06. Auditing a budget circular for GSI compliance

Lecture quiz

Quiz - Auditing a budget circular for GSI compliance

Gender-Responsive Budgeting. Unlimited attempts, no timer, and one pass mark for the whole platform - applied the same way to the 2 written questions below the multiple choice.

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Questions

The correct answer and its explanation are shown together here so you can check them at a glance - neither is ever shown to a learner attempting the quiz, right or wrong.

  1. 1. What is the most common misunderstanding about gender-responsive budgeting?

    • That it requires new legislation
    • That it means setting aside a separate fund for womenCorrect
    • That it only applies to health and education
    • That it cannot be audited

    GRB is a method for examining and adjusting the whole budget for who it reaches - it does not create a separate, earmarked fund.

  2. 2. Why can a budget line written in gender-neutral language still be gender-unequal in effect?

    • Because budgets are always biased
    • Because who actually uses a service can differ sharply even when the line's wording does not name any groupCorrect
    • Because gender-neutral language is illegal
    • Because it is never checked

    'Agricultural extension services' sounds neutral, but if officers visit only during hours or channels one group can access, the line reaches groups very unevenly in practice.

  3. 3. What is the main weakness of a gender budget statement that lists spending by ministry with no further comment?

    • It is too long
    • It restates the budget without analysing who it reachesCorrect
    • It omits the treasury's letterhead
    • It uses too many numbers

    A statement that lists figures without analysis is rejected as often as it is approved - reviewers are checking for analysis, not a restated budget.

  4. 4. Where does most sex-disaggregated administrative data actually come from?

    • A dedicated national household survey
    • Existing beneficiary registers and attendance records not yet analysed by sexCorrect
    • Data purchased from a private vendor
    • It generally does not exist anywhere

    Beneficiary registers and attendance sheets are frequently already collected by sex, even where nobody has analysed them that way yet.

Written questions

Optional - a lecture is complete without any. Add two-to-three sentence explanation questions where the multiple-choice quiz cannot tell whether an idea actually landed - as soon as one exists, a learner must pass it at 70%, the same platform-wide mark as the quiz, before the next lecture opens.

  1. 1. In two or three sentences: why is missing a stated GSI requirement in a budget circular an avoidable rejection?

    stated requirementavoidablechecklistdirectly

    2 of 4 have to appear to pass.

    Model answer: Budget circulars increasingly state their gender-responsive requirements directly - a disaggregation requirement, a mandatory statement, a specific annex. Missing a stated requirement is an avoidable rejection, not a judgment call.

  2. 2. In two or three sentences: what are the three most common reasons a GRB submission is returned?

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    2 of 4 have to appear to pass.

    Model answer: Most GRB submissions are returned for one of three reasons: no baseline data, a claim with no evidence, or a statement that restates the budget without analysis. Checking a draft against these three clears most review cycles.