20' June 06 Stresa Summit

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GenderAlp! Spatial Development for Women and Men
Contributions of public authorites to a more
balanced development and a better quality of life
in Alpine Space
Mag.a Heidrun Wankiewicz
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A heterogenous space
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A heterogenous space
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Common trends and framework

• Some hard facts
• smallscale landscape and settlement structures
• low density of population in general (outside of
  the centers)
• accessibiliy between the regions and from
  villages to centers not easy
• partly high dependency on touristic economy
• low offer of working places in higher qualified
  (academic) branches
• raising level of education for both sexes
• relatively low but strongly growing female
  activity rates

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Common trends and framework

• Some soft facts
• traditional role models between sexes partly
  very strong
• division of labour between sexes is very
  classical
• very low participation of women in regional /
  local decision making proces.
• Loss of public and private services and
  concentration in cities
• Urbanisation and migration of good educated
  women into cities
• lots of experiences in gender mainstreaming in
  labour market, but none in technical fields
  (housing, spatial planning, public
  budgeting, regional development, public subsidies)

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GenderAlp! key questions

• Which usefull instruments for spatial
  development integrating the different needs
  of women and men are experienced in regions and
  communities of the Alpine Space Countries?
• What could be the contribution of public
  authorities at local, regional,
  national and transnational (EU-) level in the
  field of legislation, day to day
  administration as well as in distibuting public
  subsidies ()?
• How the practical implementation of the Gender
  Mainstreaming Strategy in day to day
  administration can improve the economic
  development as well as the regional (spatial-)
  development in terms of a quality
  managment?

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Gender Mainstreaming

• GENDER social role which is attributing to
  girls or boys, to widows or to widows or to
  widowers, to women and men

• Obligatory since 1999/2000 for all EU-members
  and projects

• is a strategy to.
• realize existing inequalities
• prevent the raise of future disatvantages or
  discrimination between sexes
• consider needs of men AND women equally
• GM strategy has equality for women and men in
  professional life, family life and in political
  life / participation as ist goal

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GenderAlp! Partners Network
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Topics and Fields of intervention

• Administrative day to day work
• Gender Planning
• Spatial Planning, Pianificazione
• Amenagement du Territoire
• Regionale development
• Gender Budgeting
• public household planning
• Decision on public Subsidies
• Gender Training
• Sensitization
• Gendercompetence
• Networking- Lobbying

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Rethinking spatial planning and spatial
development
education

Social political life
community
trafic
Recreationleasure
provisionshopping
Habitationliving
working
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Place of living (home) and place of working
(job) from a gender perspective

• Home 2 perspectives
• Place of peace, leisure recreation
  Perspective of people working outside the home
  entsorgter Alltag / careless every day life
• Work and duties perspective of people working
  at home versorgender Alltag / caring every day
  life
• ? Different perspectives need different criteria
  for flats, hourse, quarters, sites as well as on
  accessibility and infrastructure

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Unpaid work
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Distribution of work between sexes
Women still do most of the household and
childcare work They bear the burden of the unpaid
work
Consequences for daily life (leisure)
Consequences for life income
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Gender differences
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Planning goals for gender equality
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Synergies Spatial Gender Planning
Land Oberösterreich Gender-sensitive regional
development in Steyr-Kirchdorf
Land Salzburg Implementation of Gender
Mainstreaming into spatial planning programme
Housing Working sites in the Salzbug region
City of Freiburg Implementing gender
mainstreaming in urban and regional
administrations focussing on spatial planning
(light-rail extension)
UPIRS - Slovenia Implementation of Gender
Mainstreaming strategy into spatial planning
policies
Land Niederösterreich Gender-sensitive access at
enlargement of two sites - industrial
zones/business park
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Rethinking the use of public money needs
oriented (gender) budgeting
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Equal opportunity as location factor
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Synergies - Gender Budgeting
Land Salzburg Gender criteria for regional
development programmes
City of München Gender-sensitive analyses of
three selected fields of the city budgets labor
market measures, tourisme, subisidies for
start-ups

• Land Oberösterreich
• Analyses of regional subisidies
• Analyses of regional budget in the fields of
  health, sports and education

• Provincia di Genova
• Application of gender balance in an urban and a
  rural area by a gender-sensitive analysis of
  public expenses and incomes
• Implementation and management of italian local
  administration network for the promotion of
  gender budgeting

Langhe Monferato Roero-Piemont Implementation of
pilot projects concerning gender budgeting at a
local level in Cuneo
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Recommentations for programms projects (budgeting
public money)

• To integrate Gender Experts into the process of
  programming (e. g. periode 2007-2013)
• To develop practical Gender-Indicators for the
  selection and for the evaluation of projects and
  programms
• To train decision makers in the regions and in
  the communities (Regional managerments, political
  responsibles) as well as in administration
  (Fördervergabestellen) about the impact of
  measures and projects regarded neutral on women
  and men
• Use of simple and understandable terms and
  concepts in order to communicate the advantages
  and benefits of gender approach for the regions

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Succes factors for integration of GM into
administration

Projectgoals and content, Know-How
StructurHuman Ressources Gendercompetence
ProcessRules of decision making Cooperation in
administration cultur
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GenderAlp! Leadpartner-Team Land Salzburg c/o
Office for Womens Affairs and Equal
Opportunities Heidrun Wankiewicz Tel.
43/662/8042-4051 genderalp_at_salzburg.gv.at
www.genderalp.com (english) www.genderalp.at
(german) www.genderalp.si (slowenian)
www.genderbudget.it (italian)