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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

Additional resources

Consult gender analysis tools:

  • 4R method
  • SWOT

Consult further information on:

  • Gender analysis
  • Gender-mainstreaming concepts and definitions
  • Gender implications for employment, labour market policies and reforms
  • Gender mainstreaming and entrepreneurship
  • Gender mainstreaming in agriculture and rural development
  • Reconciliation of work and private life
  • EIGE’s Gender Institutional Transformation Toolkit

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