Country:,1.Title ,2. Main features ,3. N. pages,"4. N. occurences for ""gender""",Comments ,5. Date of issue ,6. Date of entry into force ,7. Issuing Authority,8. Validity ,9. Budget ,Volume,10. URL,11. Geographical scope,"If ""Subnational"", specify",12. Measures for sex/gender ineq.,12.1 GBV,"12.1 If ""yes""",12.2 WLM,"12.2 If ""yes""",12.3 Economy,"12.3 If ""yes""",12.4 Pay pension gaps,"12.4 If ""yes""",12.5 Care gap,"12.5 If ""yes""",12.6 D-M and politics,"12.6 If ""yes""",12.7 Env. Justice,"12.7 If ""yes""",12.8 Health,"12.8 If ""yes""",12.9 Education,"12.9 If ""yes""",13. Measures for other vulnerable groups,13.1 Social class …,"13.1 If ""yes""",13.2 Age,"13.2 If ""yes""",13.3 Disability,"13.3 If ""yes""",13.4 Nationality,"13.4 If ""yes""",13.5 Ethnicity,"13.5 If ""yes""",13.6 Religion /belief,"13.6 If ""yes""",13.7 Sexual orientation,"13.7 If ""yes""",13.8 Gender Identity,"13.8 If ""yes""",13.9 Other,"13.9 If ""yes""",14. Concise description (300 to 500 words) ,14.1 (Optional) Brief expert assessment (Max 600 words),15. Involvement of stakeholders,15.1 Local authorities,15.2 Trade unions,15.3 Employers organisations,15.4 Business representatives,15.5 Banks and finance represen.,15.6 Healthcare organis.,15.7 Academics researchers,15.8 Feminist represen.,15.9 LGBTQI+ represen.,15.10 Social justice organ.,15.11 Elderly represen.,15.12 Youth represen.,15.13 Immigrants represen.,15.14 People with disabilities represen.,15.15 Religious groups represen.,15.16 Others,15.16 Specify,Involvement process description,"16. Public consultation ","16.1 If yes, please specify ",17. Gender Impact Assessment,"17.1 If yes, please specify ",18. Positive reactions ,18.1 NGOs associations,18.2 Employees organ.,18.3 Employers organ.,18.4 Others,18.4 Please specify:,"Three positive reactions (Max 500 words)",19. Negative reactions ,19.1 NGOs associations,19.2 Employees organ.,19.3 Employers organ.,19.4 Others,19.4 Please specify:,"Three negative reactions (Max 500 words)",20. Reactions to the process of stakeholders eng.,20.1 NGOs associations,20.2 Employees organ.,20.3 Employers organ.,20.4 Others,20.4 Please specify:,"Main reactions, from a gender+ perspective (Max 500 words)",21. Two civil society initiatives (Max 600 words),NOTES Iceland,Fiscal budget proposal for 2022,"The policy is Icelandic's government budget bill for 2022. The Budget bill is the government main policy document for the following year, which is built on the Government's five year fisical strategy, reflects the governments social and economic priorities. The Budget bill is the most relevant document to discuss in the second phase as the Government hasn't introduced a new resilience/response plan since the one that was introduced in four phases between March and November 2020 (actions idiscussed in the 1st cycle of the Resistiré project were from that plan). In the presentations of the bill it can be seen that the government doesn't think there is a need for a new resilience plan: ""The economic situation is better than was assumed in the National Budget for 2021, and the economy is more resilient than previously expected. Unemployment has fallen rapidly (from 12,2% in Jan 2021 to 5,1% in Oct 2021) and real incomes have risen steeply, and the outlook is for strong and continued GDP growth."" The budget bill for 2022 discusses the outcomes of the Government's actions in response to Covid-19, it is stated that the government's actions to respond to the economic impact of Covid-19 were ""highly successful"" and had supported the economy. However, some of the mitigating measures due to the pandemic are continued in the 2022 (proposal of total 50 bn ISK in 220, bringing the pandemic-related economic support to ISK 260nbn for 2020-2020). to activate socio-economic recovery to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. The budget is divided into policy fields, where the ministries have defined their main objectives in each field and the actions foreseen to be taken in 2022. Gender budgeting has been mandatory since 2016 and for the ministries submitted an equal rights assessment with their recommendations for the fiscal budget proposal. Two chapters in the policy specifically focus on the outcomes of gender and equality impact assessment, that is the governments a) revenues and b) expenditures. The government states that ""most of [the budgetary measures] are considered conducive to gender equality, and many more are considered to maintain the status quo. A small share of the measures are considered likely to widen the gender gap"".",367,40 (+48),"Gender, singular (1); Gender, plural (4); Gender, plural with article (18); gendered (4); gendered discrimination (2); gender gap (4); gender-based (7), Not sure if you wanted ""equality"" as well, but equality comes up 48 times in the document.",2021-11-01,2022-01-01,The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs on behalf of the Government of Iceland. ,2022-12-01,Yes,1.074 bln ISK.,The policy webpage: https://www.stjornarradid.is/verkefni/efnahagsmal-og-opinber-fjarmal/opinber-fjarmal/fjarlog/fjarlog-fyrir-arid-2022/#almennt; shorter information in English: https://www.government.is/news/article/2021/11/30/Fiscal-budget-proposal-for-2022-/ ,National,,NB: I use Ctrl+F to search for gender in those domains.,Yes,"Prevention of GBV is one of three main governments objectives in the poilicy field ""Equality issues"" (no.32.2). To reach that objective two main projects are discussed: 1) implementation of an action plan to prevent sexual and gender violence and harassment and 2) follow-up in specific actions in the action plan to precent sexual and gender violence and harrassment. Moreover GBV is mentioned in the following policy fields: Labour market (no. 30.2), objective 1: ""Save and healthy workplaces"". One out of the three main projects is to develop a website for social work enviornment that emphasises prevention to bullying, sexual harassment, gender harassment and violence in the workplace. (Other two measures: Develop successful preventive measures to support an healthy work culture; and develop introduction- and educational material for healthy social work environment) ",Yes,"As mentioned below in actions regarding gender pay gap, a action group on pay equality and equality in the labour market will be apponed and working until the end of 2023.",No,,Yes,"""Pay equality accomplished - gendered pay gap to be eliminated"" is one of three main objectives in the policy field ""Equality issues"" (no.32.2). Two main projects are: 1) Secure the implementation of the equal pay certificated; and 2) appointed an action group on pay equality and equality in the labour market that will work until end of 2023.",No,,Yes,"One of the three objectives in the policy field ""regional development issue"" (no. 08.2) is ""contribute to sustainable develepment in regional development around the country"". One objective/action within that objective is ""Equality in local governments by strenghtening them and create more consciousness on the importance of diverse perspective within them""",No,,No,,Yes,"The policy field ""Universities and research organisations"" (no. 21.1) has the objective of improving the quality of education and educational environment in Universities. One action is to assess the quality of distance education and post-graduate programmes, specifically from a gender- and equality perspective.","NB: I use Ctrl+F to search for the terms related to the gender inequalites below. However, most of these inequality grounds are discussed more widely in the policy document - BUT the actions/projects/measures are do not aim to mitigate inequalities (such as age, in the policy domain of elderly people the objectives are all related to encourage them to participate longer in the labour market. A measure that is believed to further widen gender+ gaps)",Yes,"Higher child benefits (policie field child benefits, no. 29.1), specifically aimed to improve the position of low income people and lower middle class groups. The benefits are connected to parents/guardians income and their main aim is to ""mitigate children's poverty"". ",No,,Yes,"One out of two objectvies in the policy field ""Social benefits, rehabilitation pension"" (no. 27.2) is to ""improve the support for the most disadvantage individuals in the group of rehabilitation pensioners"", in order to do so the government aims to map the need for the support of those that do have little or no rights to social benefits. Moreover, increased payments of disability and rehabilitation pensioners' benefits (1%). ",Yes,"The policy field ""Issues of migrants and refugees"" (no. 29.7) has three objectives, and I believe all of them mitigate inequalities: 1) Even migrants opportunities to social participation, activity in Ielandic society and in the labour market. This objective includes two measures: a) formulation of long term policy on issues of migrants, refugees and multiculturalism, with the aim of increasing mutual understanding and participation in all areas of society regardless of origin and ethnicity, and b) making of comprehensive proposal of measures to eliminate the wage gap beweteen migrants and nationals; 2)Coordinated reception of refugees; 3) Receive more refugees. Other policy fields: Improve accessability of migrants to public services in region (""regional development issue"" no. 08.2). Improve the quality and supply of Icelandic courses for adult migrants to facilitate their activeness in society (Secondary education and education no classified on certain level no. 22.2).",Yes,"Some of the measures mentioned in nationality are related to ethnicity. Specifically the objective of formulating of long term policy on issues of migrants, refugees and multiculturalism, with the aim of increasing mutual understanding and participation in all areas of society regardless of origin and ethnicity (no. 29.7).",No,,No,,Yes,"""Legal position and rights of queer people secured"" is one of three governments objectives in the poilicy field ""Equality issues"" (no.32.2). The main action relateds to gender identity: A working group will be formed that will work on further establishing the protection to physical integrity of children born with atypical sex characteristics.",No,,"Even though the policy does not have specific actions to mitigate gender+ inequalities that became evident during the pandemic, there are several measures that will have positivev impact on gender+ equality, such as: - Lower austerity requirement (0,5% instead of the 2% general austerity requirement) on health and elders organisations and schools. Hence, protecting basic services despite deficit from operation and preventing increased unemployment in women dominated fields and securing services to groups that are often in a vulnerable position and preventing that the care work moves into the homes (and into the hands of women). Moreover social and unemployment benefits programmes and health insureances are excempted from the general austerity requirement, benefits that more women than men rely on. - Majority of measures in health, such as Increased healthcare expenditures, contributions to reduce patient payments, increased expenditures mental health sercices, operations of new nursing homes, mitigate gender inequalities as they are more likely to be service users and the health operations are likely to decrease care