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        • What is Gender Equality Training
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            • 1. Assess the needs
            • 2. Integrate initiatives to broader strategy
            • 3. Ensure sufficient resources
            • 4. Write good terms of reference
            • 5. Select a trainer
            • 6. Engage in the needs assessment
            • 7. Actively participate in the initiative
            • 8. Invite others to join in
            • 9. Monitoring framework and procedures
            • 10. Set up an evaluation framework
            • 11. Assess long-term impacts
            • 12. Give space and support others
        • Designing effective Gender Equality Training
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        • When to use Gender Impact Assessment
        • Guide to Gender Impact Assessment
          • Step 1: Definition of policy purpose
          • Step 2: Checking gender relevance
          • Step 3: Gender-sensitive analysis
          • Step 4: Weighing gender impact
          • Step 5: Findings and proposals for improvement
        • Following up on gender impact assessment
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        • What is Institutional Transformation
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          • Dimensions of gender mainstreaming in institutions: The SPO model
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        • Who the guide is for
        • Guide to Institutional Transformation
            • 1. Creating accountability and strengthening commitment
            • 2. Allocating resources
            • 3. Conducting an organisational analysis
            • 4. Developing a strategy and work plan
            • 5. Establishing a support structure
            • 6. Setting gender equality objectives
            • 7. Communicating gender mainstreaming
            • 8. Introducing gender mainstreaming
            • 9. Developing gender equality competence
            • 10. Establishing a gender information management system
            • 11. Launching gender equality action plans
            • 12. Promotional equal opportunities
            • 13. Monitoring and steering organisational change
        • Dealing with resistance
          • Discourse level
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        • Checklist: Key questions for change
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            • 1. Strengthening accountability
            • 2. Allocating resources
            • 3. Organisational analysis
            • 4. Developing a strategy and working plan
            • 5. Establishing a support structure
            • 6. Setting objectives
            • 7. Communicating gender mainstreaming
            • 8. Introducing methods and tools
            • 9. Developing Competence
            • 10. Establishing a gender information management system
            • 11. Launching action plans
            • 12. Promoting within an organisation
            • 13. Monitoring and evaluating
      • Gender Equality in Academia and Research
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        • WHAT
          • What is a Gender Equality Plan?
          • Terms and definitions
          • Which stakeholders need to be engaged into a GEP
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        • WHY
          • Horizon Europe GEP criterion
          • Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
          • Why change must be structural
          • Rationale for gender equality change in research and innovation
          • GEAR step-by-step guide for research organisations, universities and public bodies
            • Step 1: Getting started
            • Step 2: Analysing and assessing the state-of-play in the institution
            • Step 3: Setting up a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 4: Implementing a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 5: Monitoring progress and evaluating a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 6: What comes after the Gender Equality Plan?
          • GEAR step-by-step guide for research funding bodies
            • Step 1: Getting started
            • Step 2: Analysing and assessing the state-of-play in the institution
            • Step 3: Setting up a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 4: Implementing a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 5: Monitoring progress and evaluating a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 6: What comes after the Gender Equality Plan?
          • GEAR action toolbox
            • Work-life balance and organisational culture
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            • Measures mitigating the effect of COVID-19
            • Data collection and monitoring
            • Training: awareness-raising and capacity building
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          • Success factors for GEP development and implementation
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      • Gender-sensitive Parliaments
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        • What is the tool for?
        • Who is the tool for?
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        • Self-assessment, scoring and interpretation of parliament gender-sensitivity
          • AREA 1 – Women and men have equal opportunities to ENTER the parliament
            • Domain 1 – Electoral system and gender quotas
            • Domain 2 - Political party/group procedures
            • Domain 3 – Recruitment of parliamentary employees
          • AREA 2 – Women and men have equal opportunities to INFLUENCE the parliament’s working procedures
            • Domain 1 – Parliamentarians’ presence and capacity in a parliament
            • Domain 2 – Structure and organisation
            • Domain 3 – Staff organisation and procedures
          • AREA 3 – Women’s interests and concerns have adequate SPACE on parliamentary agenda
            • Domain 1 – Gender mainstreaming structures
            • Domain 2 – Gender mainstreaming tools in parliamentary work
            • Domain 3 – Gender mainstreaming tools for staff
          • AREA 4 – The parliament produces gender-sensitive LEGISLATION
            • Domain 1 – Gender equality laws and policies
            • Domain 2 – Gender mainstreaming in laws
            • Domain 3 – Oversight of gender equality
          • AREA 5 – The parliament complies with its SYMBOLIC function
            • Domain 1 – Symbolic meanings of spaces
            • Domain 2 – Gender equality in external communication and representation
        • How gender-sensitive are parliaments in the EU?
        • Examples of gender-sensitive practices in parliaments
          • Women and men have equal opportunities to ENTER the parliament
          • Women and men have equal opportunities to INFLUENCE the parliament’s working procedures
          • Women’s interests and concerns have adequate SPACE on parliamentary agenda
          • The parliament produces gender-sensitive LEGISLATION
          • The parliament complies with its SYMBOLIC function
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      • Gender Budgeting
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        • Who is this toolkit for?
        • What is gender budgeting?
          • Introducing gender budgeting
          • Gender budgeting in women’s and men’s lived realities
          • What does gender budgeting involve in practice?
          • Gender budgeting in the EU Funds
            • Gender budgeting as a way of complying with EU legal requirements
