Country:,1. What’s the state of the NRRP?,"1.1 If ""Other"", please specify",1.2 If not approved by EC specify the reason:,2. N. Pages,"3. N. occurences ""gender"" ",3.1 Comments ,4. Measures for sex/gender ineq.,4.1 GBV,"4.1 If ""yes""",4.2 WLM,"4.2 If ""yes""",4.3 Economy,"4.3 If ""yes""",4.4 Pay pension gaps,"4.4 If ""yes""",4.5 Care gap,"4.5 If ""yes""",4.6 D-M and politics,"4.6 If ""yes""",4.7 Env. Justice,"4.7 If ""yes""",4.8 Health,"4.8 If ""yes""",4.9 Education,"4.9 If ""yes""",5. Measures for other vulnerable groups,5.1 Social class …,"5.1 If ""yes""",5.2 Age,"5.2 If ""yes""",5.3 Disability,"5.3 If ""yes""",5.4 Nationality,"5.4 If ""yes""",5.5 Ethnicity,"5.5 If ""yes""",5.6 Religion /belief,"5.6 If ""yes""",5.7 Sexual orientation,"5.7 If ""yes""",5.8 Gender Identity,"5.8 If ""yes""",5.9 Other,"5.9 If ""yes""",6. Description,6.1 (Optional) Expert assessment ,7. Weakness gender+ equality,7.1 Gender mainstreaming ,7.2 Not address certain gender+ inequal.,7.3 Lack of gender+ representation in the design ,7.4 Other,7.4 Please specify:,8. Involvement of stakeholders,8.1 Local authorities,8.2 Trade unions,8.3 Employers organisations,8.4 Business representatives,8.5 Banks and finance represen.,8.6 Healthcare organis.,8.7 Academics researchers,8.8 Feminist represen.,8.9 LGBTQI+ represen.,8.10 Social justice organ.,8.11 Elderly represen.,8.12 Youth represen.,8.13 Immigrants represen.,8.14 People with disabilities represen.,8.15 Religious groups represen.,8.16 Others,8.16 Specify,Involvement process description,"9. Public consultation?
","9.1 If yes, please specify ",10. Gender Impact Assessment?,"10.1 If yes, please specify ",11. Positive reactions to the Plan ,11.1 NGOs associations,11.2 Employees organ.,11.3 Employers organ.,11.4 Others,11.4 Please specify:,Positive reactions ,12. Negative reactions to the Plan ,12.1 NGOs associations,12.2 Employees organ.,12.3 Employers organ.,12.4 Others,12.4 Please specify:,egative reactions ,13. Process of stakeholders engagement ,13.1 NGOs associations,13.2 Employees organ.,13.3 Employers organ.,13.4 Others,13.4 Please specify:,Main reactions from a gender+ perspective,NOTES
Austria,Approved by EC,,,98,16,"The number of pages includes also the cover pages and list of sources
As for the number of Gender: the term ""gender"" appears 6 times (e.g. gender-pay-gap), the german term ""Geschlecht"" appears 10 time, 7 times as part of the collumn heading of a table; in contrast to that the German term for woman/women ""Frau"" appears 35 times.
There is furthermore one attachment to the NRRP. The Atachment has 605 pages. The term ""Frau"" (= woman) appears 70 times, ""Geschlecht"" (german word for gender) 5 times, and the term ""gender"" also 5 times (the english term is mainly used in context of gender pay gap etc.).",,No,,Yes,"The main focus is on job training provided by the Job Centre (in German Arbeitsmarktservice, the office for unemployed people), to facilitate unemployed women's re-entry in the job market.This builds on already existing programmes such as Women into Technology. The Job Centre's gender budgeting goal states that 3.5 percent more subsidies are distributed to women per year than the percentage of women among the unemployed. Moreover, several measures where put into place to facilitate a better work life balance: care work is predominantly provided by women. Already before the pandemic 47.6% of women work part-time only. Therefore the NRRP states that 28.4 Mio EUR (0.6% of the ressources) should be invested to expand elementar pedagogy (kindergarten). Also, a reorganisation of primary care should enable more women physicans to work as general practioners (GP), as they are more likely to have specialised in this area (according to the NRRP). The NRRP states that the reorganisation of primary care is beneficial for women GPs, as this would allow to increase their work-lifebalance, because they could work part-time and work in teams which would make it easier to get support when needed, e.g. if the women GP has to take care leave. ",No,The economic measures is listed as gener neutral in the NRRP.,Yes,"The NRRP states that there is a income gap between man and women. The meassure to solve this is to advance finance education amongst women, so they can increase the competences in this area, which would boost women’s financial independence, especially when they get older.
A bigger focus is put on the pension gap. The main measure in this regard is 'pension splitting': With this reform of the retirement system, pensions should be calculated differently. In the future, basis for calculating the pension will combine contributions from both parents (automatically, if they are married; voluntary if they are in other kind of partnerships). This should - according to the NRRP - reduce the pension gap and poverty amongst elderly women. Table 5 (titled key effects of the NRRP)  states also that the Gender Pay Gap should be reduced, but we could not find any concrete/explicit measures in the NRRP main document to achieve this goal. A quick keynote search in the attachment also did not show any measures; actually the term ""pay gap"" which was listed in Table 5 did not produce any other results in both documents; also a search for German keywords that might hint to gender pay gap did not produce any results).",Yes,"Most measures to reduce the gender care gap are presented as ways to increase women's participation in the labour market and therfore listed there. One exception being the pilot project „Community Nursing“. Community Nursing is intended to provide support for care takers in their own homes, which in turn should reduce the burden of caregivers, who are predominantly women. This support should make it easier for caregivers to participate in the labour market.",No,"No mentioning of any measures directed to women in leadership, women in boards, women in politics, voting or similar key words in the NRRP",Yes,"The NRRP aims to significantly increase walking and cycling, the use public transport and shared mobility. To this end, the 'KlimaTicket' (a pass to use all public transport in Austria  or selected regions for a year), as well as investments in emission-free buses, the construction of new railway lines and the electrification of regional railways will make the use of public transport easier and more affordable. According to the NRRP, this increases or facilitates the mobility of those groups that do not travel or travel less by car, i.e. women and people with low incomes in urban areas. Measures to combat energy poverty comprises thermal moderninzation (e.g.modernisation of heating systems to work with renewable energy); social housing providers are encouraged to invest in this area, so people living in poverty can afford heating/energy use. Many elderly poors are women, therefore measures to combat energy poverty should - according to the NRRP - advance gender equity.",Yes,"Most Gender speicifc aspects regarding health are presented as ways to increase work-life-balance and access to the labour market and therefore listed there. One exception is the digitalisation of the Mother-Child-Pass. The Mother-Child-Pass documents the obligatory health screenings during preganancy and early childhood (up to 5 years) - this documenation is a precondition for receiving childcare benefits. According to the NRRP, the digitalisation of the Mother-Child-Pass is intended to increase the participation of disadvantaged groups, imporves information supply and thus strengthens the health literacy of pregnant and breastfeeding women.  The attachment clarifies that this can be achieved by providing the pass in different languages and linking it to further social benefits and the ""Early Help"" programme (see bellow social class).
No further discussion of topics related to gender medicine (e.g. women health, men health)",Yes,"To mitigate the negative impact of home schooling during the pandemic, the NRRP introduces additional fundings for remedial lessons in schools. The main beneficaries should be schools with an overrepresentation of students from a challenging socio-economic background or students in need for promoting their language proficiency. This funds should further increase the numbers of jobs in education - ""especially for women, who already represent nearly three-quarters of the teaching staff"". Moreover, secondary students are provided with digital devices, which are further subsidies for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds, i.e. also many single parent families (predominantly women).
The Austrian Research-, Technology- and Innovation-Strategy includes the goal to increase the percentage of women graduates in science, technology, engineering and math by 5%. ",,Yes,"The programme ""Early Help"" is aimed to support women and families with children; prevantative measures in early childhood are aimed to promote health and social equity. Key beneficaries of this programme are - according to the NRRP - single parents (predominantly women); it remains unclear  in the NRRP main document what kind of specific measures are planned. The attachment clarifies that ""Early Help"" was already piloted in some regions and should be rolled out throughout whole Austria; it expresses a political commitment and argues for the efficiency of the programme. ""Early Help"" is presented as a need-orientated support programme, where coaches, social workers, etc. support families to deal with stress, acquire child care and enable (single mothers) to reenter the labour market. The attachment furthermore mentions the aim to link the Mother-Kid-Pass (see health above) to the Early Help. 
Table 6 states the introduction of a one-stop-shop for people who are long-term unemployed but fit for employment; this is listed as an unspecified reform. A closer look in the attachment clarifies that the aim is to introduce a boundary-spanning case management, meaning that there should be one point which combines all different providers of social benefits. Currently some benefits are provided by the municipality, some by the region and others by national agencies, some by governmental agencies others by the social/health insurance - the aim is that all these different agencies and institutions collaborate, so that a long-term unemployed person gets all support they need for reentering the labour market at this point..
Also the measures listed under Education (further funding for remedial learning, subsidies for digital devices) should be mentioned here. ",Yes,Young people are more affected by unemployment due to the pandemic. To tackle this issue youth coaching will be expanded. ,No,"disability is mentioned a few times when it comes to education, but not in combination with gender",No,unless you would count students in need for promoting their language proficiency (see education),No,"No mentioning of ethnic minority at all, which is striking as there are several recognized ethnic minority groups in Austria which are protected by the constitution.",No,,No,,No,,Yes,There will be a broadband expansions to ensure equal opportunities and equal living conditions in both rural and urban areas. This also should further support compatibility of care work and employment. ,"The NRRP comprises four components: sustainable, digital, knowledge and just development. Most funding is dedicated to digital development. Gender aspects are sometimes discussed implicitly and it is not always clear how a specific measure would indeed increase gender equity. Table 6 of the NRRP highlights how the different measures are supposed to effect different aims, one of them being gender equity. Out of the 59 measures listed, 39 are supposedly gender neutral, 9 have a positive impact and 11 a very positive impact on gender equity. Those listed with a positive impact comprises measures to advance environmental justice, providing digital devices for school children, train unemployed women to get a STEM job, the reorganization of primary health care and the expansion of finance education for women. A very positive impact is expected from the additional funding for unemployed women’s job training, the expansion of remedial lessons for school students, the digitalization of the Mother-Child-Pass, the expansion of Community Nursing, a (not yet specified) reform of care provision, the raise of the ""acutal"" retirement age for women, pension splitting and the introduction of one-stop-shop for long-term unemployed. 

Overall, there seems to be a strong focus on enabling women’s access to the labour market. Most measures related to care work, education or job training are discussed under the umbrella of work/access to labour market. Several other measures address poverty and are then presented as beneficial for gender equity as women are overrepresented amongst poor people, especially amongst single parents and elderly living in poverty. However, it is unclear how the specific measures indeed increase gender equity or what specific steps are taken. For instance, the NRRP states there is a need to increase women's retirment age. The attachment clarifies that the aim is to increase the ""actual"" retirement age; it links this with the way how retirement benefits are calculated and some changes that were implemented which - according to the government - should mitigate some gender inequalities. The argument is that this new calculation of retirment benefits should increase women's participation in the labour market. Yet, it remains unclear how this might be achieved. The attachment also states that there should be incentives implemented by law, but no clarification what the incentives might be. This is striking, considering that women are less likely to have a job prior to their retirement. According to a study, which was published last year, only every second women transfers directly from employment to retirement (Mayrhuber et al., 2021). Consequently, if there are no further measures it is questionable whether increasing retirement age will indeed be very beneficial for achieving gender equity.  Moreover, some of the reforms mentioned are not specified, so it is unclear how e.g. the reorganisation of care provision will indeed diminish the care gap.

Some issues which become more apparent during the pandemic – e.g. access to digital devices, support for remedial learning, digitalisation of bureaucractic processes – are taken up by the NRRP. Many measures, however, have been already discussed prior to the pandemic (i.e. in the coalition agreement of the current government or suggested by feedback to previous recovery and resilience plans). Then again, topics such as gender based violence, which increased during the pandemic, have not been part of the NRRP.","What is missing: measures to combat gender based violence, to increase equal chances for ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.",,No,No,No,Yes,"According to the Analysis, the Austrian NRRP adresses gender inequality; there is no in depth discussion of gender+ inequality though (unless you consider the combination of poverty and female gender as gender+). See https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52021SC0160&from=EN ",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,,"According to the NRRP Karoline Edtstadler (minister for the EU and the constitution) held consultation meetings with stakeholders of regional and local governments, social partners (=representatives of employees and employers), NGOs and youth organizations as well as other „relevant stakeholders“. The plan describes the different stakeholder’s involvement without going into detail who specifically was consulted. Table 10 lists all measures and gives information about the support received by stakeholders (social partners, local/regional government, NGOs and youth organizations).The only measure which did not receive any support was the increase of the effective retirement age, which also was the only measure that has been decided upon prior to the consultation process.

During the consultation process an email account was provided, which different stakeholders could use to submit their proposals for the NRRP until 26 February 2021. 174 proposals were submitted from 148 different units. 71% of the proposals refered to  green transition, 58% to digital transformation, 72% to economic cohesion, productivity and competitiveness, 36% to social and territorial cohesion, 29% to health, economic, social and institutional resilience, and 39% policies for the next generation.

 The NRRP states that several measures were introduced to serve the interests of regional and local governments, especially regarding education and investments. This should - according to the NRRP - increase social and territoral cohesion. Moreover, some requests by the social partners (= representatives of employees and employers) regarding the labour market have been included. The NRRP however does not state specifically which measures meet the interests of regional/local governments or the social partners. 

This answer is predominantly based on the information provided by the NRRP (reactions from civil society are found in the answer to question 13).",No,This was criticised by several stakeholder. ,Yes,"Table 6 lists all meassures and states whether the measure is N (neurtal), P (positive) or SP (“sehr positiv” = very positive) to achieve gender equity. However, it is unclear how this assessment was conducted and what is the basis of this assessment.",,No,No,No,No,No,"We could not find any discussion of the NRRP from a gender+ perspective in our online researched. We only found a proposal from a group of feminist economics (femme fiscal) as well as from Frauenring (an nationwide network of women's organisation, loosely translated as women's circle), which they submitted to the government, but no statement on the final plan.

We found one positive reaction concerning climate justice: The NPO WWF apreciated that through the NRRP the protection of biodiversity receives more funding (press release 15 April 2021).",,No,No,No,No,,"Some feminist inititatives, like the Frauenring (an Austrian wide network of differen women's organisation) or femme fiscal (a group of feminist economics) submitted their proposal in February. However, we could find little discussion on the final/approved plan. We found a short facebook posting of the Frauenring, expressing anger about the neglection of women in the NRRP. We also found an analysis of the NRRP from Momentum, a leftish Austrian Think-Tank, who stated that almost all measures (96%) either already were realised or in planing before the NRRP was even drafted. They assess that some measures which are listed in the NRRP, e.g. the changes regarding the Mother-Child-Pass (see health above) are okay/mediocre. Momentum also raises the question how pension splitting would work. However, the Momentum analysis is a more general analysis of the plan and does not discuss the implications of the NRRP from a gender+ perspective.
The NGO Südwind (human right's NGO, campaigns for narrowing the gap between the global South and the global North) detects servere deficiencies with regard to global justice and sustainability. Specifically, they criticise the lack of funds for supporting climate protection (especially in the south), and the lack of provisions for responsible global supply chains wihtout child labour or epxloitation.
",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,"NEOS (austrian party), Momentum ( Think Tank)","Despite what is stated in the NRRP several stakeholders expressed their anger about the process through press statements and other public comments. According to these statements, the consultation process may have been limited to the existence of one email-address where people/organisations could submit proposals but no discussion of the draft before it was submitted to the EU. 

A news report in the Austrian Broadcasting Agency (orf.at from 14 April 2021) quotes the president of the Federation of Trade Unions saying he was astonished to learn that the social partners have been involved in the consultation process (the social partners consist of the Chamber of Labour, the Federation of Trade Unions, the Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Austrian Industries), as there was only a phone call between him and the Minister Edstadler; a meeting was schedule, yet for a time after the proposal has been submitted as he learned from the news. The president of the Chamber of Labour voices her dismay to only learn from the news that the NRRP has been already submitted. Already February 2021 the president of the Federation of Trade Unions as well as the President of the Chamber of Labour voice their concerns that employee representatives are not involved in the consultation process. This is mirrored by attac (NGO), Südwind (NGO), IGO (interest Group of Public Benefit Organizations, an association of several NPOs ranging from human rights, to environmental rights, basically most key NPOs in Austria are members), and the Austria Association of Cities and Towns, who all raised similar concerns in press releases. 
Then again, the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (employer representatives) was pleased they could anchor several of their priorities within the NRRP (according to a report on their own website).

The Austrian party “NEOS” criticized that the design process had been non-transparent, claiming that the Austrian parliament was not involved. 

The European initiative Open Procurement (open-procurement.eu), a collaboration of several NGOs like transparency international, assessed the overall transparency of the European Recovery and Resilience Facility. They used criteria such as proactive publication of spending data or audit reports. Austria was ranked last, together with Coratia, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Slovakia.

As for the content: Employee representatives (Chamber of Labour, trade unions) criticise the lack of social equilibrium and that many measures already were planed/budgeted prior to submitting them to the NRRP. They also miss more projects regarding labour policies, education or social benefits. The Momentum institute (think tank) states that according to their analysis of the NRRP 55% of the funds are dedicated to infrastructure projects, 28% to enterprises and 17% to employees and families. They furthermore state that out of the 33 listed projects, 16 already have been implemented, 12 are listed in the government programme (which was signed by the coalition partners in January 2020), and only 5 are new.

The Austrian Association of Municipalities (umbrella organisation of local governments) considers the NRRP to be ambitious and it relies heavily on the support of local authorities (e.g. mayors).

We could not find any specific/clear comment, which centres gender in  their analysis.
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Belgium,Approved by EC,,,694 (Dutch version); 690 (French version),Gender: 52; sex: 5,"The Dutch equivalent of the term 'gender' comes up 52 times in the document, while the Dutch equivalent of the term 'sex' appears 5 times.",,No,,Yes,"The NRRP provides for the creation and renovation of childcare facilities, which will allow more women, and especially single mothers (explicitly mentioned in the plan), to enter the labour market. There is also a digital divide in Belgium between men and women (affecting the position of women on the labour market), which the plan aims to reduce by starting a number of projects promoting digital integration (dubbed 'E-inclusion for Belgium'). Finally, the Belgian Institute for the Equality of Women and Men will be carrying out a project entitled 'Gender and Work' which will support promising initiatives in this domain and gather reliable gender-disaggregated data.",Yes,"Regarding discrimination in the labour market, discrimination tests will be improved by adapting the existing regulatory framework, developing better tools, and strengthening control mechanisms and awareness-raising campaigns in order to better protect vulnerable groups (including women). Because a lot of projects described in the NRRP will also create an increased demand for jobs in male-dominated sectors (i.e., STEM & construction to support the green transition), care will be taken to better integrate these domains into education and to fight harmful gender stereotypes.",Yes,"Measures taken in the 'Work and Labour Market' and 'Economy' domains, as described above, will have an effect on the gender pay gap, although this is only rarely emphasised in the NRRP.",Yes,"As mentioned above, childcare facilities will be renovated and additional ones will be created, which will relieve some of the disproportionate care burden on women (and especially single mothers). 
Moreover, childcare services for the French-speaking Community (in Wallonia and the Brussels Capital Region) were already in the process of digitalising their administrative procedures. This process will now be accelerated to simplify the required administrative procedures and to improve user-friendliness, which will help parents and, especially, mothers on whose shoulders the care burden disproportionately falls. Indicated as such by the Institute for Gender Equality in the NRRP.",Yes,"Projects, reforms and investments in government services will offer governmental bodies an opportunity to increase the amount of gender-related data available, which can subsequently be taken into account when implementing gender mainstreaming and designing policy."" This is mentioned in the NRRP itself, but it is part of the assessment of the Institute for Gender Equality that was part of the NRRP drafting process. So, it's more of a professional opinion from involved parties than a promise. There is, however, no mention of increasing the number of women in leadership positions and/or decision-making bodies and processes.
",Yes,"Funds will be provided to renovate public and private buildings in order to improve their energy efficiency. Women are overrepresented in Belgian households that struggle with energy poverty, which gives this initiative a gender dimension."" Indicated as such by the Institute for Gender Equality in the NRRP.
In terms of mobility, new cycling lanes will be constructed so that cyclists can avoid riding on the road (intended for cars) as much as possible. According to the NRRP, a study has shown that distinct and separated cycling lanes motivate more women to take up cycling. Lastly, the NRRP also provides for the expansion of public transport (tram and metro networks, buses), which is positive for women, who make use of these facilities more often than men.",Yes,"As part of the NRRP's push for digitalisation, the health sector (and health data)  will be digitised, which could improve the effectiveness of healthcare from a gender perspective: higher quality decisions could be taken based on gender data that charts the differences between men and women more adequately. Digitalisation can also offer a veil of anonymity to women in precarious situations who are in need of medical services"" Again, as assessed by the Institute for Gender Equality in the NRRP.",Yes,"The NRRP claims that all measures that are part of its 'Education' domain have been constructed with gender-inclusive principles in mind. Various projects to stimulate education in specific domains (i.e., STEM) are also planned, with the projects partly targeted towards women (as they are underrepresented in some of these fields). Finally, as mentioned earlier, the NRRP provides the opportunity to reduce the digital divide between men and women through digital integration and education.",,Yes,"The NRRP provides for a range of measures to promote social and labour market integration of ""people from vulnerable groups"". These measures include, for example, discrimination tests on the labour market and other ways of combating discrimination, as well as developing vulnerable people's digital skills in training programmes.",Yes,"The same labour market measures as described above are applicable to younger people as well. A lot of measures have also been taken to improve the quality of education, which largely affects young people. Moreover, the NRRP describes action plans by Wallonia and the Brussels Capital Region that aim to prevent young people from dropping out of school and that provide personal guidance to students who need it.",Yes,The same labour market measures as described under 'social class/socioeconomic background' apply to people with a disability as well. ,Yes,"The same labour market measures, especially regarding discrimination, as described under 'social class/socioeconomic background' apply to people with a migrant background too. While the NRRP does not explicitly mention ethnicity or race, these measures could also apply to those inequality grounds.",No,,No,,No,,No,,Yes,"To combat high rates of criminal recidivism, the NRRP provides for a digital platform that prisoners can use. This platform will allow prisoners to engage in tele-education, to access prison services, and to benefit from re-integration services, among other things.","Belgium's NRRP is made up of six main pillars: climate & sustainability, digital transition, mobility, people & society, economy & productivity, and public finance. Some of these pillars, i.e., digital transition, people & society, economy & productivity, ... propose measures that could have a positive socioeconomic impact on various inequality grounds. However, the NRRP is not structured around gender+ inequalities: its focus lies on the recovery and rebuilding of the economy, without an explicit gender+ perspective. Gender+ dimensions are included where applicable, i.e., care is taken to stimulate an inclusive labour market and prevent discrimination of various vulnerable groups, but the concern and focus of the NRRP largely lie with topics like the green transition and the digital transition. The plan does have a relatively small section on how the goals of gender equality and equal opportunities have been integrated in some of the reforms and investments proposed, with just over half of the planned measures having a potential positive impact on gender equality (see below under 'The Process'). For some measures, mostly labour market investments, a number of vulnerable societal groups (i.e. people with a migrant background, people with disabilities, young people, ...) were included as target groups, but these groups were usually not targeted individually with specific measures. With the exception of one domain, all gender inequality domains were covered in the NRRP to a greater or lesser extent: the 'Work and Labour Market' and 'Economy' domains featured heavily in the plan, with the 'Gender Care Gap', 'Environmental Justice', 'Health' and 'Education' domains also being covered regularly. The 'Gender Pay and Pensions Gap' was alluded to, but was not covered explicitly, while the 'Decision-making and Politics' domain was only tangentially referred to. Measures to combat 'Gender-based Violence', despite its increased prevalence during the pandemic, did not make an appearance in the NRRP.","More targeted measures towards various vulnerable groups are missing, as the focus of the plan lies less on the mitigation of inequalities than on the overall economic recovery of the country (defined in terms of the green and digital transitions). If socioeconomic inequalities are to be addressed adequately, a thorough package of measures should be drawn up and implemented for each of the inequality grounds that were referred to earlier in this document, instead of these inequalities being more of an afterthought. Moreover, more should be done to ensure gender equality in decision-making and politics, and to ensure that the existing gender pay and pensions gap is mitigated and not exacerbated. Last, but certainly not least, the complete absence of measures to address gender-based violence, especially in light of its increased prevalence, is arguably the most pressing concern related to the Belgian NRRP and should be rectified immediately.",,No,Yes,No,Yes,"The European Commission has concluded that the plan promotes the integration of gender equality and equal opportunities in some measures. However, the plan falls short in some ways and does not offer a holistic and integrated approach for social and labour market inclusion of vulnerable groups.",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,No,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,No,Yes,No,No,No,No,,"Belgium is a country with a complex governance structure, with several regions, parliaments, governments et cetera. Every region/commune (entity) had to be given the chance to contribute to the recovery plan during the drafting process. This region can then also choose to involve local stakeholders, which for example Flanders has done by organising a digital event for more than a hundred stakeholders, and asking advice from the social partners (unions and employers) (https://www.flandersineu.be/nl/vlaanderen-en-het-nationaal-plan-voor-herstel-en-veerkracht); the other regions have done similar consultations.  On the federal level, four instiutions contributed to the drafting of the plan. The Institute for Gender Equality, the National Labour Council (which consists of unions and employers), the Central Council of Businesses (idem), and the Federal Council of Sustainable Development (which consists of uions and employers, but also several civil society organisations as listed above) (https://www.aclvb.be/nl/artikels/het-nationaal-plan-voor-herstel-en-veerkracht-een-goed-startpunt-voor-het-herstelbeleid; http://www.cnt-nar.be/Documenten-thema.htm#EUROPA)",No,,Yes,"The Institute for Gender Equality was involved during the drafting process, and analysed the impact that the investments laid out in the plan would have on women. It found that 18% will have a positive effect and 52% will potentially have a positive effect.",,No,No,No,No,,,,No,No,No,No,,,,Yes,Yes,No,No,,"The liberal and catholic union have been somewhat positive about the participative nature of the drafting process (https://www.aclvb.be/nl/artikels/het-nationaal-plan-voor-herstel-en-veerkracht-een-goed-startpunt-voor-het-herstelbeleid; https://www.hetacv.be/actualiteit/campagnes/heropstartplan). However, one important non-profit of the climate movement has criticised the process for not inviting more participation. They claim that the process was very hasty, and that once the different political bodies agreed on the projects, budgets and distribution of resources, little more participation was asked. Civil society did not get the opportunity to participate, according to them. They see this as a missed opportunity, especially since increased citizen participation is part of the national and regional policy objectives (https://www.bondbeterleefmilieu.be/artikel/de-black-box-van-het-belgische-herstelplan). There is no public reaction regardingen gender+ inequalities.",
Bulgaria,Other,"The NRRP was submitted to the EC in October 2021 instead of April 2021. It was just recently returned by the EC on 9 Dec 2021 for review by Bulgaria (not rejected), but the official analysis is not yet available and probably won’t be ready by end of February 2022. The main reasons quoted in the public space include the fact that it does not include the necessary reforms in the judicial system in the country (more specifically, the accountability of the main prosecutor in the country). It also does not match the green policies for coal-extracting regions. The other problematic issues include the lack of actionable projects for access to healthcare, green mobility, system of control for projects, and gender equality and social inclusion. 
In general, the NRRP that Bulgaria submitted was prepared during serious political turmoil and numerous elections, so it is apparently not in-depth and actionable, as required by the EC. The overall impression is that the NRRP has to be much more detailed and concrete in terms of projects and their budgets, and how these tie to the overall goals of the plan. ",,324,8,"The search was for the Bulgarian word for ‘gender’ - ‘???’. The search for the term ‘sex’ did not yield relevant results, as it has been used in the NRRP only for ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘sexually-transmitted diseases’. ",,Yes,"The NRRP notes that the National Strategy for Gender Equality for 2021-2030 has to be realised and details its measures, but it does not propose new measures. In terms of gender-based violence, the mentioned general goals from the National Strategy include: fighting against violence and protection and support for victims. ",Yes,"The NRRP notes that the National Strategy for Gender Equality for 2021-2030 has to be realised and details its measures, but it does not propose new measures. In terms of the work and labour market, the mentioned general goals from the National Strategy include: equality between women and men on the labor market and equal degree of economic independence; the specific measures the Strategy mentions: “The challenges for attaining gender equality on the labor market require measures for increasing employment; access to education, professional training and life learning; increasing professional qualifications; overcoming gender segregation in employment; increasing control on law abiding; equal pay for equal work; support for women in terms of the specific difficulties they have on the labour market; overcoming gender stereotypes; special care for certain groups of working women; improving the quality of work positions; developing opportunities for flexible work, remote work and professional mobility; promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship; increasing knowledge about payment, and others.”",Yes,"The NRRP notes that the National Strategy for Gender Equality for 2021-2030 has to be realised and details its measures, but it does not propose new measures. In terms of economy, the mentioned general goals from the National Strategy include: overcoming the gender segregation on the labour market.",Yes,"The NRRP notes that the National Strategy for Gender Equality for 2021-2030 has to be realised and mentions some of its measures, but it does not propose new measures. In terms of the gender pay and pension gaps, the mentioned general goals from the National Strategy include: decreasing the differences in gender pay and ensuring equal pay for equal work.   ",Yes,"The NRRP notes that the National Strategy for Gender Equality for 2021-2030 has to be realised and mentions some of its measures, but it does not propose new measures. In terms of the gender care gap, the mentioned general goals from the National Strategy include: special care for certain groups of working women.   ",Yes,"The NRRP notes that the National Strategy for Gender Equality for 2021-2030 has to be realised and mentions some of its measures, but it does not propose new measures. In terms of decision-making, the mentioned general goals from the National Strategy include: promotion of gender equality in terms of decision-making processes.   ",No,,No,,Yes,"The NRRP notes that the National Strategy for Gender Equality for 2021-2030 has to be realised and mentions some of its measures, but it does not propose new measures. In terms of education, the mentioned general goals from the National Strategy include: ‘measures are necessary to ensure equal access to education’.   ",,Yes,"There is no detailed description of projects, actions or measures aimed at mitigating inequalities. However, there is a mention that there should be a review of minimum income in the country to address poverty, especially in vulnerable groups. ",Yes,"There is no detailed description of projects, actions or measures aimed at mitigating inequalities. However, there is a mention of budget allocation under the section Fair Bulgaria, in the subsection ‘Social Inclusion’. It mentions the following activity: “Continued support for the deinstitutionalisation of the care for the elderly and for people with disabilities”. ",Yes,"There is no detailed description of projects, actions or measures aimed at mitigating inequalities. However, there is a mention of budget allocation under the section Fair Bulgaria, in the subsection ‘Social Inclusion’. It mentions the following activities: “Continued support for the deinstitutionalisation of the care for the elderly and for people with disabilities,” “personal mobility and accessibility for people with disabilities”. ",No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,"The NRRP of Bulgaria does not go in-depth in terms of integrating a gender+ perspective. It can be said that the NRRP’s focus is much more economic and financial than social and inclusive, despite the presence of all topics in the submitted draft. ??The overall approach towards issues of gender equality is rather ‘procedural’, as the NRRP simply mentions that the National Strategy for Gender Equality for 2021-2030 has to be realised. It then goes on to quote different priorities set in this National Strategy, without detailing specific initiatives and actions through which the NRRP can contribute to this. The concept of gender equality is mentioned a few times, but the statements are rather vague — noting the importance of this equality and the benefits of it, but not delving into detail how it can be achieved. 

The NRRP does not contain specific actions to mitigate gender+ inequalities and to promote social inclusion either. There are no mentions of different vulnerable groups of women. This is surprising, given the fact that one of the main sections of the NRRP is dedicated specifically to social inclusion and social services. 

In addition, the NRRP does not take into account social needs that became evident during the pandemic because as noted, in general, it does not address gender+ inequalities in a truly engaged and actionable way. The importance of increasing healthcare is mentioned, but it is not backed up with solid projects and action plans. The topics of increased gender-based violence, gender care gap, gender pay inequalities, and similar issues that were exacerbated during the pandemic are not contained in the NRRP. 

One of the preliminary comments of the EC when it returned the NRRP to Bulgaria was that it is missing concrete and actionable projects that address gender equality and social inclusion problems. This was circulated in Bulgarian media as one of the more minor reasons for returning the NRRP, with the two main ones being the judicial system and the coal extraction/ energy topics. ","The NRRP does not provide an adequate approach to addressing gender+ inequalities. The few mentions of gender and other types of inequalities, with some small exceptions, often sound like namedropping more than an actual strategy or having an actionable plan how to deal with the issues at stake. 

Thus, the overall assessment is that the whole topic of addressing gender+ inequalities is problematic in the submitted NRRP. More specifically, there are no specific projects and action plans aimed at the domains of interest to this project. There are not even mentions about tackling gender-based violence, environmental justice, and health. 

Regarding the different inequality grounds, most are not mentioned at all. The only ones that are present in the NRRP are social class, age, and disability, but they are not intersected with gender. ",The analysis of the NRRP of Bulgaria by the EC has not been published yet. The EC just returned the NRRP with comments on the proposed NRRP that the country has to fix before submitting it again. The following answers relate to the EC comments that were circulated in Bulgarian media about the reasons for returning of the NRRP. ,No,Yes,No,Yes,The information circulated in the media quoted that the reaction of the EC is that the NRRP is missing concrete and actionable projects that address gender equality and social inclusion problems.,,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,No,No,No,Cannot assess,No,No,No,Cannot assess,No,Yes,Environmental organisations,"All stakeholder involvement seems to have happened only after the government prepared a first draft of the NRRP — and not during the creation of this first draft. 

The National Association of the Municipalities in Bulgaria issued an official statement on the NRRP that it disseminated. 

Trade unions, employer organisations, business representatives, environmental organisations - a couple of them submitted their opinions through the public consultation procedure and later through official statements they disseminated themselves.

It is not clear how and if banks and finance representatives, healthcare organisations, social justice organisations, and people with disabilities representatives have been involved in the creation or recommendations to the NRRP.

",Yes,"Yes, but the public consultation was only on one of the preliminary versions that were circulated in October 2020. The process took place online via the webpage https://www.strategy.bg/PublicConsultations/View.aspx?lang=bg-BG&Id=5572. Organisations and individuals could submit their opinions and recommendations between 30 October and 29 November 2020. ",No,,,No,No,No,No,,,,No,No,No,No,,,,Yes,No,No,No,,"A list of NGOs issued a statement during the public consultation for the NRRP (November 2020) to inspire citizens and organisations to take part in the consultation because they have not been consulted during the first drafting of the Plan. There was no specific gender+ perspective in the statement of the NGOs.

In addition, the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law (BCNL) issued a separate statement noting the need for public consultations that go beyond the officially announced procedure in November 2020. The BCNL urged the government to actively seek direct input as well as feedback from citizens and civil organisations. 

Just a few days before Bulgaria submitted the NRRP on 15 October 2021, the European Economic and Social Committee organised a public discussion with the participation of the Vice Prime Minister on the participation of the organised civil society in the creation of the NRRP. This seemed like a good step, but taken too late in the process. It is not clear if any stakeholders are currently being consulted and engaged during this intermediary process for the NRRP and also considering the national elections and changing governments in the country. 

No specific reactions from NGOs and associations that are relevant from a gender+ perspective could be identified. ",
Cyprus,Approved by EC,,,116,52,"The Cyprus National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) has a special section on Gender Equality and Equal Oportunities for all at page 33. According to the EC analysis of Cyprus NRRP, he plan describes existing national challenges, explains which reforms and investments are expected to contribute to overcoming them and contains a series of measures across several components that contribute to addressing the challenges in this area. The plan provides information about the country’s governance structure for equality, and underlines that the promotion of equality, non-discrimination and accessibility during the implementation of the plan will be ensured through the involvement of the competent authorities. ","http://www.cyprus-tomorrow.gov.cy/cypresidency/kyprostoavrio.nsf/kyprostoavrio_el/kyprostoavrio_el?OpenDocument
https://www.oeb.org.cy/egkyklios-ar-566-omilia-toy-proedroy-tis-dimokratias-k-nikoy-anastasiadi-stin-paroysiasi-toy-ethnikoy-schedioy-anakampsis-kai-anthektikotitas/
https://www.kathimerini.com.cy/gr/oikonomiki/oikonomia/ypoblithike-to-prosxedio-toy-sxedioy-anakampsis-1-2-dis
http://www.parliament.cy/images/media/redirectfile/Apologismos2021-A.pdf
http://www.parliament.cy/el/??????/????????-???????????/-??????-???????????-2021",Yes,"The Ministry of Justice and Public Order (MoJPO) of Cyprus is proceeding to fully adopt all the provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention), to provide for a holistic approach to treating violence against women and domestic violence. 
The National Mechanism for Women's Rights (NMWR)  carries out actions and events aiming to raise awareness and inform civil society about issues on violence and abuse, trafficking women, abolition of traditional stereotypes, empowerment of women, etc.
Financial schemes are introduced to promote women entrepreneurship, education, and training programmes in the ITC for women, special structures for family violence victims, new care centres for children to help young parents especially young mothers to join or re-enter the labour market are provided in the RRP to be established. ",Yes,"The NRRP includes the following reforms and investments which may be helpful in mitigating sex/gender indequalities in work and Labour market:
• Reform 1: Reform of the Social Insurance System and Restructuring of the Social Insurance Services: This measure will enhance social protection for all regardless of the type and duration of employment by extending and improving cover of various benefits regardless of the workers gender or perceived gender. 
• Reform 2: Flexible Work Arrangements in the Form of Telework Investments: This measure will provide the opportunity for carers in the family, usually women to achieve a better work/life balance and establish their labour rights through teleworking.
• Investment 2: Establishment of Multifunctional Centres and Childcare Centres - Childcare centres will provide a better work/life balance for the working mothers who usually undertake the main responsibility to care for their children in contrast to fathers.
• Investment 3: Establishment of home structures for children, adolescent with conduct disorders, persons with disabilities and people in need of long-term care (LTC) - Just as in the comment above, women seem to be the main carers of people with disabilities and people in need of long-term care. This mesure will alleviate some of the weight.
• Investment 4: Child Centres in Municipalities: Same comment as above.
In Policy Axis 5, of the NRRP, a set of measures provides skills for employment to enter the labour market to both women and men, but more likely to women, it enhances early school leavers and other vulnerable groups to acquire competencies and skills to enable them enjoy market potentials. The proposed actions qualify NEETs single mothers, short and long-term unemployed low-income family members, groups at risk of poverty and social exclusion to enter or re-enter the labour market.",No,,Yes,"There is a general reference to Gap in paid work in the NRRP. This was identified as a theme to be addressed by the National Equality Action Plan as an area for improvement. There was no specific measure to address this inequality and there was no specific mentioning of pension gap. The measures generally identified are in the following statements:
To speed up the process of elimination and narrow the gap, consultations among the various stakeholders take place.",Yes,"Uneven work-life balance/uneven distribution of time spent on care activities and unpaid work is recognised in the NRRP was another important area for improvement. The measures mentioned are the following: 
New care centres for children to help young parents especially young mothers to join or re-enter the labour market are provided in the RRP to be established. Financial and other measures are in place and extended in the RRP to help local authorities enhance their capacity to improve existing or set up and run care centres for children for the same reason. Understanding the different needs of sexes, the health system is reorganised and equipped with appropriate human and material resources to handle present and future health care requirements.",No,,No,,Yes,"Specific mentions not measures:
Understanding the different needs of sexes, the health system is reorganised and equipped with appropriate human and material resources to handle present and future health care requirements.
It is expected that through the RRP actions, any issues of health and gender inequalities will be addressed, since at the basis of the proposed reforms and investments is the equal treatment of all patients and their rights irrespectively of status, gender and socioeconomic position. In this respect, the policy development part is performed based on the recommendations of the Commission through CSRs, the Social Protection Committee work, the European Charter of Social Rights and other EU and International initiatives in the area of health and social systems.",Yes,"An issue for improvement recognised in the NRRP is Education and training of women in the Information and Communication Technologies.
To facilitate that Financial schemes promoting women entrepreneurship, education, and training programmes in the ITC for women are introduced. Proposed measures that promote reskilling and upskilling, securing better education and life-long training as well as affordable early childcare services, provide the support and create the conditions necessary to allow for better accessibility to a wider spectrum of employment opportunities. 
Several components within the plan outline training programmes (e.g. digital transformation of school units with the aim of enhancing digital skills and skills related to STEM education and skilling, reskilling and upskilling in Component 5.1 Educational system modernisation, upskilling and retraining), which aim to improve the gender balance in traditionally male-dominated or female-dominated professions and address gender stereotypes.
Everyone has the right to equal treatment and opportunities in terms of employment, social protection, education, and access to goods and services available to the public.",,Yes,"There are too many different measures for this vulnerability and they cannot all be mentioned here. Some examples are:
Extension of free compulsory pre-primary education from the age of four
Reforms and investments related to the new health care system, such as the establishement of the gradual shifting of the healthcare provision and reimbursement framework towards value-based models, to help vulnerable people who cannot afford the same kind of care as other citizens, the building of new facilities for the Cyprus Blood Establishment and procurement of the latest technology attendant equipment, to help health related vulnerable people who were deeply ffected by the covid-19 situation, the upgrade of medical equipment in hospitals and the overall enhancement and modernisation of Cyprus State Hospitals that are usually the ones in charge of the serious incitents that may involve vulnerable groups or groups that may be denied access to health care in other private hospitals.

