GenProcure

Gender Inclusion in Public Procurement

Edited on 13/04/2026

01/06/2023 31/12/2025

Ongoing
  • Action Planning Network
  • Social cohesion
  • Gender equality
  • Public procurement

GenProcure will address the gender equality in public procurement, many times referred to as Gender-Responsive Public Procurement. It consists of promoting gender equality through working purchases, supplies and services by the public sector, meaning that both suppliers and buyers include, in the agreed contracts, a part that concerns the interests both of men and women, paying particular attention to its development in a way that leads to a reduction of gender inequalities.

Summary

PARTNERS

Lead Partner : Vila Nova de Famalicão - Portugal
  • Zagreb - Croatia
  • Koszalin - Poland
  • Messina - Italy
  • Satu Mare County Intercommunity Development Association - Romania
  • Umea - Sweden
  • Újfehértó - Hungary
  • Department for Development and International Projects of Government of Zenica-Doboj Canton - Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Alcoy - Spain

Timeline

Final Partner Meeting and GenProcure Final Conference on 28-29 October 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia

 

Subject: Placing GenProcure in the context of wider Policy-Making; 9 IAP's presentations; reflections on GenProcure journey

Bespoke ULG Workshop on 9 September 2025 in Umeå, Sweden

 

Subject: Embedding Social, Environmental and Gender Considerations into Procurement 

Bespoke ULG Workshop on 2 June 2025 in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

 

Subject: Embedding Social, Environmental and Gender Considerations into Procurement 

Transnational Meeting on 27-29 May 2025 in Újfehértó, Hungary and Satu Mare, Romania

 

Subject: Peer Review of IAPs

Online Meeting: 15 May 2025

 

Subject: Contract Monitoring

Transnational Meeting on 11-12 March 2025 in Alcoi, Spain

 

Subject: Gender Budgeting and developing the GenProcure Gender Clause Catalogue.

Bespoke ULG Workshop on 4-5 February 2025 in Satu Mare, Romania

 

Subject: Embedding Social, Environmental and Gender Considerations into a specific Procurement + Findings from Spend Analysis and further developing of Satu Mare IAP 

Transnational Meeting on 19-20 November 2024 in Koszalin, Poland

 

Subject: A Focus on SME Engagement in Public Procurement

Online Meeting: 14 November 2024

 

Subject: Gender Responsive Procurement masterclass + panel with city of Vienna

Transnational Meeting on 17-18 September 2024 in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

 

Subject: Gender Equality Plans, Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Budgeting, and Gender Criteria in Public Procurement

Transnational Meeting on 4-5 June 2024 in Messina, Italy

 

Subject: Social, Environmental and Gender Considerations in Procurement

Online Meeting: 7 May 2024

 

Subject: Influencing other Anchor Institutions

Transnational Meeting on 19-20 March 2024 in Umeå, Sweden

 

Subject: Gender Equality, Gender Equality Strategies, and Gender Equality Activities’ and ‘Public Procurement Strategy’

Online Meeting: 7 February 2024

 

Subject: Spend Analysis

Transnational Meeting on 21-22 November 2023 in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

 

Kick-off Meeting

GenProcure network videos

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