            • Gender budgeting as a way of promoting accountability and transparency
            • Gender budgeting as a way of increasing participation in budget processes
            • Gender budgeting as a way of advancing gender equality
        • Why is gender budgeting important in the EU Funds?
          • Three reasons why gender budgeting is crucial in the EU Funds
        • How can we apply gender budgeting in the EU Funds? Practical tools and Member State examples
          • Tool 1: Connecting the EU Funds with the EU’s regulatory framework on gender equality
            • Legislative and regulatory basis for EU policies on gender equality
            • Concrete requirements for considering gender equality within the EU Funds
            • EU Funds’ enabling conditions
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 2: Analysing gender inequalities and gender needs at the national and sub-national levels
            • Steps to assess and analyse gender inequalities and needs
            • Step 1. Collect information and disaggregated data on the target group
            • Step 2. Identify existing gender inequalities and their underlying causes
            • Step 3. Consult directly with the target groups
            • Step 4. Draw conclusions
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 3: Operationalising gender equality in policy objectives and specific objectives/measures
            • Steps for operationalising gender equality in Partnership Agreements and Operational Programmes
            • General guidance on operationalising gender equality when developing policy objectives, specific objectives and measures
            • Checklist for putting the horizontal principle of gender equality into practice in Partnership Agreements
            • Checklist for putting the horizontal principle of gender equality into practice in Operational Programmes
            • Examples of integrating gender equality as a horizontal principle in policy objectives and specific objectives
          • Tool 4: Coordination and complementarities between the EU Funds to advance work-life balance
            • Steps for enhancing coordination and complementarities between the funds
            • Step 1. Alignment with the EU’s strategic engagement goals for gender equality and national gender equality goals
            • Steps 2 and 3. Identifying and developing possible work-life balance interventions
            • Step 4. Following-up through the use of indicators within M&E systems
            • Fictional case study 1: reconciling paid work and childcare
            • Fictional case study 2: reconciling shift work and childcare
            • Fictional case study 3: balancing care for oneself and others
            • Fictional case study 4: reconciling care for children and older persons with shift work
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 5: Defining partnerships and multi-level governance
            • Steps for defining partnerships and multi-level governance
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 6: Developing quantitative and qualitative indicators for advancing gender equality
            • Steps to develop quantitative and qualitative indicators
            • ERDF and Cohesion Fund
            • ESF+
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            • Additional resources
          • Tool 7: Defining gender-sensitive project selection criteria
            • Steps to support gender-sensitive project development and selection
            • Checklist to guide the preparation of calls for project proposals
            • Checklist for project selection criteria
            • Supplementary tool 7.a: Gender-responsive agreements with project implementers
          • Tool 8: Tracking resource allocations for gender equality in the EU Funds
            • Ensuring gender relevance in EU Funds
            • The tracking system
            • Steps for tracking resource allocations on gender equality
            • Step 1: Ex ante approach
            • Step 2: Ex post approach
            • Examples of Step 2a
            • Annex 1: Ex ante assignment of intervention fields to the gender equality dimension codes
            • Annex 2: The EU’s gender equality legal and policy framework
          • Tool 9: Mainstreaming gender equality in project design
            • Steps to mainstream gender equality in project design
            • Step 1. Alignment with partnership agreements’ and Operational Programmes’ gender objectives and indicators
            • Step 2. Project development and application
            • Step 3. Project implementation
            • Step 4. Project assessment
          • Tool 10: Integrating a gender perspective in monitoring and evaluation processes
            • Steps to integrate a gender perspective in M&E processes
            • Additional resources
          • Tool 11: Reporting on resource spending for gender equality in the EU Funds
            • Tracking expenditures for gender equality
            • Additional resources
          • References
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      • Gender-responsive Public Procurement
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        • What is gender-responsive public procurement?
          • How is gender-responsive public procurement linked to gender equality?
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          • Why was this toolkit produced
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          • Tool 1:Self-assessment questionnaire about the legal
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        • How to include gender aspects in tendering procedures
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            • Tool 3: Decision tree to assess the gender relevance
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            • Tool 4: Guiding questions for needs assessment
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            • Tool 5: Decision tree for the choice of procedure for GRPP
            • Dividing the contract into lots
            • Tool 6: Guiding questions for dividing contracts into lots for GRPP
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            • Tool 7: Guiding questions for applying GRPP under the light regime
            • Tool 8: Guiding questions for applying GRPP under the light regime
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            • Tool 9: Decision tree for setting GRPP selection criteria
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            • Tool 10: Formulating GRPP award criteria
            • Tool 11: Bidders’ concepts to ensure the integration of gender aspects
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            • Tool 12: Checklist for including GRPP contract performance conditions
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            • Tool 13: Template for a GRPP monitoring and reporting plan
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          • Principle 5: Considering children’s experiences
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      • Foreword
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      • Introduction
        • Still far from the finish line
        • Snail’s-pace progress on gender equality in the EU continues
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      • 2. Domain of work
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      • 3. Domain of money
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      • 4. Domain of knowledge
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Gender Budgeting

