1)determines the basic principles of gender policy of the state; 

2)applies the principle of equal rights and opportunities for women and men in legislative activities; 

At present, the issues of gender policy implementation are in 2 committees:

1.Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk, Luhansk Oblasts, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, national minorities, and interethnic relations.

2) considers the application of cases of gender-based discrimination and gender-based violence; highlights the issue of equal rights and opportunities for women and men and gender-based violence in the annual report.

- ensures the implementation of a unified state policy aimed at achieving equal rights and opportunities for women and men in all spheres of public life; 

-adopts the National Action Plan on gender equality, prevention and combating gender-based violence and ensures its implementation; 

-develops and implements state target programs for ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men, prevention and combating gender-based violence; 

-directs and coordinates the work of ministries and other executive authorities on ensuring gender equality, preventing and combating gender-based violence; 

-organizes the preparation of a state report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Ukraine; 

-takes into account the principle of gender equality when adopting normative legal acts; 

-approves the procedure for conducting a gender legal examination; 

In 2017, for the first time, the issue of gender equality was supported at the highest political level. Thus, since March 01, 2017, the Government assigned the duties of implementing state policy in this area to the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. This practice was continued to coordinate the work of central executive authorities and other state authorities in the area of gender policy. By resolution “On defining issues within the competence of the Vice Prime Ministers of Ukraine” No. 274 as of March 26, 2020, the CMU defined the list of issues within the competence of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, in particular, regarding gender policy:

• implementation of the state policy of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men;
• coordination of the interaction of central executive authorities within the framework of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men.

- develops measures aimed at ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men in all spheres of society

- forms the National Action Plan on gender equality implementation

- summarizes the implementation of state programs on gender equality

- carries out, within the limits of the powers provided by law, control over the observance of gender equality during the resolution of personnel issues in central and local executive authorities

- organizes training of civil servants on issues of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men 

- prepares, together with other central executive authorities, scientifically based proposals for ensuring gender equality 

- organizes, in the established procedure, the conduct of scientific and expert research on issues of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men 

- monitors and summarizes the results of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men in different spheres of society 

The National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service (hereinafter – NACS) carries out a number of measures to ensure equal rights and opportunities for women and men and to overcome all forms of discrimination based on gender, in particular:

- provision of advanced training of employees of state authorities, local self-government authorities, state enterprises, institutions and organizations to ensure equal rights and opportunities for women and men, taking into account modern international documents and recommendations of international monitoring bodies and their inclusion in professional, short-term training programs for civil servants and local self-government officials with further organization of appropriate training;

1) ensure equal rights and opportunities for women and men, prevention and combating gender-based violence;

2) implement national and regional programs on ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men, preventing and combating gender-based violence;

3) create conditions for women and men to combine professional and family responsibilities;

4) conduct educational activities on gender equality, prevention and combating gender-based violence;

5) cooperate with public associations to ensure equality of rights and opportunities for women and men, prevention and combating gender-based violence;

6) submit proposals for improving the legislation on ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men, preventing and combating gender-based violence;

7) collect and provide information on gender-based violence, as well as general and specialized support services for victims;

8) participate in the training of specialists on issues of realization of equal rights and opportunities of women and men, prevention and combating gender-based violence;

9) contribute to scientific developments in gender research;

10) adhere to the principle of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men in their activities;

11) carry out positive actions.

Among the provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men”, there is a norm (Article 12 of the Law), which indicates that the formation and implementation of gender policy in executive and local self-government authorities is ensured by work of: 

• authorised persons (coordinators); 
• advisers on ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men; 
• consultative and advisory bodies; 
• responsible structural divisions.

The fulfillment of the duties of an authorised person (coordinator) on ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men, preventing and combating gender-based violence is entrusted to one of the deputy ministers, the deputy head of another executive authority, who within their powers organize the work of the relevant executive authorities and local self-government authorities regarding: 

• taking into account the principle of equal rights and opportunities for women and men in the relevant field of activity; 
• conducting an analysis of the state of ensuring gender equality and studying the expediency of applying positive actions in order to overcome asymmetry and imbalance in the relevant territory or industry; 
• coordination of measures in the field of prevention and combating gender-based violence and monitoring of their implementation at the local level; 
• cooperation with public associations and foreign non-governmental organizations, summarizing the information received from them concerning monitoring of the state of compliance with the equality of women and men, the situation in the field of prevention and combating gender-based violence, and joint development of ways to eliminate gender-based discrimination; 
• carrying out constant information and propaganda activities regarding the elimination of all forms of discrimination based on gender; 
• taking measures aimed at creating the gender culture of the population; 
• organization of reception of citizens on issues of discrimination based on gender; 
• consideration and analysis of appeals from citizens on issues of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men, as well as on issues of committing gender-based violence, investigating its causes, and reporting them to law enforcement agencies in accordance with the law; 
• training of employees of central and local executive authorities, local self-government authorities on gender issues, aimed at developing relevant skills during the implementation of functions and tasks in this area, providing assistance and protection to the victims; 
• taking measures to eliminate discrimination based on gender.

According to Articles 12 and 13 of the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men” of September 8, 2005 No. 2866-IV, Nataliia Aliushyna, the Head of the NACS, was appointed as the authorised person (coordinator) on issues of ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men in the NACS.

Among the tasks of advisers on ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men are:

• preparation of proposals for developed draft legal acts, as well as participation in their development; 
• analysis of the state of compliance with gender equality during the resolution of personnel issues in the appropriate authority, taking into account the indicator of proportionally balanced representation of candidates of each gender; 
• studying the need and possibility of application, as well as the termination of positive actions  – special temporary measures aimed at eliminating the imbalance between the opportunities of women and men to exercise equal rights granted to them by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine;
• preparation of methodological recommendations on the organization of the activity of the authority, taking into account the National Action Plan on gender equality implementation;
• participation in the preparation and holding of scientific and practical conferences, interdepartmental organizational events dedicated to these issues; 
• studying foreign experience and preparation of proposals on expediency of its application in the work of the authority, etc.