The Council of the European Union, in its conclusions from 2006, noted that despite some progress toward gender mainstreaming in Member States, gender impact assessment still needs to either be put in place or reinforced. The Council urged in particular to improve and strengthen the development and regular use of gender impact assessment when drafting: Legislation Policies Programmes Projects Scope...
As gender impact assessment is a tool for gender mainstreaming. Civil servants working for governmental, regional or local offices, departments or ministries initiating a new norm or policy should be involved in the process of gender impact assessment. There are different ways to carry out a gender impact assessment, depending on the institutional settings and different actors involved. Models can...
Traditionally, government policy and legislation have been viewed as gender-neutral and value-free instruments, on the assumption that the formulation and administration of public policy benefits all members of the public equally. However, structural gender inequalities are still embedded in our society. Even if laws treats women and men as equals, women still do not have equal access to and control...
Gender impact assessment has been defined as an ex ante evaluation, analysis or assessment of a law, policy or programme that makes it possible to identify, in a preventative way, the likelihood of a given decision having negative consequences for the state of equality between women and men. The central question of the gender impact assessment is: Does a law...
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EIGE’s Gender Training Resources Database EIGE’s Gender Training Resources Database is a collection of generic and tailor-made tools and resources produced in EU Member States and at the EU and international level. They aim to improve the skills of policymakers and administrations when mainstreaming gender in their fields of work. The database contains useful materials, guidelines, tested practices, ideas, suggestions...
Legal and policy framework Provision Challenges Previous efforts Commitment to mainstreaming gender in the EU Gender mainstreaming has been adopted as a strategy by EU institutions to promote gender equality in policies and programmes and ensure gender equality between women and men. Several EU treaties emphasise that the Union should work to eliminate gender inequalities and promote transversal equality in...
1. The existence of a legal framework and policy commitment to gender mainstreaming. Read more This should set concrete gender competence development goals and be combined with an organisational strategy for gender equality competence development that sets a clear framework for action (goals, target groups, resources, responsibilities, timeframes, etc.). The development of gender competence (for example, through training) should be...
Gender competence development initiatives do not end with the provision of training, and to ensure the long-lasting effects of the outcomes, follow-up activities need to be set up. In order to make the best use of the newly acquired knowledge that staff have gained during the gender competence development initiative, additional tools and procedures should be developed and offered to...
Further on, an evaluation of the impact of gender competence development activities should be carried out. This requires revisiting the aims, objectives, rationale, inputs and outputs of the programme and exploring the extent to which the initiative had the desired long-term impact. An impact evaluation examines the deeper changes that have resulted from the implementation of the gender competence development...
Along with the design and implementation of the initiative, an evaluation framework needs to be developed to measure the outcomes of the initiative. Outcome evaluation looks at the changes that have occurred as a result of the implementation of the programme. At the individual level, the gender competence development initiative should have the immediate outcomes of: Raising awareness about the...
Monitoring is a process that consists in the ‘systematic and continuous collecting, analysing and using [of] information for the purpose of management and decision-making’. This process aims at ensuring the continuing relevance and effectiveness of the initiative. Regular monitoring needs to be planned and carried out on a regular basis throughout the implementation phase of the gender competence development initiative...