since several ministerial departments have created their own programmes to incorporate gender into budgeting at the local level as a result grb now functions as a permanent fixture in the performancebased budgeting process budgets benefiting women are now available in four line ministries agriculture and rural development education health and finance and the budget line allocated towards targeted livelihood activities for women has increased from million dirhams in to million dirhams in yet these stakeholders are very important in ensuring good quality data to support the approval and implementation of genderresponsive budgeting in addition it is important to ensure that line ministries take an active part in the gender budgeting process so as to increase their ownership and buyin egypt jordan and morocco use ad hoc pilot projects and jordan morocco and the palestinian authority use governmentwide requirements with assessment by relevant line ministries