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      • 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
            • 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
        • Gender Equality Training in the EU
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      • 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
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      • Institutional Transformation
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        • What is Institutional Transformation
          • Institutional transformation and gender: Key points
          • Gender organisations
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          • 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
            • 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
          • Individual level
          • Organisational level
          • Statements and reactions
        • Checklist: Key questions for change
        • Examples from the EU
            • 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
          • About the Gear Tool
        • 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
            • Gender balance in leadership and decision making
            • Gender equality in recruitment and career progression
            • Integration of the sex/gender dimension into research and teaching content
            • Measures against gender-based violence including sexual harassment
            • Measures mitigating the effect of COVID-19
            • Data collection and monitoring
            • Training: awareness-raising and capacity building
            • GEP development and implementation
            • Gender-sensitive research funding procedures
          • Success factors for GEP development and implementation
          • Challenges & resistance
        • WHERE
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      • Gender-sensitive Parliaments
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        • 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
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      • Gender Budgeting
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        • ¿A quién está destinada esta guía?
        • ¿Por qué la presupuestación con perspectiva de género es importante en los Fondos Europeos objeto de gestión compartida?
          • Tres motivos por los que la presupuestación con perspectiva de género es fundamental en los Fondos de la UE
        • ¿Qué es la presupuestación con perspectiva de género?
          • La presupuestación con perspectiva de género: una introducción
          • ¿Qué tiene que ver la presupuestación con perspectiva de género con la vida de las mujeres y de los hombres?
          • ¿Qué implica la presupuestación con perspectiva de género en la práctica?
          • La presupuestación con perspectiva de género en los Fondos de la UE
            • La presupuestación con perspectiva de género como forma de cumplir los requisitos legales de la UE
            • La presupuestación con perspectiva de género como forma de promover la rendición de cuentas y la transparencia en la planificación y gestión de las finanzas públicas
            • La presupuestación con perspectiva de género como forma de aumentar la participación de las mujeres y los hombres en los procesos presupuestarios
            • La presupuestación con perspectiva de género como forma de impulsar la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres en toda su diversidad
        • ¿De qué modo podemos aplicar la presupuestación con perspectiva de género a los Fondos de la UE? Herramientas prácticas y ejemplos de Estados miembros
          • Herramienta 1: Adaptación de los Fondos de la UE al marco normativo de la UE en materia de igualdad de género
            • Base normativa y legislativa para las políticas de la UE en materia de igualdad de género
            • Requisitos concretos para la consideración de la igualdad de género en el marco de los Fondos de la UE
            • Condiciones favorables para los Fondos de la UE
            • Otros recursos
          • Herramienta 2: Análisis de las desigualdades y las necesidades en materia de género a escala nacional y subnacional
            • Pasos para evaluar y analizar las desigualdades y las necesidades en materia de género
            • Fase 1. Recopilar información y datos desagregados sobre el grupo destinatario
            • Fase 2. Identificar las desigualdades de género existentes y sus causas subyacentes
            • Fase 3. Consultar directamente a los grupos destinatarios
            • Fase 4. Extraer conclusiones
            • Otros recursos
          • Herramienta 3: La puesta en práctica de la igualdad de género en objetivos políticos (en acuerdos de asociación) y en objetivos/medidas específicos (en programas operativos)
            • Pasos para hacer efectiva la igualdad de género en acuerdos de asociación y programas operativos
            • Orientaciones generales sobre la integración efectiva de la igualdad de género en la formulación de objetivos políticos, medidas y objetivos específicos
            • Lista de control para poner en práctica el principio horizontal de la igualdad de género en los acuerdos de asociación
            • Lista de comprobación para poner en práctica el principio horizontal de la igualdad de género en los programas operativos
            • Ejemplos de la integración de la igualdad de género como principio horizontal en objetivos estratégicos y específicos
          • Herramienta 4: Coordinación y aspectos complementarios entre los Fondos de la UE para promover la conciliación de la vida familiar y la vida profesional
            • Medidas para mejorar la coordinación y los aspectos complementarios entre los Fondos
            • Paso 1. Adaptación a los objetivos estratégicos de la UE para la igualdad de género y los objetivos nacionales de igualdad de género
            • Pasos 2 y 3: Identificación y desarrollo de posibles intervenciones dirigidas a impulsar la conciliación entre la vida profesional y la vida familiar
            • Paso 4: Supervisión mediante el uso de indicadores dentro de los sistemas de seguimiento y evaluación
            • Estudio de caso ficticio 1: Conciliar el trabajo remunerado y la atención a la infancia
            • Estudio de caso ficticio 2: Conciliar el trabajo por turnos y la atención a la infancia
            • Estudio de caso ficticio 3: Conciliar el cuidado personal con el cuidado a los otros
            • Estudio de caso ficticio 4: Conciliar el cuidado de los hijos y las hijas y de personas de edad avanzada con el trabajo a turnos
            • Otros recursos
          • Herramienta 5: Definir asociaciones y la gobernanza multinivel: designar a los socios pertinentes, establecer la función de las personas expertas en cuestiones de género y determinar la composición de los comités de seguimiento
            • Pasos para definir las asociaciones y la gobernanza multinivel
            • Otros recursos
          • Herramienta 6: Desarrollar indicadores cuantitativos y cualitativos para promover la igualdad de género
            • Pasos para desarrollar indicadores cuantitativos y cualitativos
            • El FEDER y el Fondo de Cohesión (los mismos indicadores comunes)
            • FSE+
            • FEMP
            • Otros recursos
          • Herramienta 7: Definir los criterios de selección de los proyectos con enfoque de género
            • Pasos para apoyar la selección y el desarrollo de proyectos sensibles al género
            • Lista de control para la preparación de las propuestas de convocatorias de proyectos
            • Lista de control para los criterios de selección de proyectos
            • Herramienta complementaria: Acuerdos sensibles al género con las personas encargadas de la ejecución del proyecto
