"BUDGET CHOICES IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY OR HOLDING IT BACK?"

UN Women Albania continues its mission to build capacities for central and local government. Under COVID-19 circumstances, their decisions on budget cuts and reallocations were taken rapidly and without prior analysis of the needs and without including gender perspective. During the gender responsive budgeting trainings with municipalities representatives was emphasized the importance of reallocating their budgets toward gender perspective. Lately, UN Women Albania has published "BUDGET CHOICES IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY OR HOLDING IT BACK?" report.