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  • Who is this toolkit for?
  • What is gender budgeting?
    • Introducing gender budgeting
    • Gender budgeting in women’s and men’s lived realities
    • What does gender budgeting involve in practice?
    • Gender budgeting in the EU Funds
      • Gender budgeting as a way of complying with EU legal requirements
      • Gender budgeting as a way of promoting accountability and transparency
      • Gender budgeting as a way of increasing participation in budget processes
      • Gender budgeting as a way of advancing gender equality
  • Why is gender budgeting important in the EU Funds?
    • Three reasons why gender budgeting is crucial in the EU Funds
  • How can we apply gender budgeting in the EU Funds? Practical tools and Member State examples
    • Tool 1: Connecting the EU Funds with the EU’s regulatory framework on gender equality
      • Legislative and regulatory basis for EU policies on gender equality
      • Concrete requirements for considering gender equality within the EU Funds
      • EU Funds’ enabling conditions
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 2: Analysing gender inequalities and gender needs at the national and sub-national levels
      • Steps to assess and analyse gender inequalities and needs
      • Step 1. Collect information and disaggregated data on the target group
      • Step 2. Identify existing gender inequalities and their underlying causes
      • Step 3. Consult directly with the target groups
      • Step 4. Draw conclusions
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 3: Operationalising gender equality in policy objectives and specific objectives/measures
      • Steps for operationalising gender equality in Partnership Agreements and Operational Programmes
      • General guidance on operationalising gender equality when developing policy objectives, specific objectives and measures
      • Checklist for putting the horizontal principle of gender equality into practice in Partnership Agreements
      • Checklist for putting the horizontal principle of gender equality into practice in Operational Programmes
      • Examples of integrating gender equality as a horizontal principle in policy objectives and specific objectives
    • Tool 4: Coordination and complementarities between the EU Funds to advance work-life balance
      • Steps for enhancing coordination and complementarities between the funds
      • Step 1. Alignment with the EU’s strategic engagement goals for gender equality and national gender equality goals
      • Steps 2 and 3. Identifying and developing possible work-life balance interventions
      • Step 4. Following-up through the use of indicators within M&E systems
      • Fictional case study 1: reconciling paid work and childcare
      • Fictional case study 2: reconciling shift work and childcare
      • Fictional case study 3: balancing care for oneself and others
      • Fictional case study 4: reconciling care for children and older persons with shift work
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 5: Defining partnerships and multi-level governance
      • Steps for defining partnerships and multi-level governance
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 6: Developing quantitative and qualitative indicators for advancing gender equality
      • Steps to develop quantitative and qualitative indicators
      • ERDF and Cohesion Fund
      • ESF+
      • EMFF
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 7: Defining gender-sensitive project selection criteria
      • Steps to support gender-sensitive project development and selection
      • Checklist to guide the preparation of calls for project proposals
      • Checklist for project selection criteria
      • Supplementary tool 7.a: Gender-responsive agreements with project implementers
    • Tool 8: Tracking resource allocations for gender equality in the EU Funds
      • Ensuring gender relevance in EU Funds
      • The tracking system
      • Steps for tracking resource allocations on gender equality
      • Step 1: Ex ante approach
      • Step 2: Ex post approach
      • Examples of Step 2a
      • Annex 1: Ex ante assignment of intervention fields to the gender equality dimension codes
      • Annex 2: The EU’s gender equality legal and policy framework
    • Tool 9: Mainstreaming gender equality in project design
      • Steps to mainstream gender equality in project design
      • Step 1. Alignment with partnership agreements’ and Operational Programmes’ gender objectives and indicators
      • Step 2. Project development and application
      • Step 3. Project implementation
      • Step 4. Project assessment
    • Tool 10: Integrating a gender perspective in monitoring and evaluation processes
      • Steps to integrate a gender perspective in M&E processes
      • Additional resources
    • Tool 11: Reporting on resource spending for gender equality in the EU Funds
      • Tracking expenditures for gender equality
      • Additional resources
  • Resources
    • References
    • Abbreviations
    • Acknowledgements

