1. EIGE’s cooperation with the EU candidate countries and potential candidates 2017 – 2019
Milana Lazic, Project Manager

2. Cycles of previous cooperation

3. Overview of previous cooperation
Good working relationship with key national and international stakeholders;
Tangible results: Serbia’s Gender Equality Index;
Knowledge sharing: gender mainstreaming, gender-based violence and Resource and Documentation Centre.
Overview of achievement of previous project:
Good working relationship has been established with key stakeholders responsible for the advancement of gender equality among all project beneficiaries, including cooperation with gender focal points in Delegations of the European Union in region of Western Balkans and Turkey, as well as EU institutions and international community;
Extensive work on gender statistics has been done, with all project partners taking initial steps in production of national Gender Equality Indices, including Serbia to produced it and inclusion of some countries’ data into Gender Statistics Database;
Numerous work outcomes have been shared with project partners and vice versa, mainly in the area of gender mainstreaming, gender-based violence and including EIGE’s collection of many related resources from project partners for the Research and Documentation Centre (RDC) database.

4. Interest in EIGE’s work - in numbers
Time period: – –
Total sessions from IPA countries
Turkey
Serbia
FYROM
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Albania
Kosovo
Montenegro
5,196
2,420
1,127
403
451
308
354
133
5,943
2,581
1,355
545
469
439
376
178
8,466
3,561
1,696
933
788
589
675
224  
8,490
2,302
1,443
1,080
983
945
297
Our web statistics show significant increase in numbers of visits per project partner from beginning of cooperation until now.

5. EIGE’s cooperation with EU candidates and potential candidates (2017 – 2019)
Focused to improve monitoring, policy and legislation in the area of gender equality and building capacity of key project partners
Since 2013, EIGE has supported involvement of EU candidates and potential candidates in our work and deepening of cooperation in common priority areas, aiming to improve overall gender equality progress among IPA project partners.
Current project focuses on improving monitoring, policy, legislation and turn it into practice among project beneficiaries.

6. Project beneficiaries*
Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kosovo*
Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbia
Turkey

7. Main stakeholders National gender equality bodies Statistical Offices
EU delegations
EU Institutions
International community
CSOs, academia, local authorities, etc.
Main stakeholders:
- National gender equality bodies;
- Statistical Offices;
- EU Delegations and DG NEAR and DG JUST
- International community
Other stakeholders: CSOs, academia, local authorities, etc.

8. ACTIVITIES Gender mainstreaming;
Development of national Gender Equality Index;
Improving coverage of beneficiary countries in EIGE’s Gender Statistics Database;
Gender based violence;
Glossary and Thesaurus;
Regular cooperation with project partners, including EU institutions (mainly EU Delegations, DG NEAR, EEAS and DG Justice) and international community.

9. Developing National Gender Equality Indices
Inform on what are the newest developments!

10. Gender Statistics Database
Inclusion of project partners in the Gender Statistics Database – Women and Men in Decision Making
EIGE’s
Gender Statistics Database
Monitoring the Beijing Platform for Action
Gender-based Violence
Gender Equality
Index
Gender
Mainstreaming
Inclusion of IPA countries in the Gender Statistics Database

11. Women and Men in Decision Making

12. Transferring knowledge on gender mainstreaming – collection of good practices from Western Balkans and Turkey
Sharing of EIGE’s work on Gender Mainstreaming and facilitating transfer of knowledge, so that gender perspective is integrated at all stages of policy making.

13. Addressing gender-based violence
Addressing Gender- based Violence and facilitating transfer of knowledge
Inform about populating 13 indicators

14. Harmonising gender equality terminology
Introducing EIGE’s Glossary and Thesaurus of gender equality terminology to project partners and facilitate adaptation in the Western Balkans and Turkey.
Serbia is now translating it and we expect to offer more support in this process

15. Regular joint cooperation
Regular cooperation with project partners, including EU institutions (mainly EU Delegations, DG NEAR, EEAS and DG Justice) and international community.

16. Going forward
We are looking forward to continuing our joint cooperation and we hope to achieve results we have committed.
For your information, duration of the project is 30 months, as of September 1st 2017

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