work. - Many social measures in the bill are believed to mitigate gender inequalities, such as increased payments of disability and rehabilitation pensioners' benefits (women are in majority - and their proportion is increasing every year). Because of the positive outlook in the countries economy and relatively low unemployment rate many of the actions introduced in the the Resilience plan were canceled, this includs various income relataed unemployment benefits, social measures and educational measures for job seekers (in total 65,3 bn ISK). It is proposed that part of that amount (7,4 bn) goes into measures to migigate the Covid-19 pandemic, such as increased expenditures to covid related health care, vaccines, mental health issues and secondary and tertiary education (to respont to increased students numbers). The government will continue ""the investment inititative"", mainly in construction, transportation and innovation, that was introduced as a covid-19 measure. Those funds are known to go into fields that are male dominated and creating more jobs for men, not creating employment for those that lost their work in the covid pandemic. However, many of the projects will have positive impact on gender equality in the future (such as construction in public transportation and health care organisations). ","Most of the measures in the bill are believed to contribute to status quo in gender+ inequality. Despite immense knowledge on the status of gender inequality within each policy field (the prime ministers office publishes annually a report, an gender impact assessment that the fiscal policy should build on)it does not result in actions being formed to mitigate those inequalities. For the government to fulfil its legal responsabilities in terms of gender budgeting and gender mainstreaming, gender must be integrated into the objectives and actions of the policy fields (that is move beyond the assessment phase and integrate gender into the decisions and the outcomes). As shown above this is the case in only few of the policy fields, and the government needs to address more firmly gender+ inequalities in relation to e.g. unpaid care work, GBV, poverty and health issues. In relation to mitigate gender+ inequalities in relation to covid, it is worrying that the policy doesn't introduce measures to respond to the increased workload, difficult workconditions and increased physical and pshycological pressure on people in women dominated professions, such as in health care, social care and welfare for the past two years. There are allready signs of trouble, such as difficulties in manning the health care system and burnout, problems that are not being solved in the bill. ",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,No,Yes,"Organisations that represent local governments in certain regions of the country and the ""the interest organisation of the homes"".","The budget committee of the parliament sent a request for a written statement from 46 organisations on the fiscal budget proposal. The statements are published on the parliaments website. Usually the organisations are invited to follow up on their statement in front of the committee in a closed meeting. However, as the ""new"" government wasn't formed until the end of November, there was little time to meet all the organisations as the fiscal budget had to be approved before the end of 2021.",No,"However, everybody is free to send in a statement after the proposal is published online/presented to the congress (not only the stakeholders above) - this can be reflected in the higher number of the statements sent in than requested from the committee (total 59).",Yes,"Government ministries submit an equal rights assessment with their recommendations for the fiscal budget proposal. Assessments were made of the impact that the vast majority of budgetary measures would have on equal rights. Most of them are considered conducive to gender equality, and many more are considered to maintain the status quo. A small share of the measures are considered likely to widen the gender gap. ","After looking all the potential positive statements I believe I have to say no to this question. I think all the statements are ""negative"" reactions as they are all from stakeholders trying to get their agenda throught to the government. However, it is important to note that they all start quite politely and often with a positive reaction to a small part of the proposal or the working process (see e.g. Feminist budgeting below)",No,No,No,No,,,,Yes,Yes,No,No,,"The federation of state and municipal employees (i. BSRB) argues against the continuation, for more than a decade, of underfunding of public services. To meet the societal changes Iceland faces, the pandemic, changing age structure and climate change, BSRB argues that the Government needs to take action to increase living standards, by eg. strenghtening the public services, ensure the mental and physical health of the people providing the services. They paritcularly discuss the negtice impact of the undrfunding of health sercices, increased expenditures are in response to the pandemic and building of a new hospital and is not enough to respond to insufficient services and health inequity. In their detailed statement BSRB raises concerns of many people live have a tight income, specifically rehabilitation pensioners, unemployed, migrants and single parents. They raise concerns about lack of safe housing, low child benefits, low pension and rehabilitation benefits, low unemployment benefits and lack of measures for job seekers. Feminist budgeting, a feminist budget group (i. Femínísk fjármál), praises the government for the progress of assessing the gendered impact of the fiscal proposal. However they point out that the government needs to take action towards eliminating gender+ inequality by drawing on the outcomes of the GIA and integrate those perspective into the objectives and measures of the policy fields. Moreover, they raie concerns about lack of action regarding heavy workload on women due to the covid pandemic, in particular people in women dominated jobs and unpaid care labor. In connection to this they also raise concerns about the allready increasing proportion of women accepting rehabilitation benefits. FB argue that there is lack of measure towards people that are still unemployed - specifically people from non-icelandic origin and young people. FB argue that little is done in regards to safe housing and that 20% are renters (in Iceland, the only way to have long-term security and OK cost for housing is by owning an apartment/house - however you have to own considerable amounts of money and have a decent income to buy), women are in majority of the single parents accepting housing benefits and are therefor more likely to be in a vulnerable position. The Icelandic Disability Alliance (ÖBÍ) points out in their statement that the increased disability and rehabilitation pensions is only 1,5% in reality as there is high inflation and that the pension is far lower than minimum wages in Iceland. Moreover they point out that the policy fields receives in totla lower funding between fisical budgets. They provide 14 suggestions on how to improve the budget bill, including: funding attached to the implementation of UNs conventions of the rights of persons with disabilities; higher maximum allowable income; abolitoin of income reduction; increased expenditures to user-controlled personal assistance; housing support; mental health support; reduced cost of healthcare; reduced/elimination of cost for support equipment; support/grants for cars etc.",,Yes,No,Yes,No,,"Following the debate of the budget bill the parliament decided to continue the covid action ""Back to work"", that is a full reimbursement (instead of 60%) of VAT for on-site household maintenance and services, and construction despite warnings from the Ministry due to expansion in the economy. The only stakeholders pushing for this were the Federation of Icelandic Industries (i. Samtök iðnaðarins) and Confederation of Icelandi Employers (i. Samtök atvinnulífsins). This measure creates wider gap between social classes, as this is a tax discount for those that are in the financial position to do construction on yheir own housing and constructions. Moreover, it is genderd as mostly male-dominated sectors benefit from the measure and it create jobs first and foremost for men (85-90% of all the jobs). In the statement from the National queer organisation (i. Samtökin 78) point out that 0 ISK was expected to be spent on queer issues in the fisical budget proposal and they demanded that the Governments the NGO would be systematically part of the Fiscal Budget Plan by being provided 45-55 m ISK annually in order for the NGO to provide their services (which includes council, support groups, consultancy to the society, education and youth work). A support to the NGO was added into the fiscal plan for the 2022, 25 m ISK. I can not easily find another example, as the committee doesn't declare if they changed the budget due to the above mentioned statement... these two changes received media attention therefor I knew of them. However, after looking through the statement I can not figure it out unless I do a deep analysis of them in comparison to the fisical proposal and its process within the parliament - that would at least take another week on this task :)",, UK01,Recovery Premium and Schools COVID-19 Operational guidance,"KEY FEATURES Education recovery programmes were announced including 'Recovery premium funding' to help schools to deliver evidence-based approaches to supporting disadvantaged pupils. There was a one-off universal £650 million catch-up premium announced for the 2021 academic year to make up for missed learning. The recovery premium funding is allocated £302m which allows schools to get £145 per pupil in mainstream education and £290 per pupil in a special unit for additional educational training. A further £200 million was allocated for funding secondary schools to run summer schools in summer 2021. £218m new funding has been directed to the National Tutoring Programme. FURTHER INFO Early years: The Government has made available up to £153 million of new funding for training for early years staff to support the very youngest children’s learning and development. Training programmes, and targeted additional whole setting support, will focus on key skills such as children’s speech & language, and physical & emotional development. This significantly expands the staff development programmes we are delivering through the Professional Development Programme and the further announcement of funded training made by the Government in February 2021. Additional funding for schools: Catch-up premium- A one-off universal £650 million catch-up premium for the 2021 academic year to ensure that schools have the support they need to help all pupils make up for missed learning. Schools can use catch-up premium funding to support any summer catch-up provision that they are offering and can carry any unspent funding forward to future academic years. Schools should use this funding for specific activities to support their pupils’ education recovery in line with the curriculum expectations in the actions for schools during thecoronavirus outbreak guidance. Additional funding for schools: Recovery Premium- The £302m Recovery Premium, which includes a fund to scale up proven approaches, is new one-off funding for state–funded schools in the 2021/22 academic year. Building on the pupil premium, this funding will help schools to deliver evidence-based approaches for supporting the most disadvantaged pupils. Holiday education: Summer schools- £200m funding for secondary schools to run summer schools in 2021. Tutoring in Schools- The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) is a government funded, sector-led initiative designed to support schools to address the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on pupils’ progress and attainment. The government are increasing the scale of support provided to 5-16 year olds as part of the tuition package announced in June 2021. This includes £218m of new funding in addition to the £215m already announced to be invested in the academic year 2021/22.",12,0,"Searches were undertaken for: gender, woma/en, ma/en, sex, girl, boy and no matches were found. The policy does not refer to the differing educational needs of children through any other characteristic other than disability and socioeconomic background. ",2021-06-01,2021-06-01,Department for Education,Unlimited,Yes,£3.1 billion,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/993053/Education_recovery_support_June-2021.pdf,National,,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,,Yes,"Free school meal support will continue to any pupils who are eligible for benefits-related free school meals and those who are learning at home during term time. This will take the pressure of off parents to provide school meals, especially helping single parents and those from poor socioeconomic backgrounds. The Recovery Premium Fund specifically aims to support disadvantaged students, especially those who struggled to access education throughout the pandemic. The Recovery Premium and school-led tutoring allocations were put in place to reflect disadvantage funding eligibility so schools with more disadvantaged students will receive larger allocations and more flexibility to direct funding.",Yes,The policy focuses on the educational wellbeing and mental health of children and young people.,Yes,"The guidance states that schools should work collaboratively with families and put in place reasonable adjustments so that pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can successfully access remote education. The Recovery Premium Fund offers double the amount of funding per pupil for those who are in special education and the Tuition Funds have earmarked more funds for Special and Alternative Provision schools.",No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,"The importance of maintaining education and recovering from the ill-effects of the pandemic on learning is the key focus of the policy however it does not differentiate plans, funds or assistance on the grounds of gender. There is strong acknowledgement that those pupils from poor socioeconomic backgrounds and those who were disadvantaged prior to the pandemic have been disproportionately affected and therefore greater funds and assistance are noted to be allocated for those pupils. This reflects broader discussions of the difficulties in some areas and with vulnerable groups in accessing education remotely or maintaining learning throughout the pandemic in the absence of face-to-face teaching. In regards to disability, it is also acknowledged that pupils with special educational needs will have been disadvantaged and therefore they have further funds allocated for their educational recovery. However, there is no clear description of what support will look like for either those with SEN or other disadvantaged students. The mental and emotional wellbeing of children is discussed in regards to the importance of maintaining face-to-face education for children's mental health, however no gender differentiation is made. It is briefly acknowledged in the guidance that some pupils may be experiencing anxiety, stress or low mood in response to the pandemic and links are provided for ways to support and promote mental health and wellbeing in schools. When questioned in parliament regarding the lack of gender consideration in the policy considering the gendered educational attainment gap that has grown during the pandemic, the Department for Education stated: ""The Department recognises, and continues to monitor, the educational attainment gap between girls and boys. We do not design education policy that exclusively targets certain groups of pupils based on gender. The Department is focused on providing world class education and training for everyone, whatever their background. The Government recognises that extended school and college restrictions have had a substantial impact on children and young people’s education and is committed to helping pupils catch up. The Department has announced over £3 billion to support education recovery and pupil premium is providing over £2.5 billion in the 2021/22 financial year targeted at disadvantaged pupils.""","In an attempt to provide equal opportunities and assistance to all students 'regardless of background', the plan does not consider the specific issues of children and young people in their education in regards to gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race and ethnicity, religion or nationality. These are clear omissions in the policy and therefore the educational provisions fail to recognise specific vulnerabilties that have either arisen or have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. While providing support in access to education for those from poor socioeconomic backgrounds and free schools meals has a knock-on impact in supporting single parent households and single mothers, the provisions are not specific enough to support women through the policy. Despite the publicised educational attainment gaps between boys and girls, among LGBTQ+ students, and those from non- White British backgrounds, the Recovery Premium only allocates specific funds and extra support for those with disabilities and Special Educational Needs. ",,No,No,No,No,No,Yes,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,,Advice was taken from Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social Care but no other groups were involved in the consultation process.,No,,No,,,No,No,No,No,,,,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Research Institute,"General secretary of the National Association of Headteachers Paul Whiteman stated they were deeply disappointed that has let down the nations children's and schools and the funding allocated was described as 'paltry' in comparison to the investments of other countries. Source: https://www.naht.org.uk/Our-Priorities/Our-policy-areas/Policy-research/ArtMID/591/ArticleID/1223/A-failure-to-invest-the-state-of-school-funding-2021 National Education Union: 'Rarely has so much been promised and so little delivered.' Referenced the lack of funding for extra-curricular activities for children to regain confidence, lack of funding for drama, music, sports and skills development. Source: https://neu.org.uk/press-releases/governments-education-recovery-plan NASUWT (The Teachers Union): Pointed out that schools alone cannot solve the problems caused by the pandemic and investment was needed to support families as well as mental health and counselling services. Source: https://www.nasuwt.org.uk/article-listing/catch-up-announcement-far-short-of-what-is-needed.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20Government%20needs%20to%20recognise,mental%20health%20and%20counselling%20services. Education Policy Institute: Criticised lack of funding and the missed opportunity by the government to provide investment in evidence-based interventions. In October 2021 they released a report stating that pupils face losing £16,000 in future earnings and up to £46,000 among the hardest hit pupils, unless more money was invested in the Recovery plan: https://epi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EPI-Education-Recovery-Report-2__.pdf Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation: Stated that the proposed funding was a fraction of what was required and low-income students will be disadvantaged even more so than they already were by the pandemic. They also suggested educational standards will be slow to recover.",,No,No,No,No,,,, UK02,Children’s Social Care COVID-19 Regional Recovery and Building Back Better Fund,"A new programme aimed at levelling up outcomes for vulnerable children and building back a fairer, more resilient system has been announced, backed by £24 million. The new fund will support projects tackling the issues facing the most vulnerable children in society in 2021-22, including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) abuse, care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, preventing adolescents from being caught up in harms outside the home such as gangs and reducing the pressure on the system by reducing court backlogs or improving technology. Working through England’s network of nine Regional Improvement and Innovation Alliances (RIIAs), it will also provide funding to accelerate the roll-out more family hubs to provide early help, build on existing projects with a proven record of success and offer investment in recruiting, developing and retaining social work staff. This recovery fund seeks to support Local Authorities to work together as a region, identifying priorities for their area and choosing projects and innovations to fund. There are three strands to the fund: Strand 1: Supporting the continuation of core activities which aid the improvement of local authority children's services. There will be a core part of this grant which is the same for all local authorities and then other parts of the grant can be made bespoke for each regions specific needs. Strand 2: Invites local authorities who have been rated good or outstanding to lead on projects to develop national policies. Strand 3: This funds innovation projects in any local authority. Funding applications are expected to include something from each strand.",28,Female: 2,"Gender' was not found but 'female' occurred twice, specifically in discussion of safeguarding around the issue of female genital mutilation.",2021-07-01,2021-10-01,"Department of Education, UK Government",2021-22,Yes,£24m total with £2-3m grants per region to fund the regional priorities set our in their recovery plan. ,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-recovery-fund-to-tackle-harms-facing-vulnerable-children,National,,,Yes,"The second strand includes a project with the aim to safeguard children and young people from FGM abuse. Project three is entitled 'Safeguarding children and young people at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)' and provides up to £270,000 for two regions (maximum five local authorities in total), encouraged especially from those areas with the highest number of FGM cases. With COVID-19 restrictions easing and school holidays, there is an increased risk of girls being subjected to FGM as it would have been hard to organise/travel during lockdown. Local authorities are asked to focus on awareness raising and increasing the confidence of social workers to identify, assess and respond to this harm, including during lockdown periods. The project