translated from Spanish: Government proposes taking resources away from 26 women’s programmes

Of the 83 gender-focused programmes, i.e. dedicated to narrowing the gap between men and women in the country, 26 will suffer cuts by next year, as proposed by the Federal Government in the draft budget sent to the Chamber of Deputies.
While the total budget for gender appears to increase from 64 billion pesos from 2019 to 100 billion pesos by 2020, the increase is due to the first time 12 programmes dedicated to the direct delivery of money, totaling 23 billion pesos to the game. 
These are programs such as Young People Building the Future, Sowing Life, Scholarships for different levels of education, and even the Warranty Pricing program, although they are not designed or targeted specifically for women.
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One more, Scholarships for students of higher middle education, although included in 2019 to this item with 1,728 million pesos, 7 thousand 248 million pesos are proposed by 2020, which means an increase of 319%, the largest recorded this item.  
In contrast, for programmes focused only on women such as Maternal, Sexual and Reproductive Health, a cut of 21% is proposed, from 2.315 million pesos this year to 1,818 million pesos by 2020, according to Annex 13 where Erogations for equality between women and men are distributed.
Another example is the program to promote the care and prevention of violence against women, to which the Executive proposes to give 267 million pesos to operate in 2019, but which actually needs 417 million pesos.
This is because the National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women (Conavim) calculated an additional 150 million pesos to deal with gender-based violence alerts, to operate the Justice Centers and to strengthen the structure of the Gender Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
With regard to the investigation of crimes related to organized crime as part of the actions to comply with the General Law to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Crimes in the Matter of Trafficking in Persons, it is proposed not to give it a weight, even though in 2019 it operated with 46 million pesos.
For the National Bank for Data and Information on Cases of Violence against Women (Banavim), the Executive proposes a cut of 58%, from 16 million pesos this year to 6 million 900 thousand pesos.
In contrast, according to the analysis of the budget by the Chamber of Deputies Gender Commission, the Executive proposed 12 “new inclusion” programmes to the gender annex by 2020.
These are direct delivery programs that are a priority for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and whose operation is run by units such as the PSE, the Secretariat of Labor or Welfare; were included for the first time in this game with million-dollar amounts.
The Benito Juarez Basic Education Scholarship Program, whose focal population is primary and secondary students without gender consideration, has an overall budget of 30 billion pesos, and of that amount the Executive integrated 7 thousand 618 million pesos in the annex dedicated to gender programs.
The same is true of Young People Building the Future, focused on young people working as apprentices in different companies and the government giving them a monthly scholarship. Here the only determining factor is age, not gender.
However, it was also integrated into the area of women with 12 thousand 708 million pesos, of the 25 billion pesos of total budget of the program operated by the Ministry of Labour.
Sowing Vida, a program dedicated to planting trees and operated by the Ministry of Welfare, would have 25 billion budget by 2020; of this, 7.530 million were placed in the gender field.
Up to the Basic Food Product Guarantee Pricing Program of the Ministry of Agriculture, focused on small producers, it was included in gender with 2 billion pesos.
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Original source in Spanish