• Step 2. Project development and application

    The project application, and project development more broadly, must specify how the project will address existing gender gaps and/or women’s and men’s needs in the area. Managing authorities can support applicants by clearly explaining that each application should include: a description of the applicant organisation, including, for example: a gender equality mission statement within the organisation’s identity or organisational culture...

  • Step 1. Alignment with Partnership Agreements’ and Operational Programmes’ gender objectives and indicators

    It is important to ensure that project applications under each fund specify how the project will address existing gender gaps, or women’s and men’s specific needs, in the intervention area. Managing authorities can support project applicants by: providing information on gender goals and indicators defined in the PA and OPs; providing other gender-related, context-specific information that is relevant to the...

  • Steps to mainstream gender equality in project design

    The tool is divided into four steps: 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

  • Steps to integrate a gender perspective in monitoring and evaluation processes

    Evaluation options 1-3 The evaluation should assess the programme’s achievement of all specific gender objectives set out in the planning document, financial plan or other programme documents. To do so, it should use the gender indicators defined by the programme. If no specific gender objectives are defined, general evaluation criteria should be used, as outlined in Article 39 of the...

  • Tracking expenditures for gender equality

    International experience shows that there are many differ­ent approaches to track expenditures. The most important approaches are listed in this table. Approaches Brief content Financial gender audit of the budget A financial gender audit analyses expenditures from a gender perspective. Hence, it is conducted after the budget has been implemented. The process investigates how resources were allocated and what the...

  • Additional resources

    Learn more on stakeholder consultations and practical approaches by visiting: Gender stakeholder consultation

  • Additional resources

    Learn more on gender budgeting by visiting: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on gender budgeting Women’s Budget Group on gender-responsive budgeting UN-Women, Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A training manual Gender budgeting in Vienna

  • Supplementary tool 7.a: Gender-responsive agreements (contracts or grant agreements) with project implementers

    After the project selection process, guided by clearly defined criteria that take gender equality into account, it is important to define basic requirements for project implementers. These should be set out in project agreements or contracts. Checklist for project agreements and contracts related to project financing When drafting project agreements of contracts, managing authorities could ask the following questions. Does...

  • Checklist for project selection criteria

    When assessing project proposals, managing authorities and monitoring committees can develop and apply selection criteria based on the following questions. Step 1. Analysis Does the proposal include a gender analysis of the intervention area (i.e. the analysis of differences in women’s and men’s situations and needs – in their diversity – and the identification of relevant inequalities)? Are qualitative and...

  • Checklist to guide the preparation of calls for project proposals

    Step 1. Does the call make it clear that the horizontal principle of gender equality must be part of the project’s analysis? Managing authorities and monitoring committees could ask: Does the call for proposals clearly explain that the project will be evaluated based on whether or not a gender analysis is included in the proposal (i.e. an analysis of the...

  • Steps to support gender-sensitive project development and selection

    At the very beginning of the project development and selection processes, it is extremely important to support potential applicants. To ensure adequate support, managing authorities and monitoring committees could: make it clear in any call for project proposals, and in any other announcements on the use of resources, that gender equality is a horizontal principle that must be respected and...

  • Additional resources

    Learn more about quantitative and qualitative gender equality indicators by visiting: EIGE’s resources on gender indicators Gender statistics database