Further to the above, there are some reforms and investments related to  Climate, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy penetration that will benefit vulnerable groups that have poor economic background, or may have difficulty to invest or know they can benefit from energy efficiency for instance. One important reform is creation of the Digital One-Stop Shops to streamline Renewable Energy Sources projects permitting and to facilitate Energy Renovation in Buildings. Vulnerable consummers are eleigible for state grants in order to install net-metering systems and become prosumers to reduce their energy consumption or to stay connected to the grid and avoid cuts due to arrears. This measures comes in hand with the promotion of renewables and individual energy efficiency measures in dwellings and tackling energy poverty in households with disabled people.",Yes,"Extension of free compulsory pre-primary education from the age of four
Reform 8: Enhancing supervision of Insurance and Pension Funds
(Component 5.2) and establishment of home structures for children, adolescent with conduct disorders and persons with disabilities and long-term care structures for the elderly.
",Yes,"The plan ensures respect for the rights of people with disabilities in conformity with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the rights of other under-represented, disadvantaged and marginalised populations. The plan also ensures disability (and otherwise) inclusive reforms in education, the labour market and health sector, accessibility of buildings, services and websites as well as transition from institutional to community-based services. Examples of reforms and investments promoting respect for the rights and equal opportunities of under-represented groups are the enhancement of the hospitals to offer a complete treatment of rare cases to all people (Component 1.1 Resilient and Effective Health System, Enhanced Civil Protection ), the accessibility of people with disabilities in urban centres (Component 2.2 Sustainable transport), ensuring that all households have access to high speed internet networks (Component 4.1 Upgrade infrastructure for connectivity), promoting renewables and individual energy efficiency measures in dwellings and tackling energy poverty in households with disabled people (Component 2.1 Climate neutrality, Energy efficiency and renewable energy penetration) as well as providing employment opportunities to people living in rural and remote areas and upskilling the existing farming Community and professionalise future labour force by investing in human capital (Component 3.1 New Growth Model and diversification of the economy). ",No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,"The Cyprus NRRP includes 5 different Policy Axes, 13 parts including different components of strenghtening the country's resilience and resistance and a special part devoted to Gender Equality nd Equal Opportunities for all. As mentioned by the EC, with regard to gender equality and equal opportunities for all, the plan describes existing national challenges, explains which reforms and investments are expected to contribute to overcoming them and contains a series of measures across several components that contribute to addressing the challenges in this area. The plan provides information about the country’s governance structure for equality, and underlines that the promotion of equality, non- discrimination and accessibility during the implementation of the plan will be ensured through the involvement of the competent authorities, such as the National Machinery for Womens' Rigths, the Equality Commission etc. The plan describes the views of these authorities on the potential equality impacts of the measures included in the plans. It includes data disaggregated by sex to a limited extent. Relevant measures which are mostly presented in a general manner or related to other measures in a scattered way, aim to improve the access to affordable quality early childhood education and care and long-term care as well as to promote flexible working arrangements facilitating labour market activation for people with caring responsibilities, particularly women, social inclusion and the reduction of socio-economic disadvantages. Challenges regarding female entrepreneurship or financial illiteracy of older women are also addressed. Support for young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) is expected to over-proportionally benefit young people from vulnerable backgrounds, including with migration backgrounds. Throughout the plan needs of persons with disabilities are taken into account and a quantitative target for the improvement of energy performance in households with persons with disabilities is included. 
Other inequality grounds such as sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, gender identity, religion are not specifically addressed.","As mentioned above, to be more consistent with the aim of targeting gender+ inequalities, I would rather read the measures in the same way they were mentioned in the other parts of the text instead of in the form of an essay. That would help the reader understand what the exact measures are for each inequality ground. Furthermore, by reading the NRRP itself one cannot understand the extend of consultation.
",,No,No,No,Yes,The EC comments very positive on the Cypriot NRRP. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52021SC0196&qid=1632756205046 ,,Cannot assess,Yes,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Yes,"the Chamber of Commerce, the Youth Board of Cyprus, the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber, the Pancyprian Teachers Association, Birdlife Cyprus, the Federation of Environmental Organisations of Cyprus, representatives from all political parties (at a frequent basis).","The Consultation process was under the responsibility of the relevant Ministries in charge for each Policy Axis. The Parliament has been regularly informed about the content of the plan. Also, the Cypriot Economy and Competitiveness Council, equivalent to a national productivity board, has been consulted.
Each counterpart submitted project proposals for the plan, for consideration by the government. Following the consultation of all relevant stakeholders, part of the initially planned reforms and investments have been adapted from the plan. Acoordination process with all relevant stakeholders, including social partners and civil society, is expected to take place also for the implementation phase of the plan. ",No,,Yes,"According to the NRRP The implementation of the envisaged reforms and investments comprises of several measures that promote equal opportunities for all such as, the transparency of recruitment and advancement processes and gender impact assessment of new policies and adoption of family- friendly policies (e.g. in the context of Components 3.4 Modernizing public and local authorities, making justice more efficient and fighting corruption and 5.2 Labour market, social protection, social welfare and inclusion).",,No,Yes,Yes,No,Yes there have been some announcements of the measures and what was agreed during consultations.,"The Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation (OEB) published Circular No. 566: Speech by the President of the Republic Mr. Nikos Anastasiadis at the presentation of the National Plan for Recovery and Sustainability on its website 17.5.2021 to inform its members of the new measures proposed by the Cyprus Government for the benefit of their members. https://www.oeb.org.cy/egkyklios-ar-566-omilia-toy-proedroy-tis-dimokratias-k-nikoy-anastasiadi-stin-paroysiasi-toy-ethnikoy-schedioy-anakampsis-kai-anthektikotitas/
The reaction was positive as it may be seen as a marketing/promotion of the NRRP measures towards the support of the economy and the Employers of Cyprus. 

The newspapers were also only broadcasting the news of the NRRP measures and not positive or negative comments were placed on the article https://www.kathimerini.com.cy/gr/oikonomiki/oikonomia/ypoblithike-to-prosxedio-toy-sxedioy-anakampsis-1-2-dis

",No negative reactions were identified during desk internet search.,No,No,No,No,,,No negative reactions were identified concerning the stakeholders engagement during desk internet search.,No,No,No,No,,,
Czechia,Approved by EC,,,116 + components as annexes (gender+ related components under pilar 3 = 55),44 + 20 (in all components),"key words used: gender + ""rovnost/rovnosti žen a muž?"" (equality between women and men) + ""pohlaví"" (sex)",,No,"Although the plan acknowledges that GBV is a serious issue connected to the existing gender inequalities in the country, it does not propose any measures. The plan states that GBV is being tackled through other interventions outside of the plan (such as EU funds or the Norwegian funds). ",Yes,The plan acknowledges the fact there are variety of structural issues that influence gender+ inequalities at the labour markte but - on a concrete level - it focuses only on increasing availability of childcare facilities. The plan foresees to increase labour market participation of women with small children through investment in facilities for children below the age of three and a legislative amendment to ensure sustainable financing of low-age childcare and its adequate coverage in the regions.,Yes, increasing availability of childcare facilities,Yes, increasing availability of childcare facilities,Yes," increasing availability of childcare facilities, increasing availability of long term and community/mobile health and social care infrastructure ",No,"Although the plan acknowledges that low representation of women in decision-making is an issue connected to the existing gender inequalities in the country, it does not propose any measures and states that it is being tackled through other interventions outside of the plan (such as EU funds or the Norwegian funds). ",No,"The climate-related objectives in the plan account for an amount which represents 41.6% of the plan’s total allocation. Those are mainly investments in renewable energy sources, modernisation of district heating distribution networks, replacement of coal-fired boilers and improving the energy efficiency of residential and public buildings. Additionally, there are investments in gas and biomass, sustainable transport (including electro-mobility), nature protection and water management. None of these measures either includes or mentions the perspective of sex/gender inequalities in relation to the domain of environmental justice. If the word gender is mentioned in this domain, it is usually mere formality - for example, component 2.6 Nature Protection and Adaption to the Climate Change states, ""this component is gender-neutral."" Gender equality is briefly mentioned in the transportation domain - component 2.1 Sustainable Transportation states that the supported projects and interventions are designed concerning the specific needs of men and women and vulnerable groups (for example, increasing public transport over private car travel).",No,"The plan proposes to reinforce cancer prevention and rehabilitation care, to develop an eHealth portal fostering integrated care practices, to support education in healthcare and to improve long-term care. However, none of the measures is explicitely aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain of health. The plan mentions the importance of gender perspective in the research and innovation domain. Component 5.1 Excellent Research and Innovation foresees investments in intersectional research (medical/healthcare research and social science research), which shall be gender-sensitive. ",No,"The part of the plan addressing inequalities in education focuses mainly on the support of schools with a high proportion of children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, training and mentoring of teachers dealing with heterogeneous groups of pupils, and additional tutoring for children at risk of failure due to the prolonged school closure during the pandemic The plan also foresees investment in digital equipment of schools to ensure access to learning for disadvantaged pupils and students. However, none of the measures explicitly targets sex/gender inequalities within the domain of education. ",,Yes,"The vulnerable groups (whose vulnerability is associated with their socioeconomic background)  are being explicitly mentioned under pillar 3 “Education and Employment components”. In the education domain, the plan foresees support of schools with a high proportion of children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds and tutoring for children at risk of failure. It also explicitly mentions socio-economic ground in relation to the so-called digital divide, proposing measures financing digital equipment in schools (based on the number of students with socially disadvantaged background) and supporting digital literacy. For employment, the plan focuses mainly on requalification and long-life education/professional education with focus on re/upskilling, aiming towards increasing adaptability of disadvantaged groups related to digitalisation and industry 4.0.",Yes,"The challenges faced by older people are addressed  in particular through improving the quality and accessibility of the long-term care, social and health systems. ",Yes,"The needs of people with disabilities are addressed in several parts of the plan - explicitly in relation to the new construction code, renovation of buildings and their improved accessibility. The plan also mentions that interventions related to digitalisation, eHealth and social care infrastructure will have a positive impact on people with disabilities. ",Yes,The needs of people with different nationalities are being addressed only in relation to education – the plan foresees support for schools with higher percentage of students with a different mother tongue (as well as with low socio-economic background).   ,Yes,"Measures addressing the situation of ethnic groups, namely the Roma community, are relatively scarce in the Czech NRRP. In the education domain, the plan foresees support of schools with a high proportion of children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds and heterogeneous student populations in the form of financial assistance, teacher’s training, and ICT equipment. As the plan mentions, these schools often have a more significant percentage of Roma children. The Roma are also mentioned in the labour market component - as one of the intended recipients of requalification activities and professional education. ",No,,No,,No,,No,,"The Czech NRRP, which will be financed by €7 billion in grants, consists of six pillars: digital transformation (14,65 %), physical infrastructure and green transition (44,7 %), education and job market (21,5 %), institutions, regulations, and support of entrepreneurship in response to COVID-19 (5,7 %), research, development, and innovation (21,5%) and health and resilience of the citizens (6,5%). 

Developed and coordinated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the plan contains a limited number of measures responding to existing gender+ inequalities in the country. The proposed efforts are mainly concentrated under pillar 3, labour market and education.

Within the labour market domain, it identifies issues such as gender pay and the pension gap. It further states that those are primarily caused by insufficient WLB support, namely the lack of facilities for children below the age of three. Therefore, it proposes investments in low-wage childcare together with a prospect of legislative amendment ensuring sustainable financing and sufficient coverage in the regions of such facilities. These measures are then the only direct intervention explicitly targeting gender inequalities within and outside of the labour market domain. With this specific measure, the plan meets the Council’s recommendation in the European Semester in 2019 and in 2020, which highlighted the insufficient amount of affordable and quality childcare facilities as one of the reasons for the low participation of women with small children in the labour market. However, it fails to tackle other topics and structural issues connected to gender inequalities in the labour market and other domains.  

The plan addresses inequalities in education, mainly related to socio-economic status. It foresees reinforced support for schools with a high percentage of children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, training for teachers on how to deal with heterogeneous groups of pupils, and extra-tutoring for children at risk of failure. 

Overall, the plan does very little in terms of proposing actions to mitigate gender+ inequalities that manifested forefront during the pandemic. One of the few interventions that are designed in light of the pandemic and that take into account - to some extent - existing inequalities are measures mitigating the digital divide in the education and labour market domain. The plan foresees financing digital equipment in schools (based on the number of students with socio-disadvantaged backgrounds) and supporting digital literacy. Labour market interventions consist primarily of requalification and re/up-skilling related to the digitalization of the labour and industry 4.0 - these measures, together with planned legislative changes, should specifically target vulnerable groups. The planned strengthening of social care infrastructure with a focus on decentralized long-term care can potentially mitigate some issues related to the pandemic experience, namely the gender care gap (women taking care of elderly relatives) and insufficient capacities of the (feminized)  social sector. 


","Although the plan, in its assessment of the overall gender equality in the country, identifies a variety of issues such as GBV, gender inequalities in education, low representation of women in decision-making, discrimination on the labour market, and alike, it focuses only on the labour market (and to some extent education) stating that other issues will be tackled through different funding opportunities such as the Strategy for Equality of Women and Men 2021-2030 or the Norwegian funds. 

In both the education and the labour market domain, the plan offers a limited amount of interventions tackling Roma's situation. In education, it plans for financial and other support for schools with a higher percentage of socially disadvantaged students. The schools, the plan mentions, often have more Roma children. The Roma are also mentioned in the labour market component - as one of the intended recipients of requalification activities and professional education. However, in light of the fact that the EU Strategic Framework encourages the Czech Republic to ensure that the available funding effectively reaches the Roma, the plan does not consistently promote the integration of this marginalized community.
    
The needs of people with disabilities are addressed in several parts of the plan - explicitly in relation to the new construction code, renovation of buildings, and improved accessibility. However, this is just elementary compliance with existing laws on accessibility for persons with disabilities.

Overall, the plan fails to approach the gender+ inequalities consistently, structurally, complementary, and through all the pillars and domains. It proposes either singular interventions or uses the plan's budget to cover projects that did not receive funding from elsewhere. For example, on many occasions, the Commision expressed that the Czech Republic should secure sustainable funding for childcare facilities from the national budget (as these were financed through the EU structural funds for many years). So in the case of childcare facilities, the plan was used rather instrumentally to cover an intervention whose funding should have been secured a long time ago. Given the fact this is the only explicit gender-related intervention in the whole plan, this provides a rather grim picture of the document from a gender perspective. With other interventions such as requalifications in the labour market or supporting teachers to better work with heterogeneous groups, the description is rather vague, and it raises a question as to what extent it will sensibly mitigate existing gender+ inequalities. ",,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,,,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,,"The evaluation of the drafting and designing process of the plan sparks charged discussion. While the NRRP states that it sufficiently engaged all the relevant actors, the CSOs claim that the process was not transparent and the engagement was a mere formality. Before the first draft of the plan was submitted to the Commission in October 2020, professional associations, unions, CSOs, and other actors were not officially invited to participate in the process. The Ministry of Industry and Trade organized participative round tables in December 2020. However, the rules for participation and how were the invited stakeholders selected remain unclear. These were mainly the government's council representatives, national research institutions, and employers' associations (marked with ""yes"" in question 8). No version of the plan was made publicly available until March 25, 2021, when the Ministry of Industry and Trade launched the NRRP's official website. The CSOs' voiced their critical remarks during an online discussion organized by the EC Representation in the Czech Republic on March 10, 2021. Within this open online discussion, where the NRRP's representative was present, various organizations focusing on gender equality, sustainable development, social and environmental issues criticized the designing process, the content of the plan, and how the Ministry approached suggestions for revisions of the plan. The NRRP's representative objected to the claims regarding the insufficient involvement of CSOs in the designing process during the online discussion. Several CSOs then sent an official open letter with those critical reflections to the Minister of Industry and Trade on April 21, 2021, demanding further involvement of CSOs in the implementation process of the plan, including CSOs' representatives' membership in the Committee of the NRRP.",Yes,"The Ministry of Industry and Trade launched an official website and published the NRRP -related documents in late March 2021. The NRRP was subjected to formal consultations in April 2021. The process allowed for suggestions and comments from a variety of stakeholders. But given the fact the plan was officially submitted on June 1, 2021, the time for significant revisions was somewhat limited. There were also several online debates and events of an informative character organized for the general public.",No,,,No,No,No,No,,"Although there might be some positive reactions to the NRRP, negative and critical remarks are more common in the public debate concerning the plan's content. The relevant stakeholders appreciate that several components have been removed from the plan following strong criticism from the CSOs. Namely investments in highways, re-financialization of the newly legislated tax reforms affecting the state budget deficit, investments in LNG/CNG vehicles and infrastructure. However, positive comments do not concern gender+ issues. ",,Yes,No,No,No,,"The NRRP fails to propose complex and multidisciplinary reforms. It is a mere compilation of (mainly already existing) projects which does not meet the Commission's requirement to provide an ambitious and transformative plan. 

It fails to tackle the negative impact of the Covid-19 policies on social inequalities. 

It fails to propose significant investments into the integration of the Roma community and ambitious measures promoting gender equality.

",,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,,"During the overall process, relevant stakeholders - especially CSOs - were not sufficiently involved in the designing process. The Ministry of Industry organized participative round tables in December 2020. However, the rules for the stakeholders' selection remain unclear. As the CSOs stressed, the overall process was untransparent and managed ""behind a closed door."" The NRRP was subjected to formal consultations in April 2021. But as the Ministry submitted the plan on June 1, 2021, the time for significant revisions was limited.
",Ad question 12 + 13 - Negative remarks about the designing process and the content of the Czech NRRP & selected quotes (see the National Grid)
France,Approved by EC,,,815,2,"Gender (genre) is not commonly used. It only appears in the title of the chapter  ""Gender equality and Equality of opportunities"" (Egalité des genres et égalité des chances) - the 2 occurrences are in the title and in the index. The term ""gender""  is sometimes replaced by ""parité"" (4 times) or equality among women and men (24 times). The term (in)equality of opportunity (""chances"") - or sometimes of destiny (""destiné"")- is far more common in the text. In the text,  the two types of equality often appear, as in the expression  ""equality among women and men and equality of opportunity""",,No,The term violence does not appear,Yes,"Improvement of working conditions in the health sector, presented explicitely as concerning mainly women. Companies are encouraged to improve their gender performance and they will have to publish their equality index if they get funds from the recovery plan. A reform of the civil service includes a gender dimension : improving the percentage of women in higher positions, aiming to go from 37% to 40% ...",Yes,Companies are encouraged to improve their gender performance and obliged to publish a gender equality index if supported under the plan.,No,A law aims to reduce the gender pay gap (presented as part of the context of the plan but not part of the plan itself),Yes,"Improvement of working conditions in the health sector, presented explicitely as concerning women: ""The massive investments and reforms to strengthen the health system and for solid healthcare infrastructures will make it possible to promote equality between women and men, support the economic emancipation of women and fight against precarious conditions in a essential sector in which women represent the majority of workers"". ",Yes,Increasing the proportion of women in decision making positions in the civil service (from 37% to 40%),Yes,"Via measures against fuel poverty (single parent families are disproportionally affected, and the parents are are most often women) . Note that this argument is not made in the text, only poor families are mentionned.",Yes,Improvement of working conditions in the health sector.,No,,,Yes,"Energy renovation of housing to reduce energy spending of poor households and provide ""savings on the energy bill of the households concerned and in particular for the most modest households (and a potential gain on their purchasing power)"". Improvement of housing policy will make it fairer (eg attibution of council housing). The reform of the civil service aims to make it more open to people of ""diverse"" origins.",Yes,"Youth is one of the main targets of the plan (training, employment). Measures support their employment, apprenticeships and education, including drop-outs. The policy for elderly and very elderly people is to be reformed, facilitating their remaining at home and financing dependence.  Elderly people are also indirectly supported via support for care-taking professions.",Yes,Support for their access to employment,No,,Yes,"Ethnicity is never explicitely mentionned but ""discrimination"" or ""equality of opportunity"" in fact include this dimension. The reform of the civil service aims to make it more open to people of diverse origins.",No,,No,,No,,Yes,Territorial inequalities (particularly with the overseas territories) in fact cover socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in particular. There are also measures for rural territories.,"The plan accepted by the EU and analysed here (text on Commission website) represents 40% of a wider recovery plan. The EU-approved plan plan includes some measures to improve gender equality but it is not a major issue. The most prominent points include 1) improving the work conditions and pay in the health system, which is presented as strongly impacting women ; 2) a reform of the civil service that should improve women's careers ; 3) pressure put on companies to improve gender equality and reduce pay-gaps. Disability is specifically mentioned, concerning access to employment. Other forms of inequality are adressed but generally without explicitly giving the grounds. They are called ""inequality of opportunity"" (and sometimes of ""destiny"") and are said to concern ""vulnerable groups"". The context often allows them to be identified as socio-economic (eg access to elite schools) and ethnic - this is never explicit. The words ""migrant"", ""refugee"", ""nationality"", ""religion"", ""sexual orientation"" do not appear in the text. The problems with the health system  (gender and socio-economicinequality) and with housing (socio-economic inequality) became particularly visible during the pandemic. This is said in the text of the plan.","Gender inequality is not really mainstreamed. It appears only in the health system (somewhat indirectly), in civil service careers and in an obligation to report. Measures to support youth (traing, employment) and old age are a important parts of the plan. Disability is rapidly mentionned. Other inequalities are not distinguihed or analysed. Calling them inequalities of ""opportunity"" or ""destiny"" euphemizes them and excludes any real analysis of their mechanisms. Ethnic inequalities are never mentioned explicitly, although they are a major source of social inequalities. ",,No,No,No,Yes,"The analysis on the issue of equality is not very enthusiastic: ""France’s recovery and resilience plan contains some measures that are expected to effectively address the country’s challenges in the area of gender equality and equal opportunities for all."" But it does not express any explicit criticism on gender issues.  The complete EC analysis of the plan in this area is: ""France’s recovery and resilience plan contains some measures that are expected to effectively address the country’s challenges in the area of gender equality and equal opportunities for all. These include reforms and investments supporting education (from early childhood), vocational training and access to employment of youth, including for children and youth from disadvantaged background. These also include specific measures to promote recruitment of workers with disabilities, including in the public service. The plan also draws the lessons from the crisis with reforms and investments supporting older persons, be they dependent or not, to improve their quality of life and care. As regards gender equality, the key measures relate to the transformation of the public service with quantitative objectives for women in management positions and to pay transparency obligations for companies. Moreover, the measure setting out how companies benefitting from recovery and resilience plan funds should contribute to economic, social, and environmental transformations includes the obligation for companies to publish an index measuring progress in the area of gender equality.""",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,"CSOs were consulted - no detail is provided. So were European partners and ""expert panels and think tanks"". Note that among academics, only economists are mentioned.","The EC-approved plan is part (40%) of the national recovery plan, France Relance. The conultations were for the whole plan. They took place between May and August 2020. I haven't found many details about the process (the most complete description is in the text of the recovery plan).",No,,Cannot assess,Very unlikely,,No,No,No,No,,I haven't seen any,,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,Academics,"1) A detailed analysis from Fondation des Femmes (Women's Foundation) says gender is not taken into account in the plan and that it focusses on sectors where there are few women (digital, environmental). 2) The economist Thomas Piketty says it ""completely ignores the request for social justice that expressed itself in the country over the past few years and that is still very strong"". 3)A major trade union, CFDT regrets that the poorest household are missed out ""the ones that have few resources and who need a helpinghand"". ",,No,No,No,No,,I haven't seen any,
Germany,Approved by EC,,,1110,gender: 2 | Geschlecht: 17,"""Geschlecht"" is the English ""sex"" OR ""gender""",,No,,Yes,"_Inclusion in the labor market by financing child care also beyond the classic working hours to support the participation of women. 

_The modernization of educational institutions of the Federal Armed Forces by improving the qualification measures through offering more educational opportunities on-line. The program dtec.bw is a digitization and technology center of the universities of the Armed Forces aiming at adapting individual research conditions, like the adaptation of working hours or the facilitation of the arrangement of private and professional life. Applications from women are explicitly requested. Special programs like mentoring-programs for female executives or career events for women are planned.

_Gender stereotypes are wished to be abolished, the program ""girls' day/boys' day"" is mentioned but it already has been existing for several years. 

_By 2025 the Government aims at equalizing the participation of female and male executives in the public service by reinforcing it in the Federal Equality Law. There was a draft law to facilitate executives to work in part-time positions. At companies with majority stake of the state, a minimum share of one woman shall be required as well as in public corporations and a 30% of a quoted company's directory shall be composed of women. Sanctions are planned. 
[202 words]
",No,,Yes,"_For children being born after January 1st of 1992, an additional half year of educational time will be added so that parents gain 2.5 points for the pension. This is meant for mothers and fathers, depending on who takes the parental leave. 

_Since 2019, the German Government has been relieving citizens of low and middle income with respect to taxes and duties. According to the NRRP, women and especially single mothers do profit from this relief. 

_The Digital Pension Overview shall promote more transparency for everyone of which women do benefit especially. Also people with disabilities will benefit as the Overview will be established in an accessible way. 
[108 words]
",Yes,"_4.1.1.: ""Expansion of child care"": More investment in child care is planned (1 Billion euros for 2020 and 2021) to create 90,000 more childcare places, also beyond the classic work time. 

_Parents can now claim fulltime child care for schoolchildren, new investments up to 3,4 billion euros are proposed. The aim is to offer parents the possibility of being involved in the labor market in a stronger way. 

_The law for parental leave has been adapted by September 2021. Working parents can now work up to 32 hours weekly (before: max. 30 hours/week) and still receive parental benefits.

_Care supporting benefits can be claimed up to 10 working days for short-time work prevention.

_Child benefit for families: Parents received a one-time benefit of 300 euros in 2020 for each child, in 2021 150 euros have been disbursed.

_Single parents received a doubled relief amount in taxes, rising from 1,908 to 4,008 euros for the years 2020 and 2021.

_Broader child care, is mentioned, is an advantage especially for socially neglected children, to strengthen their educative competences. 
[176 words]",No,,No,,No,,No,,,Yes,"_4.1.4.: ""Support of pupils with learning arrears"": A reform program to support pupils with arrears in learning development due to the pandemic. The program aims at offering measures in the early childhood and extracurricular for children and youths affected by the pandemic.  The aim is to offer learning support to up to 25% of the 11 million pupils in Germany in 2021/2022. Also a program for adults, like literacy at work, especially for low-skilled adults is planned.
_4.1.3.: ""Securing Training"": Improve educational results of socially disadvantaged groups. 
[87 words}",Yes,"See ""social class/socioeconomic background""

The quality of education is addressed through different measures like
-strengthening the basic competences: learning and teaching orthography in elementary and secondary schools
-strengthening the educational language of German for all pupils
-integration of refugees at universities and on the labor market
-professional teams to integrate and include pupils into vocational training
-projects to foster social and labor integration and fight against poverty

Especially young people are affected by declining recruitment on the labor market so that the NRRP proposes investment in educational measures like the ""Nationale Weiterbildungsstrategie (NWS)"", the National Strategy for Continuing Education"" and the support of vocational training. 

_2.2.+3.1.: Digitization of Economy and Education: Further training shall be offered to citizens of all ages and by 2025 50% of all adults shall have had the opportunity to take part in a further education measure. By 2025 the share of digitally educated adults (between 16-74) shall be of 70%. At least 75% of pupils younger than 13 years shall have an average knowledge of IT usage.
[172 words]",Yes,"Bundesteilhabegesetz (Law for participation): in force since 2017, supporting the integration of disabled (young) people in the labor market. The barrier liberty shall be expanded by creating standardized requirements. The law supports the participation of people with disabilities and elderly people by:
-an equal access to information and communication
-a widened offer of barrier free products and services
-the strengthening of competition and lower prices for barrier free products and services

In the educational framework, digitization shall be widened, ""every pupil shall have equal access to distance learning over broadband connectivity and IT-devices and have required digital competences. This is also applicable for pupils with disabilities"" (own translation). 
[108 words]",No,"see ""Other""",No,"see ""Other""",No,,No,,No,,Yes,"The aspect of multiple discrimination is mentioned regarding labor market and the risk of long-term unemployment. Especially young adults and people with migratory background are mentioned here. 

_4.1.3.: ""Securing Training"": The population with migratory background has grown in the last years and has become more heterogeneous. Several measures that have taken place in the last years, since 2017, are mentioned. Since March 2020, the Law for Immigration of professionals shall facilitate the visa application of skilled personnel from abroad. There is no special mention of gender-related measures. 
The measures of the Catalogue to fight racism and right-wing extremism aims at expanding intercultural living and diversity in the public sector, the support of societal engagement of people with migratory background and the strengthening of integratory measures with a relation to sports. These measures are subject to the availability of budget funds.  
[140 words]","The ""Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz"" (General Law for Equal Treatment), is the basis for the protection against discrimination regardless of one's ethnicity, religion, worldview, sexual identity, gender, age or disability. The NRRP recognizes that the skew of equality becomes more visible in the crisis of covid-19 pandemic: unpaid care work is distributed in an unequal way, the protection from domestic violence has to be guaranteed with new measures during this crisis. Specific measures are not mentioned. The NRRP states that equality between men and women is the condition for a sustainable development of society but does not consider explicitly additional forms of gender (LGTBQ, etc.). A gender+ perspective is lacking. 
A more detailed plan of measures is provided in the Strategy for Equality in which the NRRP is embedded. It is said that where measures do not mention directly equality, the following laws have to be taken into account: Basic law including Law for equal treatment, Law for the enforcement of accessibility, the Federal Law for Equality for people with disability and the national commitment of considering Gender-Mainstreaming. 

In the NRRP's chapter of inclusion and integration, the gender perspective has an important role and is addressed especially in relation to labor market conditions, meaning the aim of creating more equality between men and women on the work context. Disparities in the salaries between men and women are mentioned and the aim is to create equality. What is missing is the ""+ Perspective"" as there is no relation made to e.g. women with migratory background or women with disabilities. All the additional perspectives to gender (refugees, social inequality, etc.) are mentioned separately but without making reference in special to gender. 

Changes in the tax paying system do affect women in a positive way, if they are care-givers like mothers or others. 

Regarding the gender+ perspective, there is a lack in mentioning sexual orientation and identity - the NRRP talks about men and women in a classic binary way. It is said that the key to create more tax and pension equality is the compatibility of family and career. A change in an additional load of care and household work cannot be seen in evidence, but it is still clear that the care burden has also been taken mostly by women before the pandemic.

As a measure to create more equality on the labor market, broader child care is the major (and only) focus.
[400 words]","A gender+ perspective is generally missing, as mentioned above. The gender aspect in general is mentioned but at certain points no explicit measures are mentioned, the wording is very theoretical and does not propose any solutions. Already existing laws are mentioned which is valuable because it means that Germany has already been implementing solutions for more gender equality, apart from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, it is very obvious that there has been no involvement of gender-related institutions because of the lacking additional perspective. 

""Gender"" is reduced to broader child care and the ""+ -perspective"" is completely left apart. 
[101 words]
",,No,No,No,No,Not mentioned at all. ,,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,No,Cannot assess,Yes,No,No,Yes,No,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,No,No,Yes,"Foundations and the Federal States, Welfare associations","In the case of welfare associations, there are mentioned the following:
_AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt for humanitarian aid and development cooperation)
_BAGFW (THe Federal Association of Non-statutory Welfare)
_BAGÜS (Federal Working Group for Social Aid)
_Caritas
_Der Paritätische (Parity Association)
_German Red Cross
_Diakonie (social welfare organisation of Germany’s Protestant churches)
_German Association for Public and Private Welfare
_National Poverty Conference

Environmental Associations were considered, as well, but there was no relation made to gender topics.

_The Confederation of German Employers' Associations was considered for the programs regarding training and education.


The social partners, as they are called in the German NRRP, were consulted with the aim to establish the NRRP. The social partners received the first draft of the document in February 2021 and the comments were taken into consideration during the final completion of the plan. Furthermore, interviews were held with representatives of the associations and position papers were included. 

Regarding some explicit measures, the partners were part of the drafting process. 
[153 words]
",No,,No,,Not found,No,No,No,No,,"The NRRP has not received a lot of attention in Germany. It seems to be obvious that already planned German reforms have been transferred to the NRRP due to the economic advantage it has for the government. Reactions to the plan mostly come from NGOs working in the field of ecology and do not consider any critique on gender perspectives. Reactions are made regarding climate protection and digitization. 

