📋 Tender Overview
The Guidelines on Gender Mainstreaming in International Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, endorsed by Tanja Fajon, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in May 2023, are now also available in English. This provided access to the guidelines to all partners of implementing NGOs and institutions implementing development cooperation in partner countries.
Gender equality is a fundamental human right and a fundamental value of the EU and a cross-cutting theme of Slovenia's international development cooperation. The guidelines for the inclusion of gender equality in international development cooperation (pdf 1,343 KB) determine, among other things, how Slovenia's foreign policy priorities, including the fight for human and women's rights and gender equality, are included in development projects. At the same time, they define internationally established methodological approaches to planning, implementing and evaluating development projects, which they must incorporate, as they increase the effectiveness of activities in the field of gender equality and implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The guidelines commit the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs to include activities for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as the main or important goal according to the methodology of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development by at least 2030% of development projects and programmes by 85.
In order to better understand the goals and raise awareness of the guidelines in winter, we plan to carry out workshops to which we will invite implementers of Slovenian development cooperation, Slovenian NGOs and institutions, as well as their partners in countries where they carry out development and humanitarian projects.
