Ethics and Gender Management Framework

This report details the WeGovNow Gender and Ethics Management Framework. This includes a detailed description of gender and ethics related requirements to be met by the project according to requirements elicitation work conducted during the project's start-up phase (T 1.3) as well as related guidelines and templates to be applied for adequately responding to the identified requirements (e.g. consent forms). The framework will also include a description of management procedures and tools to be applied for compliance monitoring throughout the entire project duration. Besides other ethics and gender related requirements identified in WP1, this will also concern all requirements put forward in the Ethics Screening Report. Based on the comprehensive framework, continuous reporting vis-à-vis the Commission will be achieved in terms of a dedicated section on ethics and gender management to be included in the respective Periodic Technical Reports which must be submitted by the coordinator following the end of each reporting period.