Implementation is a crucial step for the GEPGB’s success since it involves a concrete approach to realise what has been planned, and it represents a test for good planning. Determination, endurance, organisation, patience, persistence, and focus are all skills that must be deployed daily by those in charge [...]
Based on the results of the context analysis, RPOs may outline their first GEPGB. In this step, adopting a participatory approach is of the utmost importance. GEPGB should be designed in a participatory process right from the start, and in this process, different stakeholders should be involved, both [...]
In the context of the LeTSGEPs Project - Leading Towards Sustainable Gender Equality Plans in Research Institutions, Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program, Grant Agreement 873072, the University of Tirana has prepared the Gender Indicators Manual in Albanian. This Manual contains methodological guidelines for data collection and the [...]
The Gender Budgeting tracking and reclassification in the context analysis is the starting point to introduce the financial gender perspective in GEPGB along the RPOs performance cycle. When an RPO plans interventions for the following year, the definition of the political choices and the budget preparation represent the [...]
A comprehensive and concrete Gender Equality (GE) context analysis in RPOs, based on the analysis of sex-disaggregated data, lies at the core of every good GEPGB. Only a detailed assessment of the inequalities existing in the organisation - including possible background factors - allows for the correct identification [...]
Following the appointment of the working group and the self-assessment of the starting point, it is crucial to identify indicators to focus on and collect existing sex-disaggregated data. The structure of the set of indicators and related data to collect should always take into account the main gender [...]
Defining a point of balance between the challenges of the GE transformative change and the capability of RPOs to absorb, accept, and support it is an important step towards a successful GEPGB. Each organisation has a different capability of absorbing innovation and changes due to its history, context, [...]
Once we have got started, STEP 2 concerns the analysis and assessment of the status quo in the organisation. The Gear Tool step-by-step Guide (EIGE) refers to six key items for analysis and assessment of the status quo in RPOs: Decide who will carry out the analysis Review [...]
Having explained the key items in Step 1 - Getting started for GEPsGB design, let's now have a look at some examples from LeTSGEPS partners. UNIME started the process by analysing the already existing UNIME gender-based policies and evaluating how they could be implemented within the GEPGB methodology [...]
Following the analysis of the benefits of GEPs with an integrated Gender Budgeting (GB) approach, let's now go through the required steps. STEP 1: Getting started In addition to the overall recommendations suggested by the Gear Tool step-by-step Guide (EIGE), designing a GEP with an integrated GB approach [...]