          • Herramienta 8: Seguimiento de las asignaciones de recursos para la igualdad de género en los fondos de la UE
            • 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
          • Herramienta 9: Transversalidad de género en el diseño de los proyectos
            • Pasos para integrar la perspectiva de igualdad de género en el diseño de los proyectos
            • Fase 1. Adecuación a los indicadores y objetivos en materia de género de los acuerdos de asociación y los programas operativos
            • Fase 2. Desarrollo y diseño del proyecto
            • Face 3. Ejecución del proyecto
            • Fase 4. Evaluación del proyecto
          • Herramienta 10: Integración de la perspectiva de género en los procesos de seguimiento y evaluación
            • Pasos para integrar la perspectiva de género en los procesos de seguimiento y evaluación
            • Otros recursos
          • Herramienta 11: Presentación de informes sobre el gasto en recursos en favor de la igualdad de género en los Fondos de la UE
            • Seguimiento de los gastos destinados a promover la igualdad de género
            • Otros recursos
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          • Siglas y acrónimos
          • Agradecimientos
      • Gender-responsive Public Procurement
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        • Who is this toolkit for?
          • Guiding you through the toolkit
        • What is gender-responsive public procurement?
          • How is gender-responsive public procurement linked to gender equality?
          • How is gender-responsive public procurement linked to gender budgeting?
          • Five reasons why gender-responsive public procurement
          • Why was this toolkit produced
        • Gender-responsive public procurement in practice
          • Legal framework cross-references gender equality and public procurement
          • Public procurement strategies cover GRPP
          • Gender equality action plans or strategies mention public procurement
          • Capacity-building programmes, support structures
          • Regular collaboration between gender equality bodies
          • Effective monitoring and reporting systems on the use of GRPP
          • Tool 1:Self-assessment questionnaire about the legal
          • Tool 2: Overview of the legislative, regulatory and policy frameworks
        • How to include gender aspects in tendering procedures
          • Pre-procurement stage
            • Needs assessment
            • Tool 3: Decision tree to assess the gender relevance
            • Preliminary market consultation
            • Tool 4: Guiding questions for needs assessment
            • Defining the subject matter of the contract
            • Choosing the procedure
            • 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
            • Light regime for social, health and other specific services
            • Tool 7: Guiding questions for applying GRPP under the light regime
            • Tool 8: Guiding questions for applying GRPP under the light regime
            • Reserved contracts
            • Preparing tender documents
          • Procurement stage
            • Exclusion grounds
            • Selection criteria
            • Technical specifications
            • Tool 9: Decision tree for setting GRPP selection criteria
            • Award criteria
            • Tool 10: Formulating GRPP award criteria
            • Tool 11: Bidders’ concepts to ensure the integration of gender aspects
            • Use of labels/certifications
          • Post-procurement stage
            • Tool 12: Checklist for including GRPP contract performance conditions
            • Subcontracting
            • Monitoring
            • Reporting
            • Tool 13: Template for a GRPP monitoring and reporting plan
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        • Advancing administrative data collection on Intimate partner violence and gender-related killings of women
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          • Principle 1: Prioritising victim safety
          • Principle 2: Adopting a victim-centred approach
          • Principle 3: Taking a gender-specific approach
          • Principle 4: Adopting an intersectional approach
          • Principle 5: Considering children’s experiences
          • Step 1: Define the purpose and objectives of police risk assessment
          • Step 2: Identify the most appropriate approach to police risk assessment
          • Step 3: Identify the most relevant risk factors for police risk assessment
          • Step 4: Implement systematic police training and capacity development
          • Step 5: Embed police risk assessment in a multiagency framework
          • Step 6: Develop procedures for information management and confidentiality
          • Step 7: Monitor and evaluate risk assessment practices and outcomes
      • Risk management principles and recommendations
        • Principle 1. Adopting a gender-specific approach
        • Principle 2. Introducing an individualised approach to risk management
        • Principle 3. Establishing an evidence-based approach
        • Principle 4. Underpinning the processes with an outcome-focused approach
        • Principle 5. Delivering a coordinated, multiagency response
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      • Overview of the toolkit
      • First steps towards more inclusive language
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        • Stereotypes
          • Avoid gendered pronouns (he or she) when the person’s gender is unknown
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    • Work-life balance in the ICT sector
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      • EU policies on work-life balance
      • Women in the ICT sector
      • The argument for work-life balance measures
        • Challenges
      • Step-by-step approach to building a compelling business case
        • Step 1: Identify national work-life balance initiatives and partners
        • Step 2: Identify potential resistance and find solutions
        • Step 3: Maximise buy-in from stakeholders
        • Step 4: Design a solid implementation plan
        • Step 5: Carefully measure progress
        • Step 6: Highlight benefits and celebrate early wins
      • Toolbox for planning work-life balance measures in ICT companies
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    • Gender Equality Index 2019. Work-life balance
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      • Foreword
      • Highlights
      • Introduction
        • Still far from the finish line
        • Snail’s-pace progress on gender equality in the EU continues
        • More women in decision-making drives progress
        • Convergence on gender equality in the EU
      • 2. Domain of work
        • Gender equality inching slowly forward in a fast-changing world of work
        • Women dominate part-time employment, consigning them to jobs with poorer career progression
        • Motherhood, low education and migration are particular barriers to work for women
      • 3. Domain of money
        • Patchy progress on gender-equal access to financial and economic resources
        • Paying the price for motherhood
        • Lifetime pay inequalities fall on older women
      • 4. Domain of knowledge
        • Gender equality in education standing still even as women graduates outnumber men graduates
        • Both women and men limit their study fields
        • Adult learning stalls most when reskilling needs are greatest
      • 5. Domain of time
        • Enduring burden of care perpetuates inequalities for women
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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

