On November 9, 2020, specialists of the State Audit Service of Ukraine and its interregional territorial bodies took part in the webinar «Gender audit in the public finance control system», which became the last one in the cycle of webinars on the subject, conducted by the international experts and organized by the «Gender Budgeting in Ukraine» Project (hereinafter – the GRB Project).

The relevant measures are aimed at integrating the gender component into the budget process, promoting the improvement of economic efficiency of budget expenditures by taking into account the needs of different groups of women and men in Ukraine, enriching of knowledge and experience about current development trends and gender-oriented budgeting practices at the global, European and national levels.

In terms of present-day realities, the relevant topic regarding the control over budget expenditures, aimed at combating the spread of COVID-19, which was considered in the light of gender audit, hasn’t been left out of attention of public financial control bodies’ inspectors and auditors. This topic was of special interest and it was prepared by the GRB Project at the request of the State Audit Service of Ukraine.

It should be noted that the State Audit Service of Ukraine is an active participant of the activities conducted by the GRB Project and it is interested in development of such a new tool in the sphere of promoting of gender equality policy as a gender audit, which will allow to evaluate the level of efficiency of gender approach institutionalization in policies, programs, processes etc. For this purpose, the development of the current regulatory basis now is in planned.