Korean Women’s Association United (KWAU – for shorter) is an umbrella organization. An umbrella organization is a group of often related organizations who work together to coordinate activities. Also the bigger organization gives identity to smaller organizations and sometimes the bigger organization is to some degree responsible for smaller organizations and takes care of them. KWAU consists of 6 regional sections and 27 member organizations. KWAU’s main goals are to achieve democracy, gender equality and peaceful reunification of Korean peninsula by uniting different women’s groups and trying to make cooperative and collective actions, also lately they’re paying more and more attention to anti - human trafficking. KWAU gets money from
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As KWAU had stated ‘’ The government collected its first Gender Responsive Budget documents submitted by 29 government bodies with 195 projects. The total amount of covered budget was 7,314.4 billion won which was only 2.5 percent of the total government budget of the year 2009. The submitted report which only covered projects conducted in 2009 is lacking relevant analysis on the reported sex segregated data and the exposed gender inequity. Nor it includes goals or plans for necessary budget reform which should be directed through official review process.’’ Government doesn’t have enough gender segregated data and don’t have evidence of gender inequality.
To overcome problems KWAU is recommending improvements for government:
• Government should strengthen ‘’ gender impact analysis of the gender budget system to include analysis on the cause and effect of the exposed inequity in budget allocation’’ (says KWAU).
• Also would be good if government would expand the scope of targeted budget and projects to get more income.
• KWAU also suggests “Presenting specific goals and strategies to improve the exposed inequity and obligating parliamentary review process for necessary budget reform”.
• Prepare gender segregated data.
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As KWAU had stated ‘’ The government collected its first Gender Responsive Budget documents submitted by 29 government bodies with 195 projects. The total amount of covered budget was 7,314.4 billion won which was only 2.5 percent of the total government budget of the year 2009. The submitted report which only covered projects conducted in 2009 is lacking relevant analysis on the reported sex segregated data and the exposed gender inequity. Nor it includes goals or plans for necessary budget reform which should be directed through official review process.’’ Government doesn’t have enough gender segregated data and don’t have evidence of gender inequality.
To overcome problems KWAU is recommending improvements for government:
• Government should strengthen ‘’ gender impact analysis of the gender budget system to include analysis on the cause and effect of the exposed inequity in budget allocation’’ (says KWAU).
• Also would be good if government would expand the scope of targeted budget and projects to get more income.
• KWAU also suggests “Presenting specific goals and strategies to improve the exposed inequity and obligating parliamentary review process for necessary budget reform”.
• Prepare gender segregated data.
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