Checklist: Key questions for an organisational change

In accordance with the Guide’s steps for introducing gender mainstreaming, key questions for the organisational change are:

Preparation stage

Creating accountability and strengthening commitment
Is promoting gender equality part of the organisation’s general mandate?
Does the organisation have an official statement on their goal for gender equality and their strategy for pursuing gender mainstreaming?
Is gender mainstreaming integrated in the regulations of the organisation and in both the formal and informal standard operating procedures?
Do the executive staff demonstrate their commitment to gender equality and the implementation of gender mainstreaming, in both formal and informal ways?
Do the executive staff exercise their responsibility for the implementation of gender mainstreaming, both by strengthening the commitment of all staff members and by adopting a gender equality perspective in their regular decision-making?
Allocating resources
Are the financial resources allocated for introducing gender mainstreaming and implementing organisational change realistically calculated and sufficient in order to ensure long term success?
Has the amount of working time that staff members are to spend on the process of change been realistically calculated? Is it transparent and is it acknowledged as being a valuable part of the regular job?
Is the assignment of new tasks to the gender equality staff accompanied by a corresponding increase in working time available for this purpose?
Conducting an organisational analysis
Which approach of organisational analysis (e.g. gender audit) and which methods are to be applied?
Who is to conduct or facilitate the organisational analysis? Do the persons assigned to this task have the expertise and methodological skills needed?
Are the results comprehensive and instructive in order to identify the most promising way to implement gender mainstreaming with regard to the particular organisation? Which information is still missing?
Are the results to be discussed with all stakeholders? Who is responsible for ensuring that appropriate consequences are drawn from these results and that these are utilised?
Developing a gender mainstreaming strategy and a working plan
Is all the information available that is needed in order to develop a suitable gender mainstreaming strategy?
Who is involved in developing the gender mainstreaming strategy? Do the persons involved have the expertise needed in order to develop a sustainable strategy?
Is the gender mainstreaming strategy comprehensive and complete in terms of the steps for introducing gender mainstreaming?
Is the working plan for implementing the gender mainstreaming strategy complete in terms of planned activities, defined milestones, responsibilities, allocated resources and deadlines?
Who is responsible for implementing the working plan and monitoring the introduction of the gender mainstreaming strategy?

