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Valongo Municipality Plan for Equality and Non-Discrimination/Plano Municipal para a Igualdade e a Não Discriminação 2022-2025- CM Valongo

Portugal · Valongo · Local · See the Portugal profile

The Valongo Municipality Plan for Equality and Non-Discrimination aims to increase the participation of women in decision-making positions within the municipality. The plan was developed following six key steps: elaboration of a diagnosis, formulation of an equality plan, impleme

33 %
Women in the municipal executive
60 %
Women among directors of the Municipal Assembly

Details

Promoter
Câmara Municipal de Valongo — website
Power domain
Political Power
Methods / tools
Gender Training, Competence development, Awareness-raising, Monitoring
Region (NUTS)
PT11
Keywords
responsability, participation, awareness, decison, monitoring

Context

Valongo Municipality's Plan for Equality and Non-Discrimination 2022-2025 (Portugal) aims to increase women's participation in municipal decision-making. It was developed in six steps: diagnosis, formulation of the equality plan, implementation, dissemination, evaluation, and continuous monitoring.

Activities

Measures include appointing a Municipal Counselor for Equality; establishing an information office on rights and gender-equality measures; training and retraining municipal interlocutors on gender equality and mainstreaming; promoting gender mainstreaming across all ongoing and future municipal plans; and disseminating the plan via the municipality's intranet and website.

Results

As reported in the plan, women currently make up 33% of the municipal executive and 60% of the directors of the Municipal Assembly.

Conclusions

These figures are presented as the current status rather than as a measured before/after change, and no independent evaluation of the plan's impact was identified in the source material.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — No budget figure stated; cost_band inferred as low because the plan is implemented through existing municipal staff roles and structures (Counselor for Equality, information office, staff training) rather than a dedicated large budget line.
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — The plan explicitly covers 2022-2025 (about 4 years), so timeline_band is set to medium.
Staffing & skills
Municipal Counselor for Equality, Municipal interlocutors trained on gender mainstreaming, Information office on rights and equality measures

Conditions for success

  • Dedicated equality-counselor role within the municipality
  • Embedding gender mainstreaming in all ongoing and future municipal plans
  • Internal dissemination via intranet and website

Where it fits

Governance type
local government / municipality
Scale
local

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes

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