The Gender Institute for Gender Equality Research published a statement on the National Economic Stimulus Package published by the German Government which considers already political measures as an answer to the Covid-19 pandemic. This package has received more media attention than the NRRP and, as stated by the Institute, has several overlaps with the NRRP. 
[124 words]
",Not found,No,No,No,No,,,Not found,No,No,No,No,,,
Greece,Approved by EC,,,892,46 occurences of the word gender ,58 occurences of the word women,,No,,No,,Yes,"Gender equality and diversity are mainstreamed in priniciple to Axis 2,3 on the digital transformation of businesses which includes measures for the creation of a digital ecosystem and tax incentives for the digital transformation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through the financing of digital tools and services, reinforcement of  innovation, and spread of their digital maturity. ",No,,Yes,"The Plan notes that one of the labour market challenges for Greece is the lack of adequate and efficient care of children and the elderly leading especially mothers to experience work-life balance issues that many deal with by quiting the labour market. Measures to combat the gender care gap include under Axis 3.4:  (1) the creation of new child care units (especially for children under the age of 2,5 years), including day care centres in private companies, and (2) a special program of care for disabled children, which aims -amongst others- at improving the integration of mothers in the labour market. ",No,,No,,No,,Yes,"One of the flagships of the Plan focuses on digital skills upskilling and reskilling with emphasis on the participation of women and girls. (Axes: 2.2., 2.3.,3.1., 3.2., 3.4., 4.3., 4.6). Mesures introduced Under Axis 3, include  a program that subsidizes training in Science Technology, Education and Mathematics (STEM) for highschool students, with a 50% quota for girls. ",,Yes,"Measures to address class and socioeconomic inequalities include: (1) Beneficiaries of the Minimum Basic Income, which is a program of monthly allowances given to households with income below the threshold of poverty, and homeless people have priority in active and passive labour market programs and in training (Axis 3), and (2) Poor households have access to a special allowance for heating which is aimed at combating energy poverty. ",Yes,There is a special training program for the enhancement of digital skills of elderly people (Axis 3). ,Yes,"Measures to increase the labour market participationand socioeconomic integration of disable people include: (1) the Personal Care Assistant program(Axis 3), which has the double purpose of (a) providing support to people with disabilities to find work and (b) creating jobs for carers of people with disabilities including children in the austism spectrum, (2) adults in the autism spectrum are given priority in active and passive labour market programs and in training (Axis 3)",Yes,"There are provisions for a special training program in Axis 3 focused on the integration of refugees in the labour market. In Axis 3,4, which is targetting inequalites in the access to the social system, there is a program for the digital reform of the system asylum serices, which is not very clearly connected to equality (Investment 5).  ",Yes,Greek Roma adults are given priority in active and passive labour market programs and in training (Axis 3),No,,No,,No,,Yes,"There is a series of measures that aims at reinforcing diversity in the labour market: (1) the strengthening of the Observatory for Equality of the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, which  collects data and publishes reports on diversity in the labour market (including gender, disability, income, migration, ethnicity), (2) the mplementation of the Diversity Badge Scheme that gives companies incentives to hire more workers from diverse groups, to enhance intersectional diversity (3)the development of a horizontal training program promoting diversity in the labour market, prioritizing the public sector but implemented also in the private sector. ","The Plan contains  46 references to the word ""gender"". However, gender is mostly included in the Plan in broad terms rather than as a principle guiding concrete policy measures. Most of the references to gender refer to EU policy principles and mention inequalities between men and women. There are 58 occurences of the word ""women"". The plan observes  in particular that one of the major labour market challenges that Greece faces is the low participation rates and high unemployment rates of women in the labour market that preceeded the pandemic. However, the plan is very vague about gender equality and does not propose concrete measures for the integration of women into the labour market apart from measures for work-life balance. There are two Axes that include gender senistive policies. First, gender is mainstreamed in Axis 2.3, where it is mentioned that gender equality will be prioritized in relation to the program for the financing of the digital transformation in SMEs. However, the plan does not explain in a clear way how gender mainstreming will be implemented. Moreover, gender equality is mentioned in a more substantial way in Axis 3.4, where issues related to the care of children, those with diabilities and the elderly are discussed.  The plan notes that parents, especially mothers, in Greece experience work-life imbalance issues that explain the low participation rated in the labour market. The plan introduces a series of measures to combat the gender care gap that are mostly focused on mothers rather than the gender sharing of care responsibilities in households. The plan includes a budget (a)for  the creation of new child care units (especially for children under the age of 2,5 years), including day care centres in private companies, and (2) for a special program of care for disabled children. This focus on women as mothers in the plan is in tune with the broader political principles of the current Right wing government that has ephasized the need to support families and promote measures to fight against the demographic deficit, a political orientation that became manifest clearly in the renaming of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality into General Secretariat for Family Policy, Demography and Gender Equality.  In addition the plan introduces policy measures aimed at enhancng diversity in the labour market. These include the strengthening of the Observatory for Equality of the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, which  collects data and publishes reports on diversity in the labour market (including gender, disability, income, migration, ethnicity), and the implementation of the Diversity Badge as an incentive for companies to hire more workers from diverse groups. In this context, the plan also envisages the financing of a training program promoting diversity in the labour market, mostly in the public sector, but also in the private sector and several training initiatives that prioritize or are exclusively  focused on vulnerable and ddidavantaged groups: training on STEM for high school children with a 50% quota on women and girls, digital skills training for the elderly, training for the integration of refugees and the Greek Roma. Overall, however the Plan does not mention explicitely intersectional measures. ","In general, the Plan is missing policies  that would enhance sectors in which womens' and LGBTQ+ employment is prevalent including health, care, the environment, culture, education and policies that would encourage women's and LGBTQ+ enterpreneurship. More specifically, the Plan is missing substaintial policy measures, which are important for gender equality during the pandemic: 1. promoting the creation of new jobs of high quality for women in the labour market given the persistent gender gaps in participation and unemployment but also for other groups who are excluded from participation in the labour market because of intersectional inequalities  social class, migrant status, race and sexual orientation,  2. against the gender pay and pension gaps, 3.  against the second pandemic that the country is facing in parallel with the COVID-19 pandemic:  the rise in Gender Based Violence (GBV) against women and LGBTQ+, 4. for support of feminised sectors of the public healthcare system (nurses, doctors, cleaners, carers) which were already severely understaffed and underfunded before the pandemic and our now facing an emense crisis, 5. ensuring that public and free of charge services for the reproductive health of women and girls remain functional, 6. promoting LGBTQ+ rights and socioeconomic integration of vulnerable subgroups, such as trans sex workers, and 7. measures promoting the socioeconomic integration of female and LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, migrants and refugees, who are facing extreme forms of exclusion or exploitation because of racism and xenophobic prejudices.  ",,No,No,No,No,The 2019  and 2020 Recomendations on the National Reform Programs of Greece noted they did  not take sufficient policy measures to address the persistent low labour market participation of women. Neverthless the European Commission's Analysis of the Plan is very positive regarding gender eqyality and  argues that it includes effective measures to combate gender inequalities in the labour market. ,,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,No,Yes,No,No,Yes,No,No,Yes,No,Yes,Environmental groups,"According to the Plan, the process was based on three elements: (A) Consultations and meetings with selected actors and local authorities, (B) Deliberation with the Greek Economic and Social Committee,(C)  Public deliberation through the opengov website. There are no details on the gender equality organisations that participated but they are mentioned in the Plan. However, there are several social partners that publically complained because there was no consultation arguing that the deliberation was not genuine.  ",Yes,"The Plan was deliberated  in a special meeting between the government and the Greek European and Social Committee, which is composed of representatives of employers, trade unions, NGOs and includes also some gender equality organizations.  In parallel, the Plan was published for deliberation on the website of the Greek government opengov.gr (according to article 61 of  Law 4622/2019) and in a website dedicated to the Plan. According to the Plan, all the responses were taken in consideration and a relevant report was composed and circulated internally on the results of the deliberation of the Plan. In addition, the government organized meetings with selected actors  and with local authorities (regions, municipalities) throughout the writing of the plan. ",No,,,No,No,Yes,Yes,Environmental Organizations,"Employers associations welcomed the Plan. 1. The Hellenic Federation of  Enterprises published a report that argued that if the Plan is implemented the country would move to a new era of growth and innovation without refering to gender equality issues.  https://www.capital.gr/oikonomia/3598381/seb-i-ellada-epistrefei-mesa-apo-tin-kainotomia. 2. The Pharma Innovation Forum of Greece, representing 25 of the largest pharamaceutical companies in Greece welcomed the new Plan, empahsizing the reform of the healthcare system especially regarding medicine will lead to growth and innovation. There were no references to gender equality. https://www.pifgreece.gr/el/node/38 3.  In a conference on the topic, several Environmental Organizations presented their views, which emphasized soe positive aspects of the Plan, part of which focuses on investments for the protection of the environment. http://iobe.gr/docs/pub/RLS_30092021_PRS_GR.pdf",,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,Political Parties,"When the Plan was presented in Greece, in general, there was not a lot of public debate about the gender aspects of the Plan. 1. Labour unions  criticised it for not taking into account the interests of workers. The General Confederation of Greek Workers -amongst other cricticisms- emphasised that the Plan should include as an indicator  the gender wage gap.  2. Association of enterprises also pointed out that the Plan did not consider women's enterpreneurship. The Institute of  Small Enterprises published an opinion that argued that the Plan should consider the gender wage gap, but also how unpaid domestic and care work performed by women as well as gender stereotypes prevent the integration of women in the labour market  https://imegsevee.gr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/keimeno_gmonis16.pdf 3. Political parties criticised the Plan and proposed alternative approaches. The opposition party of the left Syriza presented an alternative in which it proposed some gender sensitive measures, including (1) training and public benefit programs offering 12 month employment to youth and women, (2) higher investment to health and education to provide more security to women and more jobs, since the percentage of women in these sectors is high, and (3) investment in infrastructures for temporary housing  for the homeless (with emphasis on women, children, victims of trafficking). One of the most focused  reactions to the Plan, was by the Green Party of Greece (Ecologoi Prasinoi - EP) which published a detailled critique of the program from a gender perspective:  (see https://ecogreens.gr/issues/ena-ethniko-schedio-anakampsis-kai-anthektikotitas-gia-dikaii-katanomi-metaxy-ton-fylon/) The Plan is criticised for a lack of gender perspective and the EP proposes that resources should be directed towards the construction of energy, transport, agriculture , which have a very low percentage of women's employment. Following the European Green Party Political Parties decision, the EP demands that 50% of the recovery plan should be directed towards women's employment and enterpreneurship. They also argue for obligatory gender equality audits, and clear gender equality policies and criteria of evaluation. More specific proposals from the EP include: (1) Investments in education and the digitalisation of care, (2) Gender equality plans that receive state funding, (3) funding for the collaborative economy and especially feminist collaborative initiatives, (3) Transparent gender budgeting and audits, and (4) the equal participation of women in decision making on the Plan. ",,Yes,No,No,No,," Most feminist organizations and LGBTQ+ did not react directly to the Plan. Nevertheless, the Greek Forum for the Feminist Strike of the 8th of May published a declaration that demanded -amongst others- the participation of feminist groups in the policy making of recovery plans in roder to fight against inequality and gender gaps in the labour market and promote the full integration fo women and the support of gender friendly social and care policies and teh preservation and expansion of councelling centres and shelters for victims of GBV. In March 2021, 83 Civil society organizations some of which are active in gender equality published a common communication denouncing the lack of transparency and participation of civil society organizations in the consultation for the Plan. https://mdmgreece.gr/kini-anakinosi-83-organoseon-schetika-ethniko-schedio-anakampsis/",
Hungary,Submitted to EC,,"Hungary is being asked to commit to anti-corruption reforms, as well as provide better guarantees for the independence of the courts for businesses. The delay in an assessment was initially prompted by widespread corruption concerns, deteriorating relations between the commission and Orbán's government, which only escalated after Budapest introduced anti-LGBTIQ legislation over the summer. The Orbán government has accused the commission of using the delay as ""blackmail"" to get it to change this legislation. The law has been challenged by the commission, which launched an infringement procedure against it.",427,9 - women; 93 - family; 6 - mother ,"It is a good indication of the ideology of government on women that the term ""family"" is used most often in the Plan.  ","The Action Plan aims to carry out further researches, but not actions.
The Action Plan aims to carry out researches to provide a basis for future measures to assess the needs of women and men and the low rates of atypical forms of employment through research, to analyse gender employment gaps, to examine the different participation of women and men in ""unpaid"" work, to examine the role of carers (caring for sick or elderly relatives) through research, to examine the role of men in the family and to investigate the causes of the pay gap between women and men. research on women and men in employment.
",No,,No,,No,,No,,Yes,"The component of ""Demography and public education""
mentions as a problem the employment differences/gap between the sexes, and the difficulty of reconciliation
between work and family life, that even put more burden on women with small children due to the Covid-19
pandemic. As a response the RRF plans the capacity building of the nursery institutions among the reforms,
arguing that: ""The presence of nursery care helps families with young children to find a balance by parents,
basically women, between family and work.",No,,No,,No,,No,,,Yes,"Catching-up municipalities
The overall goal of the component is the complex development of the 300 most disadvantaged settlements identified on the basis of objective criteria and the unique, diagnosis-based reduction of their economic, social and territorial disadvantages. The component's measures respond to country-specific recommendations on improving access to basic services and quality education, access to good quality preventive and basic 
care services, the adequacy of social benefits, and the integration of the most vulnerable groups into the labour market, but they also contribute to green and digital transition through renewable energy production and the strengthening of digital competences. The activities will also assist to the European Union Flagship Initiatives through power up (social solar power plant construction), renovate (housing interventions), reskill and upskill programs. With its complex approach, the “Catching-up municipalities” programme aims at a social policy turn in tackling the problems of lagging settlements. Interacting elements of the component serve to increase the social mobility of individuals, and to strengthen families and local communities by offering responses to the deficiencies that may vary in nature and extent from settlement to settlement.",Yes,One of the main objectives of the health care system is to improve the health of the population and to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life and self-sufficiency of the elderly by increasing the efficiency of prevention and patient care and access to care.,No,,No,,Yes,Providing inclusive education to the Roma children,No,,No,,No,,No,,"The national recovery and resilience plan suffers from fundamental shortcomings in terms of gender equality and the enforcement of women's rights. The RRP does not include the main problems and challenges related to the subject. There is a lack of reforms and measures planned for the various target groups of women particularly affected by the epidemic. Moreover, several social problems that came to the fore or worsened in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic are not reflected at all in the plan. 
The gender mainstreaming strategy is not applied in the document. With regard to gender equality, it does not name the most important problems and challenges; it fails to show in which areas and how women have been affected by the crisis. Equality between women and men does not appear as a goal and aspect in the sections on the goals of RRP and the most important aims of RRP’s components. Although the document contains some related relevant objectives and measures for certain components, reforms and measures targeting specifically women - in their own right - appears in only one case. The part of the document containing the comprehensive impact analysis of the RRP does not contain information on the expected impact in terms of gender equality, although decreasing the employment differences between women and men appears as a goal here. In addition, gender mainstreaming as an aspect and method does not follow the document in a consistent and complex way. A separate point/part in the RRP is “Gender equality and equal opportunities for all”. However, this part of the document is less than two pages long. The text contains very limited and rather general information on gender equality in itself, but especially in light of the significant economic and social volume, potential added value and relevance of the EU recovery development package. Only one component refers here to the need to ensure access to certain services without discrimination on basis of sex - which may be relevant in some cases to promote equality, but is by no means sufficient. 
",,,Yes,No,Yes,Yes,Leading women rights ngos- who based on the internatonal human rights obligation frameworks were not involved in the design of the plan,,Cannot assess,No,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,No,No,No,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,No,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,,"It is very difficult to assess this point, because the Plan says that all the actors listed here have been involved in the consultation, but for example, the leaders of the umbrella organisation of the largest women's organisations I interviewed and the leader of the largest women's trade union have not been consulted about the Plan.  ",Yes,"The draft document was available on a governmental and it was possible to send comments on it, but until the last moment, onliy this short version of the Plan was avaialbel to the public. ",No,,,No,No,No,No,,,,Yes,No,No,No,,"The RRP contains only two pieces of statistical data that are disaggregated by sex.
The RRP actually discusses only two issues that specifically refer to the situation of women. The component of ""Demography and public education"" mentions as a problem the employment differences/gap between the sexes, and the difficulty of reconciliation between work and family life, that even put more burden on women with small children due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a response the RRF plans the capacity building of the nursery institutions among the reforms, arguing that: ""The presence of nursery care helps families with young children to find a balance by parents, basically women, between family and work."" No other related reforms and measures are planned. The component of ""Catching-up settlements"" (addressing the situation of the most disadvantageous localities) aims - among others - ""the activation of women inhabitants, levelling up their skills and qualifications that fit to the labour market needs and conditions, through producing local products. This aim is not further elaborated and translated into measures, however. 
The RRP also does not address the problem of single parents, the vast majority of whom are women, who are particularly disadvantaged, and whose paid work has often become impossible to carry out due to the closure of educational institutions. 
Among the problems the RRP fails to address it is essential to mention violence against women, and within that, specifically domestic violence and intimate partner violence.
The RRP does not target (with a few exceptions) the human resource-based development of professions that are mainly occupied by women and are particularly affected by the pandemic.

