The National Assembly Budget Office has published the after reviewing the budget that had been submitted to the National Assembly for projects on gender perception (i.e., 337 projects, operated by 42 organizations and an aggregate budget of 434.9 billion Won) in the form of an attached document to the national government’s general budget bill.
   
    This report firstly ①points out the issues involving selection of relevant projects. Specifically, among the projects for which the budget is intended to be used, there are projects that cannot be expected to promote gender equality or to take a gender based approach. Meanwhile, some projects that could be approached from a gender based perspective have been omitted.
   
    It also ② highlights issues involving the beneficiaries of the projects in question and the legitimacy of  theproject goals. For instance, some projects did not include statistics of their target audiences, and some listed the same number of people for the target audience and beneficiaries. The report also focuses on projects whose goals were deemed inappropriate or were set too conservatively.
   
    Based on these analyses, the report suggests methods to resolve issues of gender sensitive budget: ① Gender sensitive projects should be selected by each government department in the relevant field; ② The guideline on how to fill out relevant forms should add more details and made more user-friendly; ③The process through which gender sensitive projects are selected should be improved; and ④ a procedure by which the budget for gender sensitive projects can be formally reviewed and assessed should be established.
   
    In order to bring about practical changes, this report also presents suggestions on how the gender sensitive budget should be set, how a system must be put in place through which funding for these projects may be increased or adjusted during the drafting of the national government’s overall budget. It also recommends establishing budget assessment methods for gender sensitive projects to be reflected onto the formal budget review conducted by the Special Committee on Budget and Accounts.