D1.5: Initial Guidelines for Policy Benchmarking

This report emerges from FLIARA Work Package 1 Task 1.4. This task involved an assessment of policy and legal frameworks related to women-led innovation in farming and rural areas, which was carried out to support the FLIARA policy benchmarking activities. This report (D.1.5) provides initial, preliminary guidelines on policy benchmarking on gender equality performance in relation to women-led innovation in farming and rural areas. It draws out insights and broad learnings for policy benchmarking from the inventory and assessment of policy and legal frameworks. The detailed findings, such as the analysis of specific policies and laws that exist in the partner countries and at EU level, as well as the approach to the assessment and inventory, are provided in the report ‘Assessment of Rural and Farming Policy and Legal Frameworks in relation to Women-led Innovation’ (D1.3).