The assessment is based on the opinion and recommendations of NANE Women’s Rights Association, PATENT (People Opposing Patriarchy) Association, Hungarian Women’s Lobby, EMMA Association and Jól-Lét Foundation",,Yes,No,No,No,,"The Hungarian Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) informs that in relation to the drafting process around 500 actors have been approached directly for partnership and for reviewing the documents, including civil society advocacy organizations, and among them women’s organizations. The most prominent women organizations as NANE Women’s Rights Association, PATENT (People Opposing Patriarchy) Association, Hungarian Women’s Lobby, EMMA Association and Jól-Lét Foundation have not been approached for this review - although have supported and are supporting EU policy processes by different professional means, including at national level. Taking into account the deadline of 30 April for the submission of national plans to the European Commission, there was a fairly short time to comment on the draft plan, which was published by the government on 16 April. These organizations submitted the comments and suggestions to the government in connection with the published draft, but these were apparently not taken into account and included in the Recovery and Resilience Plan submitted to the European Commission.",
Ireland,Approved by EC,N/A,N/A,30,4,The word 'women' was also used 4 times through the document in relation to COVID-19 related inequalities. ,,No,,Yes,The NRRP for Ireland includes the Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP) and the Solas Green Skills Action programme which will provide workers affected by the pandemic with re-skilling for the areas which are experiencing growth and skills shortages. Women are explicitly mentioned as a group disproportionally affected by the pandemic and thus a target group for these two programmes.  Specific measures include allowing One-Parent Family Payment (which is disproportionally allocated to women) as eligible payment for WPEP. ,Yes,The Digital Transformation Plan includes the following statement: 'Administration of the fund will incorporate a social sustainability proofing scoreboard to ensure consideration of gender equality and equal rights and opportunities for all in financing decisions'. Also gender disaggregated data will be included where possible.  ,No,,No,,No,,No,,Yes,"While gender is not mentioned specifically in relation to health, part of the plan aims at achieving the European Pillar of Social Rights Healthcare objective that 'everyone has the right to timely access to affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality'. ",Yes,"Yes, but while it includes vulnerable persons and those from underrepresented groups, it does not mention gender or women specifically. Section 3.3: Technological Universities Transformation Fund includes a promise to 'ensure learner access in the context of required digital connectivity and meeting the needs of vulnerable persons including those in under-represented or socially or economically disadvantaged groups or areas in these contexts' (for NFQ Level 6 & 7 and apprenticeship space). Particular focus given to flexible course provision, distance learning, part-time, online or blended learning, lifelong learning and higher education access for vulnerable or marginalised groups. ",,Yes,"The plan includes an objective to mainstream essential digital skills across all settings, in particular through schools. Among other measures, the plan also aims to distribute laptops to 20,000 disadvantaged students in further and higher education. A significant number of the proposed actions to support socioeconomic background are for example: education, training and lifelong learning, increase of employment opportunities, healthcare and access to essential services. A number of reforms to support the digital transformation of Irish education at all levels in particular technological skills to increase the numbers of graduates with high level ICT skills by over 65 percent. Ensure recovery measures that benefits both society and the economy by developing new models of social dialogue and engagement that include civil society. The NRRP should invest in addressing poverty if Ireland is to meet its commitments under the roadmap. This requires the government's approach which includes provision of universal basic services and decent work for all.",Yes,"The plan acknowledges the negative impact of COVID-19 on youth unemployment (19-24 age group). The programme will thus focus on the work placement programmes and support the existing Youth Employment Support Scheme. The programme will also provide digital infrastructure to schools and target young people through the broadband provision and access to digital infrastructure. In addition, the investment to support digital delivery of education in schools will support the development of digital competence throughout the school age population. For the older age groups, the reforms will address the increase in age-related expenditure by implementing pension reform plans (e.g. facilitate individuals moving from a pension scheme to a private pension). ",Yes,"The new Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP) includes Disability Allowance and Blind Person Pension as eligible payments. In practice, this means that those eligible will continue receiving the two payments if they take part in the WPEP programme. This will aim at development of additional options for the vulnerable cohorts and allow them to access new opportunities for career development. ",Yes,"The Social Impact section of the report includes the following general statement: 'Ireland is strongly committed to the advancement of gender equality and equal opportunities for all, including the context of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Equality in promoted through a range of cross-Governmental equality strategies which aim to address the particular needs of specific groups, including women and girls, and those with disabilities, Traveller and Roma inclusion, LGBTI+ inclusion and migrant integration. Work on promoting equality has adapted to address he impact of COVID-19'. (please not that the strategies were developed separately and not as part of NRRP)",Yes,"Same as nationality: the plan refers to cross-governmental equality strategies addressing specific groups, including Travellers, Roma, people of African and Asian descent, and migrants. It acknowledges the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on these groups, particularly in relation to housing, health status, and job joss as these groups were over-represented in sectors impacted by the pandemic. The plan does not list specific actions to tackle inequalities related to these grounds. ",No,,Yes,"LGTBI+ is only mentioned once in the document in a paragraph which emphasises Ireland's strong commitment to the 'advanced gender equality and equal opportunities for all'. Several groups are listed as groups whose needs will be addressed, such as women and girls, those with disabilities, Traveller and Roma, migrants and LGTBI+",No,,Yes,"The plan includes a general statement on commitment to equality, which is as follows: ""Ireland is strongly committed to the advancement of gender equality and equal opportunities for all, including in the context of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Equality is promoted through a range of cross-Governmental equality strategies which aim to address the particular needs of specific groups, including women and girls, those with disabilities, Traveller and Roma inclusion, LGTBTI+ inclusion and migrant integration. Work on promoting equality has adapted to address the impact of COVID-19"". This statement, however, is not accompanied by any specific action point in the NRRP document, except for ensuring that policies will include actions to promote equality, and that the Digital Transformation of Irish Enterprise will include proofing scoreboard for gender equality.  The greener economy must be a just transition and all measures incorporate mitigation and climate justice investment to ensure rural communities do not experience further inequality and poverty.","The overall orientation of the NRRP in Ireland is rather weak in incorporating a gender+ perspective. The published document comprises three priorities: (1) Advancing the Green Transition; (2) Accelerating and Expanding Digital Reforms and Transition; (3) Social and Economic Recovery and Job Creation. It also includes a separate 'Impact' section, which includes the Social Impact. The Social Impact section of the plan addresses gender equality and the strong commitment that Ireland has to gender equality and equal opportunities for all, including in the context of NRRP, however very few specific examples are given. Equality is pledged to be promoted 'trough range of cross-Governmental equality strategies which aim to address the particular needs of specific groups', listing women, those with disabilities, Traveller and Roma inclusion, LGTBI+ inclusion and migrant integration. The overall plan acknowledges that women were particularly vulnerable during COVID-19 from the labour market perspective (e.g. over-represented in sectors affected by the crisis) and the plan mentions inclusion of the vulnerable groups, including women, in the upskilling/re-skilling programmes. Educational strategy, namely the expansion of the Technical Universities, is also mentioned in this context as it includes members of vulnerable and marginalised groups. Fund administration is also planned to include 'a social sustainability proofing scoreboard' which ensures consideration of gender equality, as well as inclusion of gender disaggregated data where possible. There are no specific actions in the plan related to the support for GBV. Access to green spaces is also not mentioned in relation to any inequality grounds. Health is the only domain that is discussed in relation to equality, but the point made is rather vague, and just relates to 'equal access' without specifying any particular actions or measures. Quite importantly, however, it needs to be emphasised that the Irish NRRP document submitted to the EU was part of a larger Economic Recovery Plan, which includes a short section specific for gender, and makes the pursuit to promote gender equality as a priority. This, for example, includes the Gender Pay Gap Information legislation and the Enterprise Ireland Action Plan for Women in Business, which targets the rise in share of women led exporting companies. None of these issues are discussed or specifically mentioned in the NRRP plan submitted to the EU Commission. ","The Irish NRRP contains very little specific actions to address gender+ inequalities. While it acknowledges that women and those of minority background have been disproportionally affected by the pandemic, this acknowledgement mainly relates to the labour market. However, even in this instance, the NRRP only points out that certain sectors were negatively affected by lockdowns, and that women are often over-represented in these sectors , it does not propose any concrete action, except of the opportunities for re-skilling and upskilling.  All the proposed actions and investment do not mention women, or any minority groups specifically. The general statement on minorities (See the 'Other' and the 'Nationality' inequalities for details) refers to cross-governmental strategies, however these do not seem to be developed as part of the NRRP or the wider National Economic Recovery Plan 2021. The NRRP also does not include any measures to tackle low paid and precarious employment - two areas of work often over-represented by women and those of migration background. Improvements in access to health and housing are also only briefly mentioned under the broader priority of Social and Economic Recovery and Job Creation, but very little detail is provided. There is no indicative investment included for these two areas. Considering the housing crisis in Ireland, as well as significant inequalities in access to health, this two areas are not sufficiently addressed. The most important issue missing from the Irish NRRP is care (childcare and general care) which is an areas of considerable under-investment in Ireland. The Plan also does not address such areas as gender pay and pension gap, gender care gap, or gender-based violence. ",,No,No,No,Yes,"Two issues were pointed out in the EC analysis: (1) the widening gender employment gap, which needs to be improved; (2) the Commission also pointed out that there is scope for improved coverage of early childhood education in Ireland. As they noted, while the provision has improved, Ireland is still below the EU average in terms of children below 3 attending childcare; this continue to have a negative effect on employment gap. In addition, overall 'caring responsibilities' were noted to be above EU average and identified as a reason for economic inactivity of some people (even though women are not specifically mentioned at this point)",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,No,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,"Coalition 2030, European Anti Poverty Network, Focus Ireland, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed, Pavee Point (representing Travellers), Saint Vincent de Paul, Simon Communities of Ireland, UNICEF Ireland, Volunteer Ireland","In February 2021 the Department of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) coordinated a Public Consultation, requesting stakeholder input on two questions:  1) ‘What areas should Ireland prioritise for investments and reforms for inclusion in the plan?’ and 2)  ‘What Country Specific Recommendations received by Ireland in 2019 and 2020 are considered the most relevant for reflection upon in Ireland’s National Recovery and 
Resilience Plan?’ Stakeholders were given 20 days to respond and the government received over a 110 written submissions from: regional representatives, political parties, representatives of employers, trade unions, the farming community, voluntary organisations, women’s networks, youth organisations, environmental organisations, academia, businesses, legal and other professional organisations including civil society stakeholders, and members of the public. The submissions were summarised and shared with relevant government Departments as part of the plan development. A number of stakeholders also availed of the opportunity to discuss and have meetings with Government officials prior to and subsequent to submitting their proposals. These included stakeholders from the agriculture sector, environmental organisations and voluntary organisations. In addition to the public consultation, engagement with stakeholders took place through the Labour Employer Economic Forum, which brings together Trade Unions and employer representatives. The different components of the NRRP also drew on the ongoing engagement between Government Departments and stakeholders which takes place in a variety of formats, such as standing formal groups and through open public submissions and consultation processes, and through bilateral engagement. Engagement on the plan also took place with the Oireachtas (Parliamentary) Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, briefed by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Communication has also took place with the Oireachtas (parliamentary) Committee on European Affairs.",Cannot assess,"No details of such process available in addition to the process described in the stakeholder's involvement section above. The Irish NRRP does not provide much information on this question.  It mentions the type of stakeholders that were actively engaged, yet in a very general and vague manner, namely,  stakeholders from the agriculture sector, environmental organisations and voluntary organisations. However it does not specify what type of voluntary organisations were included.  In addition, it states that trade unions and employers were engaged, as well as a ""number of projects"" and TDs (MPs) in specific parliamentary committees.  ",Cannot assess,"This is not specified in the NRRP. However, the NRRP includes a proofing scoreboard to ensure consideration of gender equality and equal rights and opportunities for all in financing decisions in connection to a competitive fund to drive digital transformation of Irish Enterprise. ",,No,No,Yes,No,,"Ibec, the group that represents Irish business, welcomed the announcement of the Government’s National Economic Recovery Plan, stating that the plan provides certainty for business as the economy gradually begins to transition from Covid restrictions over the coming months. Chambers Ireland also released a statement following the publication of the NRRP in which they positively evaluated the plan to extend supports for businesses, in particularly small businesses. Neither of these two reactions, however, addressed the gender+ inequalities perspective. ",,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,Social Justice Ireland,"Reaction from Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU): ""Direct government grants to businesses, in the order of billions of Euros, must be conditional on a commitment by them to decent work and to retaining their workforce. We must end the scourge of low pay and precarious work and no longer tolerate bogus self-employment that pervades the sectors hardest hit. The race to the bottom must end"" (https://www.ictu.ie/news/ictu-response-national-resilience-and-recovery-plan). The National Women's Council did not react directly to the publication of the NRRP, but they did refer to the plan when speaking ahead of the National Economic Dialogue on the 28th of June 2021. They criticised the lack of significant investment in a public childcare model, public services and care economy to tackle the persistent inequalities for women. On the NRRP specifically, the statement was as follows: ""Despite the record investment over the past year, there are gaps in the provision of the basic services that have not been addressed through the last year's budget, the National Economic Recovery Plan or the Recovery and Resilience Plan, including the absence of a commitment to a public model"" (https://www.nwci.ie/learn/article/huge_concern_over_lack_of_attention_to_gender_equality_in_economic_decision). Similarly to the NWC, SIPTU (trade union), as well as Social Justice Ireland, issued statements related to the general Economic Recovery Plan, which includes the NRRP. In their statement, SIPTU was critical of the Economic Recovery Plan priority for business subsidies and called for a greater commitment to improve the situation of the precarious workers and low-paid workers (https://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2021/fullstory_22522_en.html). Social Justice Ireland also criticised the overall Economic Recovery Plan for falling short in addressing housing needs, climate change, inequality and healthcare, as well as the insufficient investment in childcare and education (https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/policy-issues/economic-recovery-plan-not-scale-required-address-challenges-we-face)",,No,No,No,Yes,"Sin Fein, the main opposition party","The government was criticised by the main opposition party, Sin Fein, for not consulting the NRRP with the Dail (parliament) before the plan was published. No draft has been presented to the members of the parliament prior to the submission. The criticism did not directly refer to any gender+ issues, it was pointed out that the NRRP was not paying sufficient attention to workers who were affected during the pandemic. ",
Italy,Approved by EC,,,269,gender: 72; women: 54,"The word gender (translated by the Italian word ""genere"" occurred 72 times within the NRRP (the words ""di genere"" have 61 occurrences; the words equal opportunity have 15 occurrences, 4 of them are related the Italian Department for Equal Opportunity). ",,Yes,"The NRRP does not contain focused measures to combat gender-based violence (word violence appears 3 times) but  it points out that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to an increase in GBV. GBV is addressed through some of the measures of Mission 5, on inclusion of vulnerable population and in particular on strengthening of public residential, of temporary housing and social housing. Mission 5 plays a major role in promoting women's empowerment and combating gender discrimination. The NRRP states: "" interventions are aimed at increasing infrastructures to address the main social vulnerabilities in the area of material poverty and housing hardship, through the strengthening of social services, the adoption of innovative models for taking care of the most fragile individuals with both temporary and permanent social housing initiatives. Specific measures to strengthen local social services and networks will make it possible to extend programmes to prevent family crises and their consequences on children, while forms of support will be activated for social workers themselves"" (pp. 201, 212). The NRRP also foresees the reform of the justice system, with specific measures on family matters.  Actions against GBV are at the core of the National Strategic plan against male violence on women 2021-2023.  ",Yes,"The NRRP emphasises (Chapters 1 and 2A) how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities, including gender inequalities in labour market, addressed by the Plan. The NRRP introduced advance mechanisms, such as equality criteria in calls for tenders, and made project funding subject to the condition of employing young people and women. Furthermore, promoting and strengthening gender equality is one of the three transversal issues of the NRRP. The NRRP is based on and implements the National Strategy for Gender Equality 2021-2026, which contains five priorities (work, income, skills, time, power).  The NRRP foresaw measures to encourage women's participation in the labour market, directly or indirectly, to correct the asymmetries that hinder equal opportunities from school age onwards.  Actions are taken to promote women's employment through: in Mission 5, the strengthening of active labour market policies and vocational training; measures to encourage the creation of women's enterprises; the introduction of a certification system for gender equality in enterprises; a national plan against undeclared work. In Mission 1  through the adoption of new recruitment mechanisms in the Public Administration and the review of opportunities for promotion to senior management positions. Measures dedicated to agile working in public administration is supposed to encourage a better work-life balance. ",Yes,"The NRRP foresees in Mission No. 5 the implementation of a reform of social safety nets and income support. This reform is aimed at simplifying disbursement procedures and broadening the scope of the recipients of support measures. The reform of the system of social safety nets will make it possible to cope with changes and instabilities in the labour market by supporting employment transitions and mitigating the social impact of crises. In particular, the Government aims at enlarging the number of firms and workers eligible for the Earnings Supplement Fund (Cassa Integrazione Guadagni), so as to build a more extensive, inclusive and resistant protection network against cyclical crises.",Yes,"The NRRP provides for the development - in Mission No. 5 - of an equal opportunities certification system for companies. One of the criteria of the certification system concerns equal pay. It is a national certification system for gender equality that accompanies and encourages enterprises to adopt adequate policies to reduce the gender gap in all the most ""critical"" areas (growth opportunities in the company, equal pay for equal tasks, gender management policies, maternity protection). The intervention has 3 components: - Definition of the system for gender equality certification and of the rewarding mechanism starting from the establishment of a Working Table on ""Gender certification of enterprises"", at the Equal Opportunities Department - Creation of an information system at the Department with the function of a platform for collecting gender-disaggregated data and information on certification, as well as the register of accredited bodies - Activation of the gender equality certification system starting from Q2 2022. The certification system will be open to all enterprises (large, medium, small and micro enterprises). In the experimental phase (2026), certification will be facilitated for medium-sized, small and micro-enterprises, and accompanied by accompanying services and assistance.",Yes,"In various parts of the NRRP it is stressed that the unequal burden of care work is mainly on the shoulders of women. The NRRP makes no specific reference to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this situation. The NRRP includes to the reform of the Family Act, and other measures to support families with children, promote women's participation in the labour market and supporting young people. The Family Act is the first comprehensive project to reform family policies, which focuses on strengthening the welfare system by introducing a single universal allowance, reviewing parental leave and supporting children's education, job security through measures to support women's work and a revision of the mechanisms for reconciling work and childcare for both parents. The Universal Single Allowance, was tested during the last month of 2021, will come into force from January 2022. The Mission 4 includes the strengthening of the education and training system by increasing in the supply of places in nurseries and kindergartens and the supply of full-time education in primary schools, for overcoming the existing problems which, together with the unequal distribution of the workload between men and women, penalises female participation in the labour market.",Yes,"From a general point of view, women's empowerment and combating gender discrimination are among the Plan's transversal objectives. Mission 1 (Digitalisation, Innovation, Competitiveness, Culture and Tourism) envisages the definition of new recruitment and career progression mechanisms with the Public Administration Reform. 
In terms of governance, a central coordination structure and local task forces have been set up for the NRRP by Decree Law No. 77 of 32 May 2021 to help territorial administrations improve their investment capacity and simplify procedures. The central coordination structure involves the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the undersecretaries and ministers involved in the implementation of the Plan, the President of the State-Regions Conference and, if necessary, the Presidents of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano. In addition, a technical secretariat, the central service for the NRRP at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, and a Permanent Table for the economic, social and territorial partnership were set up to advise on issues relating to the implementation of the NRRP with the involvement of the Regions, representatives of employers, trade unions and civil society organisations. It is difficult to know how many women are involved in the PNRR governance bodies.",Yes,"In general, all NRRP measures must apply the principle of not harming the environment (DNSH). Missions 2  and 3 of the NRRP foresee interventions for mobility, local public transport and railway lines and promote the improvement and accessibility of infrastructure and services for all citizens. However, the measures envisaged are not explicitly related to improving women's access to transport, while people with disabilities are explicitly mentioned. Mission No. 1 provides for the enhancement and regeneration of historic parks and gardens. One of the measures of Mission 5 concerns the rehabilitation of urban areas, with a focus on the rehabilitation of sports facilities and the creation of equipped urban parks ""in order to foster social inclusion and integration, especially in the most degraded areas and with special attention to disadvantaged people. The implementation of the project is divided into three phases: (i) preliminary analyses and actions necessary to best prepare for public procurement; (ii) start-up and implementation phase of the selected projects; (iii) monitoring and verification of the level of implementation of the projects, in order to identify the most effective ones to be promoted and replicated"" (p. 215). This measure is not explicitly related to gender discrimination.",Yes,"The NRRP emphasises that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light and expanded difficulties and problems in the National Health Service, addressed by Mission 6; the impact of the pandemic on the elderly and frail is also highlighted and is being addressed in Mission 5. Mission 6 contains interventions regarding health protection and, in particular, territorial medicine (through the strengthening and creation of Community Homes and Community Hospitals, the strengthening of home care, the development of telemedicine and more effective socio-healthcare integration) and innovation, research and the digitalisation of the national health service. The Plan explicitly indicates the possible impacts on gender gaps: ""The pandemic crisis is raising some reflections on the importance of gender differences in understanding the effects of pathologies, on which attention should be paid in the future and where relevant, differentiated paths of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation should be devised. 
A direct impact of this mission on gender gaps could come from strengthening outreach and home care support services. They could encourage an increase in employment both in the care services sector, to which women contribute more, and more generally in the economy by reducing the burden of care activities provided in the family by women"".",Yes,"The NRRP highlights the impacts of the pandemic on the economy and the labour market, especially for young people and women. Mission 4  contains measures to strengthen the education system and link it to the labour market. The interventions concern: the qualitative improvement and quantitative expansion of education and training services; the improvement of recruitment and teacher training processes; the expansion of skills; the strengthening of school infrastructure and the renovation of gymnasiums; the reform and expansion of doctorates; the strengthening of research and the dissemination of innovative models for basic and applied research conducted in synergy between universities and businesses; the support of innovation and technology transfer processes; and the strengthening of support conditions for research and innovation.  The problems addressed are: the basic skills gap; the high drop-out rate; low percentages of adults with tertiary education; skills mismatch between education and labour demand; low level of R&D expenditure; low number of researchers; low demand for innovation and highly trained human capital; limited integration of research results into the productive sector; and structural deficiencies in the supply of primary education and training services (gaps in kindergarten places, problems in access to full-time education) that penalise female labour market participation. ",,Yes,"Promoting social inclusion is one of the axes of the NRRP, to which the three cross-cutting priorities refer, including gender equality, which are crucial for territorial cohesion, economic growth and overcoming deep inequalities often accentuated by the pandemic. Many NRRP measures address vulnerable groups; many under Mission 5. The interventions are: support for vulnerable persons (support for families and children in vulnerable situations) and prevention of institutionalisation of the dependent elderly; strengthening of home-based social services; temporary housing and post stations targeting the homeless and promotion of autonomy and integration of the homeless (p. 215); overcoming squatter settlements to counteract caporalism and exploitation of workers (p. 220); urban regeneration and social housing to reduce situations of marginalisation and social degradation, implemented by municipalities (development of social, cultural, educational and didactic services, integrated and participatory urban plans, promotion of quality public housing, etc.) targeted to different groups including single-parent families; promotion of territorial cohesion (the South and inland areas); valorisation of assets confiscated from the mafia; enhancement of instruments to combat educational poverty and socio-educational services (0-6, 5-10 and 11-17 age groups). The words 'social classes' never appear; the words 'vulnerable groups' 2 times; the adjective 'vulnerable' 23 times. ",Yes,"The word 'youth' appears 120 times. The Plan stresses the impact of pandemic on youth. One of the cross-cutting priorities of the NRRP concerns the integration of young people into the labour market and their training. Mission 4 contains measures in the field of education ""that favour women's access to the acquisition of STEM, linguistic and digital skills” they “need to participate actively in the social, cultural and economic life of the country, while providing them with the set of skills and abilities that are indispensable for dealing with the processes of transformation of our lives induced by digitalisation and the ecological transition"" (p. 204). The interventions are: the qualitative and quantitative improvement of education services (reform of vocational training, of the guidance system, etc.); improvement of the processes of recruitment and training of teachers; expansion of skills and strengthening of infrastructure; reform of doctorates.  Mission 6 provides for the establishment of medical scholarships for young graduates. Mission 1 envisages the 'recruitment and enhancement of human capital for the digitalisation of the country': the plan for the creation of Territorial Poles for recruitment and training; co-working and smart-working; the digitalisation of the public administration; the 'cultural diffusion' programmes in schools and the Digital Civil Service'.",Yes,"The word 'disability' appears 45 times. Mission 5 contains interventions on disability, to prevent institutionalisation and promote pathways to autonomy. The interventions concern: the increase of home care services; the support of people with disabilities; the adaptation of home spaces according to their specific needs and the development of innovative home solutions for different needs. The investments will provide disabled and vulnerable people with ICT devices and support to develop their digital skills in order to ensure their economic independence and the reduction of labour market access barriers through smart working solutions (p. 212). A general reform on disability is envisaged, including the strengthening and qualification of the supply of social services by the territorial ambits, the simplification of the procedures for access to social and health services, the revision of the procedures for the assessment of disabilities, the promotion of independent living projects, the promotion of multidimensional assessment units on the territories, able to define personalised projects, also through the territorial implementation of the Points of Single Access for Persons with Disabilities (PUA). These interventions will be implemented by local authorities. Mission 5 also contains interventions to promote the autonomy of the elderly, starting with the non-self-sufficient.",Yes,"Addressed only indirectly. Only once does the word 'migration' refer to the experience of refugees (twice to the emigration of young talent abroad) in the NRRP. The word migrants never appears, as well as ""nationality"" and ""ethnic"". Despite this, some of the measures contained in the NRRP also concern migrants, such as some of those in Mission 5 (national plan to combat undeclared work, investment in urban regeneration projects and to reduce situations of marginalisation and social degradation and overcoming squatter settlements to combat the exploitation of workers in agriculture). ",No,,No,The word religion/religious appears 3 times in the NRRP of which only one refers to areas of discrimination.,No,"The words ""sexual orientation"" appear only once, referring to the areas of discrimination to be combated, through the cross-cutting priorities (reducing the gender gap, youth policies, territorial cohesion policies). The word 'LGBT' never appears. ",No,"The word 'identity' appears 16 times, but never referred to 'gender identity'.",No,,"The NRRP is composed of six missions (digitalization, innovation, competitiveness, and culture; green revolution and ecological transition; infrastructures for sustainable mobility; education and research; inclusion and social cohesion; health) and transversal issues. PNRR is accompanied by four main reforms: public administration, justice, simplification of legislation, and promotion of competition. The NRRP contains 3 transversal issues: promoting youth opportunities (p.33-35); gender equality (p.35-37) and the development of South regions by reducing inequalities and educational poverty. For each measure/reform in the Plan a general description and planned expenditure is provided. Fighting gender inequality is aimed at promoting the participation of women in the labour market, correcting asymmetries that prevent equal opportunities since the beginning, from school, requiring the promotion of women carriers; deploying of child care services and the use of sports facilities and green areas and parks; promoting the women leadership. The NRRP is linked with the National gender equality strategy 2021-2026. Mission 1 includes measures for promoting equal opportunity and the presence of women in high positions in public administration. Mission 4 includes the implementation of a Plan for improving education services for children 0-6 years old, increasing the percentage of schools offering extended hours, investments in school buildings, and the promotion of STEM competencies among female students of secondary schools. Mission 5 includes investments in women entrepreneurship, with the adoption of a certification system; measures on social housing for vulnerable families and homeless people. The NRRP takes into consideration the fact that the majority of elderly people with disabilities are women; the care of people with disabilities is in great part in charge of women. Mission 6 includes measures for strengthening close care and home care services for elderly people and for promoting the autonomy of people with disabilities (such as removing barriers, promoting mobility) that will facilitate women's employment.  It should be noted that Missions 1 (Digital Transition); 2 (Digital Transition) and 3 (Infrastructure and Transport) commit the majority of NRRP resources.
The NRRP emphasises (mainly in the first two chapters) that the pandemic has aggravated and made more visible pre-existing inequalities (in particular on women and young people and the dependent elderly), that are addressed by the Plan. Specific references between the effects of the pandemic and individual measures are made with respect to the digital transition (Mission 1), the National Health Service  (Mission 6). A description and expenditure forecast is provided for each planned measure.","It is very important that the NRRP has included among its cross-cutting strategies the fight against gender discrimination and youth policies, recognising that these are subjects (women and youth) particularly affected during the pandemic, in order to promote their participation in the development and growth of the country. On combating gender inequality, the obstacles addressed are deficiencies in educational services to ease the burden of care for women, lack of skills and problems in the relationship between education and the labour market. The NPRR addresses some of Italy's historical problems and from this point of view represents an opportunity. Many measures address vulnerable groups and households, which are only partially identified and described (homeless, persons with disabilities, dependent elderly, single parent families (predominantly headed by women). General social cohesion measures are also supposed to produce indirect benefits for unidentified social groups. 
An intersectional approach is not applied.  
Another concern relates to the relative lack of focus on possible unintended effects of the proposed measures. Mission 6 on health promotes the autonomy of elderly and persons with disabilities through territorial health and home care: It is stated that these interventions will also represent a support for women and families. However, this policy may also aggravate the situation of families and caregivers. Similarly, it should be examined whether some of the measures in the justice reform (where the use of family mediation is foreseen) do not risk further penalising women victims of violence.
There are also some serious absences/shortcomings: 
- The absence of thematisation and specific measures to combat gender-based violence
- The absence of a thematic focus and specific measures to support the reception and integration of migrants. 
- The absence of references to elements of discrimination related to gender orientation, ethnicity, religion.
Another unclear point concerns the methods of implementation of the various measures, many of which are described in a generic way (not everything can be done through the use of public tenders; how to involve all stakeholders in the operational design and implementation - where necessary - etc.).. ",,No,No,No,Yes,"The endorsement document stresses that the plan's components are expected to contribute significantly to improving Italy's performance on the Sustainable Development Goals related to equity (p. 31). The plan adopts a twin-track approach: responding to the consequences of the pandemic and addressing the structural factors leading to inequality (p. 40). 
The plan explains how the various components are expected to contribute, even indirectly, to equal opportunities, particularly for women and young people. The expected contribution of specific groups, such as people belonging to an ethnic or racial minority, remains unclear in the plan. Especially when the expected contribution is only indirect, close monitoring of the concrete implementation of the plan will be essential to ensure that it delivers the expected results and is part of a comprehensive strategy, in synergy with national equality policies (p. 62).",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Yes,No,No,Yes,No,No,No,Yes,No,No,,"A first draft scheme of the NRRP has been drafted by the Conte I government. This draft was discussed with-in the Cabinet of the Government. In January 2021, President Draghi, on that basis, drafted a new version of the scheme, that was discussed and approved by the Parliament.  Political parties, local authorities, trade unions, business associations, civil society organisations have been consulted by the Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputees. Consultations took place through hearings and the sending of documents (the Commission received 297 documents). Sixty-four consultations were carried out, involving representatives of local authorities (municipalities and provinces), various trade unions both at general level and in some categories, employers' bodies, banks and financial institutions, state bodies such as ISTAT and CNEL; some research institutes and individual scholars, ministries, a very few civil society organisations. There was no online public consultation. On the basis of such consultations and the indications of the Parliament, Government drafted the NRRP, that, after its approval, was sent to the EU. The list of stakeholders consulted and the texts of their contributions are collected in a Senate dossier on the hearings held by the Budget Committee.",No,,Yes,"NRRP was subject to an ex-ante assessment of gender impacts on women's employment through the application of the Department of the Treasury's (MEF) multi-input, multi-output and multi-sectoral 'MACGEM-IT' model. This model will be used to monitor the implementation of the Plan. The assessment of the impact on female employment was developed in three sequential phases. In the first, at the macro level through the production function of the model, the impact on overall employment of each branch of economic activity (NACE sectors) underlying the model was estimated, grafting the shocks onto the whole Plan and each Mission/Component. In the second step, the share of increased employment attributable to women was estimated. The consistency of these shares with those obtained on the basis of employment by gender and age group of the Labour Force Survey (ISTAT) was then verified. The analysis returns a scenario in which, considering the employment profile by gender for the total NRRP, in the first two years of implementation male and female employment evolve similarly. Only in the last three years NRRP measures stimulate a higher growth of female employment with a differential of about 1.2 percentage points compared to male employment in the three-year period 2024-2026. ",,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,,"The NRRP has received many positive comments from trade unions, business and civil society organisations, which see a great opportunity for development, growth and welfare for Italy. Even those who (see below) have expressed critical remarks or comments have also highlighted the positive elements in the Plan.  On the measures concerning the fight against gender inequalities, we can mention: 
- The CRC Group on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (which brings together more than 100 civil society organisations) is very positive about: the interventions aimed at strengthening and expanding kindergartens and educational facilities for the 0-6 age group; investing in school canteens; expanding the number of full-time classes; intervening against educational poverty and supporting girls' STEM training.  The applause for the investment in the expansion of educational facilities for 0-6 year old is also present in the comments of, among others, the CGIL; the Confindustria (which hopes that these services can guarantee the flexibility, long hours, and weekend opening that families need); ASVIS; and the Diversity and Inequalities Forum. 
- ASVIS: With regard to the objective of reducing inequalities, it appreciates the interventions on education and care for the non-self-sufficient elderly (reform); the definition of the essential levels of services for some education and childcare services; significant intervention on fundamental headmasters for growth (crèches, full-time schools, school canteens, safety and quality of learning environments and education system reform).  Investment in human capital to strengthen the trial office can help counter gender-based violence and overcome disparities between courts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     - Fondazione con il Sud appreciated the fact that the NRRP takes the reduction of gender, generational and territorial inequalities as a transversal logic.
- The Diversity and Inequality Forum expressed its appreciation for some of the cross-cutting reforms in the Plan, such as those of the public administration, competition, taxation, welfare and the promotion of autonomy for the dependent elderly. 
- The INAPP - National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies - first of all underlines the positive aspect of having chosen to include gender procurement as a rewarding condition for participating in the Plan's calls for tenders and measures. In its Gender Policy Report, it points out that 30% of employment linked to the implementation of the NRRP must be for women and young people. It is also positive that it uses the MACGEM-It programme to monitor and evaluate the Plan's employment impacts. It recalls that the EU has provided for the application of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact.",,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,,"A number of organisations, mainly from CSOs, have expressed critical comments on specific aspects or significant absences in the NRRP (migrants, food poverty, energy poverty, reform of the prison system, growth in the size of SMEs, citizenship rights, responsible production and consumption, protection of biodiversity, the sea and coastlines, etc.).  
ASVIS conducted an analysis of the NRRP in the light of the 17 UN Millennium Development Goals (in annex), goals to which the Plan does not refer. 
Among the general comments (see, for example, ASVIS) are: the vagueness of the measures envisaged (e.g. on employment and social shock absorbers) and the governance mechanisms, the massive use of the logic of calls for proposals, which penalises the most fragile situations, the need for structures to coordinate the various measures, the vagueness of the application of the principle of not harming the environment, etc. . 
With regard to poverty, the following should be noted: the lack of specific measures on absolute poverty, the insufficiency of funds on educational poverty, which will affect only 50,000 people, the need for mechanisms to coordinate the measures on poverty, the absence of objectives and proposals on housing (only housing first), food poverty is not addressed and there are no measures on food education (ASVIS, Osservatorio NRRP, Caritas Italiana, Alliance for Poverty).
On gender equality (ASVIS, CGIL, Confindustria and others), the following are highlighted: the need to incentivise and extend parental leave, in particular for fathers, better distributed and longer, a tax system that does not penalise the second earner in the family; the need for further support for persons with disabilities and for the elderly; there are no measures to promote a culture of sharing the burden of care and to counter stereotypes. More resources are needed for the expansion and strengthening of social and care facilities to provide qualified proximity assistance and alleviate care work. Smart working is promoted with a focus on female workers and not with both males and females in mind. 
It is not clear how the conditionality of gender and youth procurement will be applied in the calls for proposals of the Plan. The functioning and possible sanctions of the gender equality certification system are not explained, and it is criticised by Confindustria (which considers it an unnecessary burden for companies) and by CGIL, which also criticises the massive use of incentives. The missions (with more resources) on the ecological transition and on digital, are clearly male-dominated and have not been thematised in a gender perspective. The plan increases male employment and does not intervene in female-dominated sectors (care, catering, tourism, etc.). 
On migration (Caritas Migrantes and IDOS) complain that the PNRR has ignored the needs of migrants (the word migrant is not there).  Discrimination persists regarding access to the nursery school bonus, which is still precluded to children of immigrants, who can only have provisional access. Discriminatory rules in the access to the single allowance: only migrants with a residence permit for work and research (but not for family reasons), a residence of at least two years in Italy (or a work contract of at least two years) can access it.
",,Yes,Yes,No,No,,"In some of the comments following the publication of the NRRP, the need to clarify the governance mechanisms of the Plan's implementation was expressed. This is the case of the comments made by Confindustria, CGIL, Fondazione per il Sud, Forum Diversità e Disequaglianze and ASVIS. 
Several civil society organisations complained about the lack of involvement in the definition phase of the Plan and the request instead to be considered not only as providers but in a partnership perspective and the usefulness of social dialogue and comparison with civil society and the world of research. For this reason, thirty civil society organisations have set up the PNRR Observatory, in order to engage in dialogue with the PNRR Technical Table on Economic and Social Partnership, monitor the implementation of the Plan and provide indications and suggestions. The Observatory (https://www.osservatoriocivicopnrr.it/), established in November 2021 has already met once with the Technical Table. 
In parallel, the Open Polis organisation has made a request to publish data on the NPRR in a way that is transparent and understandable to citizens so that the implementation of the planned measures and interventions can be followed. Currently, the NPRR website is https://italiadomani.gov.it/en/home.html, which contains information on the missions, reforms and interventions of the Plan. 
Very important is the #dataforaccounting campaign, promoted by the feminist association Periodic Think Tank, which was established in late 2020 to promote gender equity through a feminist approach to data. ""Gender statistics are among the indispensable tools to ensure that the management of recovery plan resources, and all public resources in general, is consistent and effective in tackling gender inequalities."" With the #datipercontare campaign, Period Think Tank called on all institutions, starting with municipalities, to collect and disaggregate data by gender, in an open format and free from stereotypes, and to make a commitment to carry out a prior gender impact assessment of the actions, policies and projects to be implemented. On 30 November 2021 a first public conference was held to promote the Campaign, co-organised by the Emilia-Romagna Region. 
Finally, on 29 December 2021 CGIL, CISL and UIL signed a memorandum of understanding with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers committing the Government to the implementation of forms of permanent consultation with the Regions, local authorities and social partners (businesses and trade unions) on the implementation and monitoring of the PNRR, including through the establishment of territorial tables.",
Latvia,Approved by EC,,,398,36,"There are no occurrences for the word 'gender' ('dzimte' in Latvian). The word ‘sex’ ('dzimums' in Latvian) has been mentioned 36 times. The term ‘gender equality’ ('dzimumu l?dzties?ba' in Latvian, which translates 'equality of sexes' in English) has been mentioned 25 times. It is common pratctice in policy making documents as well as in public discourse to use term ‘dzimumu l?dzties?ba’ (equality of sexes) when referring to ‘gender equality’. The term ‘dzimte’ (gender) has not been adopted in public discourse.",,No,,Yes,"The plan states that it is planned to reduce the gender gap in employment through various employment services in order to reduce the length of periods of unemployment, as well as to help the unemployed to retrain effectively or improve their skills to ensure a better employment situation. Given that women are often more likely to be employed in lower-paid sectors and occupations, their labor market situation could be improved through targeted measures to increase the integration of jobseekers and those at risk of unemployment into more productive and better-quality jobs, with a particular emphasis on retraining and retraining. ",No,,No,,No,,No,,Yes,"The plan states that within the framework of the climate component, the complex of activities implemented within the framework of the disaster management system reform in the arrangement of the regulatory framework, training and working conditions infrastructure is aimed at creating conditions that would enable a person of any gender to apply for a job in the State Fire and Rescue Service.",No,,Yes,"The plan states that in the field of education, it is planned to expand the acquisition of STEM subjects, which will help young people to better prepare for the demands of the labor market, as well as potentially eliminate gender inequalities in the field of STEM. In the digital transformation component of the plan, measures aimed at increasing the number of ICT specialists are also planned to direct funding to activities specifically aimed at involving women and introducing them to career opportunities in the field of ICT.",,Yes,The plan sets out actions to eradicate poverty and promote the social inclusion of vulnerable groups. The direct tool to achieve this goal is Reform 3.1.2.r. Access to social and employment services to support minimum income reform. Plan for the Improvement of the Minimum Income Support System 2020–2021 by increasing the various minimum benefits provided by both the state and local governments. An increase in the minimum income will affect the adequacy of social transfers and their impact on reducing the risk of poverty.,No,"Age is not directly addressed in the plan. However, there are some indirect initiatives that target age as a vulnerable group. As a creation of the accessibility of public and private buildings, access to housing, and health services.",No,"Disability is not directly addressed in the plan. However, there are some indirect initiatives that target disability as a vulnerable group. As a creation of accessibility of public and private buildings, access to housing, and health services.",No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,Yes,"Regional differences, specifically, the difference between the capital city and the rest of the country. There are several initiatives aimed to eliminate the difference between the capital city and the rest of the country. Component of the plan: 3. Reduction of inequality Reform 3.1.1.r. Administrative - territorial reform sets: to provide support for the rehabilitation of the country's regional and local roads; addressing the availability of housing in the regions; improvement of the infrastructure of educational institutions and secondary education. ","Despite the fact that the plan has a separate section on gender equality (Section 3. Gender equality and equal opportunities for all (P.46-49)) it has very limited consideration of mitigating gender+ inequalities. Section 3. describes the situation of gender equality in Latvia in the field of employment, education, and health. There is the emphasis that Latvia has chosen an integrated approach to gender equality (as is the principle of non-discrimination in general). The plan states that gender equality issues will be addressed in an integrated way, complementing the measures contained in the policy planning documents. To quote: “Although Plan does not provide for specifically separate measures to promote gender equality, it is expected that the following activities included in ANMP will have a positive impact on gender equality” (p.47). The activities: to create conditions that would enable people of any sex to apply to the State Fire and Rescue Service; to reduce the gender gap in ICT specialists. More elaborate information is provided on tackling the different risks of exclusion and inequality, which will generally improve the situation among people at risk of exclusion and inequality. For example, setting up a financing fund for the construction of low-rent housing would promote, among other things, opportunities for labor mobility and the possibility of finding better-paid jobs for men and women. In the field of education, it is planned to extend the learning of STEM subjects, which will help young people to better prepare for the demand of the labor market and potentially eliminate gender inequalities in STEM. The gender gap between social protection and employment is intended to be reduced through a variety of employment services to reduce the length of periods of unemployment for individuals, as well as to help effectively retrain or improve their skills to ensure better employment (P. 48).
The main focus of the plan is to work towards resolving the decline in Latvia's economy, foster Latvia's sustainable economic growth. The plan calls for significant investments and reforms in the field of innovation, the strengthening of human capital, and the reduction of regional disparities. It is focuses not only on economic stabilization but also on the reorientation of the economy. The plan sets measures to create new opportunities for entrepreneurs, citizens, focusing on innovation, digital transformation, lifelong learning, focusing on structural economic change, targeting state aid mechanisms, developing support packages for the transformation of the economy, ensuring economic growth through productivity growth, automation, digital transformation. The plan is very economy-focused. At the center of the plan is the economy and needs to facilitate business. It mainly focuses on investing in infrastructure and supporting businesses. The plan is used to enhance already existing initiatives and structural reforms as administratively territorial reform and university governance reform. The individual is certainly not at the center of this plan; however, the reforms and initiatives will eventually benefit the individual. The mitigating action of hardships caused by Covid-19 at the individual level is not within the scope of the plan.
",,,No,No,No,No,There is no substantial critique regarding any weakness in terms of gender+ equality in Latvia’s Plan. The “Analysis of the recovery and resilience plan of Latvia” simply states: “Latvia’s plan contains some measures that are expected to contribute to addressing the country’s challenges in the area of gender equality and equal opportunities for all.” The next paragraphs explain what are those measures. There is no evaluation of are those measures effective enough or sustainable to enhance gender equality. ,,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,Yes,No,No,Yes,No,No,No,No,No,Yes,nature conservation associations,"The content of the Plan is based on sectoral policy planning documents. The development of sectoral policy planning documents comply with national regulatory enactments, which also specify the procedures for public participation in the planning document development process: public consultations have been or will continue within the framework of each programming document, within which all stakeholders, including the social partners, have been or continue to have an opportunity to express their views on the content of the planning documents and on it for the purposes pursued.  Thematic discussions on 10-14 December 2020, where both sectoral ministries and social and cooperation partners are represented, and on 18 December 2020 there have been discussions with the social partners at the National Tripartite Cooperation Council. In addition, a political and bureaucratic debate with non-governmental organisations was held on 13 January 2021. Further thematic discussions were organised on 8-12 March 2021, where both sectoral ministries and social and cooperation partners are represented.",Yes,"From February 8 to March 9, 2021, every interested party has had the opportunity to make his or her views and comments by taking part in the public consultation of the draft of the plan. The plan was published on the website of the Ministry of Finance www.esfondi.lv. The media were informed about the opportunity to participate in thematic discussions and public consultations in the form of press releases and the information were posted on social media. Ministry of Finance has prepared a document ""On the comments received during the public consultation on the draft of Latvian Recovery and Sustainability Mechanism Plan"". This document lists all the proposals, comments, and questions which arose during the consultation process. The document also provides information if the proposal/ objection has been taken into account, and gives justification if it isn’t. This document is publicly available on the ministry’s website https://www.fm.gov.lv/lv/atveselosanas-un-noturibas-mehanisma-plana-2021-2026-gadam-projekts. The Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation is the only organization that makes proposals in some regard related to gender+ issues. This organization is asking for more decisive action to include provisions to increase women's participation in communication technology projects, either through a separate investment facility, making it accessible to associations and foundations, or as a cross-cutting requirement in all digitization mechanisms. Ministry in its answer stresses that plan already has initiatives to increase women’s participation in the IT sector. Altogether there are 229 suggestions/ proposals/ objections.",Cannot assess,"There is no information available that GIA has been carried out. However, the level of addressing gender sensitive issues in the plan suggests that GIA has not been carried out. ",,No,No,No,No,,,,No,No,No,No,,"The criticism the Plan got was mostly from economists, businessman, financiers. To sum up their critique – there will be no breakthrough, since most of the funding goes to the public administration reforms and mundane needs. There are some critiques directed toward the Plans aims in area of eliminating the social injustice: there are no clear indicators to reach in the social area; the share of the budget could have been higher; the plan is illustration of ‘all to business’ thinking, it lacks ‘all to society’ attitude. The plan receives criticism from environment protection organizations claiming that the plan lacks ambitions in the area of green economy. There are no reactions from any organizations in connection to gender+ perspective.",,No,Yes,Yes,No,,"Both employers’ organizations and trade union have expressed critique over late involvement of social partners in the development of the Plan. The same critique is expressed by association of NGO’s noting that the development of the plan was largely behind closed doors, preventing NGOs from fully participating in its development.",
Luxembourg,Approved by EC,,,185,"""femme"" - women: 7;  égalité  equality: 11 times. Genre-gender: 0. Sexe - sex: 0; Vulnérable - vulnerability: 2;  Pauvreté-Poor: 2","The word woman appears 7 times but twice to refer to the profession of midwives(sage-femme). It is either associated with the ""principle of equality between women and men"" or twice to women's talent and participation in the economy. With reference to inequalities, equal pay and low participation of women  in entrepreneurship are tagged.  Equality between women and men is mentioned in the summary as a principle. There is very few references to inequality grounds: nothing for religion and beliefs, migrant, origin, young, violence. One reference to older people in relation to digital knowledge and competences.","The plan is looking for a more inclusive approach capable of mobilising all talents, including those of women. The plan states that Equality between women and men is one of the fundamental pillars on which European societies have been built. (...) to rebuild in a more inclusive way. The plan is quite general, references to some generic measures such as the programme future skills or digital skills with general objectifs and target groups e.g. all employees or person in unemployment.",No,,Yes,"Equal opportunity for all, so not explicitely gender equality. The plan aims to provide an adequate response to the health crisis that risks exacerbating existing inequalities. The measures have been designed to benefit every member of society by promoting social protection and inclusion, as well as equal opportunities while protecting the most vulnerable citizens.  The measures under 1A - Skilling, reskilling and upskilling ( described below) support equal opportunities and access to the labour market.",Yes,"The plan is looking for a more inclusive approach capable of mobilising all talents, including those of women. Equality between women and men is one of the fundamental pillars on which European societies have been built. (...) to rebuild in a more inclusive way, ensuring women's participation in the economy and tackling income inequalities. The plan states that by  unleashing women's economic and entrepreneurial potential, recovery efforts will lead to stronger and more resilient economies and societies.",Yes,The plan mentions income inequalities but without concrete measures associate specifically. So more at the level of objectives than in concrete terms. No reference to pension.,No,"Care sector is addressed, so indirectly the gender care gap (but not explicit). See under health.",No,Not explicitely. Within actions relating to improvement of the efficiency of public administration there is a reference to ensure equal acces to public services (digitialied) including for persons with low skills and older people. Gender not explicitely mentioned but women are the majority of these two groups identified.,No,,No,"Again not explicitely but the objective is to reinforce the attractiveness of employment in the health sector. The plan states that following the increasing consumption of health care due to population growth and ageing poses a challenge to the infrastructure, organisation and resources of the health sector, it is necessary to redefine in a general way the competences, missions and attributions between doctors, nurses, nurses' aides and other health professions. Consequently, the reform aims at the creation of new roles among health professionals (e.g. advanced nurse practitioner, case manager, specialised nurse), the establishment of an intermediate level between nurses and care assistants, as well as a concrete definition of the appropriate training pathways for each type of worker.",No,"Again not explicitely. The measures under 1A - Skilling, reskilling and upskilling support equal opportunities and access to the labour market. to enhance and diversify the vocational skills of jobseekers, by providing training courses that are organised around the development of digital skills.  ""to mitigate the employment impact of the crisis related to COVID-19, paying particular attention to people in a difficult situation on the labour market"" and to ""stimulate skills development"". The ""FutureSkills"" measure is particularly popular with people over 45 and will help ""to increase the employment rate of older workers by enhancing their employment opportunities and employability"".","The plan adopted is mentioning the necessity to promote an inclusive society and social cohesion but without reference to specific inequality grounds: the approach is to ensure ""equall opportunties"". Some groups get specific attention under some measures.",Yes,"People more at risks to get unemployed are mentioned in the plan under the measure 1 of pillar 1 - skilling, reskilling and upskilling. An example of spin off effect of the programme is given: the soft skills content acquired (and created) through this programme can be made available to up to 7,000 jobseekers over a three-year period. ",Yes,"Age is mentioned as a inequality factor in relation to digitalisation (access and retention in the labour market). The ""FutureSkills"" initiative creates a framework of encouragement and support for the labour market participation of older people, enabling them to acquire the skills necessary to adapt to the demands of business. In the same spirit, the initiative improves and supports the labour market participation of older people, who otherwise often find themselves in early retirement.  The programme aims to achieve a rate of at least 30% of participants aged 45+, i.e. 150 people out of a total of 500 participants. Age is also mentioned in more general terms regarding access to public digitalised services and the necessity to reinforce digital skills.",No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,"The plan has three pillars: Social Cohesion and Resilience, Green Transition and Digitalization, Innovation and Governance. Attention to ""equal opportunities"" is present in pillar 1, under measure 1a ""skilling, reskilling and upskilling"" which specifically mentions the need to mobilise women's talents (mobilising all talents including women's) and increasing the supply of affordable and sustainable public housing. Under Pillar 3, the measure on modernising public administration (including digitalisation) refers to the digital divide affecting people with low digital skills and older people. The issue of gender equality is presented as transversal to the plan and one of the fundamental pillars: ""the principles of equality between women and men and equal opportunities for all have been considered, in accordance with principles 2 and 3 of the social rights base as well as with objective 5 of sustainable development. In the impact assessment, the plan mentions the objective in all the actions presented to answer adequately to the current health crisis, which risks aggravating existing inequalities. The impact assessment states that ""the measures have been designed to benefit every member of society by promoting social protection and inclusion, and equal opportunities, while protecting the most vulnerable citizens. Focus is mainly present in employment-related measures, including vocational training and affordable housing.",Gender and interseting inequalities are absent from the plan. The principle of equality between women and men is stated in a generic way. There is a general reference to the gap between unemployed people and needed skills to access the labour market but no consideration to intersecting inequalities other than a reference to people aged 45+ lack of digital skills. ,,No,Yes,Yes,Yes,"Although the Plan does not contain the requested separate section outlining the national equality challenges and how the reforms and investments in the Plan will be instrumental in addressing them, four of the eight strands contain elements to address certain equality challenges. Other measures for equal opportunities and gender equality (equal access to education and lifelong learning, parental leave, targeted support for vulnerable groups of jobseekers, promotion of women in politics and business) are included in the Luxembourg National Reform Programme. This needs to be seen in the Luxembourg context, characterised by an overall high level of gender equality and social coverage in the labour market, with the gender employment rate gap below the EU average, and the gender pay gap among the lowest in the EU. However, Luxembourg should monitor how investments under strand 1A (skilling, reskilling and upskilling) contribute to gender equality and equal opportunities.",,No,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,No,No,Cannot assess,No,No,No,No,No,No,,"The process of the adoption of the NRPP was linked to other plans adopted in the frame of the European Semester.  The recovery plan has been presented to social partners but there is evidence that the procedure used was more an alibi than a real dialogue. This is documented in an article in the journal from the OGBL, main trade Union in Luxembourg, Aktuell n°3/2021. The Conseil National des Femmes - National Women's Council was not consulted, nor the Equal Treatment Commission (equality body).  For the preparation of concrete measures, it can be that some specific groups will be consulted so I cannot assess it all.  The ministry in charge of gender equality (MEGA) was not involbed either in the design of the plan even though the plan refers to involvement of the different ministries in the preparation of the plan.",No,,No,,,No,yes,No,No,,"No relevant reaction from a gender perspective.  However the main trade union OGBL notes that there is no new emphasis on social policy, no measures to strengthen the health system, no measures to strengthen people's purchasing power, no measures to fight inequality and therefore that  the adoption of the plan  represents a missed opportunity.   They note that there is a need to reinforce purshasing power in particular for women pensioners because they are suffering from inequalities in terms of pay, type of contract, sectors and informal care. For OGBL, the plan  is a document that summarises recently adopted measures and ongoing projects/processes, but it is not a plan that offers perspectives for the next few years or sets the course for economic recovery and exit from the crisis.",No reaction in relation to gender equality as such.,No,Yes,No,No,,"As mentioned supra, the main reactions are coming from the main trade-union. It is not  really in terms of gender + but a negative reaction to the absence of attention to increased inequalities created by the crisis, including for women.",This could only be documented for social partners and in particular the main trade union OGBL.  A number of stakeholders have been approached by e-mail and phone and said they were not involved but did not complain about it.,No,Yes,Yes,No,,"Social partners have adopted a joint contribution to the European Semester on 30 April 21. In this opinion both employers and trade unions notes that the ""social partners are in favour of a real consultation process which cannot be reduced to a single meeting at a relatively advanced stage of the Luxembourg RRP"". The consultation was limited to information sessions to social partners and not a real process of social dialogue.",
Poland,Submitted to EC,,"It is stated at official website of NRRP that: ""An intensive dialogue with the European Commission is still ongoing, devoted to, inter alia, appropriate formulation of milestones and indicators on the basis of which it will be possible to disburse funds in the form of non-returnable grants and loans"" but one of the most known online economic platform in Poland 'Money"" argues that: ""The bone of contention with the European Commission is the issue of Poland breaking the rule of law."" At the end of October, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, made it a condition that the Polish NRRP should oblige Polish government to liquidate the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court (see here: https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/trudna-wizyta-scholza-polsce-padly-pytania-o-polski-krajowy-plan-odbudowy-6714735116724992a.html and compare with this: https://www.funduszeeuropejskie.gov.pl/strony/o-funduszach/fundusze-na-lata-2021-2027/konsultacje-spoleczne-kpo/o-kpo/). ",498,16,"Polish word: ""p?e?"", usually used in the context of premises for discrimination, only few occurances as part of a phrase 'gender equality' (PL. równo?? p?ci)",,No,,Yes,"The Plan proposes widening access to day-care services for children until the age of three as a measure increasing women's participation in the labour market. Changes in the financing of childcare for children under 3 years of age are planned. Support will be given to measures increasing the availability of childcare places up to 3 years of age, i.e. co-financing the creation and operation of nurseries, children's clubs and day carers as part of the Program for the development of institutions for the care of children up to the age of 3 ""TODDLER+"". The process will be backed up by supporting new investments in childcare facilities and possibility of co-financing the existing ones (to lower the costs for parents and carers). Additionally, it is planned to make more flexible forms of employment available by, among others, the introduction of regulations on remote work permanently to the provisions of the Labor Code. Flexible work organization, including remote work is a tool that will improve the employment opportunities of people in a special situation on the labor market - older people, people caring for family members, parents of younger children and single parents, etc. Althought the last measure is not directly phramed as improving the situation of women on the labour market considering the sex of single parents and people caring for other family members they can be interpreted as such. See also cells 42 and 44B.",Yes,"The NRRP does not mention women as main receipents of measures proposed to strenghten the Polish economy, but the specified sectors of intervention include those ones where women are the majority (tourim, HoReCa sector). It is planned to support investment in small and medium companies in products, services, skills of workers and staff in above mentioned sectors. ",No,,Yes,See cells 15Q and15AK.,No,,No,,Yes,"Althought some measures are not phramed as targeting women in particular, given the feminisation of health-care system in Poland they are actually their main recipents. The NRRP proposes several reforms of the health-care system and they include: creation of health needs map as a basis for investments in modernisation of health-care facilities; strengthening the foundations for the functioning and financing of the health-care system by preparing its strategic framework. Framework will be supplemented at the operational level by, among others transformation plans - national and regional, which will replace regional health policy priorities and will be an important element of the operationalization of conclusions from the health needs map; reforming and restructuring of the hospital sector in Poland. The aim will be to increase the quality and availability of health services, including through the permanent improvement of the financial situation of public hospitals as well as the processes of supervision and management of these units; reorganization of the Strategic Infrastructure in health care and medical entities; creating appropriate conditions for increasing the number of medical staff - development of medical education by, among others introducing a loan for paid studies for doctors and dentists,  increasing the competences of nurses and midwives - the possibility of paid training leave and taking up education in the fields of nursing and midwifery also in the extramural form. It is also planned to prepare an act on the profession of a paramedic and the self-government of paramedics and the establishment of second-cycle studies in the field of preparation for the profession of a paramedic; introducing a digitization of health-care system including, among others: development of digital public services in health care, including creation of the Central Repository of Medical Data, development of EDM exchange, development and implementation of IT tools supporting the work of doctors, development of telemedicine solutions and their integration with available e-health services, development of digital competences of medical staff, digitization of epidemiological protection processes, development of IT infrastructure in health care. See also cells: 42B and 56B.",Yes,"Women (and children living in single-mother houses) are one of the specified target groups of the NRRP's Digital Competence Development Program. The program includes strengthening the process of managing the development of digital competences, developing digital education and supporting digital competences of citizens, in particular those excluded or at risk of exclusion (including seniors, people with disabilities, people in a difficult life situation using the help of various care facilities, women and children from single mother homes) and employees of central and local government administration and teachers and educators, in particular pre-school education, as well as students and parents supporting remote learning. In order to implement the tasks, a network of regional / local leaders of digital development will be created, which will support the digitization process and organize a support system for individual institutions. The trainings will be tailored to the needs and skills of individual groups of recipients.",,Yes,"See cell 15AE. Secondly, it is planned to introduce standards for equipping schools with digital infrastructure, enabling the use of digital tools at an equal level in each school, which will help in equalizing educational opportunities for students throughout Poland. In this regard, guidelines on school equipment standards will be issued (both in terms of multimedia equipment and network infrastructure at school). Adoption of the standards will be in the form of a recommendation to be applied by entities purchasing multimedia equipment for schools; Moreover, the policy of digitization of the area of ??education is planned in NRRP. It will include activities in the area of ??broadly understood digitization of the education process, which will focus primarily on three main areas: raising the competences of teachers, providing students and teachers with free digital materials and tools, and supporting authorities in providing schools with equipment. necessary for the proper implementation of the education process. As part of the NRRP, the following will be implemented: improving the digital competences of teachers and supporting the governing bodies in equipping schools with equipment.",Yes,"See cell 15Q and 15AE. Additionally, the NRRP plans to implement reform of long-term care in Poland is to move away from round-the-clock care in dedicated facilities for the development of various forms of day care (developing forms of day care for elderly people who require support in everyday life), and forms of home care (increasing access to long-term care, palliative and hospice care provided at home).",Yes,"see cell 15AE. Moreover, making people with disabilities employment more attractive for employers is a solution proposed to increase labour market particiaption of people with disabilities and people taking care for people in need of support in daily functionin. Proposed changed include reducing regulatory burdens for entrepreneurs employing people with disabilities and reduction of contributions to the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled People In addition, comprehensive activation programs are to be implemented, including both elements of prevention, early detection of health problems in labor resources and disability threats, rehabilitation and retraining of long-term employees working in conditions that have a negative impact on health, facilitating return to employment, extending professional activity or changing the workplace, psychological support and support in the field of professional development.",Yes,"The Plan proposes systemic solutions to supplement the shortages on the market by facilitating access to employment for foreigners. It is planned to tidy up the system of employing foreigners. The reform aims to provide a stable framework for the employment of foreigners and better use of their skills for the needs of the transforming economy. The basic regulatory and organizational activities of the reform will include the development and adoption of a package of new regulations on the labor market and procedures for admitting foreigners to the labor market, which will replace and supplement the current Act of 20 April 2004 on employment promotion and labor market institutions. Support for the employment of foreigners will take place by ensuring that the Public Employment Service (PES) can create specialized points for supporting foreigners on the labor market. The plan is to limit the currently dominant short-term and circular migration in favor of medium / long-term and continuous migration, to increase the role of the PES in the process of issuing work permits for foreigners; to implement organizational changes in the system of legalizing the work of foreigners, which will increase its effectiveness and shorten the time needed to obtain a permit; to limit the number of procedures for foreigners' access to the labor market and formalities within them; to switch to full electronicization of procedures related to obtaining a work permit for foreigners; to create better tools to fight abuse, protect the domestic labor market and protect migrants. Parallel to the activities aimed at organizing the issue of economic migration, work is being carried out on the new migration policy of the country, which is guided by the goal of a more - than before - holistic approach to the process of socio-economic integration of immigrants. Developed solutions are supposed to cover issues such as wider opportunities to benefit from the support of public institutions in the field of specialized internships, e.g. language or qualification development, as well as improving the recognition processes of education and qualifications. The new assumptions of the migration policy are to be a practical response to the growing demand for attracting highly qualified migrants who decide to stay in the country for a long time. This requires not only offering adequate remuneration, but also efficient and clear administrative procedures, good quality cultural and educational services; legal counseling and health protection to ensure adequate living conditions for them and their families.",No,,No,,No,,No,,Yes,"Measures for oncological patients; It is planned to implement oncological care reform in Poland. The priority of the solutions developed in the reform is to ensure that every patient, regardless of their place of residence, receives oncological care based on the same diagnostic and therapeutic standards, i.e. uniformly defined paths, and the system flexibly responds to their needs. The implementation of the new structure and new model of oncological care management in Poland will also include investments in infrastructure and equipment for medical entities that make up the National Oncology Network.","NRRP consists of 5 components. The largest amount of funds is allocated to component B - Green energy and energy consumption reduction and component E - Green, intelligent Mobility. It constitutes 39.8% and 20.9% respectively of all funds planned to be spent. Allocation of funds for other components is as follows: Component A - Resilience and competitiveness of the economy- 13.1%, Component D - Effectiveness, accessibility and quality of the health care system - 12.6% and for Component C - Digital Transformation - 13.6%. However, activities (reforms and investments) related to digitization are not only in the dedicated Component C, but also under the components supporting green mobility, the health sector and competitiveness of the economy.
Considering the problems revealed by the pandemic and the gender/sex inequalities the NRRP focuses only on selected domains (like gender care gap), and omits others (GBV), although in the introduction part of the document it is written that ""(...) the implementation of the NRRP serves to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion by increasing resilience, preparedness in the event of crisis situations, the adjustment capacity and growth potential of mitigating the social and economic effects of the crisis, in particular for women"" (p. 3). In general it can be stated that the NRRP is unclear regarding the description of measures to be implemented for various groups and in diverse domains. It means that while some measures are explicit and concrete, some are just abstract and vague ideas. Moreover, women are explicitly targeted as recipients of few measures only, but there are also areas with planned changes (for instance healthcare system, longterm care system)  where women, due to the structure of employment in a given sector of the economy, are the main beneficiaries of them. Gender-based violence, gender pay and pension gap, decision-making and politics, environmental justice are not addressed in the document from a gender perspective at all. However, the NRRP takes into account the inequalities caused or reinforced by the pandemic for other vulnerable groups. There are measures planned for people with disadvantageous social and economic background, for seniors, people with disabilities and in need of support in daily functioning, migrants and oncological patients. 
Overall, the document is unclear, lacking a clear link between existing problems, proposed solutions, and impacts on particular social groups, especially those explicitly stated as in need of such ones.","Firstly, while there are several measures aimed at mitigating gender+ inequalities the NRRP lacks solutions aimed at reduction of GBV, provision of protection and support for its victims. Secondly, the Plan mainly focus on systemic solutions for increasing women's involvement in paid work and lacks measures aimed at increasing men's engagament in care which in general maintains traditional division of gender roles. Thirdly, according to the fact of health-care system insufficiency more focus should be paid on measures mitigating the gender pay and pension gap in this sector and thus making it more attractive for young people willing to work as doctors, nurses etc. Lastly, the Plan lacks the gender+ analysis of proposed measures which does not allow a credible assertion on its impact on vulnerable groups mostly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. ",Analysis of the NRRP in Poland has not been published yet. ,,,,,,,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,,NA,Yes,"Public consultations took place from February 26 to April 2 2021. Public entities, local governments, entrepreneurs, representatives of academia, opinion-forming circles and civil society were invited to participate in them. Various activities and communication tools were used:
1) On-line consultations: the draft document along with an on-line form for submitting comments has been made available on the websites www.kpo.gov.pl and www.funduszeeuropejskie.gov.pl. Comments on the NRRP could be submitted in two forms - to the entire document or to individual components. In total, over 5.5 thousand applications with comments were submitted via a dedicated form on the website. 
2) Debates: as part of the consultation, three online debates were organized with the participation of experts from the world of science, representatives of non-governmental organizations and social and economic partners. Each meeting was devoted to other individual component of the NRRP. Each of the meetings was broadcast in real time on the Ministry channel on YouTube. About 2,000 people took part in the meetings, on average 630 in each.
3) Public hearings: at the request of the social party, on March 24-30, 2021, 5 public hearings on the NRRP were held. They were prepared in cooperation with social and economic partners (the ""Shipyard"" Foundation and the Polish Federation of NGOs).
4) Consultations within the Joint Commission of the Government and Local Government (KWRiST): the NRRP project was discussed during 5 KWRiST meetings.
5) Reversed hearings: on June 29 - July 5, 2021, reverse hearings were held, during which representatives of public administration responded to the demands submitted during public hearings. 5 meetings were held again, separately for each NRRP component. During each meeting, representatives of local governments, social and economic partners and non-governmental organizations also took the floor. The participants of the meeting, as viewers, were representatives of civil society organizations, local government units and their unions, employers and their organizations, trade unions, chambers of commerce and representatives of the world of science.
6) Other activities: the NRRP project was the subject of the 4th meeting of the Partnership Development Subcommittee operating under the Partnership Agreement Committee for 2014-2020, which took place on March 11, 2021. The members of the Subcommittee are representatives of social and economic partners, non-governmental organizations, regional self-governments and government administration; on March 31, 2021, the NRRP was the subject of a meeting of the Entrepreneurship Council of the President of the Republic of Poland; As part of the consultations on the NRRP project was also the subject on meetings of the Interministerial Team for the Europe 2020 Strategy, which took place on March 24, 2021. and of the Council for Social Dialogue and the Council for Public Benefit Activities.",No,NA,,No,No,No,Yes,money.pl - web portal focused on economy and finances,"Internet portal money.pl noticed that the Polish NRRP proposes solution aimed at gender equality which, given the Polish context and anti-gender attitudes of the ruling party, is quite surprising. It's positive reaction is based on measures aimed at increasing the participation of women on the labour market and mitigating gender inequalities in the education sector. ",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,journalists,"Firstly, during an online debate organized by the Batory Foundation on the NRRP representative of NGOs argued that the Plan does not take into account solutuions aimed at mitogating the gender+ inequalities in many sectors of economy and many areas of life. According to Justyna Och?dzan reforms proposed in the Plan will rather deepen the existing gender+ inequalities than mitigate them (no specific measures were mentioned). Secondly, NSZZ Solidarno?? (Trade Union) has raised a concern that flexible employment regulations and their excessive development can be dangerous for women as flexible employment does not guarantee adequate protection of employees. On the other hand, it is women who will be forced, due to their maternal functions, to take a break in their careers and return to work after this break. Women's maternal function impacts their situation on the labour marker making it worse than men's and at the same time women are offered flexible forms of employment. Thirdly, Zwiazek Nauczcielstwa Polskiego (Polish Teachers Union) argued that reforms proposed in the educational sector are not adequate to problems revealed by the pandemic. In it's opinion, buying computers for schools is of second importance. The most important issues are: fighting with online hate speech against kids, infrastructure support for pupils with disadvantagous socio-economic background or with disabilities who do not have Internet access and computer equipment (or proper computer programs supporting educational process) at home.   ",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,"local governments' representatives, journalists","Several organizations representatives (of NGOs, employers organizations and local goverments) has issued a joint appeal to the Prime Minister demanding ""real dialogue and active involvement of social organizations, entrepreneurs, representatives of government administration and local governments to jointly develop reforms and projects under the National Reconstruction Plan after COVID-19"". That was a reaction after the process of public consultations which was very unclear in terms of what was and was not included in the Plan and why. Moreover, some journalists raised an argument that the Plan was developed without any mode - at night, at the last minutes and unclear manner. Finally, the ""Solidarno??"" Trade Union argued that Polish government should provide reports on the progress in implementing the NRRP. This will allow supervision of adequacy, effectiveness and consistency of implemented measures.",
Portugal,Approved by EC,,,346,39,52 occurences of inequalities of which 8 mention specifically inequalities between men an women. 42 occurences of women and 8 of girls,,Yes,"The reform and investment associated with the National Urgent and Temporary Housing Grant provided for in component C2 – Housing (RE-C02.i02), for which victims of domestic violence are eligible, will streamline the management of urgent housing responses, improving the speed and adequacy of these responses in which victims need an immediate solution that distances them from their aggressors, reinforcing their empowerment processes. It is stablished to support 10 thousand people per year in this situation. On Healthcare it is said in the point ""The promotion of equality of opportunities and Gender Equality"" diverse goals connected with gender equality and gender violence were mentioned (please see the summary) but no measure is presented in the section. ",Yes,"In 2018, the Portuguese parliament approved, at the proposal of the Government, the law that defines measures to promote equal pay between women and men (Law n.º60/2018, of 21 August). This law obliges companies to present a plan for the evaluation of salary differences that may be observed in an annual balance sheet. The PRR presents this law as a structural base of action of the section Qualifications and skills. The following measures are presented: ? Notification to companies with more than 50 and 250 workers that have wage levels with significant differences, of the obligation to submit and implement a plan for evaluating the remuneration differences, until the 4th quarter of 2022;
? Drafting of the Portuguese standard on an Equal Pay Management System, based on the Icelandic Standard IST 85:2012, by the 4th quarter of 2024;
? Preparation of annual reports on the evolution of balanced representation indicators in listed companies, public sector companies, management personnel and Public Administration bodies, including public higher education institutions and public associations.
",Yes,"
More gender equality in the economy is address in the reform of Promotion of R&I and innovative investment in companies, included in component C5 – Capitalization and Business Innovation, where the guidelines for a technological and business innovation strategy for Portugal are mentioned. The commitment to update these guidelines will be accompanied by the objective of attracting more women to this sector where they are underrepresented (Education measures and Labour market measures, see previous point). On the other hand, in the reform of expansion and consolidation of the Interface Institutions network it is established that the entities to be supported must be encouraged to develop organizational practices that promote gender equality, such as plans for equality. Still in the C5 component, in the investments called Mobilizing Agendas for Business Innovation it is established that data disaggregated by sex are subject to annual monitoring, with impact on agendas validation , not only with the goals of the energy and digital transition, but also with the goals of gender equality. In turn, in the Mission Interface investment it is established that the funding must be indexed, among other factors, to the degree of alignment with national and European public policies, namely in terms of gender equality. NEVERTHELESS IN THE TABLE OF INDICATORS, THERE IS NO MENTION TO ANY OF THIS MEASURES.",Yes,"? The program youth impulse STEAM  will have a contractualization model that will bind entities to the pursuit the objectives of ??combating professional segregation, particularly in attracting girls and women to areas of engineering and technology; ?  the Reform Agenda for the promotion of decent work takes into account the gender perspective in its global purposes, knowing the feminization of low wages and precariousness including a specific measure of a state support to a wage increase when ithe recruted person is from the underrepresented sex in the occupation. In this reform it is expected to create 30 thousand permanent employment contracts. NO MEASURES CONNECTED WITH PENSIONS",Yes,"This question is very present in the PRR.  Care responsabilities are expressively presented as a problem and obstacle for productive realm: ""to increase care responses in order to help to reduce this burden and thus contribute to guaranteeing the conditions for a full and equal participation of women and men in the labor market and in professional activity"".  It is also metioned the concern with the context of teleworking as a phenomenon that can exacerbate pre-existing gender asymmetries which is an interesting mention, Specific measures: ?  Create, expand and requalify the network of social facilities/social responses in the areas of children, the elderly, people with disabilities and others (more 28 thousand places in institutions); ?  a new Mental Health Decree-Law, which establishes the organization's guiding principles providing more support for caregivers and family members. NEVERTHELESS NO SPECIFIC MEASURE ABOUT WORK/PERSONAL AND FAMILY LIFE BALANCE AND TELEWORKING IS PRESENTED. ON THE OPPOSITE, IT IS DEFINED FINANTIAL SUPPORT TO THE ADAPTATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION POSTS TO TELEWORKING ",Yes,Training work for leadership and directors. The reform Public administration empowered to create public value  stipulates that training in the area of ??management should be incorporated in its design and promotion from a gender perspective. The reform also stipulates that the empowerment of women for the performance of leadership positions is promoted within the scope of training at the public administration. IN THE FINAL TABLE OF INDICATORS THESE TRAINNINGS DO NOT APPEAR. mAYBE BECAUSE IT WAS ALREADY INCLUDED IN THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM LAW nº 26/2019,Yes,"in the section Sustainable Mobility is recognizing that women are the major group using public transport. Specific measures:  ? The PART program, which encourages the reduction of the price of a single metropolitan social pass. Thjs measure was previous to PRR and it is only for Lisbon Metropolitan Area. No specfic investment in this area is present in PRR. On the opposite, several investments in road building are previewed.",Yes," Gender equality promotion is largely mentioned in this theme in the sense of women ""care burden"" and the ""jeopardization of their full participation in the labor market"". Specific measures:    ?  strengthening primary health care centered on people and proximity;  ?  investment in outreach mental health care, namely community teams,  namely the creation of 34 new mobile intervention teams for deprived regions; ?   investment in the National Network for Continuing Integrated Care. NO SPECIFIC MEASURES TARGETED TO WOMEN HEALTH NOR TO WOMEN AS HEALTH PROFESSIONALS",Yes,"Combating gender stereotypes and sexual segregation in the field of digital technologies was established is one of the objectives of the Reform for Digital Education  included in thesection Digital School component, and in the digital skills training initiatives of the component C16 – Companies it was planned to monitor initiatives with data disaggregated by sex with a view to balanced representation between women and men. Specif measures:  ? More than 8,000 young people from the 3rd cycle of basic education and secondary education involved, until the 4th quarter of 2023, in practical laboratory activities, role model sessions and mentoring;
? Impact assessment study of the project Engeniers per 1 Day until the 4th quarter of 2021 (I was not able to find any information on this evaluation)",,Yes,"Integrated Operations in Disadvantaged Communities in the Metropolitan Areas of Lisbon and Porto of component C3 – Social Responses aims to provide answers for  some under-represented territories and communities in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto. These regions contain some of the most severe inequalities recorded in the country; The Adult Incentive investment includes an increase in the National Adult Literacy Plan that will promote an increase in the skills of adults with low levels of literacy and numeracy; In addition, the Impulso Jovem STEAM investment  encourages students from disadvantaged territories. ",Yes,"The general measures of create, expand and requalify the network of social facilities/social responses in the area provided by  private sectors and NGOs",Yes,"
The reform National Strategy for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2025 was included in component C3 – Social Responses. The strategy reflects the commitments of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and aims to empowerment solutions and inclusive environments that promote equal opportunities for all citizens, regardless of their physical, sensory, hearing, cognitive and of communication, creating conditions and presupposing their participation in all areas of life. This component also includes the 360° Accessibility investment , aimed at improving physical accessibility for people with disabilities throughout the national territory, and the Platform +Acesso investment  which aims to implement new useful digital solutions in the area of ??inclusion of people with disabilities. Specific measures are presented: ? Create, expand and requalify the network of social facilities/social responses in the area provided by private sector and NGOs (2022);  ? Create 207 places for diabled people in ocupational centers ",Yes,"The creation of urgent and temporary housing solutions for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. ",No,,No,,No,,Yes,The support to social problems such as gender identity is mentioned as one of the areas of intervetion of the proximity teams,Yes,"Territorial. A set of diverse measures are presented for Açores region. It is a deprived region and the support is focused mainly in education system, providing digital resources for students and teachers, computers, connectivity.","Gender equality promotion is clearly presented in the document as a strategic line of action. In a point of 5 pages the plan presents ""The promotion of equality of opportunities and Gender Equality"" as one of its 5 objectives. In this point it is stablished the connection with 2018 National Strategy for Equality and Non discrimination 2018-30 and the compromisse stablished in March 2020 with European Commission of mainstreaming gender equality in all public policies. In this 5 pages it is explained how the plan mainstreams gender equality. The sections were gender equality is present are: Housing - where victims of domestic and gender violence will be a priority; social answers, where it is intended to give more support to families in care responsabilities therefore freeing women from that burden; qualifications and skills where it is highlighted the measures already done and to be implemented to promote the end of gender pay gap, glass ceiling and all the forms of professional segregation; fighting gender stereotypes in educaton and at the same time generalize data disagregated by sex to better target actions is another field of intervention; in business it is argued that a larger presence of women in leadership and as entrepreneurs is going to be monitorized and promoted throught mandatory GEPs in all companies; in Public administration the goal of GE promotion is addressed through trainning and monitoring; in Health care it will be reforced policies connected with paliative care, proximity health care for families and detection of cases of genital mutilation and violence. It is also mentioned an investment in sexual and reproductive health. The last field of intervetion is sustainable mobility where it is highlighted the PART project (unique social passe for Lisbon Metropolitan area) as a measure that improved women mobility. Intersection is not properly addressed, what is done is to present the same measures from the perspective of other inequalities, namely socioeconomical condition and inabilitiy. The pandemic effects are mentioned in the general introduction of the sections mentioned previously but in general the concfrete measures address what is identified as structural problems. The official position of the government slbout this was that the PRR was design to a structural improvement of the country, not  ""just to solve ponctual problems"".","The sections Housing and Work and Labour Market are examples of how all the document should have been organized from a gender+ perspective. In these 2 sections gender concerns and objectives are clearly stablished and specific measures are defined. In several other sections this does not happen, the question is mentioned in text but in a very general way and no concrete measures are defined. At a first read of the PRR, the point ""The promotion of equality of opportunities and Gender Equality""  leaves us with good impression, believing that a strong gender equality awareness is present in PRR. But when we go in further detail we see that interesting proposals mentioned in this point (for example improvements in sexual and reproductive health care) are not present in the Health Care Section nor in the final table of indicators, so no specific meausre to address this problem is proposed. Making a general assessment, first I would say that from a gender« perspective there is inconsistency. A second point is the absence of certain gender+ problems such as aging, older people (specially older women) and the worstenning effect of the pandemic in their isolation and deprivacy. There are no specific measures to address this problem. It is previewed to reinforce the social proximity teams in the section Social Answers but this is a general measure that already deals with several other vulnerabilities. No mention to pensions is made all over the PRR. I also missed specific measures to support women that are already entrepreneurs or business owners specially those operating in the sectors that were more affected by the pandemic context like for example tourism. While there is a concern with the lack of women in business and companies, no support was designed to those already in the field. One final remark: the intersection of inequalities is not effectively done in the PRR. Inequalities are addressed by itens, forgeting that often they accumulate in the same person. For example when addressing sustainable mobility it is forgotten that women might not use public transport because they do not feel safe using it or because the schedules are not adequate for their routine needs. Roma people, specially girls and women are not mentioned in the document despite being a comunity which main work activity - street markets - was highly affected by the pandemics. I would say that PRR was conceived under a bias of a binary approach to gender, not a gender+ perspective and it is built around a vision of the pandemic impacts in the standard family/individual  (heterosexual, middle class, qualified).",Portugal was the first country to submit the plan. No suggestion or recommendation of the EC on gender+ improvements.,No,No,No,No,,,Yes,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,Professional orders,Several organizations made public pronunciations on the PRR. All the pronunciations I found were done in the period of public consultation. I didn´t found any information on discussion between the Portuguese government and the stakeholders that made pronunciations. ,Yes,"the public consultation started in 2021-02-15 and finished in  2021-03-01. The PRR version for public consultation had only 147 pages and previewed 14 M euros investment in  19 sections organized in  36 Reforms and 77 Investiments. The final version is composed by 346 pages with 20 sections, 37 Reforms and 83 Investiments in a total of 16.644 M euros. 1950 comments were posted in the online public consultation process and 10 written pronunciations are available in the internet (from two gender+ associations, 2 professional orders, 2 local authorities, 1 public institution, 2 employers associations and 1 health association)",Cannot assess,There is no evidence that a gender impact assessment was carried out.,,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Professional Orders. Public Institutions,"The main focus of the pronunciations and the comments and opinions in media after the plan was closed are about: a) missing or subrepresented sectors/activities; b) a excessive focus on public policies and less support to companies; lack of clarity on the funds allocation. From a gender+ perspective this critics are relevant in fields where women and other vulnerable groups were already less represented or defended like women entrepreneurs/business women; old women, women handicaped; women working in the cultural sector  ",,Yes,No,No,No,,"Portuguese Platform for Women Rights questioned the processes of monitoring, the institutions involved and also the effective measures and founding for women and gender problems.  APAV (Portuguese Association for the Support to Victims) made suggestions to the document, for example the inclusion of older people in situation of isolation as a priority group in C3 objective f.  Those were the only organizations that specifically mentioned problems in addressing gender+ inequalities in PRR. ",,No,No,No,No,,,
Romania,Approved by EC,,,769/1041,1/46,"The NRRP has several versions published by the Romanian Government. The version approved by the European Commission and featured on the Commission's website (https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/proposal-council-implementing-decision-approval-assessment-recovery-and-resilience-plan-romania-and-annex_en) has 769 pages and includes Part II of the standard structure required from an NRRP. It lacks Part I, III, IV and the budget section of the standard structure on a NRRP. If the latter are considered, this adds 272 pages to the officially approved version. In addition, the published versions by the Romanian government include separate extended versions of each of the 15 components. If considered, this would amount to an estimated page number of over 2000. The term 'gender' appears only 1 time in the official (approved) version. It features 46 times in the version different from that approved by the EC, which includes the four parts.",,No,,Yes,"The Plan sets out to address the disparities in occupation rates and retribution between women and men in the research sector, especially in STEM fields. It will be achieved through the creation of career counselling centres. The Plan envisages support for the acquisition of digital competences (digital inclusivity) for a larger segment of the population, including vulnerable groups, through public library media literacy courses, which are designed to have a gender quota of 50% applied to student recruitment, applied to a total number of 100.000 persons from vulnerable communities, who are expected to be included in the educational program. This is expected to have a positive impact on the labour market inclusion.",No,,Yes,"There is an engagement to reform of the pension system to diminish the salary as well as the pension disparities between women and men. This is expected to be achieved through the introduction of a common framework for minimum wage and through wage transparency. For the public sector, a reform of the salary system to achieve unitary standards is expected to address the gender pay gap as well.  There is further mention of the reduction of pay differences in the public sector, through the introduction of a framework of performance management. In regards to pensions, there is a provision to syncronise the retirement ages of women and men (increasing women's retirement age by two years) as a means to achieve equal pensions standards.",Yes,A system of day-care centres (110 creches and 412 complementary services) is to be built throughout the country. It is aimed to reduce the domestic childcare work and to promote women's return to the workplace. Domestic labour is to be formalised through the introduction of work tickets as means of payment of domestic services. The Plan declares support for the inclusion of single mothers as a category of potential beneficiaries of social housing and announces the creation of 150 community services for the prevention of mother and child separation.,Yes,Gender-balanced representation in the processes of improving the implementation framework of corporate governance in state enterprises and improving women's representation in the decision-making positions of reform enterprises.,Yes,"The Plan includes women as main beneficiaries of an infrastructure project to introduce water and sewage systems. The argument is that providing domestic access to running water will improve women's quality of life, as they are identified as the main responsibles for domestic and care labour, including providing water for the household. The measure envisages the connection of 88.400 households to the public water and sewage systems.",Yes,"The Plan includes a measure on family planning, consisting in the supply and renovation of 119 family planning units. This include medical equipment for test and analyses and the training of medical personnel operating in these units. A different measure envisages the provision of medical screening devices for breast and cervical cancer of 10 mobile medical units. These mobile units are destined to operate in disadvantaged areas, with a focus on Roma communities.",Yes,"The Plan envisages support for the acquisition of digital competences (digital inclusivity) for a larger segment of the population, including vulnerable groups, through public library media literacy courses, which are designed to have a gender quota of 50% applied to student recruitment, applied to a total number of 100.000 persons from vulnerable communities who are expected to be included in the educational program.",,Yes,"Main measures are established in the fields of infrastructure (extending household access to safe water and sewage connection), schooling (distance learning and the implementation of the Early Warning System in Education to improve the schooling rate and prevent school drop-ot of children from vulnerable backgrounds), and social protection (the elaboration of a new legal framework for family support is foreseen, which is expected to prevent family separation, with the aid of 150 community services aimed at providing support for 4500 children, as well as the update of the minimum guaranteed income or the development of mechanisms for tracking vulnerable persons at community level.",Yes,"The pension reform is meant to achieve a firmer application of the contributivity principle, thus ensuring a more fair pension system. It is also aimed a stimmulating active aging through encouraging persons of the retirement age to postpone retirement (i.e. the policy makers' own understanding of active aging). A second measure to combat inequality is the extension of women's minimum retirement age from 63 to 65.",Yes,"A more accessible public space is expected to be achieved through the accessibilisation of public transport services (train and metro), as  well through the creation of facilities for disabilities in residential and public buildings. 55 new community services for persons with disabilities are foreseen (day centres, assistance and neuro-mobility rehabilitation centres), to offer services to 4870 persons with disabilities. In the component on research, development and innovation, young persons with disabilities are identified as potential targets of recruitment for careers in the field of research, according to their competences.",No,,Yes,"At least 300 marginalised communities, including those with majoritary Roma population or Roma communities will have access to medical services throug integrated community centres. A network of day centres for children is aimed at combatting the risk of family separation, with at least 10% of the envisaged centres created in communities with a significant Roma population. The number of rural communities without access to a family doctor / general physician will be reduced by 35%, and the number of supported communities will include, where possible, communities with Roma population.",No,,No,,No,,No,,"The Plan seems to be designed as an opportunity to consolidate infrastructure and to improve the territorial distribution of services and public investments. It does not build upon needs specific to the pandemic, but it rather seems an attempt to boost some reforms and public investments which were identified before the pandemic. Indicatively, terms such as ‘COVID-19’, ‘pandemic’ and their derivates appear less than 15 times in the chapter on reforms and investments (the document officially approval by the EC). Many of the specified reforms do indeed approach public needs which became acute during the pandemic, such as the need for digital public systems or the need for investments in the public health system. 
The Plan includes a two-page analysis of gender inequalities in the introductory section, identifying and outlining some of the local specificities of gender issues. It does this by making use of data, which are well contextualised and correlated, if briefly approached. It sets out the important task of introducing disaggregated data (including ethnicity), which would allow for more substantial data-based policy and more rapid intervention. The introductory section also states the main gender objectives of the Plan’s components: the increase in women’s participation to the labour market and the increased gender balance in the economic sectors which have a high rate of male occupation. The latter objective is not substantially reflected in the rest of the document. Considering the local priorities and the pandemic context, the most important failure of the Plan in the field of gender equality is the lack of measures to combat gender (especially domestic) violence. In the section on coherence and consistency, the document claims that all of the fifteen components (reforms and investment directions) address gender equality. This analysis is not supported by specific references to gender equality in most components. The most substantial engagements to combat gender inequalities are present under Components 7 (public digital systems), 8 (pensions reform),  14 12 (Health), 13 (Social reform), 14 (Reform of the public sector).
It is however one of the very few policy documents which normalises the use of the term ‘gender equality’ instead of the regular ‘equal opportunities between women and men’. 

