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Gender Mainstreaming in ESF and in national policies in Finland CoP on Gender Mainstreaming in the ESF Steering Group meeting 27.1.2012 Hillevi Lönn Gender Equality – Challenges in Finland • Gender segregation of education and vocational careers -horisontal and vertical • Reconciliation of work and family life paid work / unpaid work; atypical contracts; career breaks • Family leaves used mainly by women (92%) • Gender pay gap 18-20 % ESF Operational Programme • Evaluation of programme period 2000-2006: ”Equality know how should be increased and the gender mainstreaming continued in determined and systematic fashion” • Operational Programme 2007-2013: ”Dual track strategy continued: = special eguality projects and GM as a part of all activities, at all levels and all phases” • ESF Aplication form: guestion if the project preparation consists of ”female and male viewpoints”! • ERDF: ”equality” meaning besides gender equality the equlity of different minority groups Definition of concepts Practice - challenges • No proper guidelines, support, models or demands for GM, (exception: Valtava Development Programme) 80% of ESF projects identify themselves as ”gender neutral” at starting phase 40% of these projects say in 2010 evaluation that they further gender equality • Gender is not maintsreamed but dealt with in one operational line, also there as a separate issue • Evaluation: GM analysis to be developed (theoretical framework) • Former programme period: Managing Authority applied training of ESF staff in Employment and Economic Development Centres (distribution of ESF finances) Valtava programme: Gender mainstreaming in line with Government policy Targets of Valtava: • Support gender mainstreaming in employment and the economy fields and adult education • Dismantle gender segregation of labour market and adult education • Increase knowledge and skills of authorities on gender and equality issues and promote their ability (skills) to rephrase targets into action and develop skills of gender mainstreaming evaluation Targets… • Men are trained into women dominated fields / occupations and women into male dominated fields • Support entrepreneurship in ’non traditional’ fields • Support of women / men in pour labour market situation (under threat of unemployment, with no/low level of education, with background of only fixed term contracts etc.) Improve situation of special groups that face multiple discrimination (ethnic minorities, the disabled, handicapped, older people etc.) • Promote gender sensitivity among education planners, people who choose the participants and people working in careers counselling and people responsible for staff recruitment in organisations. Target groups of the programme • 15 different projects under theme of GM in different parts of the country – project staff • Regional ESF authorities, enterprises, education institutions, NGO’s, consultation and training institutites, gender equality oragnisations • Managing Authorities • Indirect target groups: personnell of provincial federations and municipalities, employees of employment officies Valtava ”Support Structure” in Ministry offers: • Tailored training and consultation for project actors and provincial authorities, support for networking • Training for Managing Authority and regional authorities • Manual for gender mainstreaming in employment and economy administeration services • Compendium of good practices from 80’ies untill today • Gender impact assessment of structural funds decisions • Training pacage for gender mainstreaming • Developing GM strategy for Structural Funds (ESF) in cooperation with CoP on Gender Mainstreaming, transnational network funded by Commission… Community of Practice on Gender Mainstreaming in ESF • Target: to produce an ESF standard on how to implement a gender perspective in all phases of ESF management …i.e. Gender Mainstreaminig should be an integral part of future ESF management /cycles from planning, programming, implementing to monitoring and evaluation Future goals for Finland: • Increased knowledge and understanding of GM (Managing Authorities, project actors, evaluators) • Gender equality perspective in OPs as well as in practice • Support structure for Gender Mainstreaming, using the network of Regional Authorities and network of GM specialists GM and GE as Governmental Policy • Training of Ministry staff (including management) in GE and GM • Training of regional authorities of MEE (including ESF personnell) • Result steering of the institutes and officessubordinated to the MEE • Gender Impact Analysis of legislation preparation • Budgeting (GE perspective in state budget, tried to develope real gender budgeting) • Mainstreaming of gender in one or two lafge development programme of the MEE New Governmental GE programme • GM is continued in the main processes on MEE • Chief secretaries of ministries (and ministers) deal with GM with regularity • Network of GE working groups of Ministries • Dismantling of segregation • Carrier development of women in state offices • Support structure for GM in ESF !! • Strategy for GM in ESF !!