Part 2 Budgetary and institutional measures

1. Budgetary measures

The budget allocation for promoting a gender-equal society is as follows:

（Unit:million yen）
Items FY1999 FY1998
I Building social systems that promote gender equality 19 50
（1） Increasing participation by women in policy decision- making processes - -
（2） Reviewing social systems and practices and reforming Awareness from the perspective of gender equality
  • Increasing the long term care and child care satellite budget, etc.
19 50
II Achieving gender equality in the workplace, family and community 7,049,753 6,114,803
（3） Assuring opportunity and equal treatment in employment
  • Providing strong administrative guidance in order to ensure the effectiveness of the newly revised Equal Employment Opportunity Law,
  • Initiating to promote full development of capabilities and talents of women,
  • Improving comprehensively the maternal health care system,
  • Promoting measures related to new work environments,
  • Promoting measures to address issues related to part-time workers,
  • Promoting measures to address issues related to temporary workers, etc.
60,774 38,834
（4） Building partnerships in rural communities
  • Initiating to build partnerships in agricultural, rural communities,
  • Initiating to provide training of technical and managerial skills to women engaged in agriculture,
  • Promoting the comprehensive model project for improving regional agriculture labor conditions, etc.,
33,317 33,732
（5） Supporting women and men to harmonize between work with family and community life
  • Enhancing support to single-parent families,
  • Helping mothers of fatherless families find employment,
  • Promoting comprehensive measures to support the child and family member care leave system,
  • Providing 24 hour telephone consultation services to support home education nationwide,
  • Preparing and distributing home education handbooks and notebooks,
  • Preparing and distributing leaflets that enlighten young people about the joy of raising children
1,097,004 1,031,903
（6） Developing conditions to enable elderly people and others to live with peace of mind
  • Initiating to promote the smooth introduction of the long-term care insurance system, etc.
5,858,657 5,010,333
III Creating a society where the human rights of women are promoted and defended 51,058 30,787
（7） Elimination of all forms of violence against women
  • Enhancing support of women on probation for their social rehabilitation,
  • Enhancing correctional education at women's guidance homes
  • Promoting measures to prevent sexual harassment, etc
2,498 2,275
（8） Respect for human rights of women in the Media ---- ----
（9） Supporting life-long health for women
  • Providing maternal and child health care services during the birth cycle,
  • Supporting the health of adult and elderly women,
  • Preventing drug abuse through enhanced education,
  • Providing countermeasures against AIDS, etc.
3,990 4,800
（10） Promoting gender equality to open the way for a diversity of choices through enrichment of education and learning
  • Allocating budgets for the National Children's Plan (Children Broadcasting Station Promotion Project, launching Children's Centers nationwide),
  • Launching gender equality learning project for promoting the empowerment of women,
  • Strengthening the function of the National Women's Education Centre, etc.
44,569 23,717
IV Contributing to the"equality, development and peace "of the global community 893 954
（11） Contributing to the "equality, development and peace" of the global community
  • Promoting UNIFEM and UNIFEM TRUST FUND for eliminating all forms of violence against women,
  • Promoting the WID initiative, etc.
893 954
V Implementation of the Plan
  • Preparing for the Women 2000 Conference,
  • Promoting education of the people about the basic law designed to promote a gender-equal society, etc.
215 148
Grand Total 7,101,938 6,146,742
  • Note 1.
    Items are based on the "Plan for Gender Equality 2000; the National Action Plan for promotion of a gender-equal society by the year 2000."
  • Note 2.
    Budgets have not been accounted for those items related to the promotion of a gender-equal society that lack specific numerical figures.
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