The Executive Branch presented the 2023 Budget bill, which will allocate a total of $4.2 billion ($4,243,277 million) to policies with a gender perspective, which implies a nominal increase of 106% compared to 2022, and represents 14, 65% of the general budget planned for 2023 ($28,954,031 million).
This Wednesday the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, will defend the project in the Chamber of Deputies, where it is expected to reach a commission opinion by October 24 to take the issue to the court that same week, according to the schedule provided by the president of the Camera, Cecilia Moreau.
“The 2023 Budget is the third formulated from a gender and diversity approach, allocating 14.7% of the resources to closing inequality gaps across the board with policies from 16 Ministries,” highlighted the head of the Directorate of Economy, Equality and Gender of the Ministry of Economy, Sol Prieto, through the social network Twitter.
In the Referral Message, within the Transversal Policies of the 2023 Budget, the category “Gender Equality” is located, which highlights the main lines of policies aimed at assistance, prevention and eradication of violence against women and LGTBIQ+ people, as well as as well as to reduce the gaps between genders.
Within these policies, the Social Security Benefits due to Social Security Moratorium stand out, with an assigned amount of $2,413,723 million, destined for a total of 2,718,848 women. This policy concentrates the highest percentage with 56.8% of the total PPG budget. Women represent 74% of the total number of people targeted by this benefit.
Next in order of importance are the Universal Child and Pregnancy Allowances (AUH and AUE) with a total of $684,360 million allocated to 4,374,669 AUH beneficiaries and 102,398 AUE recipients.
Within the Ministry of Social Development (MDS), the Food Benefit stands out, which is aimed at boys and girls up to 14 years of age and with disabilities without age limit who are in a situation of vulnerability, with an item for the year 2023 for $328,383 million for a total of 2,334,779 female holders (96% of the total recipients).
Meanwhile, the National Program for Socio-productive Inclusion and Local Development “Promote Work”, which aims to “improve employment and generate new productive proposals through the development of socio-productive, socio-community, socio-labour projects and educational completion” , presents funds for $386,251 million destined for 903,521 women active holders (68% of the total holders).
The Ministry of Education is the body that is in charge of the Building Strengthening Program for Kindergartens, that is, the construction, refurbishment or expansion of places of care, education and family support that aims to alleviate the burden of homework tasks. care and upbringing, which fall mainly on women.
Among its goals are a total of 68,869 square meters of Built Classrooms for next year. Along with the program to Strengthen Comprehensive Sex Education and other socio-educational actions, they have budgeted a total of $37,783 million.
The execution of this program is of vital importance due to the need for vacancies at the initial level (45 days to 5 years) since, according to the data published by Unicef-Cippec, while 90% of the initial level schools they have rooms for 4 and/or 5 years old, only 50% have a room for 3 and 15% offer a nursery school. In the rural sector, only 40% of rural schools offer a room for 3 and 6% nursery school.
For its part, the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity has the “Formulation of Policies against Violence for Gender Reasons” program, through which the AcompañAR initiative is carried out for the care of women and LGBTIQ+ in situations of violence. of gender throughout the country, through economic support equivalent to the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary for 6 consecutive months.
In addition, this portfolio has the “Strengthening Line 144” programs under way, which provide care, containment and advice in situations of gender violence, and the ArticulAR Program aimed at strengthening social organizations in the formulation and implementation of projects in areas community issues linked to gender-based violence.
For these initiatives plus the GenerAR Program aimed at subnational jurisdictions to consolidate and ensure mechanisms for mainstreaming the gender and diversity perspective at a federal level throughout the country, the portfolio has a budget of $54,683 million for 2023.
For its part, from the Ministry of Industry and Productive Development, the Production Financing program has $5,588 million allocated to 8% of FOGAR Guarantees granted to companies led by women, 8% of Assisted Companies via Tax Reductions and 15% of companies assisted by Support for the Sustainability of companies that are led by women.
Within the sphere of the Ministry of Health, the policies with PPG are the Sexual Health and Responsible Procreation Program, which carries out the National Plan for the Prevention of Unintentional Pregnancy in Adolescence (ENIA).
In turn, the “Life Course Approach” program, through which activities are developed for equitable access to health for pregnant people, girls, boys and adolescents, and the “Actions for Gender Identity “, standing out in these the provision of hormonal treatments. These programs have a budget of $33,030 million pesos for 2023.
Source: Ambito
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