10 Pulteney Street Level 7, Room 706 Adelaide, SA 5005 Australia

Agenda

9:45 AM

Arrival


Arrival between 9.45am and 9.55am.

9:55 AM

Opening remarks

Prof Katie Barclay and Dr Alexandra Peralta

10:00 AM

Intro to gender analysis

Prof Katie Barclay and Dr Alexandra Peralta

10:20 AM

What is gender responsive budgeting and why do we need it?

Dr Monica Costa and Prof Rhonda Sharp

10:40 AM

The South Australia Budget and the women's budget statement

Dept of Treasury and Finance SA

11:00 AM

Open discussion: Opportunities for gender-responsive budgeting in SA

11:30 AM

Concluding remarks

About this event

Gender-responsive budgeting (GBR) shines a light on the different impacts of government spending and revenue raising decisions on equality between women, men, and diverse people. It involves analysing the impacts of government expenditure and revenue raising on different groups of men and women and making improvements to budgetary decisions and processes to promote gender equality.

Since Australia pioneered GRB in the mid-1980s, more than 100 initiatives have emerged across the globe with prominent government-led initiatives in Canada and Iceland, and at the sub-national level in Andalucía, Spain. In 1985 South Australia became the first State to introduce GRB.

The Federal government re-introduced GRB in 2022 as part of its commitment to put gender equality at the heart of policy and decision-making and is encouraging States and Territories to embed gender equality in its policy and budget decision-making processes. At the State level Queensland, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, and NSW have launched GRB initiatives with Victoria providing an example of a Treasury led and institutionally embedded initiative under the oversight of State parliament.

This seminar draws on expertise in gender analysis and GRB in South Australia and internationally to launch a conversation about why we need GRB and its potential to progress gender equality outcomes in the State. The SA Department of Treasury and Finance will provide an overview of the budget process and the key elements of the most recent budget presented to parliament.

Speakers

Professor Emerita Rhonda Sharp

Rhonda Sharp is an affiliate member of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender (FGC), and an Emeritus Professor at the University of South Australia. She was formerly a Research Chair and Professor of Economics at the Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia. Her work on gender, and government policies and budgets began in the mid 1980s when she developed the framework for Australia’s first state government level ‘gender -responsive budget’ initiative in South Australia. Over the past 25 years she has furthered her work of integrating a gender perspective into economic and social policies through research and writing and working with governments, NGOS and international organizations. She served as a member of the UN Expert Group, Financing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and co-author of its report. She was a member of the gender panel of the former Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and has held board appointments on state government authorities in areas of transport, superannuation and social justice.

Dr Monica Costa

Monica Costa is an affiliate member of the FGC. She is an economist and gender and development researcher with a particular focus on the application of Gender-Responsive Budgeting. Her book - Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) in Fragile States: The case of Timor-Leste - is the first international publication addressing the potential of gender budgeting in fragile state contexts. She has published widely in leading journals and has worked on gender issues in Australia, Portugal, Timor Leste, Solomon Islands, and Indonesia. She has worked with a range of partners including the Australian aid program, UN agencies, and International NGOs. In 2008 she was an adviser to the Timor-Leste Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equality, and over the years she has been engaged in a variety of regional training course on Gender-Responsive Budgeting, and Women in Politics.

Professor Katie Barclay

Katie Barclay is co-director of the FGC and Head of Historical and Classical Studies at the University of Adelaide. Her research focuses on the history of subjectivity and identity creation, especially with respect to gender, the history of emotions and family life, and histories of Britain. She is the author of Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 (Manchester, 2011), Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity, 1800-1845(Manchester, 2019); A History of Emotions: A Student Guide to Sources and Methods (Basingstoke, 2020); Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self (Oxford, 2021), and numerous articles and book chapters. From 2019-2022, she was Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and holds an ARC Discovery grant 'Precarious Accounts: Money, Sex and Power in the Industrial Revolution” to explore how accounting practices shaped selfhood and morality across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is currently working on the FGC Adelaide’s academic women project.

Dr Alexandra Peralta

Alexandra Peralta is a member of the Management Committee for the FGC. She is a Senior Lecturer in Agricultural and Food Economics at the University of Adelaide. Her research focuses on evaluating the economic and social impacts of development interventions, with consideration to their heterogeneous effects on women and men. She is also interested in understanding the role of women in agriculture and how it is shaped by economic changes Alexandra’s work includes collaboration with agricultural scientists, anthropologists, and geographers. Her current research projects study the economic and social impacts of mobile finance on men and women in farming households in Cambodia and Laos, and the gendered impacts of the national seed system on food production and food security in Timor-Leste. She conducted work on the evaluation of the adoption of improved seed varieties and postharvest practices in Angola, Haiti, Nicaragua, Uganda, and Vanuatu, and dairy farming practices in Indonesia. These studies included gender heterogeneity analysis. She has presented her work in Australia, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States.

South Australia Department of Treasury and Finance

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