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ERDF and Cohesion Fund (same common indicators)

Policy objective 1 

A smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation

i. Enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies 

Outputs

  • CCO[1] 01 - Enterprises supported to innovate
  • CCO 02 - Researchers working in supported research facilities

Results

CCR[2] 01 - SMEs introducing product, process, marketing or organisational innovations

Questions for gender equality indicators

  • How many enterprises are owned by women vs. how many are owned by men?
  • How many women vs. men are researchers working in supported research facilities?
  • What is the support given to female-owned enterprises vs. the support given to male-owned enterprises?

Examples of indicators[3]

Output level:

  • Female- and male-owned enterprises supported to innovate
  • Average amount of support given to female- and male-owned enterprises
  • Women and men researchers working in supported research facilities

Results level:

  • Female and male-owned SMEs introducing product, process, marketing or organisational innovations

ii. Reaping the benefits of digitalisation for citizens, companies and governments

Outputs

CCO 03 - Enterprises and public institutions supported to develop digital products, services and applications 

Results

CCR 02 - Additional users of new digital products, services and applications developed by enterprises and public institutions 

Questions for gender equality indicators

  • Who are the users and non-users (women and men) of new digital products and services? 
  • Are these products and services equally used by women and men?
  • How many of these enterprises are owned by women vs. men?

