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Council of European Municipalities and Regions

A Europe for our municipalities and regions

www.cemr.eu

Introduction

• CEMR – general presentation
• How CEMR work on gender equality  The European

Charter for Equality

• The Observatory of the European Charter for Equality
• Presentation of the website: www.charter-equality.eu
• Further updates of the website  Pilot project on

developing indicators

CEMR - presentation

• 150.000 European

municipalities and regions

• 41 countries
• 57 associations
• European section of

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

The European Charter for Equality

• Launched by CEMR in 2006
• Document that local and

regional authorities are invited to sign to make a public commitment for equality

• Elaborated by CEMR in

collaboration with its member associations

• Project financially support by

the European Commission

• Translated into 28 languages
• More than 1450 signatories in

32 countries in Europe

The Charter for Equality

• Document presenting principal values but also a practical tool
• Composed of 30 articles representing different areas of

competences of local and regional authorities

• The 30 articles describes concrete ways on how municipalities

and regions can work with gender equality in different areas

• Examples:

Article 2 – Political representation Article 11 – The Employer role Article 22 – Gender based violence Article 25 – Urban and local planning

www.charter-equality.eu

Elaboration of the website

1) Presentation of 1st draft for a core group of representatives from our most active member associations 2) Presentation of 2nd draft by the Communication Agency that developed the website 3) 3rd and final version launched on occasion of the International Conference of Local Elected Women in Paris in January 2013 4) Updates and improvements of features of the website to better adapt it to the needs of its users

Features of the website

Examples of good practices

Beldur Barik- No fear! (EUDEL – Basque country)

• A campaign to raise awareness on gender

based violence, especially among young people.

Support women's employment (Tarsus municipality – Turkey)

• Training for women to facilitate job

searching

• Employment of women bus drivers to

encourage gender diversity in municipal professions

Atlas of signatories

Further updates of the website

Pilot project on developing indicators

• 2 year project (started in January 2014) financed by the European Commission DG

Justice

• To deliver the project CEMR collaborates with the consultancy agency ICF and the

Basque University in Spain

Objectives:

• Develop a set of scientific indicators that will allow monitoring and

measuring the implementation of the European Charter for Equality

• Monitor the implementation of the Charter
• Create a toolkit that will support signatories when using the indicators

(instrument for self-assessement)

• Organize a final conference to present the results – 14th of October in

Brussels

www.charter-equality.eu

Contact:

Johanna Törnström – Policy Officer - Equality Johanna.tornstrom@ccre-cemr.org +32 2 500 05 49

CEMR Office Brussels 1 Square de Meeûs 1000 Brussels

contact@charter-equality.eu Twitter: @CEMR_Equality