Project Head and Team in ISOE:
Doris Hayn and Irmgard
Schultz
Cooperations:
Öko-Institut
Darmstadt: Simone Mohr, Christian Küppers, Regine Barth
CONTRACT KG, Bettina Demmer
Funding:
German Federal Environment Ministry
Duration:
06/01-10/02
Field of research
Research Area:
Everyday Life Ecology, Energy, Consumption
about the Institute
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In July 2000, following a resolution of the European Union, the German
federal cabinet declared gender equality as a generally leading principle
for all political, norm-giving and administrative measures (Gender
Mainstreaming); this decision is concerning all policy areas and thus all
federal ministries. Within the
Federal Environment Ministry (FEM) the project team "Putting Gender
Mainstreaming into Action within the BMU" has been founded whose members
are dedicated to implement this principle with the help of specific
measures and projects. Representatives of almost every department of the
BMU are to be found in the project team. "Gender Impact Assessment in the
field of radiation protection and environment" was chosen as a pilot
project, which is carried out by ISOE together with the project team and
other co-operating partners.
The project "Gender Impact Assessment in the Area of Radiation
Protection and Environment" aimed at developing a Gender Impact Assessment
prototype. The project had two parts: firstly, on the basis of the 2001
revised radiation protection regulations the prototype was developed
(pilot phase), and secondly, the prototype was tested in the area of
product-oriented environmental protection (trial phase). Both tasks were
successfully completed within the project.
Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) is an important instrument for
implementing the policy strategy of gender mainstreaming. Its function
consists in ascertaining whether policy measures – for example, laws,
programs, concepts and every-day administrative procedures – have
different effects on men and women. GIA includes a topic- and task-related
component, the carrying out of a gender equity review by means of a
GIA-checklist, and the organizational-institutional anchoring of the GIA.
A graded model, in analogy to an environment impact assessment, was
selected for the GIA prototype-checklist rather than a non-differentiated
checklist, such as the "blue evaluation questions". The checklist has
three levels: a preliminary assessment (screening), a main examination
(analysis) and an evaluation with recommendations. The carrying out of the
assessment steps is guided by questions and explanations of these
questions. Download of the GIA-Checklist:
pdf-file 162 kb
The gender relevance of a political measure within the GIA concept is
determined in terms of its gender specific impact on target groups.
"Target groups" depicts the groups of persons who are directly covered by
a measure, or those directly affected by it. The issues investigated are
whether or to what extent men or women of these groups of persons are
affected differently by the measure.
The approach to evaluation used in the GIA is a positive one: progress
towards the achievement of gender equity goals is assessed. The assessment
is carried out both with the aim of attaining an alliance between
environmental and gender equity policy goals and of becoming aware of
possible conflicts between these goals. In this regard there is a weighing
of the environmental and gender equity goals as these are affected by the
measures proposed.
The GIA-prototype worked out in the FEM project was included in the
"Working Aid for article 2 GGO: Gender Mainstreaming When Preparing Legal
Regulations", which was prepared by the Inter-Ministry Working Group
(IMWG) Gender Mainstreaming.
ISOE will contribute to the project its knowledge and experience acquired
while working out a Gender Impact Assessment for the subprogram
"Environment and Sustainable Development" as part of the 5. Framework
Programme for Research, Technological Development, and Demonstration of
the European Union.
Concluding Report :
Hayn, Doris/Irmgard Schultz
(2003): Gender Impact Assessment in the Field of Radiation Protection and
the Environment – Concluding Report – on behalf of the Federal
Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
(BMU), 635 kb pdf-file
Summary of the concluding report:
pdf-file 157 kb
Upfollowing project: Scientific Consultants
for the Introduction of Gender Mainstreaming in the daily practice of the
Federal Environment Ministry (FEM)
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