Explore the tools
These tools provide practical support for policymakers, practitioners and stakeholders working to advance gender equality in rural areas. Explore templates, data resources and step-by-step guidance.
Data Strategy & Integration:
Rural Women Innovation Compass
A methodological framework to analyse and connect key data on women-led innovation in rural areas. It supports the indicator integration, the identification of data gap and strengthens evidence-based policymaking for more inclusive rural development. It serves as the methodological backbone of this Toolkit.
Gender proofing template for agriculture
A practical tool to systematically integrate gender equality into agricultural and rural policies, helping to identify structural biases and define targeted measures and goals to achieve more equitable outcomes.
Roadmap to advance gender equality in rural areas
A forward-looking roadmap outlining priority actions for 2025, 2030 and 2035 to advance gender equality in rural areas, ranging from policy reforms and financial support to innovation, governance and cultural change.
Benchmarking template
A benchmarking template supported by a training webinar to assess how gender equality is addressed in agricultural and rural policies, enabling comparison, learning, and policy improvement.
Foresight of women innovators impact in 2040
A multi-scale foresight exercise, carried out at the Living Lab and European levels, exploring mega-trends and future scenarios for women’s roles in agriculture, rural economies, and communities, looking ahead to 2040.
Step-by-step checklist for policymakers
A practical checklist guiding policymakers through the full policy cycle, helping to embed gender equality and inclusiveness from design and implementation to monitoring and review. This complements the Rural Women Innovation Compass.
Inputs to EU consultations
Contributions provided to EU-level policy consultations, bringing evidence and stakeholder perspectives to strengthen the gender dimension of policies affecting rural areas.