Gender Responsive Budgeting

Under a joint UN programme, UN Women and UNICEF are supporting national budget directors and finance officers from the Eastern Caribbean in conducting gender analyses to design and cost budgets that are child and gender responsive. Mr. Claudius Emmanuel – Deputy Budget Director, Saint Lucia explains the programme’s benefits.

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Interview with Sannia Sutherland, Director of Prevention for Jamaica's National HIV/STI Programme

Date: Thursday, 17 April 2014

Jamaica's national response to HIV needs to better address the challenges faced by vulnerable persons, according to Sannia Sutherland, the Director of Prevention for Jamaica's National HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infection Programme. Here she highlights the way that higher unemployment levels among women can disproportionately affect their ability to practice safe sex. As she explains, many must choose between buying food for their family, and buying a condom. With women/girls between…