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Gender Tagging in Georgia's National Budget: From PEFA Diagnostic to Operational Practice

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Georgia's Ministry of Finance, with UN Women and a 2022 World Bank/PEFA gender-responsive public financial management assessment, built a gender-tagging methodology that classified 19 programmes and 18 subprogrammes as gender-relevant in the 2025 budget.

19 programmes
Programmes tagged gender-relevant in the 2025 budget (2025)
18 subprogrammes
Subprogrammes tagged gender-relevant in the 2025 budget (2025)
5 ministries
Ministries piloting the gender-tagging methodology (2022-2025)
31 municipalities
Municipalities involving women's groups in budgeting (ongoing)
Gender Tagging in Georgia's National Budget: From PEFA Diagnostic to Operational Practice

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Ministry of Finance of Georgia, with UN Women, the World Bank and PEFA Secretariat
Period
2021-present
Keywords
public finance, budgeting, governance, gender equality

Context

Between December 2021 and May 2022, Georgia's Ministry of Finance, with UN Women, the World Bank and the EU, carried out the country's first Gender-Responsive Public Financial Management (GRPFM) assessment, using PEFA's globally standardised nine-indicator supplementary framework to benchmark how well the budget system already accounted for gender.

Activities

Building on the assessment's findings, the Ministry of Finance developed a gender-tagging methodology, piloted across five ministries (Environmental Protection & Agriculture, Regional Development & Infrastructure, Economy & Sustainable Development, Education, and Labour, Health & Social Affairs) inside the state's electronic budget system. In parallel, 31 municipalities, supported by UN Women and UNDP, now involve local women's groups in municipal budgeting decisions.

Results

In the 2025 budget proposals, 19 programmes and 18 subprogrammes were tagged as gender-relevant.

Conclusions

The reform is recent and still expanding from five pilot ministries toward full government coverage; independent verification so far covers the diagnostic and initial tagging exercise, not downstream effects on gender-equality outcomes.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
Led by Georgia's Ministry of Finance, with technical support from UN Women, the World Bank and the PEFA Secretariat, Municipal component supported by UN Women and UNDP

Conditions for success

  • A standardised PEFA nine-indicator diagnostic used to benchmark the budget system before designing the tagging methodology
  • Piloted in a limited set of ministries before wider rollout
  • Built directly into the state's existing electronic budget system

Common failure modes

  • The reform is recent and still expanding from five pilot ministries toward full government coverage
  • No data yet on downstream effects on gender-equality outcomes

Where it fits

Governance type
national government (Ministry of Finance) with international technical assistance
Scale
national, piloted across 5 ministries plus 31 municipalities

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