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Entrepreneurship
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Environment and climate change
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Toolkits
Gender Equality Training
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What is Gender Equality Training
Why invest in Gender Equality Training
Who should use Gender Equality Training
Step-by-step guide to Gender Equality Training
Preparation phase
1. Assess the needs
2. Integrate initiatives to broader strategy
3. Ensure sufficient resources
4. Write good terms of reference
5. Select a trainer
Implementation phase
6. Engage in the needs assessment
7. Actively participate in the initiative
8. Invite others to join in
9. Monitoring framework and procedures
Evaluation and follow-up phase
10. Set up an evaluation framework
11. Assess long-term impacts
12. Give space and support others
Designing effective Gender Equality Training
Find a gender trainer
Gender Equality Training in the EU
Good Practices on Gender Equality Training
More resources on Gender Equality Training
More on EIGE's work on Gender Equality Training
Gender Impact Assessment
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What is Gender Impact Assessment
Why use Gender Impact Assessment
Who should use Gender Impact Assessment
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
General considerations
Examples from the EU
European Union
European Commission
National level
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
Regional level
Basque country
Catalonia
Local level
Lower Saxony
Swedish municipalities
Institutional Transformation
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What is Institutional Transformation
Institutional transformation and gender: Key points
Gender organisations
Types of institutions
Gender mainstreaming and institutional transformation
Dimensions of gender mainstreaming in institutions: The SPO model
Why focus on Institutional Transformation
Motivation model
Who the guide is for
Guide to Institutional Transformation
Preparation phase
1. Creating accountability and strengthening commitment
2. Allocating resources
3. Conducting an organisational analysis
4. Developing a strategy and work plan
Implementation phase
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
Evaluation and follow-up phase
13. Monitoring and steering organisational change
Dealing with resistance
Discourse level
Individual level
Organisational level
Statements and reactions
Checklist: Key questions for change
Examples from the EU
Preparation phase
1. Strengthening accountability
2. Allocating resources
3. Organisational analysis
4. Developing a strategy and working plan
Implementation phase
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
Evaluation and follow-up phase
13. Monitoring and evaluating
Gender Equality in Academia and Research
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What is a Gender Equality Plan?
EU objectives for gender equality in research
Why change must be structural
Who is this guide for?
The GEAR Step-by-Step Guide
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
Who is involved in a Gender Equality Plan?
Rationale for gender equality in research
Basic requirements and success factors
Obstacles and solutions
Legislative and policy backgrounds
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
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Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
Relevant insights
Examples
A practice to award and ensure greater visibility for women researchers
A survey to know your institution
AKKA
Age limit extension in calls for female researchers with children under 10
Cascade Model GFZ
Compulsory awareness-raising session for B.A. students
Election procedure for the Board
Elections for the University's Council
Encouraging gender equality activities at the grassroots level across the university
Family-leave without consequences for the academic career
Gender Equality Report
Gender Project Manager
Gender Report
Gender Sensitive PhD Supervisor Toolkit
Gender and Diversity Controlling
Gender certification: a road to change? (SE)
Gender lectureship: a model for mainstreaming in higher education
GenderNet Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
High-profile tenure-track positions for top female scientists
Introducing a gender perspective in research content and teaching
Maternity Cover Fund and Return to Work policy
National connections at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft: the National Committee
Overcoming bias in personnel selection procedures
Participatory approach towards development of Career Development Plan
Protocol for preventing and tackling sexual harassment and gender-based violence
School of drafting and management for European projects
Stimulating personal development to improve women academics’ positions
Teaching-free period when returning from parental leave
The Gender Balance Committee of the Genomic Regulation Centre (ES)
WiSER (Centre for Women in Science and Engineering Research)
Women represented in all rounds of applications
Key resources
Gender-sensitive Parliaments
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Who is the tool for?
