Gender budgeting in the province of Pistoia

The project aimed to promote gender culture in order to remove gender stereotypes and to support women's participation in the labour market and the economic and social life. The project envisaged two types of activities: firstly, awareness-raising activities (seminars, meetings) involving social actors; secondly, the implementation of a gender analysis of the Provincial Administration's budget: a model was hence designed in order to evaluate from a gender perspective the activities of the Province of Pistoia. Finally, guidelines addressing local authorities were elaborated for the dissemination and application of the model.