will develop and share promising local practice to better identify and support young women and girls at risk of or who have experienced FGM, including work with voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations, schools, and other partners. Deliverables / outputs will include a learning report which uses an agreed tool to capture baseline local data for comparison at the end of the project, and a reflective audit tool to understand what helped/ hindered in their progress to address practice gaps/improve practice for identifying and supporting young women and girls at risk of FGM. Deliverables include online/webinar sessions to raise workforce awareness and share learning of safeguarding practice in responding to FGM cases, attending and contributing to problem solving forums with the other regional FGM recovery projects, and the development and dissemination of resource materials.",No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,Yes,In regards to FGM and the sexual health of women and girls- as discussed above.,Yes,"One of the projects in strand two is 'Safeguarding adolescents from extra-familial harms' and focuses on education as a mitigating factor, describing 'education as protection'. Funding is available to undertake work in local authorities to strength multi-agency safeguarding using insights gathered over the pandemic to ensure efficient education placements and alternative provision (alternative learning arrangements for those children who cannot learn in mainstream schools). Funding of £250,000 is available per region. Through this project, quantitative and qualitative data will be gathered to monitor 'teachable moments' for future projects. Working with education providers is also outlined in project three for safeguarding children against FGM in supporting approaches to grow understanding and know when to make referrals. ",,Yes,"Funding proposals are especially welcomed for projects that support care leavers, looked after children and children with complex needs. There are also provisions for the acceleration of opening more family hubs to support those from poorer socioeconomic backgrounds. ",Yes,"The whole policy focuses on the needs of children and young people. Project 4 engages with safeguarding infants as existing risks to vulnerable infants have been exacerbated by COVID. Funding up to £50,000 will be made available per local authority for those 'born into care' by funding pre-birth assessments and support, family resources and increased social work support. ",Yes,"Funding is available for mapping of local services with a specific focus on bringing those Special Educational Needs, Child Disability and Early Help services within the model of family hubs which support the accessibility of support services for vulnerable families. ",Yes,"In regards to migration, regional arrangements to support the Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) National Transfer Scheme (NTS) are supported by the policy, allocating £50,000 o each region to cover a full-time middle manager for this work. ",Yes,"While not explicitly stating provisions for those from other ethnicities, the focus on FGM means additional support is provided for children from ethnically diverse backgrounds that specifically undertake the practice. ",Yes,"As above- the specific support for safeguarding against FGM means that the policy engages with religious groups that undertake the practice such as certain Muslim, Christian and animist societies. ",No,,No,,No,,"The orientation of the policy is one that considers gender+ issues in the projects they wish to prioritise, focusing on GBV, age, migration and socioeconomic status. There is a project focused on the acceleration of opening family hubs which support socioeconomically disadvantaged families, including migrant families, single parent households and those most vulnerable to economic and social shocks. Previously however, in times of austerity, the UK government had stripped resources from social care by closing numerous family hubs, a decision which received great criticism due to the detrimental impacts on disadvantaged families and the loss of support for vulnerable children. While this policy does aim to reopen some of these hubs, it is not reverting back to the original level of support, so some families, now in even greater need since the pandemic, will still fall through the cracks. The prioritisation of FGM for funding recognises the increased risk of GBV during the pandemic, and acknowledges the role of education and social workers in early intervention. There is however very little funding offered to this element pf the policy- £270,000 total over two regions- and therefore, as the key element considering gendered inequalities in the policy, is underfunded and therefore insufficient. There is also no long term funding guaranteed to continue these projects beyond their inception in 2021-22. Funding is also encouraged to undertake pre-birth assessments with expectant mothers in line with the project on safeguarding infants, allowing for resources and support to be put in place for mothers before the birth of the baby, offering early interventions. As research has shown during the pandemic, expectant and new mothers suffered greatly from a lack of familial, social and medical support and therefore this aspect of the policy could be especially impactful. The policy also specifically assists unaccompanied children who seek asylum by mandating work on the National Transfer Scheme, responding to difficulties identified by local authorities in resourcing the needs of asylum seeking children. There is also brief discussion of utilising family hubs to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) but this is only mentioned twice within the document and is not elaborated on. As this policy seeks to fund innovations brough forward by local authorities however, there is less of a need for them to mandate the specific ways in which these inequality grounds will be dealt with as these specifics will be proposed in each region. The overall policy therefore could lead to a great deal of inclusive, gender+ initiatives, however this will only be able to be evaluated when the funds are allocated in each region and the innovations are undertaken and assessed for their quality. ","There is no discussion of follow on funding or the ways in which these innovation projects can be maintained long term which is a key issue. The funding itself, while initially seeming impressive, is minimal when divided between the local authorities in need and will not go far enough to tackle the gaps in social care. There is no discussion of ethnicity or LGBTQIA+ issues, and no acknowledgement of the increased needs in local authorities that are more diverse, are economically challenged, or have been hit the worst by the pandemic. ",,Yes,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,Yes,No,Yes,No,No,No,No,,"It is stated that local authorities were consulted throughout the process of the entire fund. Specifically in regards to the National Transfer Scheme for asylum seeking children, a joint Home Office and Department of Education consultation was undertaken with local authorities that gathered 200 responses including those from young people and NGOS. ",No,,No,,,Yes,No,No,No,,"Enver Solomon, CEO of the Refugee Council discussed the National Transfer Scheme: “The National Transfer Scheme (NTS) is an important part of enabling councils to provide care fairly and adequately but has long been in need of reform. We welcome this government’s changes to the scheme and hope it leads to it being able to work in the way it needs to. New funding is a positive change, as is the introduction of a ‘rota’ format, which we hope will reduce delays and make the transfer of children to local authorities better able to support them, more straightforward."" (https://refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/new-changes-to-the-national-transfer-scheme-refugee-council-response/) ",,Yes,No,No,No,,"There are few reactions from CSO currently as the funds are yet to be allocated. The Association of Directors of Children's Services commented specifically on the National Transfer Scheme for asylum seeking children, stating that: ""Whilst mandating the National Transfer Scheme will help towards the goal of caring for all children who have arrived in such dire circumstances, this is not a complete solution to the many pressing and longstanding issues we have been raising with the government for some time. These include significant placement sufficiency challenges which continue to exist, current public sector workforce capacity issues, plus resource pressures for older young people who need support post 21. The improved funding arrangements in general are helpful. It will be for individual local authorities to make their representations to government as to whether they are able to safely discharge their duties while also being mandated to take part in the National Transfer Scheme but as ADCS we do recognise the importance of everyone playing their part in addressing this national crisis.” (https://adcs.org.uk/safeguarding/article/government-announcement-on-the-national-transfer-scheme).",,No,No,No,No,,,"Buttle UK has established The COVID-19 Direct Emergency Response for Children and Young People Fund with the support of National Lottery funding. It is now working in partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund to deliver £2 million in National Lottery grants to support vulnerable children and young people adversely impacted by the recent COVID-19 crisis. Buttle UK secured this funding during lockdown to help children, who were already very vulnerable and living in crisis, but whose situations have been made even worse by the pandemic and lockdown. The fund will support thousands of children with direct financial assistance up to a maximum of £2,000, and pay for a range of costs and items that help to overcome crisis, improve their social and emotional wellbeing and increase their capacity to engage in education. Buttle UK is a charity dedicated to helping vulnerable children and young people in the UK who suffer from financial hardship and social issues. Link to fund details: https://buttleuk.org/news/news-list/top-charities-come-together-to-support-buttle-uks-5m-covid-19-response/ KidsOut (The fun and happiness charity) announced a new partnership with the Direct Line Group to support the physical and mental welfare of some of society’s most vulnerable children during the coronavirus pandemic. The two organisations are coordinating the delivery of £50 worth of food vouchers and over £100 worth of new toys to every family currently living in a Women’s Aid Federation (WAFE) refuge in the UK. While KidsOut supports children from a range of backgrounds, it is the only national charity focusing on the needs of children in refuge and works with every WAFE refuge in the UK. Partnership details: https://www.kidsout.org.uk/directline/", Serbia,Law on budget of the Republic of Serbia,"The budget is the most crucial document representing the state's political and policy commitments, the direction in which policies will move in various areas, from finance to social policy, transport and environmental protection and health. The Law on Budget is an essential document created by the Government of the Republic