Fostering accountability for gender equality policies in the Czech Republic

Abstract

Robust, government-wide accountability and oversight mechanisms can play an important role in the achievement of a country’s gender equality goals. These mechanisms help identify needs, gaps and challenges around achievement of specific gender-related objectives, evaluate impacts, and provide redress and recourse options. As such, they can foster the implementation of gender equality and gender mainstreaming strategies and promote monitoring and reporting on progress and remaining gaps. This chapter assesses the mechanisms for public sector oversight and accountability that exist in the Czech Republic for the promotion of gender equality at the managerial and ministerial level as well as at the level of Parliament and independent institutions. It concludes with a series of action-oriented recommendations to further enhance the potential of these accountability and oversight mechanisms to support evidence-based, gender-sensitive policymaking and improved gender policy results in the Czech Republic.