Implementation stage

Establishing a gender mainstreaming support structure
Are the gender mainstreaming support structure’s role, tasks and its integration in the organisation’s standard procedures clearly defined?
Is the precise organisational form of the gender mainstreaming support structure and its position within the organisation in accordance with the role and tasks that it is to fulfil?
Are the resources and competencies (qualifications, time and financial resources, authority) of the support structure adjusted to suit the defined tasks?
Is the support structure’s role clearly communicated to the staff together with the respective responsibilities of all staff members in order to avoid that responsibility for implementing gender mainstreaming is left with the support structure?
Does the support structure have both a direct link to the senior management as well as a good connection to the operative staff?
Gender information management system
Setting gender equality objectives
Does the organisation have stated gender equality goals both for the organisation as a whole and for its different spheres of activity?
Are these goals both ambitious and realistic as well as defined in a precise way so that they can be the driving force behind action and provide staff members with clear guidance?
Are the organisation’s gender equality goals firmly anchored within its general target architecture?
Are these goals clearly communicated with the members of staff?
How is the attainment of these goals to be monitored and evaluated? Have indicators been defined for this purpose?
Communicating gender mainstreaming
Are all staff members aware of the intended process of organisational change? Have they been informed about the planned activities, the reasons behind these and the aims of this process?
Is transparency ensured during the entire process of introducing gender mainstreaming?
Are both formal and informal channels used within the organisation to communicate the objectives and requirements of implementing gender mainstreaming?
Is gender equality a visible part of the organisation’s external identity and self-portrayal?
Is the organisation’s public relations work gender-sensitive in terms of language and illustrations? Are staff members who are responsible for public relations work trained in gender-sensitive language and avoiding gender stereotypes?
Introducing gender mainstreaming methods and tools
Does the organisation have gender mainstreaming methods and tools for all stages of routine procedures?
Are the gender mainstreaming methods and tools custom-made and suitable with respect to the functionality and regular procedures of the organisation? Have the tools been tested and adapted?
Are the gender mainstreaming tools being systematically and continuously applied?
Do the staff members who are to apply the tools have the gender knowledge and methodological skills needed for the well-substantiated implementation of gender mainstreaming?
Developing gender equality competence
Are all staff members performing their respective tasks and following the rules of procedures in order to effectively implement gender mainstreaming?
Are the human resources management tools that are typically used within the organisation also being used to strengthen commitment and create accountability for gender mainstreaming?
Do all staff members have the gender expertise and the methodological skills they need to fulfil their responsibility for implementing gender mainstreaming?
Do all staff members have the gender expertise and the methodological skills they need to fulfil their responsibility for implementing gender mainstreaming?
Are the activities for developing gender equality competence fully integrated into a coherent gender mainstreaming strategy and are they approached in a systematic manner?
Establishing a gender information management system
Is comprehensive yet tailor-made information on gender issues relevant to the organisation’s policy areas and fields of activity available and easily accessible for all staff members?
Are relevant materials on gender issues provided in a clearly structured manner? Are these materials actively distributed amongst staff members?
Are all statistics that are produced or used by the organisation disaggregated by sex and – where suitable – by further categories (e.g. age, ethnicity, disability etc.)?
Is the gender information management system supplemented and updated on a regular basis?
Launching gender equality action plans
Do all units of the organisation have gender equality action plans?
Do the gender equality action plans include a well-substantiated and comprehensive gender analysis of the respective field of activity, defined gender equality objectives, a clearly stated approach to addressing gender issues as well as indicators for monitoring?
Who is responsible for realising and monitoring the gender equality action plans?
Is there a fixed date set for evaluating implementation and target achievement?
Promoting equal opportunities within the organisation’s personnel
Are measures being implemented to improve the gender-balance in staffing patterns and to increase the representation of women in decision-making positions?
Have recruitment procedures and performance appraisal criteria been revised? Have tools for job evaluation been introduced that are free from gender bias?
Is the organisation engaged in reconciling the balance of work and family life for its staff members?
Does the organisational culture provide a respectful and empowering atmosphere in the workplace? Does the organisation have clear procedures for preventing and dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace?

Evaluation stage

Monitoring and steering organisational change
How is the process of organisational change towards gender mainstreaming steered and the progress made monitored?
Is the working plan updated on a regular basis?
Is the gender mainstreaming strategy reviewed at regular intervals and adapted if necessary?
Who is responsible for monitoring and steering the introduction of gender mainstreaming?
  • Statements and reactions
  • Examples from the EU

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