EU FUNDING FOR GENDER EQUALITY: THE NEED FOR A GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGET

Manuela Samek Lodovici ()
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Manuela Samek Lodovici: IRS, Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale, Milano

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2020, vol. 128, issue 1, 67-83

Abstract: The paper discusses how gender mainstreaming is applied in the EU funding allocations for 2014-2020, with focus on the EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and the main EU funding programmes. The analysis shows that notwithstanding EU commitment to gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting is not systematically applied in the EU multiannual budget and in the analysed programmes. Gender equality is declared as a horizontal objective in almost all EU programmes, but often not translated into concrete goals, actions and earmarked funding, with the EU budget showing a weak and piecemeal commitment to gender equality. Some important tools, like Gender Impact Assessment and Gender Budgeting, are still rarely adopted by the EU or national institutions. In order to be effective, the EU’s political and legal commitment to gender mainstreaming has to be supported with earmarked funding and allocations in the EU budgetary and spending decisions.

Keywords: Gender mainstreaming; EU budget; EU financial allocations; EU programmes’ regulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H50 H61 J78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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