EIGE Toolkit on gender budgeting in EU Funds now available in 22 official EU languages

18 Aug 2020 | News, Other publications, Publications

Released by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) a few months ago, this toolkit offers practical guidance on how to integrate gender mainstreaming in the EU Funds. Versions in official EU languages should help national, regional and local authorities, and...

Final report of the Feasibility Study for a Child Guarantee for vulnerable children released

4 Aug 2020 | News, Publications

This policy instrument aims to help ensure that every child at risk of poverty or social exclusion in Europe has access to free healthcare, free education, free early childhood education and care, decent housing and adequate nutrition, as part of a European integrated...

Evaluation of ESF support to youth employment

21 Jul 2020 | News, Other publications, Publications

This study evaluates the support provided through the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) and the European Social Fund (ESF) during the period 2014-2018. An estimated EUR 22 billion is being invested in youth employment operations for the current programming period...

EURoma Snapshot: how ESI Funds are used to address the impact of COVID-19 crisis on Roma

16 Jun 2020 | EURoma Publications, Featured publications, News, Other, Publications

The majority of countries covered are already or are planning to develop special measures to address the situation within the framework of ESI Funds and other EU Funds (notably FEAD), complemented in most cases with actions funded by national resources (at national,...

European Institute for Gender Equality releases toolkit on gender budgeting in EU Funds

1 Jun 2020 | News, Other publications, Publications

This gender-budgeting toolkit aims to help those working with EU Funds better fit their programmes to gender equality goals, strategies and regulatory frameworks at European Union and Member States level.  Gender budgeting is a strategy to achieve gender equality...

European Commission guide on administrative data & ESF counterfactual impact evaluations

29 May 2020 | News, Other, Other publications, Publications

This document is a step-by-step guide for Managing Authorities and other evaluators of ESF interventions to help them build capacity on the use of administrative data for counterfactual impact evaluations. The European Commission (Directorate-General for Employment...