Translation of "évaluation des répercussions sur le genre " (French → English) :

Calls on the Commission to make full use of the ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme to specifically target civil society and women’s organisations working in areas relating to digitalisation and ICT, in order to improve conditions for civic and democratic participation of women and to pay special attention to the gender-specific objectives in the upcoming implementation evaluations.

H. whereas budget cuts by governments implementing austerity plans are mostly affecting the public sector and its welfare services, which are staffed and benefited mainly by women – who make up some 70 % of public-sector employees – but also the private sector, with women now becoming the main victims of austerity measures; whereas to date no country has assessed the impact of the proposed cuts in public spending and of the consequences of fiscal consolidation from a gender perspective, be it the impact of the individual measures or their cumulative impact;

K. whereas budget cuts by governments implementing austerity plans are mostly affecting the public sector and its welfare services, which are staffed and benefited mainly by women – who make up some 70 % of public-sector employees – but also the private sector, with women now becoming the main victims of austerity measures; whereas to date no country has assessed the impact of the proposed cuts in public spending and of the consequences of fiscal consolidation from a gender perspective, be it the impact of the individual measures or their cumulative impact;

5. Underlines, that adequate and reliable gender budgeting and gender impact assessment require precise information; calls therefore for the establishment of the Gender Institute in 2005, which should be a source of information, a network building institution and should co-ordinate and/or initiate gender research, all with the aim to serve the gender budgeting and gender impact assessment with reliable data and achieve gender mainstreaming in all relevant EU policy areas;

1. Commits itself to adopting and implementing a policy plan for gender mainstreaming; the overall objective of this policy is to promote equality of women and men through genuine and effective incorporation of the gender perspective in policies and activities, including decision-making structures and the administration, so that the different impact of measures on women and men is assessed before decisions are taken; this involves quality assurance, which should relate to processes and structures as well as substance and be developed in the context of a gender management approach;

6. Takes the view that gender disaggregated statistics and data are an essential tool for assessing progress towards equality goals and for promoting mainstreaming by showing the differential impact on women and men of all policies, particularly in fields previously thought to be gender-neutral;