Die Senatorin für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend und Soziales ESF-Verwaltungsbehörde Freie Hansestadt Bremen Hildegard Jansen, head of Unit labour market programs and esf managing authority Regional Ministry of Labour, Women, Health, Family and Social Affairs, Germany Contrescarpe 72, Bremen Tel.: 0421/ , Fax: 0421/ OPEN DAYS 2008 Implementing a gender mainstreaming approach into regional development policies Code 09C54 09/10/2008 – 11:15-13:00

_______________________________________________________ Die Senatorin für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend und Soziales ESF-Verwaltungsbehörde Freie Hansestadt Bremen Overview and background: Experiences over ten years in gender matters Implementation in frame of European Socialfund (esf) (ESF managing authority) Implementation into the regional policy (assigned for Gender issues in the ministry)

_______________________________________________________ Die Senatorin für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend und Soziales ESF-Verwaltungsbehörde Freie Hansestadt Bremen frameworks involved Operational programs (soft criteria) equal economic independence for women and men Reconciling work and private life balanced representation in decision-making Elimination of gender stereotypes (hard criteria) clear target figures (output-Indi+,cators) Exclusion criterion in the application

_______________________________________________________ Die Senatorin für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend und Soziales ESF-Verwaltungsbehörde Freie Hansestadt Bremen Experiences Labour market programs Gender targets defined Equality objectives and selection criteria of eligibility guidelines and principles defined Staff trained data collected by gender Controlling, monitoring, evaluation and control to gender issues and focus were expanded Study on implementation in a labor market program Study on implementing Gender into ERDF Consideration of application to control

_______________________________________________________ Die Senatorin für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend und Soziales ESF-Verwaltungsbehörde Freie Hansestadt Bremen Selected problems in the implementation Delegating responsibility to Representative Lack of resources (staff, time, money for external support) Lack of expertise conflicts between expert and the policy goal of equal opportunity supposed gender neutrality schematic and additives understanding of gender mainstreaming Low weighting of substantive equality objective in decision- making Additive instead of an integrated approach

_______________________________________________________ Die Senatorin für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend und Soziales ESF-Verwaltungsbehörde Freie Hansestadt Bremen success factors Linking funding to gender mainstreaming issues Clear desire to politically responsible persons (policy decision maker) Awareness of executives and political responsibility Formulation of clear objectives and Verifiability of the results (controlling) Good gender data

_______________________________________________________ Die Senatorin für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend und Soziales ESF-Verwaltungsbehörde Freie Hansestadt Bremen Future outlook Member of the Community of practice (CoP) Gender-Mainstreaming Implementation of Gender-Budgeting Training of promoters and staff of the intermediate bodys