TNPSC Thervupettagam

Asia-Pacific regional report on Beijing+30 review

November 28 , 2024 16 hrs 0 min 18 0
  • The report is titled ‘Charting new paths for gender equality and empowerment: Asia-Pacific regional report on Beijing+30 review’.
  • Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action has evolved since its adoption of in 1995.
  • The Countries in North and Central Asia and the Pacific provided a relatively high level of effective coverage of children (aged 0 to 18) in social protection benefits (57.4 per cent and 47.0 per cent, respectively).
  • It was surpassing the regional average (18.3 per cent).
  • There has been a 218% decadal increase in gender budgeting in India.
  • Apart from India, it mentioned Philippines as one of the countries which have successfully adopted gender-responsive budgeting (GRB).
  • India struggles with the limited effectiveness of its GRB due to the exclusion of key programmes that benefit women and the lack of sex-disaggregated data.

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