",,,No,No,No,No,,,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,No,No,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,,"The local authorities were specifically targeted and publicly identified as the main stakeholder and dialogue partner. The national associations of cities, towns and communes respectively.",Yes,The Government reported to have collected 1.939 proposals through an online form available to the general public on the Ministry of Investments and European Projects' website.,No,,,No,No,No,No,,,,No,No,No,No,,,,Yes,Yes,No,No,,"During the elaboration process there were several public appeals for more public consultation, from various representatives of the civil society (trade unions, employers organisations, youth representatives etc). More recently, there was a joint appeal to the Government from civil society to include representatives in the Monitoring Commission which needs to oversee the process of consultation. ",
Slovakia,Approved by EC,,,806,39,"The searched term has been ""equality between women and men"" (rovnos? žien a mužov) together with ""gender equality"" (rodová rovnos?) as the two are used as synonyms. Majority of the occurrences are placed in the chapter related to gender equality and equality of opportunities.",,No,,No,"The two components of the plan related to health, long-term care and education acknowledges that these are female dominated sectors but no specific gender equality measures are mentioned. The health component states that modernization of health care facilities will provide more attractive working conditions that should contribute to the sustainability of health personnel. In general, the plan presents reforms needed from a longterm perspective and only states that the pandemic made the issue more visible and critical.",No,Not in relation to gender+ inequalities,No,,Yes,"The plan introduces two measures related to care - the entitlement to early childhood education and care for children over 3 years of age and compulsory education since the age of 5 and development of the network of community day care facilities and field care for elderly and disabled. Both measures react to the lack of care facilities for the abovementioned groups that is often replaced by family care carried out by women. In general, the plan presents reforms needed from a longterm perspective and only states that the pandemic made the issue more visible and critical.",No,,No,The plan acknowledges that women are more at risk of the energy poverty and that it should be considered but no specific measures are envisioned.,No,Nothing in relation to gender+ inequalities in the health component.,Yes,"The education component reflects gender equality the most. Gender equality issues should be included into new curricula reform as a horizontal principle. It also envisions the grants to pedagogic institutions in order to prepare teachers for new curricula, while gender equality will be one of the criteria for successful projects. In addition, system of the prevention of early school drop-out will be developed that includes specific measures oriented on girls related to early pregnancy, domestic and sexual violence. The education component presents a reform needed from longterm perspective, nevertheless, it also has meassures directly related to the pandemic oriented on mitigating the impact of low access to online schooling for children from socially disadvantaged groups.",,Yes,"The main aim of the component of the inclusive education is to provide equal access to education regardless of socio-economic background and to mitigate its negative impact. The socio-economic background of children is considered in the reform of early childhood education and care, in the development of the system of prevention of early school drop-outs and in compensation measures mitigating the pandemic impact on education. In other components, socio-economic background is addressed in general terms such as equal access or consideration of poverty risk. ",Yes,"The health components addresses age (particularly seniors) through development of long-term social and health community and field services. Similarly, the hospital reform includes measures on long-term health care. The digital component includes digital education for seniors and distribution of senior tablet computers.  ",Yes,"Disability is included in several components of the plan such as mental health care, long-term social and health care and inclusive education. The main aim of the component of the inclusive education is to provide equal access to education regardless of special educational or health related needs of children. The disability is considered in the reform of early childhood education and care, in development of the system of support to children with special needs from early diagnostics to individual educational plans and assistance, including barrier-free schools. The mental health component envisions series of reforms of mental health care such as strengthening of the network of mental health services, development of specialized psycho-social centres and other facilities. Similarly, long-term social and health care component focuses on various types of services for disabled and elderly through community and field services. Additionally, barrier-free public transport is prioritised. ",Yes,The component of talented workforce envisions simplification of acceptance of foreign talents and facilitation of their integration into society.,Yes,"Ethnicity, mainly marginalized Roma communities, is of special focus of the inclusive education component in which almost all measures address these communities, e.g. entitlement to early childhood education and care, early development care in marginalized Roma communities, prevention system of early school drop-outs, provision of additional education to those without completed basic education and desegration of schools.",No,,No,,No,,No,,"The Slovak NRRP does not address gender equality issues. Despite the fact that the section on gender equality underlines it as a horizontal priority to be implemented in all phases of NRRP, gender equality as such is rarely addressed. The most visible focus  is in the area of care as the plan introduces entitlement to early childhood education and care and plans to reform care for elderly and disabled. Gender equality is further on reflected in the education component as it should be included into curricula reform. Other inequalities are addressed to greater extent, particularly seniors and disabled. However, intersectionality with gender is rarely considered with the exception of ethnicity (marginalized Roma communities) where gender aspect is present as some measures such as early development care or entitlement to early childhood education and care target both children and mothers and have a potential to improve status of Roma women within communities as well as at labour market. In addition, prevention of early school drop-outs considers specific conditions girls can face such as domestic violence or early pregnancy. Predominantly, the NRRP focuses mostly on institutional and procedural reforms often omitting human capital. For example, in the area of health and social care, there is a lack of employees (mostly female) but the plan does not address it at all and if so, only stating that institutional reform will improve working conditions. Moreover, in health component it mentions lack of medical doctors but not nurses that the pandemic proved to be more critical. Similarly, in the area of social care it suggests to focus more on private services that may endanger social security of (mostly female) workers. Overall, the NRRP addresses gender+ inequalities in general terms without introducing specific measures except the abovementioned exceptions. Similarly, the NRRP presents mainly reforms needed from a longterm perspective and only states that the pandemic made the issue more visible and critical to be dealt with with the exception of the education component that specifically mentions mesures mitigating pandemic impact on education of children from socially disadvantaged groups. ",,,No,No,No,No,,,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,No,Yes,No,No,No,Yes,No,No,,"According to the information from the Ministry of Finance, during the preparation of the NRRP 24 consultative meetings with relevant stakeholders such as employers' organiations, trade unions, selfgovernments, trade chambers, MPs and NGO umbrella organizations or particular NGOs, mainly environmental. One on-line public discussion has been organized in December 2020. According to the NRRP, in March 2021 6 expert thematic meetings have been carried out in relation to the main components. The representatives involved depended on the thematic focus of the component constituting of business, public, state and civil society organizations. None of them was attended by feminist or gender equality NGOs. Representatives of patients' association and associations of social services providers as well as NGOs dealing with various vulnerable groups participated in the expert meeting on health. Other inequalities were not represented in the process, with the exception of the participation of the Office of the Plenipotentiary for Roma Communities. In addition, an e-mail address for comments has been established and according to the NRRP, it recieved 132 comments by e-mail. The consultative process has been highly criticized by representatives of institutions officially involved as well as those who were not involved such as the NGO platform (request for increased public participation) or platform of culture organizations (complaint to the EC about not being involved in the process at all). Institutions involved perceived the consultative meetings more informative than consultative. The critique of the consultation process appeared also during the public commenting process that was a part of the approval process.",Yes,"According to the Slovak legislative process most of the legislation and policy documents must be subjected to the public commenting process. The NRRP underwent the process, however the duration of the public commenting period has been 10 days during which more than 2500 comments have been submitting both by institutions officially involved in the consultative meetings as well as other stakeholders and representatives of the public. ",No,,,No,No,No,No,,,,No,Yes,No,Yes,non-parliamentary political party,"As the comments sent during the public commenting process are publicly available, I used this source to gather the information and cheched the comments using search words such as equality, women, disadvantage. The results showed that only four commenting subjects dealt with gender+ inequality. The Catholic Church and one conservative NGO protested against the use of the term gender and some measures directed at improvement of child care facilities, namely the Church required the increase of parental allowances for parents on parental leave as oposed to the support of child care. The Confederation of Trade Unions of the Slovak Republic critisized lack of gender equality in most of the components of the NRRP, the fact that gender+ inequalities have not been included in the parameters of the reform and that gender equality should have been included as a condition in several measures (without specifying them). Non-parliamentary political party Progressive Slovakia criticized overall lack of gender equality in the NRRP and the fact that it does not address the unequal impact of the pandemic on women such as the raise of gender based violence, economic impact on lonely mothers or access to reproductive health.  ",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,"associations of municipalities and regional self-governments, universities","The overall process of stakeholders engagement has been highly criticized by almost all stakeholders involved and not involved. The main criticism has been the fact that the process has been rather formal and most of the suggestions and critique has not been considered due to the lack of time for preparation. Nevertheless, the negative reactions were rarely addressed from gender+ perspective. Out of NGOs, the most active were environmental, health and social services NGOs. Feminist organizations or NGOs focusing on other inequalities remained mostly silent during the process of NRRP consultations. One exception is the request to make the consultation process as well as the implementation process more participatory and open to NGOs sent by the platform The Voice of Civic Organizations in which several organizations representing gender+ inequalities participated. ",
Slovenia,Approved by EC,,,512,45,"The word “spol” in Slovenian language is used both for sex and gender. The document was searched for the word “spol” as used in gender equality, gender discrimination, gender identity, sexual orientation. The word woman, female occurs in 37 instances.",,No,"[GBV is not thoroughly addressed in the Plan - NR's observation], although being recognized as a problem (also) due to the pandemic. However, it can be mentioned, that based on the Rules on the rental of non-profit appartments (already in force since 2004) the victims of domestic violence are among the priority groups in the allocation of non-profit housing (component Social housing) (please refer also to the sections about environmental justice and social class).",No,,Yes,"Epidemic produced new problems and difficulties in tourism, such as for example declining number of foreign tourists, decline in inflow from international travels, loss of employment in hospitality and tourism. Loss of employment will have disproportional impact on women, while they represent 70% of employees in tourism.
Development area Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, component Sustainable development of tourism, including cultural heritage (overall budget from the Plan for the component is 127.000.000,00 EUR) foresees different investments in tourism, that would (among other things) preserve and produce work places. [Therefore the component will have an impact on women, while 70% of employees are women - NR's observation]. Those investments would be: sustainable development of Slovenian touristic accommodation offer to increase the added value of tourism; sustainable development of public and common tourist infrastructure and natural attraction in tourist destinations and sustainable restoration and revitalisation of cultural heritage and public cultural infrastructure and integration of cultural experiences into tourism. ",No,,Yes,"Epidemic highlightened the shortcomings of existing regulations in the field of institutional care (limited space capacity, knowledge and staff, need to strenghten cooperation with various stakeholders in the health and social care system etc.) and in cases of treatment of persons who need long-term care and want to use it at home (lack of access to comprehensive treatment at home).
[Development area Health care and social security, compoment Social security and long-term care (overall budget from the Plan for the compoment is 79.000.000,00 EUR) would have impact on gender care gap - NR's observation]. Quality, financially sustainable and accessible system of integrated long-term care for target groups older than 18 years, who depend on the help of another person will be established with the adoption of the Long-term care act and providing additional public funds for its implementation; with strenghtening the competences of employees and informal care providers for the implementation of quality and secure long-term care services; with providing adequate and sufficient infrastructure within which the services will be provided; and with establishing new forms of staff training. 
In the process of deinstitutionalisation of elderly care new nursing homes will be established, offering more capacities and long-term care at home for persons over 65 years, therefore having an impact on informal care for elderly, which is usually done by women. This care for elder family members usually results in lower economic status of women, seclusion of women and difficulty for re-employment of women afterwards. 

Please refer also to the question about age.
",No,,Yes,"Development area Health care and social security, component Social housing will ensure greater availability of affordable housing rental, which will benefit older women  (among other vulnerable groups), who are at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion. This will be accomplished with increased availability of public housing with new constructions or purchase of existent housing; sectoral legislation as a basis for systemic reform of housing policy in sustainable and continuous access to adequate housing will be changed. Overall budget from the Plan for the component is 60.000.000,00 EUR.",No,,No,,,Yes,"One of the contributions of development area Health care and social security, component Social housing will ensure safe and permanent rental of housing at a non-profit rent for socially disadvantaged and marginalized groups, such as young, elderly, young families, Roma, persons at risk of poverty. The foreseen reform in the context of this component is to establish conditions for strengthening the public rental housing fund. The sectoral legislation will be changed as a basis for systematic reform of housing policy in direction of sustainable and continuous provision of access to adequate housing. The purchase and construction of non-profit rental housing will be financed. Overall budget from the Plan for the component is 60.000.000,00 EUR.

For measures in the context of labour market please refer also to the section on disability.

Please refer also to the section about age and gender care gap (accessibility of long-term care).",Yes,"The COVID-19 epidemic highlighted numerous problems with long-term care for elderly and insufficient long-term care for persons younger than 65. Development area Health care and social security, component Social security and long-term care foresees numerous measures. For example ensuring integrated treatment of persons in need of higher levels of long-term care and more complex nursing services or continuous nursing care; ensuring a safe living environment of dependent persons (please refer also to question about gender care gap).

Public housing priority will be given (among other vulnerable groups) to elderly (women); also to young families (component Social Housing). 

In the context of strengthening labour market resilience and ensuring a rapid response the epidemic highlightened the need for systematic establishment of a part-time work sheme available in the event of an unexpected crisis in the economy. Measures addressing labour market (development area Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, component Labour market - measures to reduce the impact of negative structural trends, overall budget from the Plan for the compoment is 56.280.000,00 EUR) will contribute to increasing employment possibilities of persons over 50; a project which will address young workers seeking their first employment would be incentives for employers to employ young people up to and including the age of 25 for an indefinite period and to provide a mentor to young employees to accompany young workers during employment subsidies (please see also section on disability). 

Epidemic highlightened lack of appropriate digital competences among pupils and students, as well as among teaching staff and workers, not just among elderly. Component Strengthening competences, especially digital ones and those required in new jobs and green transitions will strenghten digital competences by renovation of the educational system for the green and digital transition; by reform of higher education for a green and resilient transition to Society 5.0; by modernization of secondary vocational and technical education; and by strategy for greening educational and research infrastructure.

On addressing children with disabilities please see section on disabilities. ",Yes,"Development area Green transition, component Sustainable building renovation (overall budget from the Plan for the component is 86.050.000,00 EUR) will ensure better accessibility of buildings for all, especially for the disabled. Accessibility will also be ensured for example with renovation of certain hospital facilities (for example the Department of Infectious Disease UMC Ljubljana), as foreseen in the component Healthcare. 

All measures of development area Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, component Labour market - measures to reduce the impact of negative structural trends (overall budget from the Plan for the component is  56.280.000,00 EUR) will contribute to gender equality and equal opportunities, especially for unemployed persons over 50, low educated, beneficiaries of social transfers, young persons and disabled. This would be achieved by numerous structural measures; Guidelines for implementation of active employment policy measures 2021-2025, which emphasise the need to strengthen digital literacy and skills, thereby improving employment opportunities for the low educated, unemployed over 50 and other vulnerable groups in the labor market. The component also foresees measures to introduce more flexible working arrangements adapted to the needs of people with disabilities in disability companies and employment centres (for example co-financing the introduction of more flexible forms of work; introduction of online advisory platform, preparation of support tools for employers and employees; preparation of career development plan for disabled employees in individual involved organisations, along with targeted education and training). 

Component Strengthening competences, especially digital ones and those required in new jobs and green transitions (overall budget from the Plan for the component is 2.017.000,00 EUR) also addresses children with special needs - renovation and new construction of educational facilities for children with special needs is foreseen (finished 2026 at the latest).",Yes,Please refer to the section on ethnicity. ,Yes,"(Certain measures are already being implemented or are planned in the context of European Cohesion Policy 2021-2027 (measures to improve the integration of Roma children, immigrants and children with special needs into educational system).)

Please refer also to the section on social class/socioeconomic background. 
",No,"[Although not explicitly addressed - NR's observation], the Plan mentions religion/belief in connection with some measures and in accordance with the 3rd principle of European Pillar of Social Rights. For example, all measures of the component Strengthening competences, especially digital ones and those required in new jobs and green transitions will ensure equal access to education and public services regardless of sex, rase, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation. 

In the same manner the component Social security and long-term care would ensure equal access to systems of social protection regardless of sex, rase, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation. ",No,Please refer to the section on religion/belief.,No,,No,,"The Plan contains a chapter on gender equality (pg. 29-32), which expresses that gender+ equality will be ensured at all levels of execution of the Plan in accordance with national legislation, EU legislation and international conventions. The chapter acknowledges certain gender+ inequalities being influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic (such as increase in numbers of GBV; gender-care gap due to closed schools and kindergartens; women being over-represented in health care). [However, these inequalities, that became more evident during the pandemic seem not to be addressed in depth in the Plan itself - NR's observation]. A lot of shortcomings (for example in health care; in long term care) also already existed before the pandemic and became more prominent during the pandemic.

