Gender-responsive budgeting is an essential tool for development, poverty alleviation and redistribution. Chairperson, you will recall that last year we made an undertaking that, in partnership with the Motsepe Foundation, we would pursue the Women's Budget Initiative to ensure that our budgeting processes and allocations are gender responsive. I am pleased to inform the House that baseline research with the Departments of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Energy; Trade and Industry; and Health, in partnership with my department and the UN agencies, has been completed. This output will invigorate multistakeholder gender-responsive budget analysis in South Africa.