Gender mainstreaming requires training Gender mainstreaming strategy for

Gender mainstreaming requires training • Gender mainstreaming ► strategy for change to achieve gender equality • Gender training ► transformative ► deeply political (resistances) ► highly contextual

Contextualising gender training ►Gender machinery (internal/external): existence of loci designated to care for gender (or gender+) equality policies ►Other influential voices: other political actors like NGOs or other segments of civil society, or political parties, unions and similar organisations, think tanks

Contextualising gender training (2) ►Equality climate: socio-cultural climate (media, science and culture) and institutional climate. ►Gender mainstreaming history: past gender mainstreaming efforts, or diversity management activities, or variations of both, and what status such activities were given in the overall political framework.

Contextualising gender training (3) ►Gender expertise: level of available gender expertise. ► Gender data: availability of gender data

Integrating gender in research projects

Gender in research content Research Idea Phase (checklist) ►If the research involves humans as research objects, has the relevance of gender to the research topic been analysed? ►If the research does not directly involve humans, are the possibly differentiated relations of men and women to the research subject sufficiently clear?

Gender in research content (2) Research Idea Phase (checklist) ►Have you reviewed literature and other sources relating to gender differences in the research field? www. yellowwindow. com/genderinresearch

Why gender matters in (research) projects ► Better projects: quality - utility ► Better policies ► Accountability