Evaluation of Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities within the European Social Fund

The ESF Gender Equality (GE) and Equal Opportunities (EO) Mainstreaming Plan for England and Gibraltar 2007-2013 outlined the vision for mainstreaming GE and EO across all levels of the ESF programme. GE and EO mainstreaming is a social justiceled approach to policy making in which equal opportunity principles, strategies and practices are integrated into all aspects of the policy. In terms of ESF programme delivery, programme mainstreaming involves integrating equal opportunities into high level plans, delivery arrangements and monitoring and evaluation systems. NatCen was commissioned to evaluate the mainstreaming of GE and EO within ESF, in light of the Mainstreaming Plan. The aims of the evaluation of GE and EO within ESF were to assess progress towards implementing the GE and EO Mainstreaming Plan at different levels of ESF operation; examine GE and EO Policies and processes at different levels of ESF; and, identify and make recommendations on good practice to encourage GE and EO among ESF providers.

2007 - 2013年英格兰和直布罗陀的欧洲社会基金（ESF）性别平等（GE）和平等机会（EO）主流化计划概述了在ESF计划的各个层面将性别平等和平等机会主流化的愿景。性别平等和平等机会主流化是一种以社会正义为导向的政策制定方法，其中平等机会原则、策略和实践被纳入政策的各个方面。就ESF计划的实施而言，计划主流化包括将平等机会纳入高层计划、实施安排以及监测和评估系统。英国国家社会研究中心（NatCen）受委托根据主流化计划评估ESF内部性别平等和平等机会的主流化情况。ESF内部性别平等和平等机会评估的目的是评估在ESF不同运作层面实施性别平等和平等机会主流化计划的进展；审查ESF不同层面的性别平等和平等机会政策及流程；以及确定良好实践并提出建议，以鼓励ESF提供者重视性别平等和平等机会。