Publications

Violence against Women Victim Support: Report

Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States

Domestic violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations of our time, and one of the biggest global problems. In the EU, 9 out of 10 victims of intimate partner violence are women. It harms women, families, communities and society.

The current report aims to support policymakers and all relevant institutions in their efforts to combat and prevent domestic violence, by providing them with reliable and comparable data and information for effective, evidence-based decisions and policy improvement.

Publication date: 07 December 2012

Related publications:

Violence against Women Victim Support: Main findings (publication date: 05/03/2012)

Interview with Sylvia Walby: Violence against women: victim support (publication date: 22/11/2012)

Fact sheet: Support for women victims of intimate partner violence (publication date: 14/11/2012)

Gender Equality and Climate Change: Report

Review of the Implementation in the EU of area K of the Beijing Platform for Action: Women and the Environment

The report prepared by EIGE reviews the progress made by the European Union Member States in the implementation of one of the twelve areas of concern of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for Equality, Development and Peace (BPfA), namely of area K: Women and the Environment.

Publication date: 05/05/2012

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Gender Equality and Climate Change: Main findings, DA,  DE, EN, FR  (publication date: 03/04/2012)

Fact sheet: Gender equality and climate change (publication date: 14/11/2012)

Interview: Gender equality and climate change - we need equal participation, nothing less (publication date: 14/11/2012)

Reconciliation of work and family life as a condition of equal participation in the labour market: Report

Review of the implementation of the Beijing platform for action in the area F: women and the economy

The following first EIGE Report specifically focuses on the topic of the reconciliation of work and family life as a condition of equal participation in the labour market (one of the objectives expressed in the BPfA, area F: Women and the Economy).

Publication date: 20/10/2011

Related publications:

Reconciliation of work and family life as a condition of equal participation in the labour market: Main findings DE, EN, FR, PL (Publication date: 19/08/2011)

Gender Equality Index - Leaflet

Publication date: 08/05/2012

Rationale for the Gender Equality Index for Europe

This is a summary of the conceptual and methodological issues of the ‘ Study for the development of the basic structure of a Gender Equality Index for the European Union’ produced by Janneke Plantenga, Colette Fagan, Friederike Maier and Chantal Remery (2010), commissioned by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).

The theoretical and empirical findings of the study will be used for further work by EIGE in the course of the development of the Gender Equality Index for Europe.

Publication date: 19/09/2012

Also available in: ES, FR, DE IT

Gender training: Factors contributing to its effective implementation and challenges

Based on evidence gathered throughout EIGE’s project, this sheet outlines some examples of approaches to gender training that have worked and points to the main challenges that need to be addressed when planning to support gender mainstreaming with training activities.

Publication date: 13 November 2012

Also available in: ES, DE, FR, IT, LT

Gender training: Step-by-step approach to quality

Publication date: 13 November 2012

Also available in: ES, DE, FR, IT, LT

Good practices in gender training

Based on evidence gathered for EIGE’s project on Gender training in the EU: Mapping, research and stakeholders’ engagement (2012-2013), this reference sheet presents some resources for gender training in Europe. It also provides some good practice examples in train the trainers and gender competence programmes in specific sectors.

Publication date: 13 November 2012

Also available in: ES,  DE, FR, IT, LT

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Encouraging and supporting the participation of women in positions of political responsibility and representation at regional and local level, Greece (Publication date: 13 November 2012)

ESF Jämt, Sweden (Publication date: 13 November 2012)

Gender Academy and innovative methods to share experiences between gender mainstreaming professionals, ILO (Publication date: 13 November 2012)

Gender glasses, Finland (Publication date: 13 November 2012)

Gender Impact Assessment training in the city of Vantaa, Finland (Publication date: 13 November 2012)

In-house seminar on gender budgeting, Austria (Publication date: 13 November 2012)

Support structures for sustainable gender mainstreaming within the ESF, Germany(Publication date: 13 November 2012)

Mapping of gender training policies and practices in the European Union: Summary of findings

Publication date: 13 November 2012

Advancing Gender Training to Support Effective Gender Mainstreaming - Conference Volume

Publication date: 13 November 2012

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Reflections from the online discussion (Publication date: 13 November 2012)

Reflections from the conference (Publication date: 25/04/2013)

Good Practices in Gender Mainstreaming

Mainstreaming Gender into the Policies and the Programmes of the Institutions of European Union and EU Member States

This publication intends to present EIGE’s approach to collect, process and disseminate good practices in gender mainstreaming.The document is the result of the contribution provided by EIGE’s thematic network on Gender Mainstreaming and Expert’s Forum members, EIGE’s staff as well as from the findings of the Second Ex-Ante Evaluation of EIGE and the “Study on the use of “good practice” as a tool for mainstreaming gender into the policies and programmes of the Institutions of European Union and EU Member States”, commissioned to the Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (FGB).

Publication date: 28/11/2011

Female genital mutilation in the European Union and Croatia - Report

This report aims to support policy makers and all relevant institutions by providing them with reliable and comparable data for evidence-based actions and policy improvement in the area of FGM. It also provides recommendations on how to protect girls, women and the European society from this destructive and devastating expression of power, and on how to give sufficient support to the girls and women who have fallen victim to this crime.

Country fact sheets:

Good practices in combating female genital mutilation

This publication presents good practices on combating female genital mutilation identified during the implementation of the ‘Study to map the current situation and trends of female genital mutilation in 27 EU Member States and Croatia. The consortium composed of the Ghent University — ICRH and E.A.D.C. (Yellow Window Management Consultants) was commissioned to carry out the study in 2012.

Violence against Women Victim Support: Report

Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States

Domestic violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations of our time, and one of the biggest global problems. In the EU, 9 out of 10 victims of intimate partner violence are women. It harms women, families, communities and society.

The current report aims to support policymakers and all relevant institutions in their efforts to combat and prevent domestic violence, by providing them with reliable and comparable data and information for effective, evidence-based decisions and policy improvement.

Publication date: 07 December 2012

Related publications:

Violence against Women Victim Support: Main findings (publication date: 05/03/2012)

Interview with Sylvia Walby: Violence against women: victim support (publication date: 22/11/2012)

Fact sheet: Support for women victims of intimate partner violence (publication date: 14/11/2012)

Leaflet on resources on gender-based violence

Publication date 07/11/2012

Also available in: FR, DE, LT, NL, SV

The study to identify and map existing data and resources on sexual violence against women in the EU

This report is based on a study commissioned by EIGE and carried out by the European Women’s Lobby in 2011. The study focused on the following forms of sexual violence against women – rape, marital rape, sexual abuse/assault, sexual coercion and sexual harassment outside the workplace – and covered resources used by the Member States and Croatia between 2007 and 2010.

Publication date: 07 November 2012

The involvement of men in gender equality initiatives in the European Union

This report is the final product of the Background study on the involvement of men in gender equality in the European Institute for Gender Equality’s (EIGE) working areas. The study was commissioned by EIGE and implemented by Men for Gender Equality (Sweden).

The general aim was to map relevant stakeholders in all EU Member States whose activity could be considered as contributing to a more effective involvement of men in the promotion of gender equality. Special attention was placed on specific approaches applied and materials produced by such actors.

Publication date: 04 December 2012

Leaflet on resources on gender-based violence

Publication date 07/11/2012

Also available in: FR, DE, LT, NL, SV