Examples of indicators[3]

Output level:

  • Female- and male-owned enterprises supported to develop digital products, services and applications
  • Average amount of support given to female- and male-owned enterprises

Results level:

  • Women and men users of new digital products and services
  • Gap in user rates between women and men
  • Satisfaction of women and men users with digital products, services and applications

iii. Enhancing growth and competitiveness of SMEs

Outputs

CCO 04 - SMEs supported to create jobs and growth 

Results

CCR 03 - Jobs created in SMEs supported 

Questions for gender equality indicators

  •  How many of the SMEs supported are owned by women vs. men?
  • What kinds of jobs are created? Within which sectors have these jobs been created?
  • Is this sector more dominated by women or men, or is there an equal distribution?
  • How will these jobs support women’s vs. men’s employment?

Examples of indicators[3]

Output level:

  • Female- and male-owned SMEs supported to create growth
  • Average amount of support given to female- and male-owned enterprises

Results level:

  • Type of jobs created
  • Number/share of women’s and men’s jobs created
  • Number/share of women’s and men’s jobs created in sectors dominated by women/men

iv. Developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship

Outputs

CCO 05 - SMEs investing in skills development 

Results

CCR 04 - SMEs staff benefiting from training for skills development 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • How many of the SMEs supported are owned by women vs. men?
  • What kinds of skills are promoted? Within which sectors are these skills necessary? How will they support women’s vs. men’s skills development?
  • Are these sectors dominated by more women or men, or is there an equal distribution?

Examples of indicators[3]

Output level:

  • Female- and male-owned SMEs investing in skills development
  • Average amount of support given to female- and male-owned enterprises
  • Average cost of training by women and men staff members trained

Results level:

  • Number/share of women and men in SMEs staff who have benefitted from skills development training
  • Types of training for skills development accessed by women vs. men

Policy objective 2

A greener, low-carbon Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate adaptation and risk prevention and management

i. Promoting energy efficiency measures

Outputs

CCO 06 - Investments in measures to improve energy efficiency

Results

CCR 05 - Beneficiaries with improved energy classification 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • How will measures to improve energy efficiency effect women and men in all their diversity? Is there likely to be a difference?
  • Can other socio-demographic characteristics influence these effects, such as age, socio-economic status and education?
  • Will both women and men participate in any possible consultations that might be held?

Examples of indicators[3]

Output level:

  • Type of investments in measures to improve energy efficiency

Result level:

  • Women and men beneficiaries with improved energy classifications

ii. Promoting renewable energy

Outputs

CCO 07 - Additional renewable energy production capacity 

Results

CCR 06 - Volume of additional renewable energy produced 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who will benefit from the additional renewable energy production capacity? Will there be different benefits for women and men? Will other characteristics impact these benefits?
  • Will both women and men participate in any possible consultations that might be held?

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level

  • Women and men beneficiaries of the volume of additional renewable energy produced

iii. Developing smart energy systems, grids and storage at local level

Outputs

CCO 08 - Digital management systems developed for smart grids 

Results

CCR 07 - Additional users connected to smart grids 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who are the users of digital management systems for smart grids? Are there the same numbers of women and men users?
  • Will both women and men participate in any possible consultations that might be held?

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Women and men additional users connected to smart grids

iv. Promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and disaster resilience

Outputs

CCO 09 - New or upgraded disaster monitoring, warning and response systems 

Results

CCR 08 - Additional population benefiting from protection measures against floods, forest fires, and other climate related natural disasters 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who will benefit from the new or upgraded disaster monitoring, warning and response systems? Will women and men benefit to the same extent?
  • Are differences in traditional patterns taken into account in the response systems? (men in the professional sphere, women in the private sphere, more men own a car/use the car/drive, women are often caring for others and also need to take care of their dependents during a disaster, ...)

