(15) The European Strategy and Policy Analysis System partners are the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the European External Action Service, the European Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Investment Bank, the European Union Institute for Security Studies and the European Court of Auditors. [...] (18) The Treaty of Lisbon adds the non-discrimination principle and equality between women and men to the values of the EU (Article 2 TEU) and mandates that the Union shall combat discrimination and promote equality between women and men (Article 3 TEU). [...] EIGE, the European Environment Agency, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Condi- tions, the Fundamental Rights Agency, the JRC) looking for foresight research published since 2020. [...] (58) European Commission (2020), Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the impact of demographic change, COM(2020) 241 final. [...] present in the foresight element When it comes to adopting a gender perspec- of the impact assessment reports tive, the main limitation of the impact assess- that explicitly made use of ments and evaluations simply referring to the foresight megatrends is that the gender implications for women and men are usually not considered None of the five reports that used foresight (see Table 1 for more on.
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Table of Contents
- Executive summary 5
- The role foresight plays in the EU and its key actors 6
- Foresight in the EU helps policymakers shape the future 6
- Strategic foresight at the EU level involves a range of actors 7
- Why foresight in the EU needs a stronger gender and intersecting inequalities perspective 8
- Gender-specific concerns or impacts of policies on gender inequalities have not been thoroughly integrated into EU strategic foresight: points for improvement 12
- Only a few EU strategic foresight studies consider a gender equality and intersectional perspective 12
- The gender and intersecting inequalities perspective was not present in the foresight element of the impact assessment reports that explicitly made use of foresight 16
- It matters whose futures the foresight research explores 18
- Who makes decisions matters too, because those who are absent cannot influence strategic planning processes; however, fixing the gender balance in foresight and decision-making continues to be a challenge 21
- What else can be done to make EU foresight more responsive to gender and intersecting inequalities 23
- Processes in EU impact assessments and evaluations offer opportunities to make the foresight element of policymaking more gender-responsive 23
- The European Institute for Gender Equality’s tool for gender-responsive strategic foresight offers step-by-step guidance 24
- Policy recommendations to incorporate a gender and intersectional perspective into foresight at different stages of the ‘Better regulation’ process 24
- Recommended sources 28