of Serbia and adopted by the Parliament. Serbia is currently improving its budget policy transparency by introducing programmatic-based budget funding rather than a non-transparent budget. However, not all ministries are part of the programme-based and gender-responsive budgets, which is also obligatory by the law, but they will have to be until 2024. Part of this is the obligation of state bodies financed from the budget to dedicate at least one goal within the project to gender equality. In a document of over 1,000 pages, of the 72 goals that should lead to the promotion of gender equality, only a third aim is to improve the position of women and achieve equality. The advantage of a programme-based and gender-responsive budget is that indicators to measure the programme's progress are set for three years in advance, meaning 2022, 2023 and 2024. The budget for 2022 amounts to RSD 2 trillion, which is equivalent to EUR 18 billion. Of these, the most symbolic figure is aimed at improving the position of women and other marginalized groups and gender equality. The exact amont intended for these activities is not easy to calculate. There are no specially developed programs for overcoming the COVID-19 crisis in the program part, except for the Ministry of Economics, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Finance. But even in these ministries, these programs are not specifically and in detail elaborated. Therefore, the general impression regarding the programs and activities funded to overcome the crisis caused by COVID-19 is that the government intends to invest in equipment (new medical equipment and clinics) and less directly in people. Also, there are no significant investments in education, neither because of COVID-19 nor on the occasion of gender equality. Many budget programs for gender equality are, in fact, donor funds or the result of agreements between the EU and Serbia based on pre-accession funds for countries in the process of European integration. So, in the end, one can't say that investing in gender equality results from a more profound belief that this investment is purposeful but results from pressure from multilateral and bilateral donors (EU, UN).",1334,0,"The word ""gender"" in Serbian is the foundation for forming many words. For example, ""rod"" in the meaning of ""gender"" we can also find in ""narodna"", which means ""peoples"" or ""medjunarodna"" which means ""international"". So to identify word gender in the text I have to use syntagms such as ""rodno odgovoran"", which means ""gender-responsive"" (budget programme target). Sintagma ""gender-responsive"" appears 72 times in the document, meaning that there are 72 defined gender-responsive budget programme targets in various social, political and economic life areas. Gender in syntagma ""gender equality"" appears 57 times in the context of budgetary programmes aiming at promoting, supporting or improving gender equality. Gender inequality doesn't appear at all in the whole document. However, gender analysis (of the programme or project of the specific ministry) appears six times.",2021-11-24,2021-11-25,Parliament of the Republic of Serbia,2023-01-01,Yes,"Since it is a budget policy of course it has a budget. However, it is very hard, althou not impossible to calculate for individual activities or programs. It is possible only in the case where activities are described in a detail.",http://www.parlament.gov.rs/upload/archive/files/cir/pdf/predlozi_zakona/2021/1955-21.pdf ,National,,,Yes,"The budget refers to the financing of the institution of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality. The activity itself relates to the project ""Improving Women's Security in Serbia"", implemented by the United Nations Agency for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (UN WOMEN) in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and with the support of the Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade. The project aims to improve the prevention and prevention of violence against women living in rural areas by informing and further strengthening the capacity of women and local organizations working to enhance the position of women and girls living in rural areas. In addition, training for women's NGOs and women from rural areas will be provided, including mentoring support and resources to start a business. The goal is to encourage cooperation between all relevant actors to improve women's position in rural areas (national and local institutions, civil society organizations, local communities, media). Allocated budget is approx. 100.000 EUR ",Yes,"The program aims to develop and promote women's innovative entrepreneurship at the national and local levels. In addition, the program aims to increase awareness of the importance of women's creative entrepreneurship and enable the realisation of a more significant role of women entrepreneurs in the labour market through the development of their business, employment of more people and the completion of higher and sustainable incomes. The programme will commit to the systematic promotion of innovative entrepreneurship among women, advancement and affirmation of women's innovative entrepreneurship, direct support for realising their entrepreneurial ideas, and developing entrepreneurial skills and capacities among women. For this programme the Goverment alocated 100 milion RSD (approx. 850.000 EUR). Another programme is aiming at supporting women's cooperatives - it is not clear how much money will be alocated for that, but the whole project titled ""Planning and implementing rural development policy"". ",Yes,"Please see the programme above and also programme aiming at supporting women's coopeatives mostly gathering poorer or rural women. The program ""Planning and implementation of rural development policy"" supports measures for improving cooperatives' business and technological development throughout the Republic of Serbia. The project's primary goal is to revitalise rural areas in Serbia by buying a house with a garden, organising cultural-historical events, and adapting existing cultural centres into multifunctional facilities with the necessary content and services for the rural population. In addition, the program includes the purchase of minibuses for improving transport in rural areas. Within the program, all activities aim at the strategic solutions for improving living conditions in rural areas and contributing to better rural development. Responsible Ministry is Ministry for rural development and the amont alocated to all activities not only for women's cooperatives is over 1.5 billion RSD (approx. 13 million EUR). ",No,,Yes,"The project goal is to improve the capacities of women and men in balancing life and work, by developing a series of interactive and innovative tools aimed at increasing equality by changing practical and everyday skills and social norms regarding attitudes and stereotypes, especially when it comes to caring for children. Through the cooperation of Estonia, Germany and Serbia, the results will be relevant for the entire European Union, scientific contributions and availability in several languages. The project also includes an analysis of factors that hinder the establishment of a balance between life and work. The project budget is 840.000 RSD (approx. 7000 EUR). ",Yes,"A few activities envisaged in the state budget are increasing the influence of women in decision-making concerns, primarily the prosecutor's office and the highest prosecutorial positions. In addition, some activities aim to increase the number of women on polling stations in the upcoming elections in the spring of 2022. Planned activities of the Ministry of Defense included expanding the participation of women in peacekeeping operations, the Ministry of Defense, and in command positions in the Serbian Army (from 8.6% to 8.8%). Activities to increase the number of women in diplomatic and consular missions are also planned. Since these activities are scattered across budget lines, it is almost impossible to calculate their monetary value. However, all activities are part of the gender-responsive budgeting requirements. ",Yes,"Within the framework of gender-responsive budgeting, the Ministry of Environmental Protection envisages the development of gender analysis and action plans based on that gender analysis. The second gender-responsive goal is to encourage the development of gender equality and women's entrepreneurship in the green and circular economy. However, the funds provided cannot be calculated because they belong to the general services under the contract and civil society organisations' support. Therefore, it is impossible to determine the percentage of gender equality programs within these two budgets.",Yes,"Several activities related to gender and health can be found in preventing health programs such as gynaecological cancers prevention checkups or colon cancer checkups. Roma and migrant populations are also included in the health prevention programmes. Among prevention programmes, a significant step forward is the education of health workers and parents on the importance of the vaccination with HPV vaccine that prevents ovarium cancer. The vaccine will be available free of charge for all girls and boys. This project includes the education of paediatricians and parents/guardians. It also has education on illnesses caused by the human papillomavirus and the importance and primary prevention years, which would be organised in selective schools and local self-governments. This phase includes managing a media campaign for the general public to increase health education and awareness of the importance of primary and secondary prevention of HPV. The total amount for the program is 1.500.000 RSD or 13.000 EUR",Yes,"Within the support of educational programs that include all levels of education, only two gender-responsive goals are included, which strengthens the capacity of scientific research staff and increases the number of doctoral students receiving scholarships from the Ministry. Within the same program, another goal is envisaged, including popularising science through electronic and print media. The program's ultimate goal is to promote gender equality in science and increase women's interest in careers in science. Within this goal, workshops on gender stereotypes towards women in science are also planned.",,No,"Programs that specifically target the poor have not been specifically formulated. However, the budget for 2022 envisages the development of social maps, which includes an analysis of poverty. Measures aimed at the Roma population can also be supported by the poor because most of the Roma population lives below the poverty line, in unhygienic settlements and with a shorter life expectancy than the average in Serbia.",Yes,"Programs for the elderly population are formulated by financing social benefits and other social protection services for this category of people. In addition, special measures aimed at older women are within the funding of the institution of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality and represent the activities of the Commissioner within the project of support to rural women.",Yes,"Programs for people with disabilities are numerous and comprehensive and cover areas such as arts and culture, employment, increasing participation in