Our mission:To become the European

knowledge centre on gender

equality

Our vision:Making equality between

women and men a reality for

all Europeans and beyond

European Commission

European Council/Member States

European Parliament

Sister EU Agencies

Civil Society

Social Partners

Academia

WHY EIGE ?

The Institute should carry out tasks that theexisting institutions do not deal with at aEuropean level, specifically in the areas of the• centralisation and dissemination of information,• coordination of research,• provision of visibility to gender issues,• the construction of tools for mainstreaming.

European Commission, Feasibility Study for a European Gender Institute,2002.

Structure

Management Board

Experts’ ForumDirector

• Management Board

- Adopts work programmes

and budget

- 18 Member States - rotation

- European Commission

- 3 years

• Experts’ Forum

- Advisory body

- All Member States

- European Parliament

- European Commission

- Civil society

- Social partners

- 3 years

What we do

Provide comparable and reliable data and indicators

Collect and process methods and practices

Communicate gender equality

Our thematic areas

Effect of improvements in gender equality on GDP per capita

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2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050

Rapid improvement in gender equality Slow improvement in gender equality

Improvement in GDP per capita by 1.5 to 2.2% Improvement in GDP by €0.45 to €0.74 trillion

Improvement in GDP per capita by 6.1 to 9.6% Improvement in GDP by €1.95 to €3.15 trillion

Effect of improvements in gender equality on employment

Countries that increase gender equality will reap bigger benefits

In 2030Group 1: up to 4% GDPGroup 2: up to 4% GDPGroup 3: up to 3% GDP

In 2050Group 1: up to 12% GDPGroup 2: up to 14% GDPGroup 3: up to 7% GDP

EIGE’s WORK ON GENDER-

BASED VIOLENCE: gender

statistics, research,

methods, tools and good

practices, awareness

raising

FEMALE

GENITAL

MUTILATIONSEXUAL

VIOLENCE

DOMESTIC

VIOLENCE

SUPPORT SERVICES for

women-victims of domestic

violence

Administrative sources of data

Costs of violence

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Data on direct forms of Violence against women

EIGE White Ribbon Campaign

Collection of data and statistics of the 12 critical areas of concern of the BPfA

12 critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action

A. Women and PovertyB. Education and Training of WomenC. Women and HealthD. Violence against WomenE. Women and Armed ConflictF. Women and the EconomyG. Women in Power and Decision-makingH. Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of WomenI. Human Rights of WomenJ. Women and the MediaK. Women and the environmentL. The girl child

The Gender Equality Index

EqualityInequality

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54.0

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Knowledge Management

RDC, Databases

Stakeholder Engagement

EU and national, social partners, IPA and

international

Communications

Online, Events, Newsletter,

Publications, Media, Audio-visual

Life-cycle communications to targeted audiences

EIGE communications

EIGE IPA project 2015-2017

Involvement of EU candidate countries and potential candidates in work of the EIGE and deepening of

cooperation in common priority areas

Evolution of EIGE’s work with IPA countries

Beneficiaries, duration, budget

• Beneficiaries: gender equality administration from IPA countries + representatvies from other institutions and non-government sectors that are involved in implementation of the national gender equality policy.

• Duration: 01.07.2015. - 30.06.2017.

• Total budget: 200,000.00 for 24 months, operational 100,000.00.

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