• Tool 4: Coordination and complementarities between the EU Funds to advance work-life balance

    This tool allows Member States to consider how different funds can be used in a complementary manner to advance work-life balance. It aims to promote work-life balance measures within the ESF+ and within the ERDF and the Cohesion Fund (as multifunded initiatives combining both funds’ potential). The promotion of work-life balance measures within these two funds goes hand in hand...

  • Tool 3: Operationalising gender equality in policy objectives (in Partnership Agreements) and specific objectives/measures (in Operational Programmes)

    This tool can be used by Member States when developing Partnership Agreements (PAs), and by managing authorities at the national and sub-national levels when developing Operational Programmes (OPs), to promote equality between women and men in all their diversity across the EU. This tool will allow you to: identify aspects of your chosen policy objectives that affect gender equality (at...

  • Tool 2: Analysing gender inequalities and gender needs at the national and sub-national levels

    The tool offers guidance on how to assess gender inequalities and gender needs in EU Funds programmes. It has been designed for EU Member States and managing authorities at the national and sub-national levels. Gender analysis is the basis for effectively considering gender equality throughout the entire programming period. Gender impact assessments should look for, and use, reliable data to...

  • Tool 1: Connecting the EU Funds with the EU’s regulatory framework on gender equality

    This tool outlines the major EU policies and gender equality objectives that are relevant to the EU Funds [1].I t aims to support Member States and managing authorities to align their planning and implementation of EU Funds programmes with the EU’s gender equality strategies and regulatory frameworks. Continue reading about: Legislative and regulatory basis for EU policies on gender equality...

  • Gender budgeting as a way of advancing gender equality for women and men in all their diversity

    What does this mean? Gender budget analysis improves our knowledge of women’s and men’s needs, as well as the distributional effects and impacts of resource allocation on women and men in all their diversity. Thus, gender budgeting provides the basis for better, more evidence-based decision-making. This, in turn, contributes to ensuring that public funds are used more effectively to advance...

  • Gender budgeting as a way of increasing women’s and men’s participation in budget processes

    What does this mean? Promoting equal participation in budget processes can take many forms. As gender budgeting builds on good governance, it aims to increase stakeholder participation in the budgeting process through consultations and the use of sex-disaggregated data. It is worth noting that gender budgeting in itself does not guarantee a participatory process. Targeted measures need to be applied...

  • Gender budgeting as a way of promoting accountability and transparency in public finance planning and management

    What does this mean? An important part of gender budgeting is analysing the impact of budgets on women and men. This makes gender budgeting key to monitoring how public budgets are working towards meeting a country’s gender equality goals. Gender budgeting is “a mechanism for establishing whether a Government’s gender equality commitments translate into budgetary commitments' [1] – in essence...

  • Gender budgeting as a way of complying with EU legal requirements

    What does this mean? Gender budgeting is not specifically required as a methodology while programming and implementing EU Funds programmes; nonetheless, it is the most comprehensive and transparent way of meeting the requirements and duties on gender equality defined by EU Funds regulations. These requirements, laid down in the Commission's proposal for the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) ( COM(2018) 375...

  • Gender budgeting in the EU Funds

    We have seen what gender budgeting means and the thinking behind it. We will now look at how gender budgeting in the EU Funds can be a mechanism to: comply with the EU’s legal requirements; promote accountability and transparency in the planning and management of EU Funds finances by: revealing the different potential impacts of spending EU Funds, and activities...

  • What does gender budgeting involve in practice?

    Starting with gender budget analysis Gender budget analysis is a key part of gender budgeting [1]. It is the starting point for work to promote gender equality and women’s rights through budgetary policies and processes. It contributes to transparency in budget distribution and impacts – a central principle of good governance. Different dimensions addressed by gender budget analysis include expenditures...

  • What does gender budgeting have to do with women’s and men’s lived realities?

    Take a look at this recent picture of the European Council’s members. How many women and how many men can you see? Photo accessed from: https://newsroom.consilium.europa.eu/events/20190322-european-council-m… Consider "women’s and men’s lived realities" by looking at the composition of the European Council, and ask yourself: Why do you think there are more men than women? In EU Member States, both paid...

  • Introducing gender budgeting

    Watch Professor Diana Elson explain the concept of gender budgeting [1] Have a look at UN Women’s video on what is gender responsive budgeting? [2] As these videos show, both women’s and men’s needs and demands need to be included in budgeting processes. This promotes accountability and transparency in public finance planning and management; increases gender responsive participation in budget...