Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a candidate country for EU membership. Bosnia and Herzegovina applied for EU membership in February 2016 and was granted EU candidate status in December 2022.

EIGE has been working with Bosnia and Herzegovina to build their capacity in gender equality since 2013. EIGE collects data on women and men in decision-making positions in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2018. Bosnia and Herzegovina launched its first (partial) Gender Equality Index in 2022.

The European Commission funds the cooperation under the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA).

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EIGE Stakeholders in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Agency for Gender Equality of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees

Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina and European Union Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gender Equality Index

Bosnia and Herzegovina is the fifth country in the region of the Western Balkans to have made pivotal steps in development of national Gender Equality Index. It presents full index scores for two full domains of Knowledge and Power, and partial index scores for the domains of Work and Health.

Moving towards the Gender Equality Index Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022