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Local development and gender: “best practices” intersecting those issuesincluding gender perspective in developmentprogrammes and projects.In this case, more than the single projects, theseare complex and structured experiences that weredeveloped together and by degree in specificterritories with the aim of fostering the femalepresence in territorial decision-making bodies, bybringing attention to the introduction of genderelements in specific projects at the same time.In this case we are referring to experiences carriedout in some Regions of Southern Italy (preciselySardinia and Sicily) that, over the course of the2000-2006 community programming, activated aseries of broad actions that cover a number ofyears and show a constant commitment not onlyin terms of gender issues, but also in the possibleinterconnections between these and aspects thatare greatly dedicated to territorial development.One interesting element to be emphasized is, inboth the cases, the use of specific tools forpromoting/activating local development actionsin territories, like integrated and participativeplanning with close attention to the possibleimpacts and possible methods with which tointroduce gender principles into these tools aswell.In the case of the Region of Sardinia, thecommunity programming in particular made itpossible to experiment, in a concertative andparticipative way, with forms of integration ofgender and equal opportunities policies in localdevelopment policies and practices both throughthe introduction of specific professionals (expertsin equal opportunities policies and gendermainstreaming within the Territorial workshopsof integrated planning) and through a series ofgender analyses and interpretations in the variousintervention areas in which local developmentpolicies were to be activated.In this sense, this is an experiment of undoubtedinterest in approaching specific territorialdevelopment scenarios with gender orientation,using the existing tools available today to thepublic administration, in a different way, to“promote local development.” The implementationof such an important intervention was madepossible by the presence in the regional administrationof the Authority for Gender Policies forconsultancy and promotion of equal opportunitiesand gender mainstreaming in the ManagingAuthority of the Regional Operative Programme.The case of the ITP Minor Islands of the SicilianRegion made it possible to activate localdevelopment actions at a micro level (themunicipalities of the Sicilian Minor Islands) witha strong involvement of the population in theterritory through an intense promoting activity ongender issues as a development tool. Above all,the contribution that female employment (in thiscase in forms of entrepreneurship) can give tothese territories in the form of an environmentallysensitivedevelopment and eco-sustainabletourism, is considered to be an element that,especially in the South of Italy, could have verypositive outcomes.The project CreOinRete of the Region of Campaniaalso moves along these lines. Once again in thenetwork approach, the objective is to stimulatethe female contribution to the socio-economicdevelopment of the territory through WomenResource and Employability Centres and territorialworkshops, where the needs of the population(men and women) are intercepted, anddevelopment routes and social and economicparticipation are promoted. In this case too, andthis is definitely a recurring and importantelement, these initiatives are carried out in theterritories, even at a micro level, and this is anessential factor for development, in gender termsas well. From here, the creation of partnershipnetworks not only at the provincial level, but alsomunicipal, and the ties with the local territorialsystems both at an economic level and tradeunion, political and association level.A further element to point out regarding thesurveyed initiatives is the attempt to join actions45
The promotion of gender equality within local development processes: Italyto foster female employability with actions aimedat supporting female employability even throughinfrastructures, by the creation and/or theenlargement of public utility services for citizensin the territory. These attempts have beenpromoted in the Southern Italian Regions not bychange. Here the community programming allowsthe use of ESF and EFRD (European Fund forRegional Development) in a single OperationalProgramme that enables those actions andinitiatives that can have a greater effect on thosefronts.At the same time, the presence in decisionmakingplaces is seen as an essential element forcontinuing these experiments and contributing tothe spread of a gender culture within PublicAdministrations, without which such initiativeswould have difficulty in being implemented andsustained over time.In this sense, the Regional law of the Region ofPuglia is significant, and poses the generalobjective of “create a system” and making thegender and equal opportunities measure wholeand not fragmented in the regional territory byactivating permanent participative advisory groupscapable of taking in and gathering all the needsthat, different actors, at a different level, takeforward in the territory.46
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