The Plan includes the principle of gender equality and equal opportunities for all at all stages of preparation, which will also be ensured in the implementation of all envisaged reforms. All ministries should also ensure that all measures and policies are systematically assessed from the perspective of gender equality or that the possible consequences for women and men are taken into account. National Program for Women and Men, which is being prepared, should ensure, through periodical plans, that the Plan successfully integrates the principle of gender equality throughout its implementation.

Different general measures to overcome gender+ inequalities in accordance with the 2nd and the 3rd principle of European Pillar of Social Rights and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goal 5 are summarised in the chapter Gender equality and equal opportunities:
- Sustainable building renovation: increasing accessibility of public space for disabled; renovation of buildings such as hospitals, elderly homes, education facilites.
- Clean and safe environment: vulnerable groups would be more addressed and educated to act in cases of environmental accidents; buildings would be made more accessible for disabled and other vulnerable groups;
- Circular economy - resource efficiency: increasing employment possibilities of vulnerable groups, which are connected to re-use of products;
- Digital transformation of the public sector and the public administration: in the context of digitalisation of education, science and sport vulnerable groups, such as children with special needs, Roma children will be provided with additional learning assistance or individual assistance;
- Research, development and innovation: equal opportunities for researchers;
- Labour market - measures to reduce the impact of negative structural trends: measures to ensure equal opportunities for unemployed, especially those over 50, low-educated and recipients of cash social assistance, the disabled and young;
- Strengthening competences, especially digital ones and those required in new jobs and green transitions: gender equality will be ensured with reform of higher education for a green and resilient transition to Society 5.0, and with modernised secondary vocational and technical education, renovation of higher education study programs and establishment of digitally supported learning places;
- Health care: all measures would contribute to GE and equal opportunities (access for disabled);
- Social security and long-term care: measures would contribute to GE and equal opportunities, such as ensuring a system of long-term care for all, even younger that 65 and to contributing women being less burdened with care for family members;
- Social housing: public rental housing will be given priority to young, socially disadvantaged and other marginalized groups.
(Summary of the Plan with all proposed measures with detailed budget can also be accessed via https://www.eu-skladi.si/sl/dokumenti/po-2020/dokumenti-po-2020/povzetek-noo_angl.pdf).","The Plan contains a chapter on gender equality (pg. 29-32), which expresses that gender+ equality will be ensured at all levels of execution of the Plan and also lists all relevant components (please refer to the above summary). However, it can be noted at numerous points in the Plan that the only (further) reference to gender+ equality is sometimes limited to the sentences like Equal opportunities for all will be ensured; All proposed measures will contribute to gender equality and equal opportunities; Vulnerable groups will be given special attention; Listed measures will address principles of European Pillar of Social Rights, such as the 3rd principle (Equal opportunities).

Although not explicitly addressing gender inequalities/issues, certain foreseen measures in the Plan will have gender impact. For example component Strenghtening competences, especially digital ones will have certain gender impact in the sphere of education, while teaching profession in Slovenia is feminized inversely proportional to the level of education. Same can be assumed for certain measures regarding digitalization of education, science and sport, included in the component Digital transformation of the public sector and the public administration.
Furthermore, development area Health care and social security, component Health care would also potentially have gender impact - for example changes of legislation are foreseen to transform the pay system for health professions in order to regulate working conditions and ensure the attractiveness of health care professions and to evaluate more demanding jobs (especially systematization of jobs in nursing).


",,No,No,No,No,,,Yes,No,No,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,No,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,No,No,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,,"The Plan contains a chapter about involvement of different stakeholders in the process of preparation. Consultations have been carried out since August 2020. According to the Plan different stakeholders were involved in these meetings and webinars, such as mayors of municipalities, directors of Regional Development Agencies, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, AmCham Slovenia.
The Plan also lists meetings with social partners, civil society organisations and NGOs, but it is not clear, which organisations and social partners in particular were involved in these meetings (only CNVOS is mentioned by name; please refer also to the section about critiques of civil society involvement).

However, based on media reports, for example NGOs, trade unions and youth and elderly representatives were mainly not included; the Plan was also not made public until February 2021, which has been highly criticised (please see question 13). Therefore the answers to the question 8 are mostly based on media reports, which to some extend contradict the official information in the Plan itself. In cases of ""cannot assess"" no information about possible involvement have been found; however, it can be assumed that civil society organisations, esp. NGOs were not included (rows 79-81 and 84-86) due to the lack of those issues in the Plan itself.",Cannot assess,"Based on media reports the public was not actively included; the Plan was not available until very late in the process (please refer to question 13). 
The Plan contains a chapter about the process of stakeholders engagement; however, it is not clear if it included general public. It is also not clear which and to what extend the comments from different stakeholders have been considered and included. ",Cannot assess,"No explicit information on GIA has been found. However, the chapter on gender equality and equal opportunities states that it should be insured that the Plan will integrate the principle of GE throughout the period of its implementation and the principle of gender equality and equal opportunities is also included at all stages of the preparation of the Plan. In accordance with national legislation all ministries must also ensure that all measures and policies are systematically assessed in terms of gender equality or to take into account all possible consequences for women and men at all stages of their implementation. ",,No,No,No,No,,,,Yes,Yes,No,No,,"Trade union Youth Plus, which represents students, pupils and unemployed youth (up to 35 years old) criticised the amount of funds (0,27% of all funds) that would be allocated to address the problem of unemployment of youth and also the fact that only one measure in the Plan is dedicated to youth, in particular only to the seekers of first employment, therefore not addressing the majority of unemployed youth. 

Trade union of retired persons of Slovenia stressed that the Plan does not address elderly persons in a sufficient way (for example long-term care); it was pointed out that elderly do not see the Plan as being perspective in a sense of ensuring a dignified life for elderly. The union also stated that the focal point of the Plan is not a human being, but buildings and roads. It was also pointed out that for example measures to strengthen public health care and public transportation are missing.

The Association of free trade unions of Slovenia critiqued the Plan, saying that there is a lack of resources for people and social recovery and too much emphasis is placed solely on the economic recovery. The Plan itself was also perceived as a collection of wishes, proposals and interests of individual ministries; projects are seen to be completely uncoordinated between individual ministries. 

Slovenian association of friends of youth pointed out the fact, that the Plan should be based on six pillars, the last being Policies for next generations, children and youth. Slovenian Government shortened the name of the pillar to be only Policies for next generations. Children are almost not included in the Plan; they seem not to be on the political agenda. ",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Political parties; National Council,"The stakeholder involvement in the design process is described in a special chapter in the Plan (please refer to the section above). However, different organisations (representative employers’ organisations, NGOs, trade unions) and media, as well as political bodies and parties pointed out a lack of such involvement. One of the critiques also pointed out the unavailability of the draft. For example, in April 2021 only a draft from December 2020 was available, which was made public only after being published in one of the media in February 2021. The draft has also been discussed at closed sessions of the National Assembly (sessions being closed was opposed by opposition parties); however, MEPs did not vote on the final version of the Plan, which was sent to Brussels. 

The Plan also states that more than 2000 different individuals and organisations (NGOs, local governments and business) have been included in the design process. However, as it has been pointed out by the media, more than 1300 stakeholders were present only at one consultation in November 2020, which was dedicated primarily to presenting grant opportunities, especially for companies. University of Ljubljana, for example, was not included at all. CNVOS (national NGO umbrella network) also noted that NGOs were completely excluded (the same was pointed out by different NGOs); at their request a short presentation of the Plan has been prepared for them, where a lot of key information was omitted. NGOs expressed their proposals, but they were not taken into account. 

Lack of stakeholders involvement and unavailability of the draft was also condemned by the National Council in April 2021. It was noted that social partners, which are an important part of the implementation of the Plan, were not a part of the design process and the Economic and Social Council of Slovenia was still not familiar with the latest version of the draft at the time. The profession and certain employers' organizations were also not included in the design process; and Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy did not respond to trade unions' request to be included. The National Council also estimated that the implementation of all planned and complex reforms would require a lot of time, resources and active involvement of all stakeholders and the majority of the latter were not acquainted with the Plan; the consensus among social partners about the majority of the proposed reforms has not been reached yet. Therefore the National Council wondered whether it is appropriate to submit to the European Commission a document that does not meet the basic preconditions for its actual implementation. ",
Spain,Approved by EC,,,"348 pages (+separate document for each of the 30 Components of the Plan, amounting to 2.276 pages). ","""gender"":299; ""woman"": 295; ""sex"": 21","word counting refers to the general document (not the 30 separate documents attached to the plan). However, in the analysis that follows, reforms and investments are mentioned in relation  to the specific Component (herein, C followed by corresponding number).",,Yes,"Reducing gender-based violence is included as an expected result in three main reforms that are implemented to comply with the current international standards and with the Spanish own legal framework, and also to foster the resilience of the services in case of future crisis.
The Plan Spain Protects You Against Male Violence (C22.I4, budget:153,4 M) establishes the extension of all the support services provided online and by phone (information, legal and psychological counselling, emotional support) to victims of all forms of violence against women, including trafficking and sexual exploitation. Second, it introduces a new personalised service of socio-labour orientation for all victims of all forms of violence against women. Third, the modernization and extension of support and protection devices for victims of all forms of VAW. Fourth, the creation of centres for integrated assistance 24h to victims of sexual violence in each province and autonomic cities, with in-presence, phone and online assistance. 
Within the Renovation and Expansion of the National Health Systems capacities (Component 18), the NRRP focuses on training actions of the staff, including early detection of gender-based violence and of child abuse.
Gender-based violence is also addressed through reinsertion programmes for victims, which seeks to ensure their employability (see below, under “Work and Labour”, Component 23). 

",Yes,"The precarity of the Spanish labour market (temporary contracts, involuntary part-time contracts and a high turnover of short-term workers) has a particular impact on women and young people, that the plan intends to address through a future labour reform (pending the validation by the Parliament in February 2022). Additionally, specific investments target female employment in rural and urban areas (through awareness raising, training and support in specific domains connected to digitalization, sustainability, and care), and provides training and specific employment reinsertion programmes for women victims of GBV, trafficking and sexual exploitation, with a commitment to their recruitment (C23.I2). Lastly, it states that gender mainstreaming is mandatory in all active employment policies of the National Employment System, in all their components. 
Also, the improvement of the Minimum Income Scheme, by combining it with social and labour reinsertion policies, is said to have positive impact on gender equality, since female-headed households (90% of single-headed ones) and victims of GBV are among the beneficiaries (C23.I7). In fact, women are especially vulnerable to poverty and exclusion, with higher rates of unemployment and job precarity. 
Specific actions of vocational training for reskilling and upskilling (“Aulas Mentor”) target women in rural areas, with the objective to stop depopulation, create new jobs, contribute to the reduction of the gender gap and increase their integration in the productive field (agriculture, livestock farming). Vocational training will include digitalization and sustainability (Component 20).
See also below under “Education” (Component 19). 
",Yes,"Actions in the business sectors include programmes to attract female talent (campaign) and to support women’s entrepreneurship (Component 13 “Support for SMEs”). The Industrial Policy España 2030 does not contain specific actions on GE (Component 12), even though it is affirmed that the gender perspective will be included in the Action Plan for Circular Economy 2021-2023 (both as a research domain within Circular Economy and in terms of having a gender balance among employees in this sector). 
The plan includes actions to support the Social Economy (C23.I6), especially in sectors connected to the inclusion of vulnerable groups, such as the care one (care of elderly and dependents), and in rural areas. The plan acknowledges that Social Economy entities are stable businesses, adopt permanent contracts, employ young people, people with disabilities and at risk of social exclusion. They are also committed to local development, equality between men and women (more female representation in management positions) and social cohesion. Five programmes are foreseen to build employment in this sector, consolidate innovative entities in the Social Economy, support their digitalization, promote cooperatives, employee-owned companies and similar, and foster the inclusive and sustainable transition of businesses and vulnerable collectives.
",Yes,"The plan acknowledges that the gender pension gap is one of the main structural issues for the effective protection of the Social Security System, and provides for the revision of the procedure to integrate gaps in contribution periods, in order to attend to the reality of increasingly fragmented work experiences and their temporality, a situation that disproportionately affects young people and women (Component 30 C30.R2-C). 
It also mentions (C23) the steps already undertaken by the Government to tackle the pay and pension gap during 2020 (RD 901/2020 on the introduction of equality plans in companies with more than 50 employees; and RD 902/2020 implementing pay transparency in order to facilitate the identification of discriminatory practices).
On February 2021, the Spanish Government modified the provision on the maternity supplement for women with 2+ children, following the judgement delivered by the CJEU in 2019 and declaring it discriminatory on grounds of sex, since it was recognised only to women with children. The maternity supplement was then transformed into a supplement aimed at reducing the gender gap that can be awarded to either the mother or the father.
See also above, measures to improve female employment under “Work and Labour”.
 ",Yes,"The gender care gap is addressed by reforms in two components. 
A programme to extend the right to education in the first cycle (0-3 years) (C21.I1), with investment in infrastructures and equipment (particularly in areas at risk of poverty or social exclusion and rural areas) as well as staff costs, is considered to have long-term positive effects on women’s access and permanence in the labour market (both because it creates new jobs, and because women usually dropout of the labour market because of care duties). 
Moreover, the NRRP promotes its “Crash plan on Dependency” (approved in January 2021) and the elaboration of a National Strategy of De-institutionalization of care (to be elaborated by an expert group) within C22.R1. This reform seeks to increase funding allocated to the System of Autonomy and Support to Dependency (SAAD) to improve care services, in particular targeting the reduction of the waiting list, the improvement of the quality, and accordingly, of the working conditions of healthcare workers. Funding are allocated to renovate care centres, purchase new equipment, support innovative day-care centres, integrated into the community, with a special attention to rural areas (C22.I1 “Plan for Long-term Care and Support”). Alongside, financial support will also be allocated to facilitate personal autonomy through tele-assistance, and the purchase of home equipment. 
",Yes,"The plan addresses the need to improve a gender perspective in decision-making forums as one of the cross cutting procedures to improve gender equality and equality of opportunities. It is stated that ""all forums and consulting bodies involved in the implementation and monitoring of the current plan will aim to include the participation of organisations or experts on the gender aspects of different fields... Additionally, we will seek participation from civil society representatives that will facilitate the consideration of the needs and interests of disabled people or who are at risk of social exclusion (p. 108)"".
Moreover, the need to ensure a gender balance in decision-making body is reaffirmed in separate components, like this one: a gender balance will be ensured in the composition of the expert commission in charge of the tax system reform (Component 28: “Adapting the tax system to 21st century realities”).
",Yes,"Women’s role is promoted at all level of decision-making in the management of the natural environment and forestry, in line with the National Plan to Adapt to Climate Change 2021-2020, which incorporates a gender perspective as a transversal action to respond to the unequal effect of climate change on women and girls (Component 4). 
 The “Strategy for a Just Transition” aims at addressing the impact of the pandemic and the energetic transition on specific businesses that closed (mines, coal power plants and two nuclear plants). Actions support unemployed people living in these areas (52+), through vocational training in the field of renewable energies and the environment, in order to increase their employment opportunities. Special attention is directed to the participation of women and the youth in the training offered, for their important role in the fight against depopulation in these areas (C10.I1). 
",Yes,"The Plan dedicates Component 18 to the renovation and broadening of the national health system capacities, with an explicit emphasis on the inclusion of the gender perspective in all actions related with public health (specific mentions are found in R2: new Spanish strategy for health care; R5 Strategic Plan for Pharmaceutical Industry: introduce the gender perspective in clinic research). In particular, it invests in professional training and resources to share knowledge, which will benefit women, since the majority of healthcare workers are women (72,1%), C18.I4. Within training actions, it is included the early detection of gender-based violence and of child abuse. Additionally, prevention actions include screening for cervical cancer (C18.I2).
Within its objectives, the component also mentions the need that all citizens access to health on equal footing and enjoy fast, high-quality, safe and resolutive health services, regardless of their wages or place of living, gender, origin or age, ensuring accessibility to the health care system. The fight against social and territorial inequality is also an objective of this component (R1: strengthening primary and community health care). 
See also above, under “Care gap”. 
",Yes,"Reforms associated with education that include a gender perspective include vocational training to promote female employability, with a special attention to digital skills, and the digitalization of the education system.
The “National Plan for Digital Skills” (C19) targets the digitalization of the general population, from school to university, including upskilling y reskilling in employment, with a special attention to the gender gap and the promotion of training in areas of demographic decline. A specific programme aims at fostering women’s digital skills and their scientific-technological vocations at school, through targeted professional orientation (to both students and adult women) and actions directed at unemployed women +45 (C19.I1). 
The digital inclusion of girls and boys and the youth is also targeted, through a programme to develop teaching material; the distribution of digital devices to students from vulnerable groups and the creation of interactive rooms for hybrid teaching (C19.I1). 
Component 21 is dedicated to modernization and digitalization of the education system. It targets the improvement of educational services, with a reference to the gendered and nationality-based dimension of school failure and early dropout. First, early and free schooling for children 0-3 years old (C12.I1), which is a measure to extend education but also address the gender care gap (see above, under “Care gap”). Second, funds are directed to centres with special educational complexity that implement personalised learning, in order to reduce school failure and early dropout, particularly centres situated in rural areas, areas of social disadvantage, where families with low socio-economic and educational level live (C21.I2). The plan foresees the creation of Support Unities for those students and their families that live in vulnerable situations (C21.I3).
See also above, under “Work and Labour”: measures for promoting professional development of rural women (C20.I1).

",,Yes,"Reforms on education specifically targets socio-economic disadvantage, by investing in projects that strengthen accessible and affordable educational services in areas where “families with low educational and economic level, single-headed families, minorities, Roma population or migrant families” live. This, in turn, will contribute to promote social inclusion and equality, equal opportunities of girls and boys in rural areas (Component 21), see above, under “Education”. Moreover, the reform tackles socio-economic disadvantage in access to university, by increasing the number of scholarships and reducing the fees in public university curricula.  
Measures improving the Minimum Income Scheme, through inclusion policies, have a particularly positive impact on gender equality, given women are especially at risk of poverty and exclusion (intersections of gender and socio-economic disadvantage). See above, under “Work and Labour” (C23.I7). 
The Approval of a new Law for the protection and recognition of families and their diversity seeks the legal recognition of different types of families and the determination of services and allowances they have the right to access. It includes the improvement of the legal framework and the protection of families with special needs or in vulnerable situations (like single-headed families, same-sex parents, and families with children at risk of poverty and social exclusion).It is not a reform stemming directly from the covid19 situation, although the covid pandemic negatively impacted on vulnerable families and exposed the need to strengthen the resources available to them (C22.R3). 
The fight against energetic poverty (C2) specifically targets women, especially female-headed households, households where a person with disabilities live, and households where elderly women live alone. Similarly, the reform on accessible mobility for all (C6) specifically includes people with lower wages (see below, under “Disability”).
See also above, under “Health”, C18 and access to health for all. 
",Yes,"The modernization of active employment policies tackles long-term unemployment with policies directed to adults that will avoid “ageism” and discrimination (C23.R5).
It also tackles youth’s unemployment through measures directed at capacity building and labour insertion, modernization of the regulations (especially the apprenticeship contracts and the training contracts) with the 2021-2027 Plan for decent work for young people (C23.R5). This plan should also include the gender perspective, since all actions included in the Active Policies Plans (orientation, vocational guidance, vocational training, entrepreneurship, etc.) include gender mainstreaming (see above, C23.I2 on mandatory gender mainstreaming in all Active Employment Plans). 
The Plan to modernize social services establishes investments for building and renovation of centres for children and the youth (especially unaccompanied migrant minors and children with special needs, two groups presenting intersecting vulnerabilities) (C22.I2)
See below, under “Disability”, the reform on equal access to mobility and transport for all includes children and the elderly (C6.R1).
The improvement of the current Minimum Income Scheme benefits vulnerable groups vulnerable groups that benefit from it, like youth and childhood and the elderly (C23.I7)
See also above, under “Health”, C18 and access to health for all. 
",Yes,"Plan Spain Accessible Country includes investments to improve accessibility from an integrated perspective, including communication channels with the PA; adaptation of spaces assigned to health care services, education centres, public transportation, historical heritage. Municipalities will receive funding to undertake these renovation and purchase equipment, giving priority to rural areas and vulnerable ones. It includes campaigns to raise awareness, investment in research and innovation projects on accessibility (C22.I3). 
The “2030 Strategy for a Safe, sustainable and connected Mobility” under the “universal accessibility” axis, it implements measures to ensure equal access to mobility and transport to persons with reduced mobility or any other disability, as well as other vulnerable social groups like children, women, the elderly and persons with low economic resources (C6). 
Extending child education (to 0-3 years old) will contribute in early detection of disabilities (C21.I1).
See also above under “Class”, component 21 on the reform of the education system.
The improvement of the current Minimum Income Scheme, through insertion policies will ensure the employability of its beneficiaries, such as people with disabilities C23.I7. 
The Plan to modernize social services includes funding to build and renovate centres for children and the youth (especially unaccompanied migrant minors and children with special needs), C22.I2 
Measures on employability tackle the adverse impact that the pandemic had on vulnerable groups, such as persons with disability by funding projects that support their autonomy and for the recruitment of assistants C23.I4. 
",Yes,"The Reform of the system of humanitarian reception and international protection (IP) (started in 2020) seeks to address several issues (long waiting time; low rate of acceptance of request, services not adequate to the vulnerability profiles). It foresees to increase the reception capacity (by converting public buildings), and adapt it to the current level of demands as well as to tailor the services to the different profiles of IP seekers. This is done through a new system that ensure a “basic level of services” to all IP seekers with no economic resources; and a “strengthened protection” to the ones with a more vulnerable profile. To this end, a system of objective indicators will be adopted. A gender approach should be included in the evaluation of vulnerabilities, as well as in the planning and design of new places in reception centres (with sectors dedicated to single-headed families and gendered vulnerabilities) and the integration(socio-labour) programmes offered to them (C22.R4). 
Within the reform of the education system (C21), the plan targets inequalities in school failure and dropout. It is stated that dropout rates are higher within non-Spanish than Spanish citizens. The plan funds educational centres with special educational complexity and that work in rural areas, areas marked by social disadvantage and low socio-economic conditions (see above, under “Education”). 
Female-headed families and non-EU families rely on public transport more than the national average. The Plan on Sustainable, safe and connected mobility maintains that investments in public transport have a positive effect on social cohesion.
See also above, under “Health”, C18 and access to health for all. 
",Yes,"The improvement of the current Minimum Income Scheme, through the adoption of insertion policies will promote the employability of its beneficiaries, such as ethnic minorities (C23.I7).
See above, under “Class”, reform of the education system (component 21). 
",No,,Yes,"The Approval of a new Law for the protection and recognition of families and their diversity (C22.R3) aims at the legal recognition of different types of families and the determination of services and allowances they have the right to access. It includes the improvement of the legal framework and the protection of families with special needs or in vulnerable situations (like single-headed families, same-sex parents, and families with children at risk of poverty and social exclusion). It is not a reform stemming directly from the covid situation, although the covid pandemic negatively impacted on vulnerable families and exposed the need to strengthen the resources available to them. 
",No,,Yes,"Long-term unemployed: Employment policies tackle the adverse impact that the pandemic had on long-term unemployed persons by funding insertion projects aimed at fostering their recruitment, insertion programmes at local level (C23.I6). 
Unaccompanied migrant minors: the Plan to modernize social services establishes investments to build and renovate centres for children and the youth (especially unaccompanied migrant minors and children with special needs). C22.I2
Migrants, Homeless, convicts, persons with addictions: the improvement of the current Minimum Income Scheme, through the adoption of that ensure the employment of the beneficiaries of this allowance, that is vulnerable groups (migrants, homeless; convicts and ex-convicts, persons with addictions and other at risk of social exclusion). C23.I7
Measures listed under “Nationality” could be better understood under the categories of “migration”, “asylum”, “international protection” (C22.R4). 
","The Spanish Recovery Plan is structured in 30 components, distributed among 10 lever policies. Gender equality and the reinforcement of social and territorial cohesion constitute two central axes of the Recovery Plan, which seeks to offset the differential impact of the pandemic and achieve more inclusive and sustainable growth from a social point of view. The Gender Equality axis consists of cross-cutting measures oriented to increase female employment rate; improve, strengthen and reorganise the long-term care system; improve the educational potential, equal opportunities and reduce the digital gap. 
Gender equality and equal opportunities are incorporated in all administrative procedures involved in the plan and in procedures like data collection for policy design, public procurement, funding, consultation bodies. Then, the gender dimension is developed for each component. The core measures with higher impact on gender equality are contained in lever policy n. VIII on New Economy for Care and employment policies, each developed respectively in components 22 and 23. A gender perspective is then included, with different degrees of detail and depth in all other components (excluded the n. 2 on the transformation of food and fishing sectors). 
The New Care Economy (C22) aims at reforming the care sector, moving towards de-institutionalization, home and community care, and improving access to care services while also strengthening professional training of workers. This could reduce the care gap and improve female employability. Yet, more ambitious measures could be expected after the covid-19 pandemic to improve the working conditions of this highly feminised (and racialised) sector that go beyond training.  
The gender gap (participation of women) is addressed in many sectors, ranging from the transport and mobility sector (C6); renewable energies sector (C7; public administration (C11), the audio-visual industry (C25), professional sports (C26.I3.), with actions aimed at attract talent, increase female employment, and provide training. To improve access to labour market and pay grades of women and young people, the plan also invests in digital skills and the digitalization of education, with a view to also increase women’s participation in STEM. 
The plan addresses the needs of women and vulnerable groups (migrants, persons with disabilities, homeless people), often with attention to some intersections (female-headed households, victims of GBV, elderly women living alone, all often living at risk of poverty and social exclusion) especially with measures on housing renovation (and increasing of public housing), Minimum Income and insertion policies, access to renewable energies and fight against energetic poverty, and public transport. To be highlighted the two actions to foster employability of women in rural areas, and of victims of violence. 
From RESISTIRE’s perspective, the plan bids on AI as a crosscutting vector to address important challenges like the gender gap, while it warns against the risk of gender stereotypes and discrimination in AI and algorithms. Accordingly, the National Strategy for AI includes the adoption of an ethical and normative framework to protect individual and collective rights, and to ensure inclusion and social wealth (C16). 
","Overall, the plan appears to be well-structured and presents a solid assessment of the most significant struggles in terms of gender equality, usually complemented by reference to statistical data and evidence. It appears, though, that the gender analysis remains stronger in two key sectors (employment and care), while other areas (namely industry policy, SMEs, etc.) contain more general statements but fail to articulate the gender impact and take actions specifically addressing gender inequality. 
In her assessment, the NR agrees with the many concerns raised by CSOs below, namely about the rhetoric use of feminist concepts, which is not followed by sufficient investments in key areas. In particular, the lever policy n. VIII (components 22 and 23) is allocated only a 7% of the overall NRRP budget, with component 22 receiving only 3.6%. This is an incredibly low amount of funding, considered the complexity of both policies and their ambitious objectives and that these are the component where most efforts are made to address broad socio-economic issues (care economy, VAW, humanitarian protection, employment policies) and intersectional vulnerabilities (gender, migration, poverty, age).  
On the care gap and the new care economy, the initiatives adopted can have a positive impact on the gender care gap, and allow women (who disproportionately take up the care of dependent relatives) to join the labour market, as well as improving the working conditions of healthcare workers. Yet, more ambitious measures could be expected after the covid-19 pandemic, to improve this highly feminised (and racialised) sector, measures beyond training and funding in infrastructures but more focused on wages and other working conditions. Informal care sector seems to be neglected. 
On the job retention scheme (ERTE), one of the key solutions adopted during the pandemic to protect jobs, the Plan foresees the introduction of a new ERTE system and the establishment of a Permanent Funding Mechanism. Yet, no reference to the gendered application of ERTEs during the covid-19 was made, neither to the need to introduce anti-discriminatory clauses to prevent a disproportionate application of ERTE on female workers.  
Presented as a feminist NRRP, the plan makes large use of feminist concepts (""New economy of care"") and frequently mentions gender mainstreaming. However, these references appear inconsistent when analysing how investments and measures are developed within the key sectors for a gender+ recovery. Notwithstanding this, a complete assessment should wait for the implementation phase, and see to what extent relevant stakeholders succeed/are able to integrate a gender perspective. To this end, guidelines have been published for the implementation of the plan from a gender-sensitive perspective (e.g. the guide published by the Women’s Institute). 
",,No,No,No,Yes,"The EC does a positive assessment of the plan in terms of inclusion of a gender perspective. It is stated that ""The RRP of Spain has a strong focus on gender equality, which is one of the crosscutting axes guiding the Spanish recovery process, alongside the green transition, digital transformation, and social and territorial cohesion. Spain describes existing national challenges in terms of gender equality, including whether they result from the pandemic or are more structural, and presents the expected impacts of the plan on gender gaps (employment, pay, digital skills). The plan describes to a lesser extent challenges related to equal opportunities for all. It follows a dual approach: on the one hand, it encourages the development of processes that incorporate gender equality and equal opportunities for all, such as data collection, inclusion of equality considerations in public procurements, calls for public tenders or consultations. On the other hand, the plan also assesses the extent to which and how each component contributes to these equality objectives"" (p. 30). In this sense, the EC appears to be saying that the RRP includes gender mainstreaming, even though it does not use this terminology. On the contrary, there is no assessment regarding gender+ and intersectional dimensions of the plan. With regard to the design of the plan, the EC recognised that there has been a consultation process with social partners and stakeholders, but did not delve into the composition of these groups to verify whether vulnerable groups were represented. ",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,"Environmental organisations. 
In some other cases, information is found regarding the consultation with civil society organisations but no details on which organisations is available. ","Generally, there have been criticisms regarding the lack of a real participatory process. No consultation with stakeholders appears to have been in place regarding the first draft of the plan, made public in October 2020.  However, there was a consultation process with different stakeholders after that. As a result, the official Plan submitted to the European Commission had involved different stakeholders to some extent. 
Section 4.5. of the Plan (p. 195) refers to a consultation process and details the meetings held with each of the stakeholders involved. In some cases, particular meetings have been arranged, and in other, ongoing consultation fora have been established. An example of the latter is the ""Consultative Forum on long-term care and social services"", in which civil society, experts and social agents participate together with several Ministries. 
Also, each region in Spain will manage a part of the funding, and in some cases consultation fora have been set up already with different stakeholders. 
It is to be noted that (as indicated in section 4.5.6 of the Plan, and according to the law), that public consultation is mandatory in the case of regulations that will be enacted in the implementation of the Plan. ",No,,Yes,"The Plan contains specific sections that assess the impact of the Plan on gender. Annex 3 makes a detailed analysis of the impact on gender pay gap. Annex 4 includes an assessment of the of gender impact with regards to each of the 30 components that compose the Plan. Section 2.4 of the plan (“Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities for All”) analyses the impact of the plan on gender inequalities, focusing on cross-cutting measures and then focusing on how measures in each of the 30 components contribute to reducing the gender gap. The latter includes the type of contribution in each component: those with measures with a direct impact on reducing the gender gap, those with measures to transform productive sectors that will reduce the gender gap, and those with an indirect impact on gender gap. 
Likewise, the gender impact assessment of the Spanish General State Budget for the year 2021 was explicitly framed within the Recovery Plan. 
Further than that, a gender impact assessment is mandatory for any laws enacted to implement the Recovery Plan, as provided in RD 36/2020.",,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,,"The two main trade unions (CCOO and UGT) gave a positive feedback to the plan, stating they contributed to its design. However, they also urged the need to maintain mechanisms of dialogue in the subsequent implementation phase. For example, UGT  referred to the RRP as ""hopeful"" and an ""opportunity"".

Employers organizations were also satisfied, AI industries in particular. Employers and business's organizations in different regions are establishing agreements on how to distribute funds from the RRP.

In the current phase of implementation, reactions range from optimism (a feminist recovery is possible is funds and projects follow the guidelines to implement a feminist perspective, delivered by the Women’s Institute) to more harsh criticism. 

While expressly positive reactions from NGOs are not aboundant, Greenpeace made a detailed analysis which include the positve assessment of some of the measures. In such report, it says ""the plan is an excellent opportunity to reinvent the system, reverse the three crises (economic, social and environmental) and move towards decarbonization of the economy and addressing the environmental crisis."". Having said that, this NGO also makes important criticisms to the RRP. ",,Yes,Yes,No,No,,"Overall, feminist associations and activists argue that the government uses the feminist rhetoric but it falls short of its promise and is twisting a matter of working conditions into one of technological improvements. The concept of “new care economy” used in the NRRP and borrowed from feminist economics was criticised by many feminist and women’s associations as pink-washing. Emphasis on public-private collaboration, in their opinion, hides the investment of public funds in the private sector and the privatization of the care services sector, one of the most hit by the pandemic. Instead, feminist economics advocates for strengthening public services available to all. 
Feminist and women's associations expressed concern about the limited funded allocated to social policies and policies on gender equality, such as health (1.5%), education (2,4%) and the “new care economy” (3.6%), compared to the amount of funds allocated to the ecologic and digital transition. Likewise, component 22 of the plan includes a variety of compelling social issues, ranging from gender-based violence, social exclusion and poverty, migrant and refugees. This component takes only 4% of the total budget. 
Some CSOs have also urged more participation of women in the decision-making process about recovery policies and stressed the need for more funding in public services, especially in the care sector. 
Another aspect denounced by CSOs is the procedure, deadlines and technicalities for the granting of the RRP, which make impossible for grassroot organizations to participate, making evident that this money will go to the private sector.
Furthermore, some CSO such as Calala Fondo de Mujeres shed light on the lack of intersectional perspective in the RRP, and especially in the Component 22 on caring, a highly feminised, precarious and racialised sector. A great amount of fund goes to building and renovating infrastructure for such services. 
Some environmental NGOs (e.g. Greenpeace) criticised some of the measures contained in the RRP, such as the lack of transformation of the agrifood system. 
Finally, it is to be noted that a citizenship platform was created to ensure transparency and participation (Open Generarion EU), which includes NGOs, journalists, experts and university students). Several other Spanish organizations (including women's network and ecologists) elaborated a guide to analyse the shortcomings of the NRRP and proposing alternative actions (""NextgenerationEU: more shadows than lights""). 

On the other hand, trade unions were overall satisfied but expressed some concerns, mainly regarding employment and policies to dynamise the labour market (no clear direction) and the fact that the RRP does not focus on a real reform of the tax system. ",,Yes,Yes,No,No,,"In general, the CSOs reported that the consultation process was started too late and was not well articulated. Great effort was put in the dialogue with economic actors, while CSOs were almost completely neglected. Organizations report lack of transparency and information from the government. 

