Integrating equality between women and men into
all Community policies and activities

Gender mainstreaming is the integration of
the gender perspective into every stage of policy
processes – design, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation – with a view to promoting equality between
women and men. It means assessing how policies impact on
the life and position of both women and men – and taking
responsibility to re-address them if necessary. This is
the way to make gender equality a concrete reality in
the lives of women and men creating space for everyone
within the organisations as well as in communities – to
contribute to the process of articulating a shared
vision of sustainable human development and translating
it into reality.

Gender
mainstreaming into practice