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In this report, the evaluations and analyses are based on the UNECE reports sent in by the Member States. However, the presentations on institutional mechanisms differ significantly between the reports, as does the extent to which the Member States address the three objectives. This has created difficulties in carrying out coherent evaluations of the indicators in the Member States, most notably in relation to whether Member States that have previously implemented basic institutional mechanisms have increased their efforts or not. Thus, it has not been possible to carry out more finely-tuned analyses of the progress of the institutional machinery in the Member States. Indicator 1: The strategic objective H.1. Create and strengthen national machineries and other governmental bodies includes six sub-objectives. They can be summarised as follows: Responsibility for gender equality policies should be awarded at the highest possible level of government, such as the level of a Cabinet Minister. The national machinery should be located at the highest possible level of government. It should have clearly defined mandates, adequate resources, ability to influence policy, to formulate and review legislation, and provide staff training. The governments should also establish procedures to allow the machinery to gather information on government-wide policy issues at an early stage and use it in the policy development and review process. The government should report regularly to legislative bodies on progress in the efforts undertaken, and promote the active involvement of the broad and diverse range of institutional actors in the public, private and voluntary sectors in the work for equality between women and men. Directive 2002/73/EC provides that Member States shall designate and make the necessary arrangements for a body or bodies for the promotion, analysis, monitoring and support of equal treatment of all persons without discrimination on grounds of sex. These bodies may form part of the agencies in charge at national level of the defence of human rights or the safeguarding of individuals’ rights. The Member States shall ensure that the competences of these bodies include independent assistance to the victims, conducting independent surveys on discrimination and publishing independent reports and making recommendations (Article 8a). It must be noted that the term “independent” refers to the independent powers of those bodies defined in Article 8a of Directive 2002/73/EC, such as powers to provide independent assistance to victims of discrimination in pursuing their complaints about discrimination. The bodies may be established by government decisions, and their resources are usually from government budget allocations. 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 36 ANNEX DG G EN
Indicator 2: Adequate resources are a basic element for progress in gender equality. A government commitment to promoting gender equality can therefore be measured in terms of resource allocation to the governmental gender equality body. Indicator 3: Mainstreaming gender equality is presented as the second main objective of the PfA critical area of institutional mechanisms. According to the PfA, governments should seek to ensure that before policy decisions are taken, an analysis of their impact on women and men respectively is carried out. Governments should also evaluate the impact of employment and income policies to ensure that women are direct beneficiaries of development. Governments should promote a gender perspective in legislation and give all ministries the mandate to review policies and programmes from a gender perspective. Inter-ministerial coordination structures should be established. In addition to the objectives addressed to governments, the PfA includes objectives addressed to national machineries, advising them on promoting gender mainstreaming. These objectives, however, deal more or less with the same issues as the ones directed at governments. The indicator on gender mainstreaming is regarded as a sum variable of key elements of gender mainstreaming. Important sub-indicators are the status of the governmental commitment to gender mainstreaming in public administration, i.e. whether it is a legal obligation, a de facto binding decision, recommendation etc, the existence of various types of structures and methods, such as inter-ministerial working groups on gender mainstreaming and the use of specific methods, namely gender impact assessment in drafting legislation and policy programmes, and gender budgeting. 3.3 Progress of institutional mechanisms in the Member States 3.3.1. Status of governmental responsibility in promoting gender equality 20 All Member States have a governmental gender equality body (sometimes called equal opportunities body or women’s bureau) and this body often has an overarching responsibility, i.e. deals with several or all parts of the policy processes. In federal states there are several ministers 20 Information from the MS reports to UNECE 2009 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 37 ANNEX DG G EN
Page 1 and 2: COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Bruss
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Page 11 and 12: The Regulation establishing a Europ
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Page 17 and 18: Integration of gender issues in the
Page 19 and 20: - Childcare facilities: possibility
Page 21 and 22: Key findings from the second report
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Page 25 and 26: Guidelines for the improvement of w
Page 27 and 28: With regard to financing, in additi
Page 29 and 30: High Level Group on Gender Equality
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Page 33 and 34: Women and the media In 2006, the EW
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Page 47 and 48: IV IMPLEMENTATIONS OF ACTIONS IN TH
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Page 69 and 70: 4.4 Violence against women (D) 4.4.
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Page 81 and 82: men. As a result this ‘new’ ins
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The data is uncertain and, at least
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It should be emphasised that the hi
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In most countries single mothers' t
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Unemployment has been falling in mo
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The main political measures taken c
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• Indicator 7. Proportion of the
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Indicator 1: Women's access to poli
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parliaments (76 % men, 24 % women).
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Indicator 12: Out of 108 senior eco
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The Member States advance various r
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The Belgian quota law adopted in 20
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References Council Conclusions Nove
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4.9.3. The CEDAW The Convention on
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Member States report on increased p
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4.10.3. EU policy on eliminating ge
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In Spain, a specific institute (Obs
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Women remain absent from leadership
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Some MS report on actions that have
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• L.1. Eliminate all forms of dis
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The most recent information availab
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highest in Estonia with 90 %. The m
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In relation to the indicators adopt
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When the Council of the European Un
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EU commitments to achieve the objec
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5.5. Women and Armed Conflict (E) W
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Although it can be noted that the E
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5.8. Institutional Mechanisms for t
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5.10. Women and the Media (J) The m
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Two issues clearly placed on the MS
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Although gender mainstreaming is ar
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6.3. Challenges for the future Euro
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The main challenges in the area of
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Annex I Indicators developed at EU
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IT Italy LV Latvia LT Lithuania LU
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Annex III Table 3.1 Personnel resou
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Table 3.3 Structure and content of
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Figure 4.1.2 At risk of poverty rat
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Figure 4.2.1 Employment gap between
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Figure 4.2.5 Proportion of female a
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Figure 4.3.1 Number of years with g
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Figure 4.3.3 Proportion of persons
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Figure 4.3.5 Proportion of persons
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Figure 4.3.7 Proportions of women a
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Figure 4.6.1 Employed women and men
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Figure 4.6.5 Proportion of children
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Figure 4.6.9 Time spent on domestic
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Figure 4.6.13 Time spent on domesti
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Table 4.7.1 The cluster of Member S
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Figure 4.12.1 Difference between pr
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Figure 4.12.3 Difference between pr
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Table 4.12.2 Difference between 15-
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