Workshop: Presentation of the GAP analysis Competitiveness and Innovation and the importance of Sector working groups in the EU integration process.

The aim of this workshop is to present two key things: a gender analysis that assesses the legal frameworks, policies and initiatives of North Macedonia from a gender perspective, including those related to the competitiveness and innovation sector, and points out the most important constraints and enabling factors for promoting gender equality and empowering women in this sector. It also provides an overview of the current gaps, barriers and challenges for female entrepreneurship, as well as integrating a gender perspective in the preparation of public policies/strategies, as well as the work and role of the sectoral working group. Also, at this workshop, participants had the opportunity to understand the Guide for Mainstreaming Gender in the Competitiveness and Innovation Sector, which explains in detail all the steps and processes from identification to monitoring for integrating a gender perspective into processes and incorporating it into national policies for this sector.