recreational and competitive sports, health and education. People with disabilities are generally referred to as a homogeneous group without gender or other characteristics. The exception is the program Strengthening Cultural Production and Artistic Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and Information. The program envisages a gender-responsive indicator within the program activities to support cultural activities of socially vulnerable groups: the number of funded projects in the field of cultural activities of persons with disabilities. The budget text states that this is a pilot indicator related to the introduction of gender budgeting. So far, there have been no projects of this type, and the goal is to draw users' attention to this topic. The total amount for the program is RSD 37 million, which is equivalent to EUR 315,000. However, the Ministry plans to support only three projects with the gender component within the planned budget. ",No,,Yes,"The overall program is related to preventive health care. The planned activity is based on the Law on Protection of Rights and Freedoms of National Minorities and the Action Plan for Improving Roma Health from 2018-2025. The program's aim is better preventive care for Roma children, women and men such as mandatory immunization, periodic medical checkups, reproductive health, protection against neglect and abuse of children and violence against women, combating trafficking, improving knowledge of healthy lifestyles and protection from infectious and chronic diseases, exercising rights in the field of health insurance. In addition, the program aims to engage 85 health mediators and support projects implemented in cooperation with Roma citizens' associations to improve the health of Roma men and women. Value of the program is 49 milion RSD (approx. 424.000 EUR). ",No,,Yes,"Within the budget supporting the Protector of Citizens, activities aiming to enhance the human rights and freedoms of the LGBT are planned. However, these activities are part of the regular work of the Protector, and they are not explicitly orientated to mitigate the consequences of the COVID-19 on the LGBT population. ",No,,Yes,"Programs to improve the situation of internally displaced persons and refugees from Kosovo and migrants who come from other countries and who remain in Serbia as asylum seekers or are only in transit to European Union countries are also in place. The majority of these programmes' activities fall under regular activities of human rights institutions, such as the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality or the Protector of Citizens - the Ombudsman. Also, programs related to improving education or health or housing for these social groups are regular programs implemented by the Government of Serbia's institutions, such as the Commissariat for Refugees, in cooperation with various international organizations (Red Cross, Council of Europe or OSCE) and are not explicitly formulated in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it seems that the needs of these social groups have become more visible due to the pandemic. ","The general orientation of the budget is to remedy the economic consequences of COVID-19 on the economy and GDP growth and financial consolidation. The implications of the pandemic on specific people and specific sectors are the least visible. For example, the education sector financing remained the same in terms of funds compared to 2019, the base year for the 2022 budget due to the two Corona-19 years. Investments in health care are somewhat higher, especially in ??the procurement of vaccines, respirators and other equipment. Some funds have been set aside to strengthen the health sector's capacity through the employment of young specialists and the training of doctors. A particularly significant investment in health prevention is the completely free availability and promotion of vaccination of girls and boys with the new vaccine against the human papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer. Serbia is among the top five countries in Europe in terms of cervical cancer mortality, which can be cured at an early stage of detection or wholly eradicated if the population is vaccinated. The consequences of COVID-19 are presented in detail in the budget policy rationale, but no measures have been taken to address these issues. Measures aimed at particularly vulnerable or marginalized groups are sporadic, and their funding is symbolic, given the needs. The domain of education has at least integrated the gender perspective, the domain of health and human rights somewhat more, and some areas such as mining and energy or environmental protection in which the integration of the gender perspective has only just begun. The 2022 budget envisages programs aimed at improving the situation of Roma, people with disabilities, girls and women from rural areas, as well as women victims of violence and the LGBT population. However, none of these programs is specifically aimed at combating the consequences caused by the Corona-19 virus pandemic. Most of the programs are financing regular activities of various institutions, organizations and public authorities. Changes in the volume and type of funding, for example, are not visible even in the most affected sectors such as health, education and social protection. The most significant shift is the programs of the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality and the Protector of Citizens. They have clearly defined goals of gender equality and protection of women's rights within their program goals. In addition, financing programmes for other vulnerable groups are also included, such as older adults, LGBT, Roma and persons with disability. ",,,Yes,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,,"There is an obligation for public authorities at the local level to send their budget projections to the Ministry of Finance, which then includes them in the national budget. In addition, the national budget co-finances capital investments at the local level, so local authorities must also include the descriptions of these projects and the necessary financial resources for their implementation in the national budget.",No,,No,,,No,No,No,No,,,,No,No,No,No,,,,No,No,No,No,,,"The initiative is not civil society but bilateral organization support aiming at local communities across Serbia. The programme aims to support the COVID-19 community information sharing, prevention, and recovery measures for Roma, the most vulnerable group. The measures aim to reduce the susceptibility of the most vulnerable Roma families living in substandard settlements, and of other marginalized persons in Serbia (long-term unemployed, persons with disabilities, single mothers, women victims of violence, members of large families), during and after the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, through adequate and efficient support delivery in 18 local self-government. The measures are to include the following activities: Community information, prevention and recovery from COVID-19 virus; Delivery of food, sanitation supplies and disinfectants to the most vulnerable population in 18 partner towns and municipalities; Socio-economic empowerment of Roma and other marginalized persons through short-term employment (piloting the German concept / Cash for Work employment measures / ""Together for the Community""); Networking and working with various local institutions, supporting capacity building for more efficient response and mitigation of pandemic consequences; Strengthening local emergency teams to work with marginalized groups and meet their needs in crises. The ""Inclusion of Roma and other marginalized groups in Serbia"" programme aims to support partners, at the national and local level, in the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy for Social Inclusion of Roma in Serbia for 2016-2025. in the following areas: access to social protection, employment, education, housing and health care. Particular elements of the programme are the fight against discrimination, stereotypes and gender equality. The German development cooperation supports the ""Inclusion of Roma and other marginalized groups in Serbia"" project. https://www.ukljucise.org/en/. ", Turkey,Covid-19 Resilience and Response Project,"COVID-19 Resilience and Response Project is funded by the Government of Japan and carried out by Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technoloy (and The Directorate General of Development Agencies) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The other implementing partners are Ministry of Health and Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. UNDP is currently carrying out COVID-19 Resilience and Response Programme in 29 different countries, adapting the focus, priorities, and activities to the current situation and needs of each country. In response to impacts of COVID-19 and the needs identified in consultation with the stakeholders at national and local levels, the project aims to accelerate supporting firms for technological transformation and undertaking investments towards more inclusive, sustainable and climate friendly business models in response to the medium and long term impacts of COVID-19. The project tackles with the impacts of COVID-19 crisis through three phases of preparedness, response, and recovery with the activities that fall under 3 general outputs: 1) health systems strengthening; 2) inclusive and integrated crisis management and response; 3) addressing the human rights and socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. 1) Health system strengthening: Major aim is to support the Ministry of Health’s efforts to enhance their crises response actions via health procurement such as additional laboratory equipments to serve immediate needs of the relevant units at the Ministry. 2) Inclusive and integrated crisis management and response: The project will support national and sub-national capacities for planning, coordination and crisis management and in partnership with Development Agencies by developing 25 region-based fragile sector analysis reports and guidelines for textile, logistics, food, machinery, and automotive sectors, which are most effected by Covid-19 crisis; and conducting a global market analysis and product space analysis in selected Development Agencies. Also, market analysis for business in fragile sectors will be conducted to support these sectors’ business continuity and prevent supply chain disruptions in the crises. Additionally, 1,000 SMEs will be provided with technical support and business advisory services to help them develop capacities, through an integrated and harmonized local pandemics and disaster resilience support system. Complementary to UNDP’s existing support to Syria Crisis Response and Resilience programming, the specific needs of the Syrian owned enterprises and businesses to improve digital livelihood opportunities will also be addressed as a vital need. So, this Output will focus on increasing the digital capabilities of Syrian owned businesses through training and mentorship programs and financial support packages for refugees. 