How to use the tool
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
Glossary of terms
References and resources
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
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
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References
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
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Gender Equality Training
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What is Gender Equality Training
Why invest in Gender Equality Training
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Step-by-step guide to Gender Equality Training
Preparation phase
1. Assess the needs
2. Integrate initiatives to broader strategy
3. Ensure sufficient resources
4. Write good terms of reference
5. Select a trainer
Implementation phase
6. Engage in the needs assessment
7. Actively participate in the initiative
8. Invite others to join in
9. Monitoring framework and procedures
Evaluation and follow-up phase
10. Set up an evaluation framework
11. Assess long-term impacts
12. Give space and support others
Designing effective Gender Equality Training
Find a gender trainer
Gender Equality Training in the EU
Good Practices on Gender Equality Training
More resources on Gender Equality Training
More on EIGE's work on Gender Equality Training
Gender Impact Assessment
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What is Gender Impact Assessment
Why use Gender Impact Assessment
Who should use Gender Impact Assessment
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
General considerations
Examples from the EU
European Union
European Commission
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Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
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Swedish municipalities
Institutional Transformation
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What is Institutional Transformation
Institutional transformation and gender: Key points
Gender organisations
Types of institutions
Gender mainstreaming and institutional transformation
Dimensions of gender mainstreaming in institutions: The SPO model
Why focus on Institutional Transformation
Motivation model
Who the guide is for
Guide to Institutional Transformation
Preparation phase
1. Creating accountability and strengthening commitment
2. Allocating resources
3. Conducting an organisational analysis
4. Developing a strategy and work plan
Implementation phase
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
Evaluation and follow-up phase
13. Monitoring and steering organisational change
Dealing with resistance
Discourse level
Individual level
Organisational level
Statements and reactions
Checklist: Key questions for change
Examples from the EU
Preparation phase
1. Strengthening accountability
2. Allocating resources
3. Organisational analysis
4. Developing a strategy and working plan
Implementation phase
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
Evaluation and follow-up phase
13. Monitoring and evaluating
Gender Equality in Academia and Research
Back to toolkit page
What is a Gender Equality Plan?
EU objectives for gender equality in research
Why change must be structural
Who is this guide for?
The GEAR Step-by-Step Guide
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
Who is involved in a Gender Equality Plan?
Rationale for gender equality in research
Basic requirements and success factors
Obstacles and solutions
Legislative and policy backgrounds
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
Relevant insights
Examples
A practice to award and ensure greater visibility for women researchers
A survey to know your institution
AKKA
Age limit extension in calls for female researchers with children under 10
Cascade Model GFZ
Compulsory awareness-raising session for B.A. students
Election procedure for the Board
Elections for the University's Council
Encouraging gender equality activities at the grassroots level across the university
Family-leave without consequences for the academic career
Gender Equality Report
Gender Project Manager
Gender Report
Gender Sensitive PhD Supervisor Toolkit
Gender and Diversity Controlling
Gender certification: a road to change? (SE)
Gender lectureship: a model for mainstreaming in higher education
GenderNet Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
High-profile tenure-track positions for top female scientists
Introducing a gender perspective in research content and teaching
Maternity Cover Fund and Return to Work policy
National connections at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft: the National Committee
Overcoming bias in personnel selection procedures
Participatory approach towards development of Career Development Plan
Protocol for preventing and tackling sexual harassment and gender-based violence
School of drafting and management for European projects
Stimulating personal development to improve women academics’ positions
Teaching-free period when returning from parental leave
The Gender Balance Committee of the Genomic Regulation Centre (ES)
WiSER (Centre for Women in Science and Engineering Research)
Women represented in all rounds of applications
Key resources
Gender-sensitive Parliaments
Back to toolkit page
What is the tool for?
Who is the tool for?
How to use the tool
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
Glossary of terms
References and resources
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
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
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Acknowledgements
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Work-life balance in the ICT sector
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Step 1: Identify national work-life balance initiatives and partners
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Step 5: Carefully measure progress
Step 6: Highlight benefits and celebrate early wins
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Gender Budgeting
How can we apply gender budgeting in the EU Funds? Practical tools and Member State examples
Tool 10: Integrating a gender perspective in monitoring and evaluation processes
Gender Budgeting
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Steps to integrate a gender perspective in M&E processes
Tool 11: Reporting on resource spending for gender equality in the EU Funds
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