78. 2. While ensuring the confidentiality of this data, the States must also ensure that the statistics are accessible and are made public. 79. Cooperation Cooperation between the stakeholders of the African Statistical System (ASS) should be encouraged and facilitated, especially with a view to producing regional statistics on sexual violence and its consequences. Explanatory Notes: African Union, African Charter on Statistics (2009); United Nations, “Guidelines for Producing Statistics on Violence against Women”, ST/ESA/STAT/SER.F/110 (2014). E. GENDER-RESPONSIVE BUDGETING 80. Allocation of sufficient financial resources States must allocate sufficient financial resources to prevent and investigate sexual violence, punish perpetrators, protect and support victims, and provide reparations to them. In particular, these resources must allow for the adoption of legislative, judicial, regulatory, and institutional measures as well as all other measures necessary to combat sexual violence and its consequences. States must significantly reduce military expenses and allocate the funds to combating sexual violence and its consequences, as required. 81. Evaluation and adjustments States must adopt gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) to enable them to identify the beneficiaries of national budgets (women, girls, men and boys) and to analyse the impact of budgetary allocations on promoting gender equality and combating sexual violence and its consequences. This evaluation requires statistics that are disaggregated by sex and the definition of sex-based indicators for all budgets, especially those dealing with justice, health and education. After this diagnosis, if required, States must take the necessary measures to adjust budgets, especially by taking corrective measures to enable the creation of gender-sensitive budgets. These corrective measures must be aimed at financing specific activities, such as establishing one-stop centres or conducting awareness-raising campaigns or trainings under national action plans. 82. Capacity building for civil servants States must develop and/or strengthen the knowledge and capabilities of all government employees in all departments in charge of financing, planning and budgeting in order to effectively implement GRB in their services. States must guarantee that there is good cooperation between these departments. States must also establish units in charge of coordinating GRB in all ministries, especially during planning and programming phases. Explanatory Notes: Maputo Protocol, Articles 4 (2) (I), 10 (3) and 26 (2); SADC Guidelines on Gender Responsive Budgeting (2014); United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, final report of the Regional Training Workshop on Gender-Sensitive National Planning and Budgeting for National Machineries for the Advancement of Women, Bamako, Mali (2003); United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW (2006). See also Ashwanee Budoo’s thesis on the role of gender responsive budgeting in implementing the obligation to provide resources to realize women’s rights in Africa, Law faculty of the University of Pretoria (2016). See the initiatives taken in establishing gender responsive budgeting in South Africa and Tanzania. 50 GUIDELINES ON COMBATING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN AFRICA