3) Addressing the human rights and socio-economic impact of COVID-19: The UNDP Turkey project proposal under this Output aims to to assess the impact of Covid-19 on unemployment of NEETs (not in Education, Employment, or Training) and to provide ‘Building Back Better’ (BBB) type of support to the Government and private sector to open up towards a low-carbon, inclusive and rights-based economy in line with SDGs. The impacts of COVID-19 on unemployment especially for youth will be analysed and trainings and capacity building activities will be conducted for 3,000 unemployed men and women (NEET) to improve their digital skills for their employability in job market in coordination with Regional Development Agencies. ",It is not a policy document. ,N/A,,Jun-20,Jul-20,N/A,Jul-21,Yes,"2021 $1,801,830 2020 $741,310","https://www.tr.undp.org/content/turkey/en/home/projects/COVID-19-response.html https://open.undp.org/projects/00127857",National,,"In fact, it is difficult to say that the project itself has mitigating gender inequalities or achieving gender equality as a core aim. Our review of project’s website, project’s progress reports, sectoral reports as well as the interviews we had with experts from UNDP and the Ministry of Industry and Technology confirmed our observation. However, the project actions and the digital methods used during the offered trainings have unexpected consequences in terms of mitigating gender inequalities in the domains of work and labor market. Our interviewees also underlined this point. Furthermore, during the preparation of sectoral reports, UNDP experts had a negotiation with Ministry experts to add ""gender equality"" as a section to the report, and contribute to awareness raising in this regard. Therefore, below we select the relevant domains and explain the effect of project's actions on contributing to mitigating gender inequalities.",No,,Yes,"Turkey is chosen as one of the four Global COVID-19 Private Sector Facility Pilot Country. Within the scope of the Program, several surveys are conducted to better understand how the COVID-19 has affected micro and small and medium-scale enterprises in Turkey including Syrian-owned businesses. As the hardest hit and the ones employing the most vulnerable sectors of population, the SMEs are mainly targeted to support in terms of increasing their capacity and enhance resilience. Additionally, employment friendly sectors shrunk due to Covid-19 crisis and many people might stay out of labor market since many professions will disappear after the digital transformation. With this risk in mind, trainings and capacity building activities have been carried out for upgrading digital skills of unemployed individuals.The aim is to improve the skills of youth in NEET for their employability in fragile sectors during the pandemic which will also support of imminent needs of the private sector. As the data provided by the Ministry officials after our interview, 3,074 NEET youth participated in training courses on e-commerce, foreign trade and social media marketing that are designed in line with fragile sectors’ (textile, logistics, food, machinery, and automotive) needs. 166 NEET youth who achieved greater performance in the 1st phase, accepted to the 2nd phase of training with the focus on digital programs that are widely used in the fragile sectors. Out of 3,074 young people who participated in training, 1,944 were women, 1,130 were men. The UNDP expert particularly said that they had to organize trainings online as part of COVID-19 measures which unexpectedly resulted in a higher participation by young women. Furthermore, 2,192 people as part of 1,660 SMEs in the fragile sectors participated in 81 online trainings. 1,218 of these participants were men, 974 were women. Although in this case, the number of women is lower than men, considering that 44,5 % of participants were women also shows that using digital methods increased the participation of women in these trainings. As these SMEs joining the trainings are based in different Anatolian cities of Turkey, online format (rather than travelling from that city to Istanbul or Ankara) probably facilitated the participation of women more so than men. ",Yes,"The 25 region-based Fragile Sectoral Reports and Guidelines on textile, logistics, food, machinery, and automotive sectors were prepared with aim of serving as a roadmap in recovery to reduce the impact of the Covid-19 crisis and to enhance the adaptive capacity of these sectors including acceleration of digital transformation and to make them more resilient to future crises. New Market Analysis and Product Space Analysis Reports which aims to support these sectors’ business continuity and prevent supply chain disruptions in the crises were also completed. Along with the new market analysis and product space analysis study, reports point out policy recommendations, strategies, and actions to speed up the development of the key economic sectors during crises and move the sectors to a better position. During our interview with the UNDP expert in charge of this project, she told us that there is not much gender perspective in the drafting of the project proposal nor the specific actions involved. As UNDP staff in general and her team in particular are sensitive to gender equality, they wanted to integrate a gender perspective to the sectoral reports and convinced the Ministry to include a gender equality (in fact ‘cinsiyet esitligi’ which means ‘sex equality’) section to each report. We went over these sections which are 1-2 pages each and mainly cover the women’s representation in the workforce of each sector and across Turkey. Although some of these reports also touch upon the gender pay gap in Turkey, even those reports do not engage in a nuanced analysis of gender pay gap and related gender inequalities in the relevant sector nor the different forms of gender+ inequalities and the impact of COVID on these inequalities. Furthermore, gender equality has been conceived only as the equality between men and women and do not involve a gender+ lens. Even so, as our interviewee also noted, including “gender equality” as a section of these reports have been conceived by our project team to be an important, yet small, step in terms of awareness raising. ",No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,,No,,Yes,"Trainings and capacity building activities have been carried out for upgrading digital skills of unemployed young individuals to support digital economy. The aim is to improve the skills of youth in NEET for their employability in fragile sectors during the pandemic which will also support of imminent needs of the private sector. 3,074 NEET youth participated in training courses on e-commerce, foreign trade and social media marketing that are designed in line with fragile sectors’ (textile, logistics, food, machinery, and automotive) needs. 166 NEET youth who achieved greater performance in the 1st phase, accepted to the 2nd phase of training with the focus on digital programs that are widely used in the fragile sectors.",No,,Yes,"It is observed that 4 million refugees in Turkey have been severely affected by COVID-19 and they have very limited access to the livelihood opportunities. Complementary to UNDP’s existing support to Syria Crisis Response and Resilience project, this Project also focuses on the specific needs of the Syrian owned enterprises and businesses and aims to improve their digital livelihood opportunities through increasing the digital capabilities of Syrian owned businesses such as digital communications tools, marketing practices, sales channel development, and managing social media tools for businesses through training and mentorship programs as well as mini recovery grants. Digitalization support which aims to facilitate and support the digitalization of Syrian-owned businesses to overcome the current challenges in the business environment, has been given to Syrian-owned enterprises via mini-recovery grants, financial consultancy, digital marketing support, digital infrastructure grants and trainings on capacity building related to digital competencies. In total: • 144 enterprises have benefitted from unlimited internet access (16 female, 128 male business owner), • 30 enterprises from digital marketing services (15 female and 15 male business owner) • 34 enterprises from financial consultancy services (30 male business owner and 4 female business owner), • 58 enterprises from mini recovery grant (49 female and 9 male business owner) and • 206 company representatives (79 female business owner and 127 male business owner), from online trainings on “Digital Communication Practices” and “Digital Marketing Practices” as of 28th December 2020. • 11 female-led companies and cooperatives attended to Demo Day, which aimed to bring together Syrian and Turkish women entrepreneurs within the context of supporting digitalization of Syrian SMEs. • In digitalization services for Syrian-owned MSMEs, 34% of the overall beneficiaries are women and 4 persons with impairments have also benefited from the support.",No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,"Although having “inclusive and gender sensitive approach to risk-informed resilience” is pointed out on the project website and in project documents, project has not been designed from a gender+ perspective. Therefore project actions have not been planned with an overall aim to mitigate gender+ inequalities emerged or depeened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our interviews with both UNDP and the Ministry of Industry and Technology also confirmed that gender or gender equality are not the foci of the project. The expert from UNDP said that the official bodies of the Turkish state do not even want to use the term “gender equality” but instead prefer using “equality between women and men”, which she thinks, is a tendency that emerged in the past two years. She also said that this was not an issue up until two years ago. So, UNDP had to negotiate with the Ministry to include a section titled “gender equality” in the region-based fragile sectoral reports.","While assesing the fragile sectors at the beginning of the project, the project does not engage in a gendered analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on different groups of people in these sectors or what kind of gender+ inequalities emerge or deepen during the COVID-19 in these relevant sectors as well as the impact of COVID-19 related economy policies on exacerbating these gender+ inequalities. Relatedly, project activities, mainly trainings and capacity building activities for NEETs and SMEs were not devised and carried out with a gender+ approach and intersectional perspective, in a way that would cater to the different needs of vulnerable groups and aim at mitigating existing gender+ inequalities in the overall labour market and selected fragile sectors. Project activities could have adressed the low participation rate of women in particular sectors and a gender+ analysis of the impact of changing working conditions and job losses in hard-hit sectors on different groups, gender-based violence and discrimination experienced during the COVID, the impact of digitalization and teleworking on women's work experience and life-work balance, and so on. As the UNDP expert also noted, gender or gender equality was not involved as a priority in the project proposal. UNDP experts tried to integrate that perspective to the project activities within certain limitations, which we think in the end, was not very