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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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        • What is Gender Impact Assessment
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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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        • 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
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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 is a Gender Equality Plan?
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          • Which stakeholders need to be engaged into a GEP
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          • Horizon Europe GEP criterion
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          • Why change must be structural
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          • 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
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          • 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?
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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
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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
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      • Gender-responsive Public Procurement
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          • How is gender-responsive public procurement linked to gender budgeting?
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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
            • Use of labels/certifications
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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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  • Back to toolkit page
  • 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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References

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Council of the European Union (2017), Synergies and Simplification for Cohesion Policy Post-2020: Council Adopts Conclusions. Available at: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2017/11/15/council-conclusions-on-synergies-and-simplification-for-cohesion-policy-post-2020/

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European Commission (n.d.), EU Action against Pay Discrimination. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/gender-equality/equal-pay/eu-action-against-pay-discrimination_en

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EU Funds - regulations 2021-2027 (June 2018)

CAP/EAFRD regulation (COM(2018) 392 final). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2018%3A392%3AFIN

Common Provision Regulation (COM(2018) 375 final). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2018%3A375%3AFIN

EMFF regulation (COM(2018) 390 final). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=COM:2018:390:FIN

ERDF and Cohesion Fund regulation (COM(2018) 372 final). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2018%3A372%3AFIN

ESF+ regulation (COM(2018) 382 final). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52018PC0382

Videos

EIGE (2017), Economic Benefits of Gender Equality: STEM, EIGE, Vilnius. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64cCxFQnGvM

EIGE (2017), Economic Benefits of Gender Equality: Labour market activity and equal pay, EIGE: Vilnius. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afWKAs_XOrE

EIGE (2019), What Is Gender Budgeting?, EIGE, Vilnius. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqjt4EUakvw

EIGE (2019), Education and Economy, EIGE, Vilnius. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwldSLe4waQ

International Labour Organization (2016), Decent Work and the Care Economy. Available at: https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/care-economy/dw-and-care-economy/lang—en/index.htm

Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (2014), Sustainable Gender Equality — A film about gender mainstreaming in practice, SKL Jämställdhet, Stockholm. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udSjBbGwJEg

UN Women (2017), What Is Gender Responsive Budgeting?, UN Women, New York. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquOclPJYPs

References for Tool 8

These resources relate only to Tool 8: Tracking resource allocations for gender equality in the EU cohesion policy funds, published in March 2022.

Council of the European Union (2020), COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2020/1512 of 13 October 2020 on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States, Council of the European Union, Brussels. Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52020DC0152

EIGE (2020), Gender Budgeting: Step-by-step Toolkit (1st ed.). Available at: https://eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/toolkits/gender-budgeting

EIGE (2021), Gender Equality Index 2021, EIGE, Vilnius. Available at: https://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ges-monitor

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ERDF, ESF+, Cohesion Fund, JTF, EMFAF, AMIF and ISF Regulation (PE (2021) 47 INIT). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021R1060&from=EN

ESF+ Regulation (PE (2021) 42 INIT). Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R1057&qid=1634590676202

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European Commission (2021), The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, European Commission, Brussels. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/economy-works-people/jobs-growth-and-investment/european-pillar-social-rights/european-pillar-social-rights-action-plan_en

European Commission (n.d.), Cohesion Policy 2021-2027. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/2021_2027/

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European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission (2020), Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and The European Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources, Brussels. Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.LI.2020.433.01.0028.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2020%3A433I%3ATOC

European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (2019), Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU, Brussels. Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L1158

European Parliament (2021), European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and Social Aspects in the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021. Available at: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/summary.do?id=1654657&t=e&l=en

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