ESF Committee, Dublin June 13, 2013 www.genderCoP.eu 1

Overarching objective of the GenderCoP Improving ESF Management and implementation through coherent integration of the EU dual gender equality approach into all stages of the European Social Fund 2014+ in order to achieve Gender Equality … i.e. Gender Mainstreaming should be an integral part of ESF management/cycles – from planning, programming, implementing to monitoring and evaluation 2

Members of the Gender-CoP ESF Management Authorities (14) Sweden (Lead Member State), Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Belgium (French speaking Community), Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Province of Bolzano (Italy), Poland and Spain. Soon also Scotland and Catalunya region Intermediary bodies/gender equality support structures (7) Agency for Gender Equality in the ESF (Germany), Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (Portugal), National Women´s Institute (Spain), ISFOL (Italy), The European Regional Fund (Sweden), Process Support in GM (Sweden), The Equality Ombudsman (Sweden) 3

Problem: GM (and specific actions)… not implemented in all phases of ESF-management/cycles not prioritized and not included in all phases of ESF procedures and thematic issues = Less efficient ESF management and implementation due to lack of GM Sources: DG Employment’s evaluation performed by GHK and Base Line study of the Gender-CoP 4

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Achievement: The standard (GenderCoP II) A coherent European Standard on Gender Mainstreaming in order to improve ESF management and implementation 5 thematic working groups contributed: Training and Capacity Building (chaired by ESF French-Speaking Belgium) Evaluation (chaired by ESF Finland & ESF France) Awareness Raising (chaired by ESF Flanders) Policy Impact (Gender Experts) Sustainability (chaired by ESF Spain) 6

Input through… … the EC, ”Support Team”, exchange, input and guidance, opening doors … knowledge from previous member state experiences through SG representatives … Policy impact : Policy Papers, Comments, Consultations, Information and Suggestions … Policy outreach – EU COM, MEP:s, FEMM, European Women’s Lobby, EC Support Team, EIGE etc. … thematic conferences to tackle gender gaps 7

Seven conferences on focus areas Gender Pay Gap (Ministry of Social Affaires, Estonia) New funding period of the Structural Funds (ESF MA, Flanders) Support Structures on GM/ESF (ESF Support Structure, Sweden) Evaluation (Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Finland) Gendering the Flagships (European Commission, DG Employment) Gender Budgeting (Ministry of Employment and Social Affaires, Germany) Find documentation on www.gendercop.com/activities 8

Cost efficient – copying and adopting without taking the risk Benefits of TNC Cost efficient – copying and adopting without taking the risk Empowering – investing in staff who know the operations and what should be transferred/ improved Enables collaboration with wider group of actors - such as NGO:s, gender equality bodies, EU institutions etc. Examples from other MS with same problems and already tried solutions 9

Evaluation report: ”Why part of the CoP?” Learning Improving implementation of gender mainstreaming/dual gender equality approach in own country Access to information on GM at EU level Sharing Experiences, methods, tools Contributing Need to build new strategies and tools together Source: Vicki Donlevy, Ecorys 10

Standard: Beta version (”sharp” version during June, 2013) http://standard.gendercop.com 11

Overarching objective of the GenderCoP III Improving ESF Management and implementation through coherent integration of the EU dual gender equality approach into all stages of the European Social Fund 2014+ in order to achieve Gender Equality … i.e. Gender Mainstreaming should be an integral part of ESF management/cycles – from planning, programming, implementing to monitoring and evaluation 12

Operational objectives Improve the quality and efficiency of Structural Funds processes on EU and MS level through the use of the European Standard developed by the Gender-CoP Build a “critical mass” of ESF key actors in MS with capacity to realize gender coherence in their working areas Aggregate the learning on Gender Equality from ESF programmes into gendered policy messages Transfer of strategies and approaches into MS not taking part in the Gender-CoP 13

Piloting of GM standard in MS Gendering ESF thematics (WGs) Main activities Piloting of GM standard in MS Gendering ESF thematics (WGs) Joint learning on GM and further developing GM Standard Training on GM for CoP members and beyond Strengthening and enlarging network of GM practitioners Policy impact 14

Policy impact Learning / capacity building GM in the ESF WG Poverty Coherent integration of the EU dual gender equality approach into ESF 2014+ Learning / capacity building GM in the ESF Adress gender aspects in relevant thematic issues ESF 2014+ Strenghten GM along the processes of the ESF cycles WG Poverty WG Youth / life cycle WG New skills – new jobs Policy impact Piloting of the standard and further developing of the standard

Working groups on gender aspects of flagship issues WG Youth (Flagship: Youth on the move) WG Poverty (Flagship: Fight against poverty) WG New skills and jobs (Flagship: New skills and jobs) 16

Example of gender aspects: WG New skills and jobs How to understand and address unemployment from a gender perspective flexibility and employment based security on the labour market from a gender perspective vocational training from a gender perspective Central to the discussions are Economic independence Prevailing horizontal and vertical segregation of the labour market The correlation of the gender pay and pension gap with precarious jobs Family responsibilities, paid and un-paid work and working conditions Gender gaps in education and training Gender inequality on the labour market and the impact of ethnicity, age, disability and sexual orientation 17

Burning issues Economical independence Budget, i.e. Gender budgeting Impact of crisis Multiple discrimination “institutionalization” of gender mainstreaming/the dual gender equality approach (to make it sustainable) Gender aspects in social innovation 18

Policy impact Policy messages and position papers Cooperation with key actors and multipliers on EU and MS level Information and capacity building for decision makers and key actors in all cycles (based on the STANDARD) Policy events, participation in conferences, bodies/committees 19

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