successfull, yet constituted a step in awareness-raising. The expert from UNDP said that the official bodies of the Turkish state do not even want to use the term “gender equality” but instead prefer using “equality between women and men”, which she thinks, is a tendency that emerged in the past two years. So, UNDP had to negotiate with the Ministry to include a section titled “gender equality” in the region-based fragile sectoral reports. We went over these sections which are 1-2 pages each and mainly cover the women’s representation in the workforce of each sector and across Turkey. Although some of these reports also touch upon the gender pay gap in Turkey, even those reports do not engage in a nuanced analysis of gender pay gap and related gender inequalities in the relevant sector nor the different forms of gender+ inequalities and the impact of COVID-19 on these inequalities.",,No,No,Yes,Yes,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,Yes,NGO (Habitat Association),"As part of the project, private sector needs and the fragile sectors were identified in consultation with the stakeholders at national and local levels. In this regard, private sector organizations such as Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD), Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation (TURKONFED) are the key partners of the Project. They played a role in including the private sector in the project, in disseminating the surveys to assess the impact of Covid-19 on micro and small and medium-scale enterprises including Syrian-owned businessses, and conducting sectoral analysis. Close cooperation was conducted also with Business Federations in target provinces and Exporters Unions, Chambers of Commerce/Industry, Electronic Commerce Companies Association (ETID), Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM), Automotive Suppliers Association of Turkey (TAYSAD), Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exports Associations (ITKIB), Association of Turkish Machine Manufacturers (MIB) and Investment Support Offices (YDO). In addition, the project had a close cooperation with the Habitat Association for the trainings for upgrading digital skills of young NEETs., taking into consideration of the Habitat Association’s capacity, network and experience in the field, NGO is identified as the responsible party to lead the selection of participants, delivery of training courses, tracking learning activities, issuing certificates and other related activities in the field. Pursuant to project design and consultations with the Development Agencies, a draft curriculum was designed to include case studies, specific issues such as regulations and tools focusing on fragile sectors (Food, Logistics, Machinery, Textile and Automotive). In design process, consultations with sectoral associations, which have been members of Turkish Enterprise and Business Conferedation (TÜRKONFED) and Federation of Industrial Associations (SEDEFED), namely Turkish Fruit Juice Industry Association, International Carriers Association, Automotive Manufecturers’ Association sought to identify the sectoral needs and potential business branches of industries to be prioritized as relevant contents. Besides, interviews have taken place with some leading business people from the Textile, Food and Tourism Sectors along with inputs received from the Development Agencies across Turkey to identify needs. The ""COVID-19 Business Impact and Needs Survey"" carried out by the Business for Goals Platform in coordination with TU¨RKONFED, TU¨SI?AD and UNDP revealed the effects of the coronavirus epidemic on businesses. Business for Goals Platform and TURKONFED drew attention via press bulletions and meetings to the challenges faced by small businesses.",No,,No,,,No,No,No,No,,,,No,No,No,No,,,N/A,No,No,No,No,,,"1) Queer Solidarity Network Platform: Pink Life LGBTI+ Solidarity Association established Queer Solidarity Network Platform where queer artists can come together, build solidarity and share knowledge and experience under QueerFest. QueerFest was established in 2011 by Pink Life LGBTI+ Solidarity Association and it is the only queer art and film festival in Turkey. It draws attention to discrimination and violence against LGBTI+ individuals and works for giving a voice to queer art and theories. The QueerFest team is working to protect the already shrunk civic space for freedom of expression and to produce alternative solutions for the queer community affected hard by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Queer Solidarity Network is a step and initiative in this regard. Queer life, which has been hit hard by the pandemic, is one of the vital components of the LGBTI+ community not only for socialization but also as a business and solidarity network where experiences and knowledge are shared. Queer Artists Solidarity Network Platform is established as a solution not only against the COVID-19 pandemic but also against similar compelling situations that will keep occurring in the future. The Network is a queer-friendly and safe online platform against “big data companies” that collect individuals' private and personal data information and use it to tag their users, and do not take any responsibility and actions when there is hate speech or any violation of rights. In addition to advertisements about art projects and related necessary support, online meetings, video tutorials, and articles will be published on the site, where the queer artists can transfer their verbal knowledge to each other in a permanent way. The platform aims to strengthen the resilience of the queer art community for the current and future bad scenarios that endanger safe spaces such as pandemics.website: https://kuirfestka.org 2) Citizens' Solidarity Network (Yurtta? Dayan??ma A??): Citizens’ Solidarity Network was established in April 2021 by people from professions who advocate in different fields such as human rights, children’s rights, women’s rights, refugee rights and urban rights. It is civil initiative that aims to make invisible people, groups and needs visible and contribute to the spread of the culture of solidarity. The initiative emerge on the basis of an observation that although various support packages have been announced, most of them economic, they are still far away from covering all people and groups affected by the pandemic. Groups such as peddlers, homeworkers, wage workers, precariats, recycling workers, Romani people, refugees or homeless people are already living on the poverty line and these segments should be included by both economic and social policies. So the initiative came up with the idea of a solidarity network, a new form of social association where citizens look out for each other and stand in solidarity in response to particular needs. Their message is “See the need, look out for the citizen, grow the solidarity.” Based on the data compiled through different ways and methods such as reviewing the websites of the relevant ministries and non-governmental organizations, following the announced circulars and press conferences, exchanging ideas with experts on Turkish Employment Agency and Foundations of Social Help and Solidarity supports, and media and social media scanning, the initiative prepared Citizens’ Solidarity Network Map which is open to developing day by day. The aim is to make needs and different forms of support visible and increase their accessibility by gathering valuable support and solidarity from across the country through including all the citizens, who has the opportunity, ability and capacity to support someone, in the process. The Network tries to raise awareness not only with their mapping studies, but also with the findings and demands they have revealed by interpreting this map and its content. Their purpose is not only to list or map the needs, but also to interpret the resulting picture and to show neglected areas to decision makers and to those who want including but not limited to food support, health equipments, psycho-social support, hotline for survivors of gender based violence, advocacy for workers’ rights, food for stray animals for target groups such as doctors and other health workers, women, LGBTIQ+, Turkish and migrant children, the disabled, stray animals, construction workers, refugees, 65+. Website: https://yurttasdayanismaagi.org/ ","As a result of our meetings with Ministry officials and UNDP, it came out that there is no ongoing direct plan in terms of recovery. Yet, there are several small-scale studies carried out by different institutions. However, the concept of disaster&crisis management underlined as lessons learnt of recent disasters. Within the scope of the aforementioned project, risk and disaster resilience training were already delivered to the Development Agencies. Guidelines and tool kits were prepared under 3 main headings: Life safety, sustainability of services and, socio-economic recovery. However, as an outcome of the project, UNDP Turkey started to work further in the field of resilience planning and disaster management with the Ministry. The Ministry official stated that the Directorate of Development Agencies is planning to act more proactively and raise awareness on disaster management before the disasters strike. Recent disasters (earthquakes, floods, pandemics) are seen as a wake-up call to approach disaster management more holistically. 3 pillars strategy plan has been designed: - developing regional risk disaster maps and disseminating them with regional stakeholders such as municipalities, chamber of commerce, etc. – strategy for during the disaster (search and rescue, sustainability of services, etc.) – socio-economic recovery. These strategies and guidelines are mostly designed for strengthening the internal coordination and standards. Although they are not as binding as the national policies, they are regarded as first stept to have more comprehensive and holistic disaster management plans. As it was shared by the Ministry Official, gender perspective and risk assessment for different social groups have not been asked to apply to the regional disaster risk maps. Based on the technical disaster-risk mappings, gendered impact assessment and analysis for different groups including children, refugees, etc are planned to be conducted as a medium-term goal. As a national policy, Turkey Disaster Risk Reduction Plan (TARAP) has been prepared with the coordination of the Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD). It is planned to be published within 2022. In terms of having developed a nationally binding disaster management plan, UNDP official has shared the comment below: “There is a need for more time and capacity to develop a national disaster management plan, as a national policy, similar to the one which was carried out by the General Directorate of Development Agencies. Very small steps have been taken in this field. Unfortunately, there is a lack of awareness and competence regarding disaster&crisis management. In Turkey, institutions are very experienced in search&rescue and first aid, yet not capable enough at developing 'response'; assessment - planning and implementation. However, the reports prepared as outcomes of the projects were referred by the Minister himself and their significance was also underlined by him in terms of future planning of disaster management."""