Dakar – The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) foreign office in Dakar, organised an international conference on “gender budgeting” in cooperation with the Embassy and in partnership with the Ministry of Senegalese Women, in which they have been asked to compare different experiences of gender-sensitive financial planning, conducted by several countries at the national and local level (Turkey, Mali, Senegal, Morocco, Italy). The main objective of the conference was to bring into the focus of the regional and national political debate, the issue of the elaboration and the evaluation of public policies according to a perspective of gender equality and of well-being and to apply it to the Government’s agenda identify the necessary tools for an effective integration of gender budgeting in the financial reform currently underway in Senegal. The seminar was chaired by Mariama Sarr, Minister in charge of gender policies in Senegal; Khady Ndao, Director of the Ministry of Budget and Finance of Senegal; Francesco Paolo Venier, Italian Ambassador in Dakar. Participants will also include the Director of Aics headquarters in Dakar, Pasqualino Procacci, the Giuliana Serra expert on gender and the technical adviser of the “Support project of the national strategy for gender equality” (Pasneeg), Enrica Blanc. (9Colonne)
