Gender Mainstreaming in Public Policy

The need to improve gender equality has also been highlighted in several Member States’ Country Specific Recommendations. Against this backdrop, the “Gender Mainstreaming in Public Policy and Budgeting” Project is designed in response to several Member States’ requests for technical support. The Project aims at supporting seven Member States including administrations in charge of gender equality policies. This is a technical assistance project aiming at strengthening the integration of gender into public action though the application of Gender Mainstreaming (GM) tools. The project will involve analysing the practices and confirming specific needs of various policy areas and Government Departments of the Irish Govt in order to strengthen the integration of GM. The group of experts will work on drafting an analysis report presenting in detail the current practices, the previous attempts to apply GM tools into their processes, the reasons why it did not work, opportunities and obstacle to change, etc.