SCRATCHING THE SURFACE: - SCRATCHING THE SURFACE: - Assessing implementation of

In order to inform and gender-mainstream the EU Accession process and successfully undertake evidence-based advocacy on the gender aspects in the EU Accession process at national, regional and EU level, it is necessary to monitor and report on the key EU-related processes and political dialogues in the countries where the Action is implemented, and in the region as a whole.  For this purpose, the. [...] The monitoring framework draws from the revised methodology for the EU Accession process included in the Communication “Enhancing the Accession process: A Credible EU Perspective for the Western Balkans” published by the European Commission in February 2020 and officially endorsed by the EU Member States in the March 2 2020 11 The full methodology is available in Annex 1. [...] This is of particular concern given the post-conflict status of the region, the renewed commitments to the WPS agenda in GAP III and the fact that the EU has a clear leverage in supporting reconciliation and normalization of relations among countries in the region, including through the EU-facilitated Kosovo- Serbia dialogue. [...] The scope of the assignment is to develop a comprehensive methodology to monitor and reporting of the following areas relevant to the EU accession process from a gender perspective: IPA programming and the work of the NIPACs; gender mainstreaming in the work of the state statistical offices and gender statistics; the work of the government 33 bodies mandated to lead the process of negotiation for. [...] In the mainstreaming section it commits to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) throughout the action by promoting gender mainstreaming through the use of gender analysis, during the execution of the support to third parties and in the support to local public funding of CSOs.