The group has been established among the women being involved in MASMICRO. The group will encourage networking and rnentoring among women not only who are involved in this project, but also those who are not involved but working in the participating organisations. The Project Advisory Board will offer advice to the group on its operation, and will offer support to the group in organising its activities. The GAG will also, on behalf of the Project Advisory Board, collect gender statistics data, periodically, through the life of the project, which will be a basis for reporting to the Commission on the gender issues. The group will be playing major roles in inviting women to attend the training programmes and public/local mini events organised by the project.

A statement of intent has been drafted – this is currently being approved by members of the consortium.

This will be the overarching Gender statement which will apply to all partners. For the larger partners this will be followed up by a Gender Action Plan, which will look at each area and devise actions where appropriate.

The Gender Action plan will document a series of actions needed to be undertaken to improve the company ethos as a whole.

Available for download below are the reponses to a gender awareness survey: