Gender Policy in Local Governments: How to Improve Development Road? Fesenko Galyna1, Fesenko Tetiana2 1Professor, Department of History and Cultural Studies, O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine Email: galyna.fesenko@kname.edu.ua https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7133-484X 2Professor, Department of Automation and Computer-Integrated TechnologiesKharkiv Petro Vasylenko National Technical University of Agriculture, Kharkiv, Ukraine Email: FesenkoTatyana@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9636-9598 Online Published on 8 September, 2022. Abstract The paper focuses on mainstreaming gender equality goals at the level of local government. On the part of local government, this requires foremost the using these different needs to inform all local governance processes – policymaking, planning, budget allocation, Programme development, local service delivery and performance monitoring – in order to directly address existing gender inequalities. The authors proposed a methodology for assessing the gender orientation of local management systems, which is designed in the following parameters: Gender Focal Point (in the organizational structure), gender-sensitive leadership style, gender budget, gender statistics, and gender planning, gender-responsible performance. The use of qualitative characteristics of gender orientation in the local management system allows for both internal introspection and external monitoring. The analysis technique is proposed to the gender content of the municipality website and applied to the Vienna website as a “best practice” of city governance. The model was tested by assessing the gender mainstream practices of local government bodies in Ukraine. In addition, a comparative analysis, and monitoring of the websites of the municipalities of cities with a population of one million in Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro) was carried out. This will allow municipalities to design an individual trajectory for improving gender-mainstreaming practices. Top Keywords Gender mainstreaming, Local Governance, Feminine and masculine logical Systems, Municipality website, Equal access, Gender responsibility. Top |