As explained in question 8, public consultation is mandatory in the case of regulations that will be enacted in the implementation of the Plan. However, their comments and suggestions are not always taken into account. An example of this is the following: Associations working against homelessness and for housing rights (Provivienda) participated in the public consultation process of a law on house rehabilitation and social housing, wihtin the frame of implementation of the RRP, but their contributions were finally dismissed.",
Finland,Approved by EC,,,562,42,"With Finnish term ""sukupuol*"" 42, from English version with the word ""gender"" 44",,No,Mentioned once as a challenge but no specific measures planned.,Yes,"The plan supports those industries, which have suffered from the pandemic. These industries include some women-dominated industries, such as creative industries, travel and hospitability sector. However, many women-dominated sectors that suffered are not mentioned. Also, the plan aims to educate unemployed persons and provide more guidance for them to better seek for work.",No,,Yes,"Gender pay gap is mentioned in the Plan. It is stated that the Finnish Government is committed to reducing the gap. After that it is discussed how the measures in the Plan promote gender equality. Some of the mentioned measures may support gender equality in pay as well. In the Pillar 3, actions to support mental health undertaken may alleviate gender inequality and reduce disability pensions and absence due to illness especially among women. Also, it is mentioned in the Plan that ""The gender gap in employment may fall when the efforts to harness the skills of immigrant women and thereby improve employment start bearing fruit.""",No,,No,,No,,Yes,"The Plan includes a pillar 4: ""Access to health and social services will be improved and their cost-effectiveness enhanced"". This pillar includes, for instance, investements to people with mental health problems.",Yes,One of the measures is that young people with low education receive guidance.,,No,"The plan discusses poverty and aims alleviating it. However, measures do not address this, or perhaps do so indirectly but there are no targeted measures.",Yes,"There are measures that support young people to find employment in the pillar 3: P3C1R4 ""Employment and labour market – Enhancing multiprofessional services for young people"". Also in the Pillar 3, there is a measure that increase study places for young people P3C2I1: ""Raising the educational attainment by adding starts in higher education"". The Ministry of Education and Culture will agree with academic universities and universities of applied sciences on the measures that should be taken to add 600 new starts in 2021.",Yes,"There are measures that support people with disabilities to get work and employment relationships: In pillar 3, reform 5 ""Launching a new intermediate labour market operator offering employment and services for persons with partial work ability"". Also, mental health patients are discussed and are supposed to get more help with the measures related to pillar 3 (employment) and pillar 4 (health). ",Yes,"There are measures that aim to make work-based migration to Finland easier: C1R3 ""Streamlining work-based and study-based immigration and easing international recruitment"" and C1I1 ""World-class digital infrastructure to support migration of skilled labour"". Also, the Plan discusses measures that support the employment of migrants. The Finnish Government has an action plan, which goal is to accelerate the employment of immigrants by developing their skills, improve receptiveness in working life, promote health and wellbeing through health and social services, and improve integration by supporting families.",No,,No,,No,,No,"It is mentioned in the Plan that the Finnish Gender Equaliy Act forbids discrimination based on gender identity or gender expression. However, there are no measures related to this.",No,,"The Plan includes well-written text regarding gender+ inequalities. However, the actual measures and investments do not focus on gender+ inequalities. The biggest part of the budget goes to green transition (822 million euros, pillar 1). This is an important goal, and green transition benefits us all. However, this also means that most of the funding goes to male-dominated sectors that are supposed to implement the green transition. The second pillar allocates money to digitalisation and the data economy (217 million euros, pillar 2). This means funding for male-dominated sectors, too. The third pillar allocates money to raising the employment rate (636 million euros, pillar 3). Both men and women are important actors and target groups in this pillar. However, money mainly goes to reforming services and educating the unemployed. Young people, migrants and people with disabilities are targeted with special measures. Some investment and innovation funding is provided to “sectors most affected by the pandemic crisis”. This includes some women-dominated or gender balanced sectors, such as the creative economy and events industry. Finally, the fourth pillar allocates money to improving the access to health and social services (400 million euros, pillar 4). This pillar is the only one that clearly targets a women-dominated sector, and of course benefits both men and women as clients in health care services, and through preventive health care measures. It is stated that one of the key objectives of the health and social services reform is to reduce health and wellbeing inequalities. Also, it is mentioned that the pillar 4 will help ensure the sufficiency of personnel in health and social services by improving working conditions and thereby improving wellbeing at work. It is not very clear how this is achieved, though. Probably the idea is to achieve this goal indirectly through the reform, which focuses on promoting compliance with the care guarantee. None of the investments under this reform specify how wellbeing at work will be improvded.","The Plan does not include gender budgeting. It is not discussed that most of the funding goes to male-dominated sectors. Also, gender+ inequalities are not addressed in the pillar 1, which targets green transition, nor in pillar 2, which targets digitalisation and the data economy. Health and social services, which is the sector in the hearth of the COVID-19 crisis and one of the biggest employers of women in Finland, is not in the centre of the Plan. ","European Commission analysis report states that, although Finland is relatively equal society, low-skilled workers, migrants and persons with disabilities are more likely to be at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The report continues by explaining that while the Finnish social security system has cushioned relatively well the impact of the crisis so far, its continuation could accentuate the disparities. One of the problems brought up by the report is: “High unmet healthcare needs pose a challenge. The share of self-reported unmet needs for medical care was 4.7% in 2019, notably above the EU average of 1.7%. This is a particular issue for the inactive and for the unemployed.”
Furthermore, the report states that although education in Finland remains among the best in the EU, there are signs that performance and fairness in the Finnish education system are deteriorating. One of the issues brought up by the report is: “Shortages and gender imbalances among ICT specialists leave further scope to improve the innovative capacity of the Finnish economy.”",No,Yes,No,Yes,"The report does not discuss lack of gender mainstreaming, alhtough green transition and digitalization pillars do not include gender mainstreming, in my opinion. Gender+ inequalities mentioned in the analysis are the same ones mentioned in the Plan: migrants and persons with disabilities.",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,No,Yes,No,Yes,No,Yes,No,Yes,Sami Parliament,"Local authorities, cities, large corporations, and employers’ organisations are very well-represented. Also, educational institutions, student organisations, and some academic researchers are well-represented. Trade unions are not very widely represented but some have been heard. Healthcare organisations are represented but not as widely one could except. Very few NGOs have been heard and none can be categorized as feminist, except perhaps the Marthas (Marttaliitto), which is a traditional women's organisation. Youth are only represented as students. There are very few environmental organisations that are heard but many corporates that might be interested in green transition related businesses.",No,There is no mention of anything like that in the document that describes the process. ,No,There is no mention of gender impact assessment in the document that describes the process. ,,No,No,No,No,,"There have been no significant positive reactions regarding gender+ inequalities. There are some other positive reactions, such as employers' organisations positive reactions towards the Plan, but these do not focus on inequalities. Trade unions express more caution in their positive reactions, and also these reactions do not focus very much on gender+ inequalities. ",,No,No,No,No,,"Many trade unions critique the Goverment bugdet, which is linked to the NRRP. However, they do not critique the Plan directy. For instance, the trade union of  those employed in social welfare, health care and education (TEHY) discusses problems and risks related to implementing the new care quaranteen programme. The Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors (JHL) expresses its concerns on the deficit of employees in the public care sector. Also, both of these trade unions emphasise that easing work-based migration should not be done in such a way that it alters terms of employment in Finland.",,No,No,No,No,,"There have been no significant reactions from these parties. Political parties have debated about the Plan, but that debate has mainly concerned the usage of EU money to this kinds of purposes in general, not about the process of how the Finnis plan was designed, nor its content.",
Croatia,Approved by EC,,,1273,"1 - rodna ravnopravnost/gender equality; 22 x - ""ravnopravnost spolova/equality of sexes; 33 - žene/women","Institutions in Croatia do not use the term gender or gender equality (they mark it as dangerous and undermining traditional values).  All bodies are named as dealing with equality of sexes (Ombudsperson, Government Office, Parliamentary Committee).  In the NRRP, term gender equality is only used once, and gender based violence twice. Instead, ravnopravnost spolova (equality of sexes) is used. However, out of these 22 occurrences, 6 are to be found in the  Table of contents, and  5 as paragraph titles, and 3 just stating ""measures will have no negative impact on equality of sexes""- I also looked for the term žene /women, and Acrobat Reader lists it 186 times, but it picks all the words (verbs, nouns, adjectives) which contain letters that together form žene, but have completely different meaning (for example ""produžene"", most often, which means extended. Noun women occurs 33 times.",,Yes,"In the section ""Modern judiciary ready to face future challenges"", after stating that gender based violence has been a huge problem, especially during Covid crisis, the establishment of family departments at courts is planned as a measure. Specialisation of judges, and licencing of lawyers will secure faster and more gender sensitive procedures.  Changes in criminal case procedures envisage the use of modern technologies which will enable victims not to share space and face the perpetrators. Use of such audio-visual technology will, the Governments thinks, raise the number of reports of the both sexual and domestic violence to the competent authorities. Fifty per cent of the Guaranteed minimum income benefit (GMIB) is planned for homeless, survivors of violence and victims of trafficking who are accommodated in shelters during the crisis.  In other measures the NRRP , when targeting vulnerable groups,  includes victims of violence.  Plan anticipates licencing of 750 experts (out 2500 employed) who will specialise in implementing legal  measures which prevent institutionalisation of children, and secure support to families at risk, as well as to victims of violence. Social, one to one mentoring, is salso planned. Upskilling/reskilling of vulnerable groups will be executed by the Croatian Employment Service as to include/return unemployed in the labour market. ",Yes,"In the section ""Improvement of the employment measures and legislative framework for the modern labour market and economic future"" (C 4.1., page 980), NRRP states ""through the planned reform, special attention will be directed towards vulnerable groups in the labour market, especially single mothers, women victims of violence, the long term unemployed, people aged 50+. People with disabilities are also within this group. Upskilling/reskilling will be organised by the Croatian Employment Service. ",Yes,"In the section ""Resilient, green and  digital economy"", measure C.1.1.1. R4-11 states that transition will have no harmful consequences on gender equality and equal opportunity approach.  Projects must apply to minimal legislative conditions related to gender equality- Those who apply MAY envision activities that will promote gender equality in relation to employment policy. However, all proposed projects must prove financial viability.  In the section ""Energy transition into sustainable economy"", horizontal principles will be incorporated, and measures of all groups related to gender equality included. Especially in the preparation phase, when all information will be delivered to both sexes. Language, both visual and textual, will address women and men.  Findings of many research projects proved that women ""are natural and motivated allies when projects of decarbonisation of the energy system is concerned"" (C 1.2. page 450); In the section Water and waste management (C 1.3., page 451), it is first stated that these issues are gender neutral, but then added that gender equality will be incorporated in all segments ""including decision making processes and positions"".",Yes,"In the section ""Upgrading of the pension system by increasing  pension adequacy""(C4.1., page 980) NRRP states ""Although planned pension system reform does not make distinction between sexes, it is expected that disparities between pensions of men and women  gradually diminishes.""   It is not clear how (my comment). By increasing the minimal pension, women will profit the most as they constitute the majority (more than 68%) of this group.",No,,Yes,"In the section ""Strengthening capacities for the tailoring and implementation of public policies and projects"" (C 2.1., page 816), NRRP states that ""With implementation of strategy on gender equality and equal opportunities for all, legislation and public policies will become more sensitive and answer to the needs of women and men, thus becoming more efficient too"".  Furthermore, ""Gender Equality Act prescribes in the Article 3 that outcomes of all acts must be evaluated and their consequences on lives of women and men measured. In these processes of evaluation gender equality coordinators, appointed in each public institutions, will be involved"". ",No,,Yes,"In the section ""Strengthening of the health care system resilience"" (C 5.1., page 1097)  the most interesting approach towards gender equality may be found (Sanja's comment). The NRRP states: ""Reforms and investments will be in line with the principles 2 and 3 of the  European Pillar of Social Rights and reflected in proposed measures. First and foremost, the problem of infrastructure must be addressed. Old buildings are not adjusted to the needs of people with disabilities [..]. Also, in the context of gender sensitive health care protection, sex-disaggregated statistical data will continue to be collected, and attention will be paid to factors such as culturally determined behaviour or habits (Sanja's comment: it is well known that men are not inclined to have regular health check-ups, and therefore raising awareness campaigns need to be organised as a prevention measure)[..]. Availability of health care related to income of women and men,  quality of life, distance of the health care institutions, will be taken into consideration and will influence system of health care services adjustment[..]. Health care education comprises of 12 hours per year during classroom classes in general schools"".",Yes,"The same sentences are used for health reforms ""in line with principles 2 and 3 of the European Pillar of Social Rights, measures will be undertaken. The main problem are old buildings that need to be repaired. ",In all the measures that are presented in the NRRP more attention is paid to other vulnerable groups (judiciary - children; health - people with disabilities,Yes,"Under component Diminishing poverty and social exclusion, several measures are listed. Overall objective to decrease percentage of people at risk of poverty from 18,3 per cent to 16,4 per cent by the end of 2024. Plan envisions increase and continuous adjustment of  social security benefits, development of new social service - social mentoring, supporting and increasing employment opportunities, adjusting pensions, securing   centres for elderly, introducing reforms through legislation, modernisation of the social security system, development of services in order to prevent institutionalisation, creating vouchers for education of employed and unemployed people, enabling lifelong education.        ",Yes,"Statistics show that 32,8% of  elderly people are at risk of poverty in Croatia  (EU 18,2%), and especially single-person households (50,3%).  Therefore, pension reform is planned which will secure  ""increase of lowest pension adequacy"" (whatever it means). New centres for elderly will be built and equipped adequately for institutional and non institutional care. Digitalisation of  social security system will be upgraded, as well as communication between centres of social welfare and other social care providers.   ",Yes,"People with disabilities are always listed within the vulnerable group targeted by certain measure. So, all above mentioned measures include people with disabilities without mentioning gender. They are separately named when investments in buildings are planned. Justification of investing in re/construction is ""enabling people with disabilities access to institutions - schools, hospitals, centres of social welfare..."".  Two documents will be drafted targeting people with disabilities: National Social Service Development Plan, and the National Plan for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities 2021 to 2027. Operational plans will elaborate process of deinstitutionalisation  and transformation of homes for people with disabilities, children and youth, and children with learning disabilities and disorders. Education to upgrade digital literacy will be organised and process of obtaining a verification of disability and its level will be simplified. E-cards (IDs for people with disabilities) will be introduced to prevent bureaucratic torture.  ",No,,Yes,"Roma population is listed when vulnerable groups are mentioned (together with the victims of violence, homeless. youth leaving social welfare care, migrants, former prisoners), but no specific measures are envisioned for them separately. Their situation is well described in the introduction section where the present context is explained: 100 percent of Roma families who live in segregated settlements live in poverty, 38% of Roma live in households where at least one day in a month they are hungry,   38% of people of the age 25 to 44 have not completed any formal education, etc. The NRRP sets measures for vulnerable groups when describing measures related to employment, social welfare system which were mentioned previously.",No,,No,Not mentioned at all,No,non existent in the Plan,No,,"Overall impression is that authorities completely forgot, or better to say, did not care to incorporate any concrete measures related to gender equality while developing the NRRP. As the European Commission asked them to answer several questions during the consultation process, and one of them was related to gender equality, they just tried to incorporate it at the last minute. Even their response to the EC demonstrates a lack of understanding for what it actually means: Contribution to equality and gender equality: “The recovery and resilience plan includes measures that could help increase female labour market participation. The reform of labour legislation is expected to help improve female labour market participation by facilitating work-life balance, and to contribute indirectly to the reduction of the gender pay gap and the currently high gender pension gap. The plan includes a reform of education system which aims to ensure equal opportunities for all children, mainly by increasing the participation in early childhood education and care and the mandatory instruction hours in primary school. Croatia will develop social mentoring services that support hard-to-reach groups of beneficiaries such as persons with disabilities, victims of violence, homeless people, migrants, Roma and young people leaving the social welfare system to assist them with employment”. And that’s it. Again, they know what is the problem, but do not know how to solve it, and elaborate a reform of education system. 
A lack of true understanding is visible in the so called measures, which are actually vague, lack exact actions, figures, deadlines. Gender based violence will be targeted through judicial reform (!!!). In contrast to the facts that were given in introduction lines, where the current situation is elaborated in detail, with exact facts and figures. The whole process was hidden from the majority of interested stakeholders. Even to the Parliament, only an abstract was presented in the last stage (April 2021). The World Bank Office in Croatia tried to intervene, but, in the end, they concluded that the NRRP was a one more missed opportunity in diminishing gender inequalities. When you find that equality of sexes has been mentioned in such u huge document only 22 times, and women 33 times, and in several occasions only with the phrase “measure do not have a negative impact on gender equality”, or a statement that a measure is gender natural, or that gender equality “will be incorporated in all segments including decision making processes and positions”, it is clear that nothing significant will improve existing gender inequalities. Very often they propose measures targeting all marginalised groups as they are facing the same problems which can be targeted by the same approach. Finally, previous experience taught us that we may be also sceptical about the ability of the Government to implement the NRRP, no matter of its quality, to absorb and execute the funds within the planned timeframe. And even more serious risk is that of corruption. Five months before the deadline, Croatia succeeded in spending only 2% of the funds awarded by the EU Solidarity Fund to support reconstruction after the two devastating earthquakes.",,,No,No,No,No,"During consultation process the EC posed a question on how gender equality is targeted in the NRRP, and was obviously satisfied with the poor quality response. ",,Cannot assess,Yes,No,No,Yes,No,Cannot assess,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,Cannot assess,,,No,"The whole process was not transparent, and general public and relevant stakeholders were not informed on who  was involved in writing the NRRP.  Formally, Prime Minister Office was presented as the coordinator of the process, but actually, the Ministry of Finance was the presenter of the abstract of the NRRP.  The trade unions and employers’ associations were invited to one meeting in the final stage. The meeting was held on 29 March 2021, where only abstract of the NRRP was presented. The Union of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia issued a letter to the Government demanding presentation of the whole Plan, and stating that nobody from their part had been involved in the process. MP from opposition party discovered that one private firm organised seminars where ministers were presenters of the NRRP. Attendants had to pay significant participation fee. The World Bank supported the process, but was not satisfied with level of inclusion and quality of measures targeting gender inequality. On 12 May, 2021, meeting of the Council for the Civil Society Development was held, and all CSOs representatives expressed dissatisfaction. They have been completely ignored and excluded from the drafting process, and rejected the idea that one meeting where only the abstract was presented could be qualified as serious consultations. Zhe same happened with the e-consultations and the Parliament. Abstract of the NRRP was available for the discussion, and nobody actually knew what were the planned measures and how different stakeholders would be involved.    ",No,,,No,No,No,No,,"Only one expert for gender equality, representative of the World Bank, in an interview stated that the NRRP proved to be a missed opportunity for gender mainstreaming.",,No,No,No,No,,,,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,,,
Estonia,Approved by EC,,,464,"gender 70, women 7, sexual orientation 19","In Estonian, the word 'gender' does not have a direct equivalent and the same word applies to both sex and gender. A distinction is not necessarily made outside of academic texts and in most policy documents gender still covers the binary of men-women. Most policy documents operate with the adjective 'sooline' (gendered) in connection with gender equality policies. Thus, different grammatical forms of the adjective 'sooline' (gendered in direct translation) were sought. The word mostly ocurred in the phrase 'sooline võrdõiguslikkus' (gender equality). Sexual orientation ('seksuaalne sättumus' ) was also counted in its different grammatical forms.",,Yes,"Although I answered 'yes', the treatment of gender-based violence is superficial: it is not addressed directly, but mentioned as a sympton of broader gender inequality (e.g. that women's economic dependence on men does not permit them to leave violent relationships). The more specific measures are being devised in the National Welfare Development Plan, which is currently in the consultation phase. Estonian studies this far seem to indicate that gender-based violence did not increase in Estonia during COVID-19, unlike in several other countries.",Yes,"Key topics addressed are the skills gap and necessary training to overcome it through pre- and in-service training to respond to the needs of labour market (IT skills and green transition are highlighted) and the strengthening of unemployment measures (e.g. the increase of the unemployment benefit) and improvement of health benefits by shifting the respnsibility from the employee and the employer to the state. The reduction of the gendered segregation of the labour market is mentioned as an important goal. One aspect specially highlighted in the labour market integration of the young, especially young people without higher education. Specific measures include support for employers who employ young people and support for their training on their entry to the labour market. The plan is intergrated with the EU youth guarantee and the attendant support system on the level of local governments and also the unemployment services (training and advising). Another area mentioned is work safety and the labour market integration of people with reduced work capacities. Gender is addressed through the issue of gender pay gap, addressed in cell 24.",Yes,"This is the most extensive section of the plan, with detailed plans for the digitalisation of enterprises to increase their competitiveness, the development of the e-state, the acceleration of the green transition, and improving sustainable energy supply. Gender+ dimensions are mentioned in these sections under general principles, but special measures are only mentioned in clusters in the chapters on social welfare and care. Gender is also addressed in the context of needing to encourage women entrepreneurs and to increase gender balance in STEM and EHW fields",Yes,"From the gender+ measures, the most ambitious target is the reduction of gender wage gap, currently the highest in the EU. The target is to move from  17.1% (2019) to 5% (2035). Estonia also sets itself the goal of improving its Gender Equality Index from 60.7, of 100 (2018)  to 70.7 (2035). A section of the report outlines the challenges with respect to gender equality (gendered segregation of labour market, employment gap, especially for women with children under three, the unequal distribution of care work during COVID-19, health inequities). Estonia pledges its support to measures to improve work-life balance, improving the transparency of wages paid to men and women, measures to address the gendered pension gap and gendered poverty gap. Special measures include the lengthening of parental leave only available to fathers and not counting unemployment caused by COVID-19 in the calculation of parental benefits. Pensions were increased, as was the pension supplement paid for raising children. ",Yes,"Gendered care gap is mentioned, specifically in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Special measures include the improvement of support services at the level of local governments (including care services for the elderly). The measures continue the work initiated under a SRSP until 2027 to improve more human-centered services for the elderly and people with special needs. At present care of the elderly is largely shouldered by families and falls on women; thus this reform has a strong gender+ impact, even if it is not highlighted in the text explicitly.  Special measures include the lengthening of parental leave only available to fathers and not counting unemployment caused by COVID-19 in the calculation of parental benefits and also benefits for parents who took unpaid leave to take care of special needs children. Several projects are underway to develop measures to decrease the care gap.",Yes,"Decision-making is most explicitly addressed in the section on e-government and the development of the IT sector. Gender + issues are not explicitly mentioned, but they are present under the discussion of welfare and service provisions, as well as the sections addressing the decreasing population and the need to better care for the existing human resources and the need to improve services for the aging population.",Yes,"The green turn is an extensive section of the NRRP, but gender + issues are addressed only indirectly (access to training for the young and the economically marginalized in the deindustrialized areas of Estonia to improve fair transition). Gender is absent. The focus on these sections is on industry (e.g. skill improvement is linked to the success of enterpreises and regional development), that is, gender + is viewed as a means for achieving economic competitiveness. ",Yes,"The improvement of the health care system forms an extensive section of the NRRP, including references to age and gender in the context of needing to improve access to health care services (although the section also relies on discourses of self-responsibilization).  Special issues mentioned are the need to prevent mental health issues among the young and the importance of improving occupational health. Health equity is mentioned as an important goal but not expanded upon. Regional unevenness gets more attention than gender. Increasing resilience as a result of COVID-19 is mentioned, without direct reference to gender + (although other sections, e.g. on the need to decrease occupational segregation in EHW sector are clearly connected to gender +).",Yes,"Education is largely addressed in the context of the need to improve skills that support economic development. The sections on vocational education do not address gender, but the need to increase the number of women in STEM fields is stressed in several sections. Educational differences are analyzed from a gendered perspective in connection with health, as men and women with lower educational attainment levels have shorter life spans (especially men). The need to reskill people with lower levels of education and the elderly is mentioned. Thus indirectly gender + issues are addressed in measures directed at requalification programmes, but not mentioned, even in context where there is an explicit gender gap.",,Yes,"While poverty is mentioned in different sections of the NRRP, it appears in connection with unemployment, family poverty risk and care gap, although the text explicitly mentions that poverty mitigation measures have been less effective in Estonia than in the EU in general. There are measures to mitigate poverty by strengthening unemployment protections. However, the discussion does not rely on the language of social class. Poverty is not addressed as an issue of class or social inequality. Thus perhaps the more correct answer here would be no.",Yes,"Age and the challenges of an aging society are mentioned in most sections of the NRRP (access to requalification, social services, poverty, etc.). The regional dimension of aging is mentioned and addressed with respect to peripheral regions away from the leading urban centres. Special measures include the increase in pensions, including a supplement for raising children, improving access to care and also to digital skills. In sections other than welfare, the discursive framing stresses the need to integrate the elderly into society and labour force and to make the state more efficient. ",Yes,"Although disability is mentioned in several sections, this is not the focus of analysis or discussion. However, the need to improve access to health and services to special needs children and elderly are mentioned in sections dedicated to education and welfare. Disability is most directly mentioned in connection with issues of access and the need to attend to this in connection with the redeveloping real estate during the green transition (e.g. the need to adhere to the WCAG 2.1 AA requirements) and in connection with digital access.",No,"Nationality is implictly present: the need to strengthen Estonian state and the resilience of Estonioan nation, language and culture is mentioned in the preamble to the document and it is clear that the text addresses Estonian citizens, but this is not made into an explicit issue in the following text.",No,There are but a few indirect references to  ethnic minorities (e.g. by reference to North-Eastern Estonia that has a strong non-Estonian minority population). Refugees and new immigrants are not mentioned.,No,Religion is not mentioned as it is not a significant political factor in Estonian society (Estonia being the least religious country in the EU).,No,"While there are references to sexual preference throughout the text, these references appear in general policy statements to stress sexual orientation as part of the overall equality protections, but the topic does not come up in any specific analyses or provisions. ",No,Gender identity is not mentioned.,No,,"The Estonian NRRP overall has an economic focus, with the most extensive sections dedicated to the green transition, energy and the strengthening of the IT sector. This is not surprising, in view of the Estonian society’s orientation to economic competitiveness in the past thirty years. However, gender + categories are visible and the NRRP also includes an analysis of gendered inequalities in the labour force and these issues will be further expanded in the National Welfare Development Plan, currently in the consultation phase. This is a major progress and shows that improving gender equality plays a role in increasing social resilience. Specific targets are established for general Gender Equality Index and for the reduction of gender pay gap, special measures are also developed to address gender care gap (both in terms of childcare and elder care). Age and aging are also present, as are youth across different sections. Sexual orientation is mentioned in the text, but largely in policy statements; race, class ethnicity and immigration status do not appear at all. Thus, overall, the NRRP includes the gender + categories unevenly and even the category of gender appears primarily in sections dedicated to social welfare. That is, we cannot see the effects of gender mainstreaming efforts to show the presence of the gender dimension in all areas of life. Yet, the very presence of many of the gender + dimensions is a positive development.","As already suggested above, the main shortcoming is the lack of gender+ awareness in the plan as a whole. It is implicitly present, but the gender + issues are not brought out explicitly or included into the analysis of issues other than gender equality and social welfare.","Estonia received a A rating for its plan and was praised for the balance of the plan, especially for its attention to green transition and digitisation, but also in addressing the gender wage gap and gender segragation. Thus there do not seem official criticisms of the plan with regard to gender. The word 'inequalities' does not appear in the EC assessment of the Estonian NRRP.",No,No,No,No,,The NRRP process included public discussions and consultations with partners and stakeholders. Many of the public discussions tool place during the preparation of Estonia 2035 development plan (March 2018-February 2020). The process is described in detail and inclusion is stressed as a best practice. ,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Yes,Yes,No,No,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,Yes,No,No,,"Stakeholders are not mentioned in all sections of the report, but they are explicitly listed in some sections, e.g. with regard to accessibility. The lack of active involvement by feminist, LGBTQ and immigrant organisations is not surprising as they do not have public visibility. Yet, their voice is to an extent present through the institution of the commissioner of gender equality and equal treatment",Yes,"The NRRP went through the public discussion in the phase of preparing the Estonia 2035 development plan. Over 30 organisations were involved, seminars and metings took place across Estonia. The completed document was in the consultation phase in 24 May-4 June 2021. There were comments from about twenty oganisations and individuals, mostly with the suggestion of adding more funding lines and with suggestions about further details in the proposed plans. These comments have been passed on to the relevant ministries. A website was available all through the consultation process about the evolving plans. The whole process is transparent and inclusive. The communication strategies, for example, mention Russian-language population ",Cannot assess,,"None could be identified at this point without reaching out to the organisations. It is possible that these reactions exist, but they were not available in the public. ",No,No,No,No,,,"None could be identified at this point without reaching out to the organisations. It is possible that these reactions exist, but they were not available in the public. ",No,No,No,No,,,"None could be identified at this point without reaching out to the organisations. It is possible that these reactions exist, but they were not available in the public. ",No,No,No,No,,,
Lithuania,Approved by EC,,,406,gender: 34; women: 50.,,,No,"
Violence is mentioned 3 times in the document (however, not specified as ""gender based violence"") in relation to the mission of empowering socially vulnerable population groups. It is declarative in nature, with no specific measures proposed, e.g.: “Communication and regulatory actions aim to reduce the tolerance of violence and develop assistance to victims of violence” (p. 331).",Yes,"The report indicates that in the area of labour force participation, equality between men and women in Lithuania is quite high (the EIGE index in the field of “work” is as high as 74.1 points, and according to the Lithuanian Department of Statistics, the gender pay gap in 2020 was 12,4% and was lower than the European Union average). In 2019 the employment rate for women (in the 20–64 age group) was 77.4% and 79% for men (a difference of only 1.6 percentage points). So, I couldn’t find any specific measures directed at increasing women’s labour force participation.
However, the RRP recognizes that in Lithuania, some people who have lost their jobs receive extremely low unemployment social insurance benefits (especially unemployed women), or do not receive these benefits at all because they have not accumulated sufficient unemployment social insurance experience. Thus, the Plan proposes to lower the requirements for social security benefits from having been employed for 12 months during the period of the last 30 months to 9 months before the end of 2022.",No,,Yes,"In the context of the pandemic, the problem of gender segregation in the labor market has become particularly acute. According to the data provided in the Plan, in 2019 27% of women worked in education, health and social work, compared to only 6% of men. However, only 8% of women, compared to 33% of men, worked in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The average earnings are lower in the sectors dominated by women. Also, the sectors most affected by the pandemic and its containment measures are the sectors most represented by women. The aim is to gradually reduce the gender pay gap by further reducing the unequal concentration of women and men in different sectors of the labour market.  

The single person benefit, paid to single (unmarried) disabled and elderly people could be considered as a measure to close the gender pension gap. The measure is part of the Plan but, but due to social policy considerations was introduced before the Plan came into force (from the 1st of July, 2021). In Lithuania in 2020 there were about 454 thousand single persons receiving benefit old age or disability pensions. Accordingly, in order to reduce poverty level of this group, from 2021 onwards the single person benefit is paid. The amount of single person benefits is set: 2021 –  € 28.63; 2022 – € 32; from 2023 the benefit is scheduled to be indexed. To finance this new benefit in 2021 15.4 million € were allocated, in 2022 – about 109 mln. €. An ex ante impact assessment of the measure shows that the measure will reduce the risk of poverty for single elderly people from 47% (2019) to an estimated 39.6% (2024). It is expected that by 2024 the single person benefit will amount to at least 11% of the average old-age pension (with the required length of service) per month.",Yes,"
The ”Long-term care provision reform” is planned. It is expected that this reform will significantly improve the chances of people of working age caring for their relatives, most of whom are middle-aged women, to return to the labour market and thus avoid poverty after retirement. The reform follows the principle of deinstitutionalisation and will lead to the drafting and adoption of legislation governing a model for the organization, provision and financing of social and personal health care services, thus establishing a one-stop shop for the provision of long-term care services.
The reform will increase the human resources and infrastructure capacity needed to provide long-term care services (€ 11 million, of which € 5.4 million for the installation of day care centers, € 3.5 million for equipment and vehicles, € 2.1 million for specialist training). The investments will be used to provide the necessary resources for the formation of mobile teams for long-term care services (at least one in each municipality, at least 2 in larger cities, and a total of about 90 mobile teams nationwide). It is also planned to establish up to 10 specialized day care centers in cities, focused on the needs of long-term care patients of certain target groups, where patients will be able to receive comprehensive health care and social services and join community activities. The exact number of day centers and the locations in which they will be set up will be decided according to the need for the services.
The Plan also states that it will introduce new flexible working conditions for parents raising children on parental leave (in compliance with the 2019, June 20 Directive 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers). The aim is to improve the reconciliation of family and work by reducing the time gap between women and men in caring for relatives and housework. ",Yes,"The Plan recognizes that Lithuania's indicators in the field of “power”, which measures gender equality in political, economic and social decision-making, are extremely low (Lithuania scored only 34.1 points on EIGE’s gender equality index in 2020) and require consistent actions and changes. 
The plan raises the aim to assess the possibilities of drawing up state and municipal budgets on the basis of gender equality. ",No,,Yes,"One of the issues in the domain of “health” is the significant gap in life expectancy between women and men. Although in 2019 the average life expectancy for men has increased slightly (from 70.92 to 71.53 years), it is still 9.51 years shorter than for women. The Plan raises an aim to increase the average life expectancy to 77 years, reduce the gap between men and women to 8.5 years, increase healthy life expectancy to 60.5 years for men and to 63.8 years for women and increase the proportion of the population who rate their health as good and very good by 6 percentage points. This should be achieved by strengthening public health (including better access to mental health services) and improving the quality of personal health care.

In relation to women’s reproductive health, the Plan proposes legalizing more favorable methods, conditions and procedures for assisted reproduction and implementing and ensuring quality of screening programs for breast, cervical, colon and oral cancer.

