Europos lyčių lygybės institutas
Europos lyčių lygybės institutas

Gender Budgeting

EMFF

Fostering sustainable fisheries and the conservation of marine biological resources 

  • Change in volume of landings stemming from stocks assessed at maximum sustainable yoeld
  • Change in profitability of the Union fishing fleet
    Questions & Examples

    Questions for gender equality indicators

    • What are the differences in women’s and men’s ownership of the fleet and profitability?
    • What are the differences in the employment of women and men?

    Examples of indicators

    • Female- and male-owned businesses and their profitability
    • Women and men employed in the fleet and in these businesses
  • Surface (hectares) of Natura 2000 sites, and other  marine protected areas under the Marine Strategic Framework Directive covered by protection, maintenance and restoration measures

  • Percentage of fishing vessels equipped with electronic position and catch reporting device
    Questions & Examples

    Questions for gender equality indicators

    • Who is benefitting from these measures?

    Examples of indicators

    • Women’s and men’s ownership of vessels

Contributing to food security in the Union through competitive and sustainable aquaculture and markets 

  • Change in the value and volume of aquaculture production in the Union
  • Change in the value and volume of landings
    Questions & Examples

Questions for gender equality indicators

  • What are the levels of women’s and men’s employment in the sector?
  • What are their employment conditions? Are these different? If so, why?

Examples of indicators

  • Indicators related to women’s and men’s employment

Enabling the growth of a sustainable blue economy and fostering prosperous coastal communities 

  • Change in GDP in maritime Nomenclature of the Territorial Units for Statistics regions
  • Change in the number of jobs (in full-time equivalents) in the sustainable blue economy
    Questions & Examples

Questions for gender equality indicators

  • What kinds of jobs are being generated in the sustainable blue economy? Are both women and men being promoted to work in these jobs?
  • Are gender-responsive assessments available on different groups involved in the sustainable blue economy?
  • Who is benefitting from the growth of a sustainable blue economy? Are women and men benefitting equally?

Examples of indicators

  • Change in the number of jobs (in full-time equivalents) in the sustainable blue economy for women compared with men
  • Available gender-responsive assessment

Strengthening international ocean governance and enabling safe, secure, clean and sustainably managed seas and oceans

  • Number of shared operations contributing to EU cooperation on coastguard functions
    Questions & Examples

Questions for gender equality indicators

  • What kinds of shared operations are being undertaken that contribute to EU cooperation functions?
  • Are both women and men involved in these operations? Why/why not?

Examples of indicators

  • Women’s and men’s employment in the coastguard
  • Number/proportion of women involved in governance structures

 France: facilitating gender mainstreaming by defining relevant indicators in OPs

Picture credit: EIGE. https://eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/methods-tools/gender-statisticsIn France, the horizontal principle of gender equality has been adopted through a dual approach in the national ESF OP for ‘Growth and inclusion’. The use of sex-disaggregated indicators across all French ERDF and ESF OPs facilitates gender mainstreaming throughout programme implementation. These indicators measure the participation of women and men by providing sex-disaggregated information on outputs and results.

Informed by sex-disaggregated data, analyses that consider women’s and men’s different situations and needs in the country lead to targeted actions to champion gender equality. They include, for instance, measures in the ESF OP to enhance women’s employment, training, education and entrepreneurship. The French ESF has sex-disaggregated output and results indicators for all three of its priorities: employment, professional paths and poverty. Gender equality is a key principle for project selection.

Results indicators[1] in the French ESF OP include:

  • numbers of women and men who are in employment, including self-employed, after their participation;
  • numbers of women and men participants in employment above the age of 55, including self-employed, after their participation;
  • numbers of women and men participants in training or studies after their participation.

Output indicators include:

  • numbers of unemployed women and men participants;
  • numbers of women and men participants over the age of 55;
  • numbers of economically inactive women and men participants;
  • numbers of women and men participants below 25 years of age;
  • numbers of women participants below 25 years of age;
  • number of women participants who are on maternity leave or re-entering the labour force.

Footnotes

[1] As noted above, indicators on ‘numbers of women and men’ should ideally also include percentages to better visualise possible inequalities.