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Additional women and men benefiting from protection measures against floods, forest fires, and other climate-related natural disasters

v. Promoting sustainable water management

Outputs

CCO 10 - New or upgraded capacity for waste water treatment 

Results

CCR 09 - Additional population connected to, at least, secondary waste water treatment 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who will benefit from new or upgraded capacity for waste water treatment? Will women and men benefit to the same extent?
  • Will both women and men participate in any possible consultations that might be held?

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Additional women and men connected to, at least, secondary waste water treatment

vi. Promoting the transition to a circular economy

Outputs

CCO 11 - New or upgraded capacity for waste recycling 

Results

CCR 10 - Additional waste recycled 

Questions for gender equality indicators

  • Who will benefit from new or upgraded capacity for waste recycling? Will women and men benefit to the same extent?
  • Are considerations about women's and men’s behaviours and roles included in efforts to promote the transition to the circular economy?

  • Will both women and men participate in any possible consultations that might be held?

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Additional waste recycled by women vs. men
  • Gender responsive ways of promoting transition, e.g. degree of attention to women’s and men’s needs and preferences
  • Gender assessment of waste recycling available
  • Satisfaction of women and men users with measures

vii. Enhancing biodiversity, green infrastructure in the urban environment, and reducing pollution

Outputs

CCO 12 - Surface area of green infrastructure in urban areas 

Results

CCR 11 - Population benefiting from measures for air quality 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who will use and benefit from surface area of green infrastructure in urban areas? Will women and men use this infrastructure in the same ways? Will women and men benefit equally?
  • Who lives in the areas?

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Women and men in the population who are benefiting from air quality measures
  • Satisfaction of women and men with these measures

Policy objective 3

A more connected Europe by enhancing mobility and regional ICT connectivity

i. Enhancing digital connectivity

Outputs

CCO 13 - Additional households and enterprises with coverage by very high capacity broadband networks

Results

CR 12 - Additional households and enterprises with broadband subscriptions to a very high capacity networks

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • What kind of additional households will be covered by very high capacity broadband networks (e.g. female-headed or male headed households, single-parent households, etc.)? Who lives in these households? 
  • Who are the owners of the enterprises with very high capacity broadband networks?
  • What data is there on the accessibility/affordability of access? How does this affect women and men differently? 

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Additional female-headed and male-headed households with subscriptions to very high capacity broadband networks
  • Female- and male-owned enterprises covered by very high capacity broadband networks

ii. Developing a sustainable, climate resilient, intelligent, secure and intermodal TEN-T[4]

Outputs

CCO 14 - Road TEN-T: new and upgraded roads  

Results

CCR 13 - Time savings due to improved road infrastructure 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who will use and benefit from the new and upgraded roads? Will women and men use these roads in the same ways? Will they benefit equally? 
  • Who will save time due to improved road infrastructure? Women or men, or both? Why?
  • Are different safety and health considerations included for the women and men living near the roads?

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Women’s and men’s time savings due to improved road infrastructure

iii. Developing sustainable, climate resilient, intelligent and intermodal national, regional and local mobility, including improved access to TEN-T and cross-border mobility

Outputs

CCO 15 - Rail TEN-T: new and upgraded railways 

Results

CCR 14 - Annual number of passengers served by improved rail transport

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who will use and benefit from the new and upgraded railways? Will women and men use rail transport in the same ways? Will they benefit equally? 
  • Who will save time due to improved rail transport? Women or men, both? Why?

