Our Outputs

You can read the Final WEED Report here.

Please review the Local Action Plan Summary here.

Local Action Plans:

LAP Alzira

LAP Amiens

LAP Celje

LAP Crotone

LAP Enna

LAP Karvina

LAP Santiago

LAP Umea

You can see the WEED Gender Impact Assessment Toolkit here.

Please click here to read the final WEED brochure.

You can read the WEED brochure in Czech, Spanish, French and Italian.

Enclosed are the factsheets in Czech, Spanish, French, Italian, English and Slovenian.

See Final Output Factsheet for WEED here.

The final issue of the WEED newsletter reflects on some of the main achievements in our partner cities efforts to tackle gender segregation and inequality in employment and enterprise.

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In this issue we focus on women, innovation and the knowledge economy, the theme of the highly successful WEED thematic workshop, which took place in Umeå, Sweden in February 2011.

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In this issue, you will find interesting details on the Project partners Local Action Plans; the profile of the city of Karvina (Czech Republic); three successful stories on women leading organisations able to train, support and financially sustain news entrepreneurs across Europe.

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In this compendium, Angela O'Hagan Research Fellow at the Caledonian Business School (Glasgow Caledonian University) puts together and analyses three case studies able to influence in an effective way the policies on gender pay gap

the compendium is available here

Angela O’Hagan, from the Glasgow Caledonian University, has produced this Paper after having take part to the Second Transnational Workshop of the WEED Project.  This paper aims to highlight issues for discussion in addressing the question, “why addressing the gender pay gap can improve women’s economic position and address local economic problems at a time of economic recession”. It offers an overview of gender dimensions in the labour market, the causes and implications of the gender pay gap; the differential gendered impacts of the recession on employment, and the reductions in public spending following the economic downturn.  

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The last issue of the WEED Newsletter is now on-line. In this Newsletter we look at microfinance as tool to support the enterprise in disadvantaged areas of for groups of people with limited access to conventional way of business financing; you will find the LSG profiles of two of our partners Alzira (Spain) and Umea (Sweden) and much more.

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The case studies presented here were prepared following the second Action Learning Set, carried out in May 2010. They reflect the diversity of interventions, organisations and funding involved.

The case studies are organised in the following themes:        

• National, regional and inter city strategies to support a gender equality perspective in employment and enterprise at local level 
• Projects that encourage a cultural transformation amongst employers to provide more family friendly employment practices
• City level projects that help unemployed and employed women reconcile the demands of family and work
• Municipal funded and organised training initiatives to open up new less gendered pathways 
• Measures that can encourage effective development of the type of social enterprise where women are likely to be found
• Social enterprise and local development.
• Examples of gender budgeting and public procurement measures that can advance the position of women      

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In this issue you will find, among the others, the profile of our French partner: Amiens; an interview to Maryse Lion-Lec, Deputy-Mayor of the municipality of Amiens and several interesting news from the other Partners.

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This report deals with the Action Learning Set and Transnational Workshop held in Santiago de Compostela from 5 to 7 May 2010.

This paper reports on the findings of WEED’s second Action Learning Set and Transnational Exchange Workshop that focused in particular on “Promoting better work and social enterprise for women”.  It first describes the rationale for this sub theme of the overall project. It then discusses the main points from the expert contributions and the lessons of the experiences of the local partnerships. The report’s aim is to capitalise on the combination of practical experience and evidence findings and demonstrate how partners may incorporate the learning into local action plans

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The third issue of the WEED Newsletter is now available here, with news from the partners and inteviews with a social economy expert and representative from the Santiago de Compostela's Local Support Group as well as an interesting EU news section.

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These case studies were prepared following the first Action Learning Set, carried out in 2009. They reflect the diversity of interventions by national organisations and local partnerships that target or assist economically active and inactive women before, during and after starting a business.

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The second issue of the WEED newsletter provides information about the first WEED workshop on "strategies for promoting women entrepreneurship" as well as other information from the WEED partners. It also includes an interview with Philippe Guichandut from the European Microcredit Network.

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The first issue of our WEED newsletter includes an introduction from Bojan Srot, Mayor of Celje (Slovenia) which is the lead partern city of the network and an interview with Gill Scott, lead expert of the WEED network. It also provides general information about our project and planned activities.

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Gender equality is one of the key horizontal themes of the EU Strategy for Growth and Jobs.  The Lisbon Strategy defines targets in terms of participation rates for women in the labour market and also for entrepreneurship development. The achievement of such targets remains compromised by the various and numerous obstacles women encounter in the job market and in the business creation field. A key aim of the WEED project is to show how addressing gender issues can make a major contribution to economic growth, prosperity and competitiveness in small to medium sized cities.

The baseline study shows that despite a “paper” commitment to gender equality throughout Europe and numerous examples of how this could be improved, commitment has stalled - largely because the contribution of women to the growth and jobs side of the equation has not been assimilated. The baseline further highlights how the 9 cities involved in the project already have relevant and valuable experience plus a commitment to change. The report shows how that can be developed, through partnership, into action plans to improve the use of women in employment, enterprise and the newly developing areas of the knowledge economy.

 

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