gender equal
Örebro by Mia Stålgren Patiño | mia.stalgren.patino@orebro.se
It is in everyday life that gender equality is created – or inequality sustained. The Swedish municipalities meet inhabitants in everyday life at all stages of life.
the cyclical annual process of planning, carrying out activities, monitoring, and development. This is controlled by the operating plan and budget.
We go to school, borrow books at the library, use public transport – we come into contact with the services of municipalities in all these areas and many more. Municipalities therefore have a key role when it comes to making gender equality policy a reality.
From start to finish it has been important for Örebro municipality that gender equality is integrated into the day to day work. To make this possible there are four pre-conditions that everyone has to use:
Gender budgeting There have been several gender equality projects through the years in Örebro but it wasn’t until 2007 when the City Executive board appointed a committee that took responsibility for the gender equality issue that a more structured and systematic development could take place. In 2008 the City Council decided that Örebro municipality would work with gender mainstreaming and in 2012 Örebro started to develop gender budgeting. In 2015 Strategy for a gender equal Örebro was adopted that points out gender budgeting as a pre-condition for gender mainstreaming. It is obligatory for all of the committees in Örebro municipality to use gender budgeting and the operating committees that work with gender budgeting in a structured way show better results. Gender equality in the day-to-day work The task to work with gender equality is pointed out as a prioritized area of development in the municipality’s governance model. This means that gender equality is included in
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basic understanding of gender equality, gender-disaggregated statistics, gender impact analysis, gender budgeting.
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