Investing in the availability and opening up of health data will ensure the development of equality data – data segregation according to possible grounds of discrimination (gender, age, nationality, disability, etc.). This will significantly contribute to the reduction of discrimination on any grounds in healthcare.",Yes,"Research and study institutions will be encouraged to compete for the EU's human resources strategy’s HRS4R label, and assistance will be provided in developing institutional plans for gender equality.",,Yes,"A study of the minimum income will be carried out, recommendations will be formed, an action plan for their implementation will be prepared, and draft amendments to the relevant legal acts will be adopted. It is tentatively envisaged that the object of the minimum income study will be the following elements of social security policy: cash social assistance for the poor, benefit pensions, reference indicators for social assistance benefits and minimum social insurance benefits. The minimum income study will analyze causes of poverty and income inequality and, based on the results of the minimum income study and ex-ante impact assessments, legislative changes will be adopted to address these causes.
It is expected that the coverage of cash social assistance will be expanded and that monetary social support would ensure at least 40% of the minimum consumption needs of all beneficiaries.
The Plan also highlights and addresses regional social and economic disparities. ",Yes,"I could not find a section specifically dedicated to age inequalities, but some measures addressing them are scattered throughout the NRP.",Yes,"People with disabilities are specifically mentioned in at least two major components of the NRP.
Pilot demonstration projects will be implemented during the reform “Accelerated Renovation of Buildings and Sustainable Urban Environment” (part of the component “Green Transformation of Lithuania”), executing solutions based on the principles of universal design in practice. Implemented integrated solutions for improving the living environment will address the challenges of adapting the environment and buildings to the needs of people with disabilities, as well as implementing other safety measures that are not directly related to energy efficiency but create a favorable living environment for all residents.
The NPR’s part on “Digital Transformation for Economic Growth” envisages the development of innovative technological solutions to increase the accessibility of public services / mobile applications for people with disabilities, depending on the nature of their disability. It is also planned to develop methodological tools for the widespread use of these solutions and to ensure the use of newly developed technological solutions / tools by raising digital skills. Ensuring the use of information formats acceptable to persons with disabilities, and the development and implementation of innovative technological solutions, which would also be integrated into public services and / or mobile applications, will enable people with disabilities to live more independently and enjoy the full benefits of the digital space.
It is expected that with the help of these measures the level of accessibility of the physical and information environment for the disabled will improve from 32% in 2019 to 70% in 2030.",No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,No,,"The Plan has dedicated 4 pages to gender equality and equal opportunities in its first (introductory) part. 
It states that the Plan adheres to the horizontal principle of gender equality, which means that equal opportunities and gender equality will be implemented in all reforms and investments planned by the NRP. Adherence to this principle ensures that every person, regardless of their sex, nationality, skin colour, (ethnic) origin, nationality, language, religion, belief or opinion, disability, health status, social status, age or sexual orientation and other identities has equal rights, access to services and infrastructure, and ability to participate in public life.
This section of the Plan feels somewhat declarative in nature, as a big portion of it is dedicated to explaining what gender equality and equal opportunities are, what institutions are responsible for their implementation in Lithuania. It also recounts associated legal documents. However, it is not always clear, how these declarations transform to actual measures. Even throughout the rest of the document gender equality and equal opportunities are mentioned in the objectives but specific intersecting inequality grounds are not necessarily considered in actual measures.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts are mentioned to some extent. However, as majority of the problems in relation to gender+ inequalities already existed before the pandemic in Lithuania, there is enough rationale for the individual measures without reference to the pandemic.
The RRP includes measures that contribute towards all of the six pillars of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, set out by the European Commission (green transition; digital transformation; smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; social and territorial cohesion; health, economic, social and institutional resilience; policies for the next generation), with each of the seven components of the RRP addressing one or more pillars. At the same time, the RRP includes one component dedicated specifically to the green transition and another one to the digital transition. The achievement of the green objective is set to be supported through an increase in locally produced renewables, the promotion of sustainable transport, green public procurement measures as well as the renovation of buildings in order to foster a sustainable urban environment, thus promoting the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Investments and reforms geared towards the digitalisation of the public sector, business and industrial ecosystems as well as improving the level of digital skills and promoting the 5G rollout are all expected to contribute to achieving the digital objectives.
The RRP is expected to contribute towards the improvement of macro-economic performance through the mitigation of the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 crisis, while enhancing the economic, social and territorial cohesion. This includes increasing investments and supporting long-term innovation, improving educational performance and expanding active labour market policies. The RRP focuses on education and innovation, in particular on the improvement of the education and training framework. Improving education in Lithuania is expected to contribute directly to economic and social resilience by reducing the education gap caused by socio-economic backgrounds of pupils. The RRP aims to ensure that people have the skills for future jobs through improved vocational education and training systems, expanded career guidance system and a restructured adult learning system. Measures that promote higher education and innovation are expected to increase the productivity and the competitiveness of Lithuania.
Following the COVID-19 crisis, the Lithuanian RRP includes measures aimed at strengthening the health and economic, social, and institutional resilience. Whilst the RRP focuses directly on improving the resilience, quality, accessibility and efficiency of the healthcare system, it also includes measures aimed at reforming the social infrastructure of Lithuania. The RRP pledges to improve the efficiency of the public sector through civil service reform and digitalisation, through a reform of the tax system oriented towards higher compliance, fairness, better redistributive capacity and growth-friendliness, as well as through improvements to the budgetary framework, including spending reviews. The measures included in the RRP are also aimed at improving employment support and guaranteed minimum income protection, with the view to alleviating poverty and improving social cohesion. These measures are expected to improve territorial cohesion.
The reforms and investments included in the RRP are expected to boost the growth potential of the economy in a sustainable manner. The RRP aims to foster renewed growth by supporting the digital and green transitions, innovation, education and skills development, and a more efficient public sector.
Summary taken (and slightly edited) from: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10477-2021-INIT/en/pdf ",,,No,No,No,Yes,In terms of the Plan's contribution to equality and gender equality and contribution to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights the EC analysis is very positive.,,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Cannot assess,Yes,NGOs (the Plan does not specifiy which ones specifically),"During the development of the NRP collaboration with social and economic partners, local and regional authorities, civil society and youth organizations, and other public interest groups (hereinafter referred to as partners) was maintained through various formats. The consultative process has been divided into four steps:
1. Consultation at a national level. In the period of February 23 – 1 March (2021) 6 national public consultations took place. Between 40 and 200 (depending on the topic) partners and experts took part in this consultation. The consultation was broadcasted live on social media platforms Facebook and YouTube. 
2. Separate consultations with ministries responsible for certain NRP areas. In November, 2020 – April, 2021 ministries organized more than 40 individual consultations in various formats with partners in their areas of responsibility.
3. Written consultations in digital space (described in more detail in question 16).
4. Various public information events or presentations. A roundtable discussion on the New Generation Lithuania Plan was held in April, 2021. Experts, academics and business representatives from the public policy areas included in the Plan took part in the discussion. The discussion was broadcasted live on the social media platform Facebook. Also, the Plan was presented at the Seimas committees, at the events of non-governmental organizations, and discussed at the Tripartite Council.",Yes,"In April, 2021 after the initial draft of the Plan was made public, a written consultation of NRP was published electronically, during which all groups or individuals of the public had the opportunity to submit their comments and suggestions. The written consultation was announced on the e. citizen system. Invitations to participate in the written consultation were sent to more than 700 organizations and individuals. In addition, invitations to get acquainted with the NRP project and to submit their suggestions and observations were distributed through the communication channels and media of the ministries that prepared the NRP. 
A total of 700 participants joined the written consultation. The NRP project was commented on by almost 300 individuals and organizations (the remaining 400 participants joined the survey, but did not comment on the Plan or its parts). After sorting and grouping the questions, the ministries prepared about 270 responses to the inquiries or suggestions of various organizations or individuals. The NRP’s components “Green Transformation of Lithuania”, “More Opportunities for Everyone to Actively Create the Welfare of the Country” and “Digital Transformation for Economic Growth” received the most public attention.",Cannot assess,,,No,No,No,No,,,,No,No,No,Yes,"Politicians, experts","1. Experts have criticized the so called ""Millennium Gymnasiums"". This term refers to the new generation of schools, which will invite teachers who demonstrate the highest educational results, the most talented graduates of pedagogical studies, will have all the necessary modern infrastructure, STEAM laboratories. The NRP envisions that most funds planned for education will be allocated to these “Millenium Gymnasiums”.
Experts warn that by concentrating all the resources in elite schools, social exclusion will only deepen.
""It is not clear how those schools will be set up. Other schools may lose their potential if the best teachers, students and resources are sucked away by those ""millennium gymnasiums,"" concludes Professor V. Targamadze.
https://www.aidas.lt/lt/naujienos/article/25437-04-25-seimo-nares-vilijos-targamadzes-pranesimas-parlamentare-apie-plana-naujos-kartos-lietuvai-steigiamos-naujos-lesu-siurbyklos 
2. Economist and sociologist, professor Romas Lazutka has criticized the fact that only 5% of the funds are dedicated to the social sphere, the 7th component of the Plan called ""More opportunities for everyone to actively create the country‘s wellbeing.""
https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/verslas/4/1394210/lazutka-apie-plana-naujos-kartos-lietuva-svarbu-kad-komponentu-projektai-ir-lesos-kryptu-daugiau-galimybiu-link ",,Yes,No,Yes,Yes,Politicians,"The Finance Ministry has been heavily criticized in the media by various stakeholders for not making the NRP draft public (early enough), not involving social and economic partners in the planning process, not giving enough time for stakeholders to react to the draft.
1. On April 23, 2021 Lithuanian Business Confederation (LBC) has sent a statement to the Finance Ministry and other in the NRP involved ministries stating: 
Before submitting the Plan to the European Commission, please provide for specific mechanisms for involving the social partners in the process of preparing and implementing the measures of the Plan. We are convinced that the establishment of such mechanisms would not only contribute to the quality of investments, but also ensure the control and transparency of the implementation of the Plan, and help to identify potential problems and risks related to the implementation of the Plan in a timely manner.
We regret that we cannot fully contribute to the refinement of the Plan, as the Government has set aside only five working days for consultation. This is a very short term. We note that the LBC, like the public, first saw the text of the Plan on the 16th of April, and the public consultation that took place until then was based on a more discussion based approach, when individual components of the Government's vision for the Plan were presented to a wide range of stakeholders. The actual harmonization of the content of the Plan did not take place or, in our opinion, it was not sufficient.
https://lvk.lt/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/21-071VK_D%C4%97l-Naujos-kartos-Lietuva-plano-projekto.pdf 
2. Gaja Šavel?, Director of the National Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations, NGO Expert has also criticized the process of the NRP development. She stated that the Plan was presented to the public only two weeks before the scheduled date of submission to the European Commission and was not coordinated with the social partners:
https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/verslo-pozicija/692/1394015/gaja-savele-trys-ne-tiesos-lydejusios-naujos-kartos-lietuva-plano-pristatyma 
3. Former Minister of Finance Social Democrat Rasa Budbergyt? (currently – in opposition) has expressed a strong opinion on the Government's unwillingness to publicize the ""New Generation Lithuania"" plan. She said that even the members of the Seimas are not clear what the final document will be submitted to the European Commission (EC):
""The Minister of Finance Gintar? Skaist? made a great mistake by concealing the preparation of the plan and not disclosing it, by not consulting with municipalities, Seimas committees and social partners."" 
The European Commission itself has encouraged the active involvement of the social and economic partners in the planning process. The Minister of Finance Gintar? Skaist? tried to justify the exclusion of the public by saying that the European Commission has asked not to publish the draft. It turned out later that this was not true. The European Commission denied the minister's words and called for public consultation on the economic recovery plan:
https://www.lsdp.lt/r-budbergyte-apie-plana-naujos-kartos-lietuva-vyriausybe-uzmirso-es-milijardu-paskirti/ ",
Sweden,Submitted to EC,,"The plan was decided on the 27th of May by the government. The government decided on 23 September 2021 on revisions of this plan. This was because of a political decision in the parliament (Riksdag) not to approve the state budget.  The final revisions have not yet approved by the European Commission, and it is not known when this will happen. There has been no analysis published on the evaluation of the plan or any of the other information that other NNRPs have in connection to the individual pages of the member state. ",203,"""Jämställdhet"" =Gender Equality = 45  and 2 in the amendment dokument, ""Jämställ""=gender equal* or could mean ""to make equal""= 50 ""Kvinnor"" = women 110, ""kön"" =sex/gender=11 and ""genus"" =gender = 0",,,No,,Yes,"1) Investering: Stöd till energieffektivisering av flerbostadshus Investment: Support for energy efficiency of apartment buildings. This is not an initiative that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but is said to maybe benifit women and also persons with a foreign background  with the following assesment made""More men than women work in the construction sector. In general, therefore, more men than women will be affected by the support from a labor market perspective. In recent years, the construction sector has strived for more women and people who live in Sweden but have a foreign background to be recruited. If employment decreases, these groups risk losing their jobs to a greater extent, as they more often have a shorter employment period. The current support, which bridges the decline in the sector's employment rate, could thus benefit women and people with a foreign background by enabling them to keep their jobs to a greater extent."" 2) Investering: Fler platser i yrkesho?gskolan Investment: More places in the polytechnic education. This is not an initiative that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but ii is sais that it may contribute to a less gender segregated labour market with the following assesment made ""The total gender distribution within the polytechnic is relatively even (55 percent women and 45 percent men in 2019). More training places thus benefit both women and men. In accordance with the polytechnic's regulations, MYH has prioritized the issue of counteracting gender-specific choices in education, for example through information initiatives, which means that more places in the long run can contribute to a less gender-segregated labor market. (p.85)"" 3) Reform: A?ldreomsorgslyftet Reform: The elderly care lift/promotion. This is not an initiative that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but is said that it could contribute to a less gender segregated labour maket and also the economic objective with the following analysis made ""The investment contributes to increased financial equality because it leads to employees in health and care, of which a large majority are women, receiving higher education and thus increased opportunities for permanent employment and a higher salary. About 92 percent of all assistant nurses and nurses who are employed in municipal care are women and about 8 percent are men. The investment can also help to broaden the target group for recruitment and, for example, attract more men, as it is judged to be more attractive to apply for this profession if it is possible to train during working hours. This is especially true when employment has decreased in other industries at the same time.(p.99)""",Yes,"1) “Reform: Skyddad yrkestitel fo?r yrkesgruppen undersko?terska” (p.100) In English: “Reform: Protected professional title for the profession of assistant nurse” This is not an initiative that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but is said to contribute to the objective of economic equality with the following assesment made "" Most of the employed assistant nurses are women. Only about 10 percent are men. Within the framework of the reform, a transitional provision is proposed which means that a person who at the time of entry into force has a permanent employment as an assistant nurse may continue to use the title for ten years from the entry into force, despite the person lacking proof of protected professional title. The transitional provision is believed to lead to more assistant nurses being given permanent employment in connection with the implementation of the reform. Having a permanent job increases the possibility of financial independence. The reform is therefore considered to contribute to the goal of economic equality.” (p.101-102)"".  2) Investering: Investeringssto?d fo?r hyresbosta?der och bosta?der fo?r studerande 
Investment: Investment support for rental housing and housing for students. This is not an initiative that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but is said to maybe be a little better for women and men with the following assesment made ""A slightly larger proportion of women (27.5 per cent) live in tenancies, compared with men (26.4 per cent). Of those living in tenancies, women make up a marginally larger proportion (50.7 per cent) than men (49.3 per cent). A smaller proportion of women (approx. 2.1 per cent) live in a student housing, compared with men (approx. 2.3 per cent). Of those who live in student housing, women make up a smaller proportion (47.8 per cent). However, the differences are not large either in terms of housing in tenancies or in student housing. The measure is for everyone who is looking for housing, and an increased supply of rental housing and housing for students makes it easier for both men and women to get their own housing. Young women move away from home (from the parental home) earlier than young men, which is why the measure can to some extent make things a little easier for young women. (p.137)"" 3)  Reform: A?ldreomsorgslyftet Reform: The elderly care lift/promotion. This is not an initiative that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but is said that it could contribute to a less gender segregated labour maket and also the economic objective with the following analysis made ""The investment contributes to increased financial equality because it leads to employees in health and care, of which a large majority are women, receiving higher education and thus increased opportunities for permanent employment and a higher salary. About 92 percent of all assistant nurses and nurses who are employed in municipal care are women and about 8 percent are men. The investment can also help to broaden the target group for recruitment and, for example, attract more men, as it is judged to be more attractive to apply for this profession if it is possible to train during working hours. This is especially true when employment has decreased in other industries at the same time.(p.99)""  4) Reform: Avskaffad schabloninta?kt pa? uppskovsbeloppReform: Abolished standard income on deferral amounts This is nor an inititive that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but is said to contribute to the objective of economic equality with the following assesment made ""The number of women requesting deferral is slightly lower than the number of men, but the difference is small. The average effect in kronor does not differ much between women and men either, but it is slightly higher for men. However, women have on average a lower individual disposable income than men. In relation to income, the effect of the proposal is therefore somewhat greater for women than for men. The proposal is therefore considered to contribute to increased economic equality, albeit marginally. (p.158)""",Yes,"1) ”Reform: Fo?rla?ngt arbetsliv – justerade a?ldersgra?nser i socialfo?rsa?krings- och skattesystemen” (p. 105) In English: “Reform: Extended working life - adjusted age limits in the social insurance and tax systems” This is is not an initiative that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but is said to be especially important to women with the following assesment made ""All age limits in the tax and social insurance systems are the same for women and men, and the actual average age at retirement was about 64.5 years for both sexes in 2019. The pension system's rules are thus gender neutral, despite women living longer than men on average. Women therefore receive, on average, more pensions paid out during their lifetime than they have paid into pension contributions. The opposite is true for men, which means that the pension system redistributes resources from men to women. An important motive for raising the age limits is that it is expected to lead to more people working longer and thus receiving higher incomes both during working life and during the time as a pensioner. This applies to both women and men. As women on average have a lower pension than men, the increased opportunities for a better financial standard are particularly important for women. (p.105)""",No,,No,,Yes,"1) Investering: Järnvägssatsningar Investment: Railway investments. This is not an initiative aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities but is said to ""Women and men use public transport to different extents and have different travel patterns. On average, women choose public transport to a greater extent than men. Investments in railways will generally contribute to an improved standard and increased accessibility to rail transport. This in turn can cause groups that are less inclined to travel collectively to to a greater extent choose the train over car and plane.""",No,,Yes,"1) Reform: Ersättningsnivån höjs för yrkesutbildningar som kombineras med kurser i svenska för invandrare Reform: The compensation level is raised for vocational education combined with courses in Swedish for immigrants. This is is not an initiative that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but is said to stregthen newly arrived women's situation with the following assesment made ""More women than men study in regional vocational adult education and a large proportion of the students are foreign-born with weak knowledge of the Swedish language. The reform therefore strengthens, in particular, newly arrived women's opportunities for integration, jobs and self-sufficiency."" 2) Investering: Resurser fo?r att mo?ta efterfra?gan pa? utbildning vid universitet och ho?gskolor Investment: Resources to meet the demand for education at universities and colleges. This is is not an initiative that has been developed aimed at mitigating sex/gender inequalities in the domain but is said that could have a positive effect with the following assesment made ""More women than men study at university, and even when it comes to distance education, women make up a majority of the students. The investments can therefore benefit women to a greater extent than men. At the same time, there is a tendency for men in certain sparsely populated areas to stay at home to a greater extent than women, which is why investments in distance education and training at colleges and universities throughout the country in particular have the potential to reach men in sparsely populated areas. It also improves the conditions for the women who want to study to stay in their hometown, which can contribute to a better supply of skills in sparsely populated areas. The investments are also aimed at technology educations, where a larger proportion of the students are men. Universities and colleges conduct active work with gender mainstreaming in order to e.g. strengthen equal opportunities for career paths and counteract gender-based study choices.""",,No,,Yes,"1) Investering: Investeringssto?d fo?r hyresbosta?der och bosta?der fo?r studerande 
Investment: Investment support for rental housing and housing for students. This is not an initiative aimed at mitigating inequalities for other vulnerable groups but it is said that it can stregthen the situation for young women with the following assesment made ""A slightly larger proportion of women (27.5 per cent) live in tenancies, compared with men (26.4 per cent). Of those living in tenancies, women make up a marginally larger proportion (50.7 per cent) than men (49.3 per cent). A smaller proportion of women (approx. 2.1 per cent) live in a student housing, compared with men (approx. 2.3 per cent). Of those who live in student housing, women make up a smaller proportion (47.8 per cent). However, the differences are not large either in terms of housing in tenancies or in student housing. The measure is for everyone who is looking for housing, and an increased supply of rental housing and housing for students makes it easier for both men and women to get their own housing. Young women move away from home (from the parental home) earlier than young men, which is why the measure can to some extent make things a little easier for young women. (p.137)"" ",No,,No,,Yes,"1) Reform: Ersättningsnivån höjs för yrkesutbildningar som kombineras med kurser i svenska för invandrare Reform: The compensation level is raised for vocational education combined with courses in Swedish for immigrants. This is not an initiative aimed at mitigating inequalities for other vulnerable groups but can stregthen the situation for foregin born persons with the following assesment made: "" More women than men study in regional vocational adult education and a large proportion of the students are foreign-born with weak knowledge of the Swedish language. The reform therefore strengthens, in particular, newly arrived women's opportunities for integration, jobs and self-sufficiency."" 2)  Investering: Stöd till energieffektivisering av flerbostadshus Investment: Support for energy efficiency of apartment buildings. This is not an initiative aimed at mitigating inequalities for other vulnerable groups but can stregthen the situation for foregin born persons with the following assesment made ""More men than women work in the construction sector. In general, therefore, more men than women will be affected by the support from a labor market perspective. In recent years, the construction sector has strived for more women and people who live in Sweden but have a foreign background to be recruited. If employment decreases, these groups risk losing their jobs to a greater extent, as they more often have a shorter employment period. The current support, which bridges the decline in the sector's employment rate, could thus benefit women and people with a foreign background by enabling them to keep their jobs to a greater extent.""",No,,No,,No,,No,,"The measures, both reforms and investments are described in a general manor and it is stated clearly that the implementation will be left to the public authorities in charge of the area. The plan contains a description of how gender equality and equal treatment is governed 

The individual measures described also sometimes contain a reference to obligations of different actors that will be implementing the plan. 

There are with few exceptions no mentioning of the need to address and counteract stereotypes or discrimination facing different groups in society. The plan also contains a section in the introduction with the title “1.3 Gender Equality and Equality in opportunities”. In this section income is discussed and economic differences between women and men, here also the situation for foreign born persons compared to those born in Sweden is brought up. There are no mentioning of other types of effects such as the increase in gender based violence that is linked to the increase in unpaid housework or the effects of gender based violence on the economy neither that could have been an economic analysis to be made. The overall conclusions from the analysis of negative gendered effects from the pandemic in the introductory sections and the link to the measures in the plan is vague.

No individual measure (reform or investment) in the plan has gender equality as its foremost objective or rational or women as primarily target group. In relation to “equality in opportunities”, equality is discussed in relation to economic equality in society regarding economic differences in the population and between different income groups. Nowhere is the analysis linked to inequalities due to indirect or direct discrimination. Young persons and new immigrants are highlighted as having a particularly difficult situation of they become unemployed or to become established on the labour market and the plan is said to contain measures that mitigate these effects and increase the possibilities to readjustments eg opportunities for education and vocational training. The analysis of the proposed measures in the plan are typically on a group/structural level and are typical for economic assessments, ie in identifying, calculating and comparing the costs and benefits of the proposed measure (reform or investment) in order to evaluate its merit for gender equality more generally or in relation to a specific gender equality objective. ","
The document is an internal “product” of the Finance Ministry according to e-mail conversation with the Gender Equality Unit at the Government Offices and has as such not been subjected to the external review system that is common for Swedish governmental propositions. There has therefore been no consultation with external governmental bodies (yet, it might be once the plan will be implemenented, but this is unclear too me) such as the gender equality agency and none with civil society.   From a general search there has been little about the plan in media, and I found only one brief mentioning that TCO, a trade Union, lacks concreate gender equality measures in the plan but nothing more on what more precisely. The plan however describes that consultation with stakeholders has taken place in the process of developing and shaping all investments and reforms included in the recovery plan. Where applicable, it is also stated how the relevant stakeholders will continue to be involved in the implementation of each measure, e.g. that the authorities have ongoing contact with e.g. companies, municipalities and regions. The Government has also, where applicable, obtained information from relevant actors through special communication opportunities. Measures that involve a change in existing legislation are preceded by the usual preparation, which i.a. includes submission of proposals to relevant authorities, municipalities, associations and individuals. In connection with the design of the recovery plan, the government has received proposals for measures that should be included from relevant stakeholders, such as interest groups, business and representatives of municipalities and regions. The social partners have been involved in the preparation of the recovery plan in the framework of the existing EU Council for the European Semester at official level. Two meetings have taken place with representatives from the National Organization in Sweden (LO), the Central Organization of Salaried Employees (TCO), the Central Organization of Swedish Academics (SACO), SKR, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Entrepreneurs and the Employers' Agency. A number of individual meetings have also taken place in which the central trade unions, SKR and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise have participated. Meetings have also taken place under the auspices of SKR with representatives of the regions. A meeting has also been held with representatives of civil society. ""In connection with the drafting of the recovery plan, the government has received proposals for measures that should be included from relevant stakeholders, such as interest groups, business and representatives of municipalities and regions. The recovery plan within the framework of the existing EU Council for the European Planning Semester at official level Two meetings have taken place with representatives from the National Organization in Sweden (LO), the Central Organization of Salaried Employees (TCO), the Swedish Academic Central Organization (SACO), SKR, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Företagarna ""A number of individual meetings have also taken place in which the central trade unions, SKR and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise have participated. Meetings have also taken place under the auspices of SKR with representatives of the regions. A meeting has also been held with representatives of civil society.""                                        
The entry point in the document is not to address inequalities per se and the plan contain no concrete measures to address gender+ inequalities as an objective. The measures proposed aims most of the time to “equip” the vulnerable groups mentioned, ie to help them overcome barriers, rather than to address institutional inequalities. The overall domains from Swedish gender equality policy and EU dito is mostly lacking besides economic assessment but that are also mostly lacking in depth and scope. There is no deeper analysis conducted in relation to or references being made to the EC recommendations, in particular the quest to address how the plan promote equal opportunities regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation is lacking in several aspects. There is only one reference to a rights-based perspective (stating that education is a human right”. There is no mentioning at all of religion or belief and sexual orientation in the plan. There is no descriptions of  how the plan ensures disability (and otherwise) inclusive reforms of education, labour market and health sectors, accessibility of buildings, services and websites as well as transition from institutional to community-based services. ",No analysis has been published yet,,,,,,"The plan has been drawn up as an internal document in Government Office by the Ministry of Finace according to e-mail conversation with the Gender Equality Unit and as such has not been part of the consultative procedureb ut there still have been some consultations made, to me it si unclera how thois process ihas been done. . The plan howewver describes that consultation with stakeholders has taken place in the process of developing and shaping all investments and reforms included in the recovery plan. Where applicable, it is also stated how the relevant stakeholders will continue to be involved in the implementation of each measure, e.g. that the authorities have ongoing contact with e.g. companies, municipalities and regions. The Government has also, where applicable, obtained information from relevant actors through special communication opportunities. Measures that involve a change in existing legislation are preceded by the usual preparation, which i.a. includes submission of proposals to relevant authorities, municipalities, associations and individuals. In connection with the design of the recovery plan, the government has received proposals for measures that should be included from relevant stakeholders, such as interest groups, business and representatives of municipalities and regions. The social partners have been involved in the preparation of the recovery plan in the framework of the existing EU Council for the European Semester at official level. Two meetings have taken place with representatives from the National Organization in Sweden (LO), the Central Organization of Salaried Employees (TCO), the Central Organization of Swedish Academics (SACO), SKR, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Entrepreneurs and the Employers' Agency. A number of individual meetings have also taken place in which the central trade unions, SKR and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise have participated. Meetings have also taken place under the auspices of SKR with representatives of the regions. A meeting has also been held with representatives of civil society. ""In connection with the drafting of the recovery plan, the government has received proposals for measures that should be included from relevant stakeholders, such as interest groups, business and representatives of municipalities and regions. The recovery plan within the framework of the existing EU Council for the European Planning Semester at official level Two meetings have taken place with representatives from the National Organization in Sweden (LO), the Central Organization of Salaried Employees (TCO), the Swedish Academic Central Organization (SACO), SKR, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Företagarna ""A number of individual meetings have also taken place in which the central trade unions, SKR and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise have participated. Meetings have also taken place under the auspices of SKR with representatives of the regions. A meeting has also been held with representatives of civil society.""     ",No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,,,No,,Yes,"
All individually proposed measures in the plan (in total 30 reforms and investments) contain a section on gender equality assessment. The analysis of the proposed measures in the plan are typically on a group/structural level and are typical for economic assessments, ie in identifying, calculating and comparing the costs and benefits of the proposed measure (reform or investment) in order to evaluate its merit for gender equality more generally or in relation to a specific gender equality objective. The quality of the assessments varies considerably, some stating that there is a positive gender equality effect (7), some more vaguely indicating that their may be positive effects (3),some being unclear all together and mostly repeating objectives and statistics (5) but with no clear analysis, some saying that there are no obvious effects at all, with or without explaining why ( 9), some stating that effects will be assessed later (4) and a few mention that there is a negative impact on gender equality (2). Three measures contain more than a gender perspective ie immigrants (one measure has immigrants as their target group and one mentions persons born abroad) and age is included in one measure. Below are some examples: Some measures are said to be particularly important for women. Others are said to particularly benefit men. Some measures are understood as to specifically contribute to the objective of economic equality. In some cases (where a future investigation is linked to the measure, it is said that the effects on gender equality will be assessed by the investigation and no further analysis is made. Some measures are said to have no effects on gender equality. Some have no explanation of why this is but only state that there is no obvious gender equality effects. ",,No,No,No,No,,,,No,Yes,No,No,,In my searches I could only find one article from a trade union pointing out that the plan lacks concrete gender equality mechanisms,,No,No,No,No,,,
Netherlands,Work in progress,Draft version of Plan,"No definite plan is yet submitted to the EC. The Dutch government resigned January 15 2021 , followed by new elections March 15-17, 2021. Negotations between parties for a new government were difficult and  the new government was installed  only January 10 2022. The same four parties formed a new government. A draft plan was written on behalf of the previous outgoing government, the latest version being drafted was dated November 1 2021. Submission of the final plan is expected before  the summer of 2022. (https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/kamerstukken/2021/11/01/kamerbrief-vervolgproces-rrp).","There are two parts: ""Annex 1"" - The plan for already invested actions (144 pages, in English) : recovery actions that have being executed since March 2020 but can be labeled later as part of the NRRP with reference to the requirements of the NRRF. ""Annex 2"" - Promising draft plans to be submitted before the summer of 2022 (400 pages, in Dutch)","Annex1: Gender (0); women (0); Annex2: Gender (1, in footnote: Gender equality); women (vrouwen) (5) ",Gender and gender equality as a focal point in the NRRP is completely absent in the Dutch RRP. In Annex 2 the mental health risk of pregnant women is mentioned (1) women are mentioned in relation to vulnarability risks for breast cancer (2) and with reference to retraining women for the IT labor market (2) . ,"No hits for of sex/gender inequality . Inequality is mentioned 4 times for labor market position of solo-self employed, 6 times in relation to fair taxation, one time for inequality in learning opportunities for primary and secondary schools",No,,No,,No,,No,"(pension gaps for flexible workers and solo-self employed receives a lot of attention, no mention of gender",No,,No,,No,,Yes,"Health care workers and health care is addressed (44 times but only specifically in Annex 1) - measures: improving abitily and resilience to respond to covod-19 in the future (""purchase and distribution of medical equipment for COVID-19 treatment, (new) staff training and building modifications for extra intensive care capacity, COVID-19 research and investments in the availability and retention of health care
personnel.""). Although there is no mention of gender or sex, this sector is obviously gendered (e.g. nursing profession women dominated) and health care workers more severely hit by covid 19 both in terms of physical and mental health and in immense work pressure. In Annex 2 this is not addressed. Annex 2 discusses digitalization (E Health), prevention (lifestyle) and informal care (for the elderly) as a means to reduce future healthcare costs                       ",Yes,"One line (mentioned twice - and that's it) : ""There is also attention for Diversity and Inclusion, for example initiatives targeted at reschooling and retraining women for ICT""",,Yes,"Annex 1 mentions (just once) measures for younger generation, particular from lower socio-economic background(solo-self employment is discussed below) but no concrete actions are given. In Annex 2. Personal budget for lower educated is mentioned in one sentence (with elderly, flexworkers, self-employed, lower educated, all in one sentence) ",Yes,"Age metioned 17 times in Annex 1 (1 x in relation to demogrpahic changes; 15 times in relation to pension and taxation changes; 2 x in relation to sustainable employment (life-long learning)); Annex 2: 'Elderly is mentioned 55 times. Age mentioned 8 times. Elderly is mentioned in relation to E-Health investments 29 times, Life-longlearning investments 3 times; Life style interventions 18 times; Dementia 2 times, 3 times not relevant.  Age is mentioned in relation to: (2 x in relation to personal budget for transitions at labor market; 2 times in relation to risks across the life span for children born in families in precarious circumstances; 1 x in relation to effectiveness of pharmaceuticals; 1 x in relation to alcohol younger generations; 2 x in relation to climate related investments for farmers). The exact interventions are not described in detail in the draft proposals. The only interventions that might have a link to targeting inequalities are those where there is a budget for individuals for life long learning programs and healthy life style programs (but see my critical remark here: the responsibility for using these programs is laid down for the vulnerable groups themselves, which has been shown in the past does not work well).",Yes,"Annex 1 mentions disability 33 times. 2 x in relation to sustainable employability/life long learning; 31 times in relation to social protection/social security of solo self-employed workers. Annex 2, one mention ('person with distance to the labor market') in relation to learn-work trajectory investment. 'Practice oriented schooled persons' (seen as vulnerable group) is mentioned 6 times in relation to Life Long learning investments. ",No,,Yes,"Personal budget for migrants is mentioned in one sentence (with elderly, flexworkers, self-employed, lower educated) - one sentence in Annex 2",No,,No,,No,,Yes,"Employment status: many measures are targeted at improving the employability, social protection , and the social impact of the corona crisis for solo-self employed (solo-self employed/employement) mentioned 89 times in Annex 1, in Annex 2. The EC's country-specific recommendations are related to ""reduction of incentives for self-employed persons without staff, encouraging adequate social protection for the self-employed, strengthening lifelong learning and reforming the pension system"".  ","The two  Annexes that are currently written as a draft for the Dutch RRP do not reflect sensitivity for gender+ inequalities. There is some attention for socio-economic groups, elderly, people with a distance to the labor market and practice-oriented schooled persons, all seen as vulnerable groups for which investments focus on 'Life Long Learning' programs and 'Lifestyle programs', hence with a particular focus on interventions to enable individuals to participate. Although the implicit philosphy is enabling vulnerable groups to participate, implicitly the source of inequality  or underpriviliged position is then put on the vulnerable individuals'shoulder. In the past it has been shown that vulnerable groups have difficulty in fiding their way to access these budgets. There are no actions or interventions explicitly focused on reducing exclusion, discrimination, privilige, or actions  by the priviliged (majority) groups or by system discrimination. This is surprising, since there is attention for systemic inequalities in society following the #Black Lifes Matters ( in the Netherlands related to systemic racism in ""Zwarte Piet"")and #Me too movements. There is no attention to gender based violence, LGBTQ+ inequalities, at all, despite that there has been quite some attention in the popular media on the increase of gender based violence during the Covid-19 pandemic.",In my opinion there gender -based inequalities are neglected in the draft version of the Dutch RRP. (see above).,"There have been 'conversations' with the EC (as mentioned in the letter of the former Minister of Finance, Wopke Hoekstra) November 1, 2022, but the proposal has yet to be finalized and submitted to the EC",,,,,,NO - None thus far - in the documents there is no evidence that input was sought with civil society organizations and professional organizations of this list. No hearings or requests for advice were mentioned. ,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,,,No,,No,,,No,No,No,No,No,,,No,No,No,No,,"I cannot find formal responses to the plan, apart from organizations asking involvement (see below) and from political parties (https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/detail?id=2022Z00578&did=2022D01203) ",,No,Yes,Yes,Yes,Scientific Council to the Government (WRR); https://www.wrr.nl/publicaties/publicaties/2021/07/15/covid-19-expertvisies-op-de-gevolgen-voor-samenleving-en-beleid; ,"Some parties (unions, care providers, employer organizations, NGO's) used media and social media to request that they can participate in the design of the NRRP, one of the political parties (Volt) filed two motions (one on stakeholder participation, one on gender equality) - but without (formal) reaction until recently (January 19, 2022). 
Ten key employer organizations (The two general Dutch employers organizations (VNO, MKB), a number of sectoral employer organizations(Society for Construction organizations(Bouwend Nederland); Sustainable Governance Organization MVO; Life Sciences Organizations (Holland Bio), the Dutch organization of municipalities (VNG), the Dutch provincial states organization (Interprovinciaal overleg); the Union of the Dutch Universities (VSNU); the Dutch waterworks organization, the Association of Pharmaceutical and Vaccin Organization (VIG); the Association of Digital Infrastructure (DINL) published an open letter on their websites to request to be invited to the table and a stakeholder conference to be organized. 
The biggest union (FNV) repeatedly requested to be invited to the table, together with other stakeholders and submitted plans for the RRF with a focus on decent work, digital transformation, employment, social security for flexworkers, investments in education, health care to combat the social consequences of the pandemic.
Furthermore, the Scientific Council to the Government (WRR) together with the Dutch Scientific Research Organization (KNAW) wrote a report with vision document with strategic policy challenges for the society in response to the pandemic and run future scenario analyses. In the documents the gender care gap in the Netherlands (one of the biggest in the EU, and the gap increased during the pandemic) and SES inequality are explicitly discussed.
The political party Volt has filed a motion to ask the (outgoing) government questions about stakeholder participation. The new government replied (January 19, 2022) that social parties have been consulted in the process of writing the coalition agreement, including responding to the covid19 pandemic, topics of the RRP. November 25 Volt filed a motion to address gender inequality in the Dutch RRF which was accepted by 85 of the 150 parliament members. The new government replied it is in their attention to consult relevant societal organizations to guard principles of gender inequality in the implementation of the RRP (January 19, 2022)                                                                

https://www.bouwendnederland.nl/actueel/nieuws/21584/politiek-betrek-ons-bij-een-nationaal-plan-voor-de-6-miljard-uit-europa https://vng.nl/sites/default/files/2021-10/oproep-10-organisaties-over-rrf.pdf
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Denmark,Approved by EC,,,342,42,,,Yes,"The Danish government has created an action plan to combat physical and psychological violence in close relationships. There has been an increase in spaces for women in shelters and a right for psychological support when living in a shelter. Besides this, outpatient counseling and treatment for both victims and perpetrators of violence has become permanent. A law, that states sex without consent is considered rape, has been created and awareness-raising campaigns have been made to show survivors where to get help. They made an Action plan to combat human trafficking. The Danish government has further made plans to combat negative social control and honor-related conflicts within ehtnic minority communities; this includes forced marriages, child marriages, FGM and re-educational journeys. They have increased the punishment for forcibly detaining someone in a marriage or other marriage-like relationship, and religious marriages of minors have been prohibited.",Yes,The Danish government has committed to promote women's acces to STEM work and research fields as well as in relation to work on climate change. They want to have more women in boards within private and state-owned companies. They made a voluntary code for diversity in recruitment and boards. The government wants to change the fact that women take longer parental leave than men. They are doing this through the EU directive on two months of parental leave earmarked for each parent and through working with organizations in the labor market. It has established a compensation scheme for self-employed women. In November 2020 the government launched 14 initiatives to prevent sexual harassment in the labor market and education.,Yes,"Economic growth is mentioned in connection to promoting the green transition. For instance they refer to circular economy, in this context plastic consumption and waste is introduced as an example of where the economy should become circular. Another example of where they mention economy is funding for police to combat organized financial crime. They are comitted to making investments in the green transition. An additional aspect of boosting the economy is the expectation that it will create jobs.",Yes,"It is stated that the government is committed to solving the problem of the gender pay gap, as mentioned by the Commission. The proposal to solve it is by having a shared parental leave. The pension gap is not included.",Yes,"Besides the initiative to promote shared parental leave (see section about work and labor market) the government is mentioning that the COVID-19 crisis has increased the burden of unpaid care. Strategies to strengthen the healthcare system are also introduced. The role that women play in relation to care in general is not explicitly mentioned - both in terms of healthcare, day care, elderly care etc.",Yes,"It is mentioned how the government wants to promote women in desicion-making. They suggest four range of activities to comply with the recommendations of the European Commission and to promote the position of women in the labor market. These are: 1) Committing to promote shared parental leave, 2) Promoting female entrepreneurship, 3) Promoting women in academia, and 4) Promoting women in STEM. No specific action towards promoting women in decision-making is mentioned.",Yes,There are many references to the word environment (307) and once there is a reference to the Paris Agreement where the word social is included in relation to the environment.,Yes,"The government plans to make the Danish healthcare system more resilient. For instance there is a focus on digital solutions to benefit elderly and vulnerable groups in having medical consultations during the pandemic. Another focus is on the shortage of workers within the healthcare system. Other measures include: clinical study of the COVID-19 vaccines, measures to ensure stocks of critical drugs and emergency management and monitoring of critical medical products. ",Yes,"The Danish government prioritizes education through increasing the staff among children in school and there is additional pedagogical support to vulnerable children between the ages of 0 and 5. They emphasize the aim to educate children in relation to sustainable development. They want to ensure high quality education and make more young people complete an education or be employed. They want all 25 year olds to either have an education or be employed by 2030. They also wish to strengthen digital education among children and young people. The government has also passed a law regarding assistance to young people with disabilities to support them in their transition towards adulthood, for instance through education.",,Yes,"Socio-economic inequalities are only mentioned in relation to women and girls in developing countries. They refer to target 10.2 and 10.3 of the SDGs and state that they work on promoting social, economic and political inclusion of everyone across age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic status. It is also mentioned that the pandemic has impacted women more in terms of economic inequalities.",Yes,As seen in some of the measures above there are some targeting elderly and some targeting young people. The elderly are targeted in the efforts to build a resilient health care system. The young people are targeted in relation to the goals of ensuring that all 25 year olds have an education or are employed by 2030. Vulnerable children are also targeted in terms of providing additional support to them. ,Yes,"They mention how people with disabilities can receive help and that all individuals have equal access to the healthcare system. Furthermore, they state that they are currently working on initiatives to strengthen the inclusion of and lessen the discrimination against people with disabilities. They refer to target 10.2 and 10.3 of the SDGs and state that they work on promoting social, economic and political inclusion of everyone across age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic status. In 2018 discrimination against disabled people was criminalized outside of the labor market. In 2020 they made a campaign to remove prejudice against children with disabilities. The government has also passed a law regarding assistance to young people with disabilities to support them in their transition towards adulthood, for instance through education.",No,,Yes,"They refer to target 10.2 and 10.3 of the SDGs and state that they work on promoting social, economic and political inclusion of everyone across age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic status. They do not include all of the inequalities in their measures. There is a focus on mostly gendered, age-related, socio-economic and disability related inequalities. The actions mentioned can also be seen under the written summaries related to these inequalities. For instance in relation to youth unemployment they have a goal to ensure that all people at the age of 25 will have an education or be employed in 2030. This also includes providing support and assistance to people with disabilities, so they can be included in the educational system and labor market. As mentioned in the optional answer to question 6, there is a lack of focus on both ethnic, religious and LGBTQIA minorities. The reference to SDG 10.2 and 10.3 is superficial and only some groups are in focus, when it comes to specific actions to reduce inequalities.",Yes,"They refer to target 10.2 and 10.3 of the SDGs and state that they work on promoting social, economic and political inclusion of everyone across age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic status. They do not include all of the inequalities in their measures. There is a focus on mostly gendered, age-related, socio-economic and disability related inequalities. The actions mentioned can also be seen under the written summaries related to these inequalities. For instance in relation to youth unemployment they have a goal to ensure that all people at the age of 25 will have an education or be employed in 2030. This also includes providing support and assistance to people with disabilities, so they can be included in the educational system and labor market. As mentioned in the optional answer to question 6, there is a lack of focus on both ethnic, religious and LGBTQIA minorities. The reference to SDG 10.2 and 10.3 is superficial and only some groups are in focus, when it comes to specific actions to reduce inequalities.",No,,No,,No,,"It includes increased access to support for victims/survivors of GBV. Shelters and right to psychological treatment have been implemented as a consequence of the increase in GBV during the pandemic. The increased burden of unpaid care for women during the pandemic is another area, where the government has taken action. They have done so by promoting access for men to take more parental leave. The unpaid care burden for women is connected to economic inequalities. It is mentioned how women have been more impacted by the pandemic, because they are more often employed in the service sector, which has been locked down. The government plans to make the Danish healthcare system more resilient. For instance there is a focus on digital solutions to benefit elderly and vulnerable groups to receive medical consultations during the pandemic. Another focus is on the shortage of workers within the healthcare system. They state that they will improve the quality within the health and care system. Other measures include: clinical study of the COVID-19 vaccines, measures to ensure stocks of critical drugs and emergency management and monitoring of critical medical products. Lastly, resilience is seen in relation to the aim to be prepared for future pandemics. Technological development in the form of digitalisation is mentioned as a general strategy to reboot the economy after the pandemic. It is stated that digitalisation should be carried out both in the private and in the public sector. The other actions proposed are not necessarily linked to COVID-19. A lot of things could be influencing them. For instance a law was adopted in 2020, making sex without consent rape, and thus punishable. However, this was already written in the Istanbul Convention, that the Danish government had committed to. Civil society pushed for it to be created. It could be related to the increase in GBV during the pandemic, but it is not as clear as it is with the increase in support for shelters, as this was a more urgent need, because of the pandemic. Another economic factor included is the investment in green jobs. Furthermore, it is stated how the government wants Denmark to be a global advocate for women's and girls' rights. There is a focus on increasing support and reducing discrimination directed towards disabled people and there is an ambition that all 25 year olds should be either employed or studying in 2030. ","There should be a greater focus on ethnic, religious, sexual and gender minorities in the NRRP. The NRRP does not include all of the gender+ inequalities and some of them are only briefly mentioned. The ones that are not included are LGBTQ+, both in terms of sexuality and gender identity. The ones that are only briefly mentioned are socio-economic inequalities, religion/belief and ethnicity. Socio-economic consequences for women are included in the NRRP. However, ehtnicity and religion is only mentioned in relation to the subtargets of SDG 10. LGBTQ groups are completely unaddressed. This shows that the NRRP does not have a full gender+ perspective and there is only a focus on addressing issues for some groups. The mentioned groups are not prioritised in terms of COVID-19 related inequalities.",,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,"The European Commission does not specify representation in the design of the plan. It only states that stakeholders were involved; it describes them as climate partnerships and social partners. However, gender+ representation is not directly said to be lacking in the design, but it does refer to the lack of gender+ inequalities.",,No,Yes,Yes,Yes,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,,"Two pieces of evidence were found in terms of involvement of stakeholders. One piece of evidence was found in the European Commission's analysis, where it is stated that stakeholders from climate partnerships and social partners were involved in the proces of drafting the NRRP. The other piece of evidence is the Danish Minister of Culture at the time explaining that only businesses were involved in the proces; this fact is also shared by the representation of the European Commission in Denmark. There has been no transparency about the proces behind the NRRP. Stakeholders in civil society and in the areas of gender+ inequalities were not involved in the drafting of the NRRP.",No,,No,,,No,Yes,Yes,No,," The only positive reactions that could be found came from one of the biggest trade unions in Denmark FH (Fagbevægelsens Hovedorganisation - Danish Trade Union Confederation), which is a gathering of 64 trade unions within different fields of employment (for instance, teachers, pedagogues, office workers and police officers). They were vocal about their opinions both before and after the NRRP was drafted. In fact, they made their own suggestion for a Recovery Plan with 41 suggestions. However, only one of these can be said to have some relation to the gender+ inequalities, although it does not have gender as focus point. This is a suggestion to increase support for unemployed people through increasing the monthly payment in the unemployment insurance (dagpenge). In regards to the actual NRRP they are positive in terms of securing employment, investments in the green transition and the promotion of job opportunities for young people (FH, 2021). Another actor that has positive opinions about the NRRP is the Danish Employers Association (Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening). They are solely focused on the opportunity for the NRRP to make the Danish and European economies grow. Thus, there is no mentioning of gender+ inequalities in this context.",,Yes,No,No,No,,"The Danish Women's Council (Kvinderådet) have stated that they want women's rights organizations to be included in the process of distributing the EU funds. They recommend that gender mainstreaming is used as an approach to ensure that women and girls are considered equally. Furthermore, they mention both the increase in GBV during the pandemic and the care work that women have been doing in the frontline of the pandemic. They call for the representation of women working in frontline jobs and civil society organizations representing women to be included in the proces of rolling out the NRRP. They proclaim this under the headline of ""Don't Forget the Women!"".",,Yes,No,No,No,,"Other actors that criticize the government together with the Danish Women's Council are different organizations; New Europe (Nyt Europa), the Youth Representative for EU (EU ungedelegat), The Association for Academics (Akademikerne) and Greenpeace. They all proclaim that the government has not included them in the process of creating the NRRP. For instance they mention how civil society has knowledge about the inequalities that have increased as a consequence of the pandemic (inequalities connected to gender, generation, class and ethnicity). They call for the politicians to have a dialogue about the proces of drafting the NRRP (92-gruppen, 2021). Another actor that has made suggestions for the government leading up to the proces of drafting the NRRP is the Danish Refugee Council. They call for the consideration of refugees and migrants to be included in the national recovery plans across the EU countries. They also state the need for a focus on self reliance and social integration in the crowded refugee camps in Greece (DRC, 2020).",