“…The government developed it gender budgeting initiative from its gender mainstreaming framework, with assistance from international agencies (Costa and Sharp, 2010). The adoption of the 2003-2015 National Program for Gender Equality was accompanied by the establishment of the National Council on Gender Equality, which was mandated to elaborate and implement gender mainstreaming (Costa and Sharp, 2010). Although sex-disaggregated data are collected and reported by the national statistical office, inadequate use of that data are made at all levels, from policy planning through to service provision (Begzsuren, Tsolmon and Dolgion Aldar, 2014).…”