Gender budgeting

Build childcare and intergenerational care facilities as part of businesses, industrial parks and incubation centres.

Develop childcare and social care service SME companies.

Facilitate innovation between SME clusters on shared care services and facilities.

Support innovation clusters and business networks that primarily benefit SMEs based on specific assessments of the needs of female- and male-owned SMEs, and the needs of women and men employees.

Develop training initiatives in SMEs to promote changes in the traditional gender roles of women (as care-givers) and men (as breadwinners).

Revise the location of recycling centres in relation to women’s and men’s needs (as women, on average, spend more time on household waste management, the provision of waste management facilities influences women’s time-use. Considering this when developing household waste management initiatives can free up women’s time, enable them to engage in other activities and improve their work-life balance.

Plan clean urban transport infrastructure based on an assessment of women’s and men’s mobility needs. 

Ensure that transport planning and provision demonstrates the application of gendered time use analysis and responsiveness to multiple care-related travel and transport activities.

Invest in the construction of childcare and social care facilities, including in tertiary and vocational education centres, alongside the expansion of the care workforce.

Ensure inter-generational housing, social care and social service provision to – including low carbon amenities – to improve social inclusion, community cohesion and sustainability.

Link innovations in health care technology with the expansion of SMEs, time use analysis, expanded care facilities, and digital inclusion actions (combined ERDF and ESF+).

Support the expansion of care infrastructure and the care workforce through youth employment and employability programmes for older workers, alongside a focus on labour mobility (combined ERDF and ESF+).

Expand the eligibility of education and care support to include infrastructure for care facilities (combined ERDF and ESF+).

Integrate the expansion of care facilities and infrastructure with actions to support labour market access, active and healthy lives, and address social and economic exclusion (combined ERDF and ESF+).

Innovate to improve the integration of Roma communities and their access to care and education services (combined ERDF and ESF+).

Build expertise on gender and housing, and on gender and infrastructure planning, and apply this to projects.

Support innovative community-based forms of cooperative housing projects that integrate intergenerational forms of housing and community-based forms of care provision.

Include childcare provision in eligible infrastructure expansion at all levels of mandatory public education to increase the availability of quality, affordable and accessible childcare (childcare expansion integrated with education facilities maximises infrastructure investments, while reducing travel-related emissions and time pressures).

Innovate in terms of housing provision for different family sizes and household compositions, including improved provisions for older people and persons living with disabilities.

Include the provision of care services within support for social enterprises.

Support the development of work-life balance practices among employers of all sizes, in line with ‘healthy and well-adapted working environments’, including innovative flexible working practices and stress-reducing time use initiatives.

Demonstrate links across the ‘Agenda for new skills and jobs’, with a focus on ‘modernising the labour market and promoting work through new forms of flexibility and security’^[1].

Advance innovations in employment and skills activities related to the expansion of the care workforce , so as to increase the labour market participation of nationals of countries outside the EU and the domestic labour force.

Support innovation in the design, construction and delivery of community-based care services, including inter-generational care, digital healthcare, the expansion of the care workforce, and urban and transport infrastructure.

Support innovation and the integration of improved childcare and care services within measures to address poverty and exclusion.

Advance innovations in care facilities in indigenous communities, and ensure access to care and education services in their languages with due consideration for their cultural heritage and living areas (combined ERDF and ESF+).

Advance innovations in the regeneration and security of public spaces and buildings, while taking into account gender planning knowledge.

Support innovations in the provision of care for workers engaged in public tourism services.

Improve cross-programme actions on expanding child and social care infrastructure and the related care workforce.

Improve the quality, availability and application of relevant data for effective gender and equalities’ analysis to inform programme priorities and funded actions to advance work-life balance.

Improve the awareness and understanding of programme authorities and others involved in programme implementation regarding the inter-related gendered dimensions of time use, care facilities, transport and infrastructure use.

Increase monitoring and evaluation-related reporting to include specific actions on promoting work-life balance and actions to advance gender equality.

Improve ex-ante analysis, programme and project content, monitoring and evaluation.