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Collection of Good Practices in Mainstreaming Gender into European External Action

The EU Gender Action Plan II translates the European Union’s policy and political commitments to gender equality into a set of concrete objectives. Achieving these objectives is crucial for attaining results for girls and women, including by promoting more efficient coordination, implementation and monitoring of EU activities.  This compendium of 36 promising practices in mainstreaming gender highlights cases collected through the 2018 EU Gender Action Plan II’s Annual Implementation Report and the 2018 External Assistance Management Reports (EAMR).


Version December 2020

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    Championing Gender Equality in EU External Cooperation

    A EU Gender Champion takes the responsibility to make visible at the highest level and give impetus to the EU’s progressive stance on gender equality and women’s human rights.


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    Deniz Kandiyoti: How did gender move to the center of democratic struggles?

    The central objective of this talk is to analyze how the politics of gender came to occupy a central place in debates over citizenship, national belonging, and the future of democratic governance. These debates diverge widely from challenges and to the most basic rights to freedom of movement and education for women in countries like Afghanistan to demanding full recognition of LGBTQI rights in the European Union.

    Duration: 1h17min

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    GAPII project: Knowledge Bank

    The Resource Package offers tools for integrating a gender dimension at all the various steps and according to the different aid modalities and approaches used in today’s practice of international development cooperation.

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    Gender and infrastructure

    Course on gender and infrastructure: implications of infrastructure and transport programmes.

    Duration: 20 min

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    Gender and justice

    This course explains how gender mainstreaming is a key quality and accountability factor in justice sector reforms.

    Duration: 20 min

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    Gender and value chains

    This webinar will provide an overview on how to incorporate a gender-responsive approach in the design, implementation and monitoring of value chain development (VCD) projects.

    Duration: 70 min

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    Gender equality and extremist religious fundamentalisms

    This webinar intends to facilitate the understanding of religious fundamentalisms as a socio-political fact of our contemporaneity, and to support development practitioners and humanitarian workers to detect and cope with the challenges, to identify useful entry points, and to design appropriate responses.

    Duration: 90 m

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    Gender equality improves nutritional outcomes

    This webinar focuses on the ways in which EU development cooperation can improve gender equality and nutritional outcomes in the rural sector, being aimed at strengthening understanding amongst EU staff of the important links between gender equality and nutritional outcomes.

    Duration: 64 m

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    Gender Focal Person Starters Kit

    Gender Focal Persons are the key “change agents” that support colleagues to move on towards the EU's Action Plan to advance gender equality through external relations and development cooperation. This document aims at providing information about their role and the available resources to develop their roadmap.

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    Gender in agricultural and rural development

    This webinar is destined to staff from EU Delegations active in agriculture and rural development. It focuses mainly on aspects concerning gender inequality in ARD, preparing a gender strategy, setting targets aimed at improving women’s productivity and empowerment, engaging with men in non-traditional areas and addressing negative cultural norms.

    Duration: 63 m

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    Gender Mainstreaming in EU Development Cooperation

    This course invites you to discover the most relevant and practical knowledge, understanding and skills to mainstream gender equality in all EU external action and development cooperation.

    Duration: 3 hours

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