About this tool
This tool provides practical step-by-step guidance to parliaments at the EU, national and regional levels to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate a gender equality action plan.The tool describes how to:
- plan the process of establishing a gender equality action plan from start to finish;
- set up the necessary support structures and conditions that are required to successfully execute a gender equality action plan;
- design the contents of a gender equality action plan, including the measures that parliaments can adopt;
- recognise the key challenges they may encounter throughout the process, and potential solutions to prevent and address these concerns.
The tool supports parliaments in achieving gender-responsive institutional transformation. If you have assessed the gender-sensitivity of your parliament, develop a gender equality action plan as a next step towards achieving a gender-sensitive parliament.
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To assess and monitor gender equality and gender mainstreaming in your parliament, check out EIGE’s self-assessment on gender-sensitive parliaments. See EIGE’s gender institutional transformation toolkit for step-by-step guidance on integrating a gender perspective in institutions.
To use this tool, follow this list of tasks.
- Read through each individual step describing the processes of establishing a gender equality action plan.
- Use the checklists and the editable and downloadable templates.
- Get inspired by examples of measures that can be adopted in each step. These include:
- practical examples drawn from existing gender equality action plans adopted by parliaments in the EU and beyond;
- fictional examples of measures taken by parliaments to develop, implement, monitor or evaluate their gender equality action plan;
- examples of measures that you can integrate into your own gender equality action plan;
- examples of benchmarks and targets, as well as performance indicators you can assign to measures in your plan;
- examples of gender-sensitive evaluation questions that you can use to measure the progress achieved through your gender equality action plan.
- Read the ‘further resources’ section to learn more about developing a gender equality action plan for your parliament.