Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines

The Agency for Gender Equality in the ESF follows the approach of the programme/project cycle.

On the programme level, this approach entails:

1. analysis,
2. setting gender equality objectives,
3. planning,
4. project selection,
5. monitoring,
6. evaluation.

On the project level the steps are:

1. analysis,
2. setting gender equality objectives,
3. implementation,
4. evaluation.

For each step, tips are given and examples are offered to illustrate what the respective step could involve. This process ensures that actors on both levels have the capacity to follow a cross-cutting gender equality approach.

Implementation of Gender Mainstreaming in Programmes

Implementation of Gender Mainstreaming in Projects