Budget Support  - Gender Transformative Action <p>The Overall Objective (Impact) of this action is to accelerate progress towards gender equality and women and girls¿ empowerment in Tanzania.</p><p>The Specific Objectives (Outcomes) aim to contribute to:</p><p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Enhance freedom from all forms of gender-based violence in the public and private spheres, in schools, work place and online for women, men, girls and boys</p><p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Promote women economic empowerment, including to grasp green and digital opportunities</p><p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Enhance equality in participation, leadership and decision making, including in actions related to justice, peace and security.</p><p>The Outputs to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives (SO) are:</p><p><br></p><p>SO 1 ¿ Equitable environment and services (Budget support)</p><p>Induced outputs</p><p>1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Improved policies, legal and regulatory framework that promote gender equality as well as economic and social opportunities for women and youth are in place;</p><p>1.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Policies, systems and services made more equitable for women to live free from violence ;</p><p>1.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Women and girls have improved access to justice to safeguard their civil, economic and political rights;</p><p>1.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Quality, disaggregated and globally comparable data on different forms of gender-based violence and harmful practices are increasingly collected and used to inform laws, policies and programmes. </p><p>1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Increased prioritisation of gender in the national budget;</p><p>Direct outputs</p><p>1.6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;New fiscal space created and the increased predictability of funds;</p><p>1.7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Policy dialogue strengthened in support of the mainstreaming and implementation of the gender strategy;</p><p>1.8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Public authorities¿ capacities for the coordination of the gender agenda are improved (Complementary support).</p><p><br></p><p>Indicative Activities</p><p>SO 1 ¿ Equitable environment and services</p><p>Budget support (Mainland), a Contribution Agreement (Zanzibar) and technical assistance will support policy dialogue with Ministries in charge of Gender. The development of a specific Performance Assessment Framework and performance indicators will contribute to guide the policy dialogue and monitor the gender ¿sector¿ progress. The dialogue will aim at ensuring necessary reforms, country ownership and commitment, sufficient resources allocation and planning. </p><p>The following indicative activities, under each output, consist in a dialogue on:</p><p>Induced outputs 1.1-1.5:</p><p>¿&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Joint review of legal and regulatory framework, including the Action Plan related to gender-based violence and notably access to justice, education and health;</p><p>¿&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Improvement of data collection in a disaggregated way and on gender-based violence and harmful practices;</p><p>¿&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Improvement and harmonization of sector reforms and performances, mainstreaming gender in all ministries.</p><p>Direct outputs 1.6-1.7:</p><p>¿&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Joint monitoring of implementation of gender-related policies and strategies;</p><p>¿&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Joint review of general conditions for Budget Support operations;</p><p>¿&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Joint definition and regular review of Variable Tranches indicators;</p><p>¿&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Joint review, improvement and application of a comprehensive policy and regulatory framework through the main fora in the sector and ad hoc initiatives.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>