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May 26, 2023 at 3:49 PM

From the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse – https://nzfvc.org.nz/node/4939

The Government announced the 5th Wellbeing Budget on 18 May. It includes funding for family and sexual violence, as well as other key areas. Budget 2023 also includes a gender lens for the first time in Aotearoa.

Budget 2023

Funding for family and sexual violence

The Government made a pre-Budget announcement of $73.48 million for family violence and sexual violence initiatives. This funding aligns with Te Aorerekura priorities, across 3 focus areas: learning and monitoring, increasing equity by addressing key service gaps and enabling community leadership. Just over half of the funding is allocated to initiatives for tangata whenua, disabled people and children and young people. See the summary of initiatives and the summary on a page from Te Puna Aonui for the details.

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has published Budget 2023 factsheets which provide more details. There are factsheets for several of the family and sexual violence initiatives including Child Advocates, Online Help Tools, Kaupapa Māori Sexual Violence Services, Multi-Disciplinary Family Harm Approach in Counties Manukau and Services for Disabled People.

Considering Gender in Budget 2023

For the first time, Budget 2023 includes a gender budgeting snapshot. It highlighted that:

“Gender budgeting is a powerful tool for understanding how and to what extent people will be affected differently by initiatives depending on their gender. Applying a gender lens ensures that budgets can support a gender-equitable, inclusive future and do not embed inequalities further.”

15 agencies (triple the number of last year’s pilot) participated in the Gender Budgeting exercise this year. Manatū Wāhine | Ministry for Women supported these agencies to think about potential impacts on women and girls, particularly for Māori, through a Gender Budgeting Toolkit. The Budget 2023 gender budgeting snapshot highlights how this influenced several of the Budget 2023 initiatives.

Click here to read more from the NZFVC on Budget 2023