Support to the EU Gender Action Plan III for Egypt (EU GAP III)

Gender-based violence (GBV) | Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) | Economic & Social rights | Equal Participation & Leadership | the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda | Climate Change & Digitalisation.

Description

At country level, the EU Delegation in Egypt is committed to translate commitments specified under GAP III (Joint Communication and Staff Working Document) into a context-specific and tailor-made operational framework ‘Country Level Implementation Framework’ (CLIP 2021-25). To feed the development of the CLIP and MIP (Multi-Annual Indicative Programme), the EU Delegation to Egypt needs to produce a Gender Analysis that is comprised of a gender country profile, and gender-sector analysis linked to envisaged priority areas of MIP (Green and sustainable development, Human development; Economic resilience and prosperity building through green and digital transition; Social Cohesion, Modern and Democratic State).

In relation to the programming 2021-27, to reach GAP III targets, the EU Delegation must ensure that at least 85% of all new actions will have gender equality as a significant (Gender Marker or principal objective (Gender Marker in each priority area/ sector of the MIP. Moreover, at least one action should encompass gender equality, women, girls’ rights, and their empowerment as a principal objective (Gender Marker 2).

A gender analysis is a critical examination of how differences in gender roles, activities, needs, opportunities, and rights/entitlements affect women, men, girls, and boys in a given policy area, situation or context. The gender analysis identifies the differences between and among women and men in terms of their relative position in society and the distribution of resources, opportunities, constraints, and power in a given context. In this way, conducting a gender analysis allows for the development of interventions that address gender inequalities and meet the different needs and interests of women and men.

The gender country profile is a comprehensive and structured gender analysis at country level. The overall objective of the assignment is to identify key advances, gaps and opportunities around gender equality and women’s empowerment in Egypt and to produce relevant material that would increase knowledge, capacities, and awareness with regard to EU Gender Action Plan III (GAP III 2021-2025).

Services

  • Technical Assitance to EU-EUMS Gender Group Roundtables
  • Deliverable of the Country-Level Implementation Plan (CLIP): Analysis of context, gaps, challenges, and opportunities factoring in the MIP areas and EU commitments through consultation and dialogue with partners/stakeholders
  • Gender Mapping: Mapping ongoing and planned projects of the EU-EUMS to that have gender equality as a significant (Gender Marker 1) or principal objective (Gender marker 2).
  • Team Europe Branding Campaign and Communication Plan: Branding to enhance the common Team Europe approach to gender in the ‘16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence’ annual campaign.
  • Gender analysis (Egypt’s Gender Country Profile and Gender Sector Analysis): Gender Analysis on six areas of engagement 1) gender-based violence (GBV), 2) sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) 3) economic and social rights empowering girls and women, 4) equal participation and leadership, 5) integrating the women, peace, and security agenda and 6) integrating gender within the nexus of climate change, environment, and digitalisation.
  • Review of previous Gender Analysis for Egypt produced in 2015, 2016, and 2018 in addition to a draft Gender Analysis in 2020-21.
  • Drafting an update of Egypt’s Gender country profile.
  • Review and finalisation of Egypt’s Gender country profile.
  • Two reports and two events executed to present achievements and plans for the EU support in gender equality and women empowerment
  • EU–EUMS joint analysis updated
  • Recommendations on operationalisation mechanism, indicators, and reporting.
  • Gender mainstreaming methodology report and handbook
  • Development of a methodological approach on mainstreaming gender into EU development cooperation and possible initiatives
  • Integration of hands-on practical measures and checklist pertinent to be implemented for the integration of gender into the development assistance cycle (2021-27).
  • Training manual on EU commitments and gender mainstreaming prepared and presented to selected targets (EU staff, EUMS, and partners)