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Annual number of women and men passengers served by improved rail transport
  • Average time saved by women and men passengers

iv. Promoting sustainable multimodal urban mobility

Outputs

CCO 16 - Extension and modernisation of tram and metro lines 

Results

CCR 15 - Annual users served by new and modernised tram and metro lines 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who will use and benefit from the extension and modernisation of tram and metro lines? Will women and men use these lines in the same ways? Will they benefit equally? 
  • Who will save time due to new and modernised tram and metro lines? Women or men, or both? Why?
  • Are women’s and men’s different needs taken into account during the extension and modernisation process (e.g. it is important to provide extensions toward industrial parks and other places of employment, as well as extra stops/connectivity to schools, hospitals, shops and other services)

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Annual women and men users served by new and modernised tram and metro lines

Policy objective 4

A more social Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights

i. Enhancing the effectiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social innovation and infrastructure

Outputs

CCO 17 - Annual unemployed persons served by enhanced facilities for employment services 

Results

CCR 16 - Job seekers using annually enhanced facilities for employment services 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • What are women and men’s unemployment rates?
  • How are facilities for employment services organised to address the needs of both women and men in all their diversity?
  • Are gender-responsive participatory approaches used in developing these services?

Examples of indicators[3]

Output level:

  • Unemployed women and men served annually by enhanced facilities for employment services
  • Gender-responsive enhanced facilities for employment services

Results level:

  • Women and men job seekers who annually use enhanced facilities for employment services

ii. Improving access to inclusive and quality services in education, training and lifelong learning through developing infrastructure

Outputs

CCO 18 - New or upgraded capacity for childcare and education infrastructure 

Results

CCR 17 - Annual users served by new or upgraded childcare and education infrastructure 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who uses and benefits from childcare? Will women and men use childcare infrastructure to the same extent? Will they benefit equally? 
  • How does childcare and education infrastructure influence the employability of women and men?
  • Do girls and boys have the same access to new and upgraded childcare and education infrastructure?

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Girls and boys served annually by new or upgraded childcare and education infrastructure 
  • Number/share of households (by type of households, e.g. female-headed or male-headed, single parent households, etc.) whose childcare burden has been reduced because of new or upgraded infrastructure
  • Average opening hours of childcare facilities

iii. Increasing the socio-economic integration of marginalised communities, migrants and disadvantaged groups, through integrated measures including housing and social services

Outputs

CCO 19 - Additional capacity of reception infrastructures created or upgraded

Results

CCR 18 - Annual users served by new and improved reception and housing facilities 

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Who will use and benefit from the additional capacity of reception infrastructures? Will women and men use this infrastructure to the same extent? Will they benefit equally? 
  • Are there gender-responsive assessments of the needs of women and men among these groups? 
  • Who lives in marginalised communities? Who are the migrants and disadvantaged groups? Are there groups within these groups, for example women or men, who are more or less integrated?

Examples of indicators[3]

Results level:

  • Women and men users served annually by new and improved reception and housing facilities
  • Average cost of services for women and men users
  • Women and men users’ satisfaction with services

iv. Ensuring equal access to health care through developing infrastructure, including primary care

Outputs

CCO 20 - New or upgraded capacity for health care infrastructure

Results

CCR 19 - Population with access to improved health care services

Questions for gender equality indicators:

  • Are gender-responsive assessments of the needs of women and men related to the infrastructure available?
  • Who will use and benefit from the new or upgraded capacity for health care infrastructure? Will women and men benefit equally? 
  • How does new or upgraded capacity for health care infrastructure consider women’s and men’s different health needs throughout the life cycle?

Examples of indicators[3]

Output level:

  • Type of new or upgraded capacity for health care infrastructure 
  • New or upgraded capacity for health care and infrastructure to equally meet the needs of women and men users 
  • Spaces for children available in the waiting areas

Results level:

  • Women and men with access to improved health care services

 

Footnotes

[1] CCO: Core Common Output Indicator.

[2] CCR: Core Common Result Indicator.

[3] The indicators should be constructed as numbers and/or percentages, for example of female- and male-owned enterprises. It is preferable to focus on percentages since simple numbers are not ideal for indicators. 

[4] Trans-European Transport Network

  • Steps to develop quantitative and qualitative indicators
  • ESF+

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