Portugal requested fot Technical Support Instrument (TSI) Programme (Article 9 of the TSI Regulation) that will allow in a first moment: a) Analysis of the best Gender Mainstreaming practices in the world, the EU and in particular the participating Member States and beneficiaries on Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Budgeting; b) Training for the participants on Gender Mainstreaming and Budgeting methodologies, tools and best practices on international and EU levels; c) Capacity building activities and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. In a second moment: i. Prepare an assessment of the current Portuguese policy and national tools for the improvement/development of common gender equality promoting methodologies The report will be intended for relevant personnel in the public administration and it will cover the following relevant policy fields: a) Ex ante, ongoing and ex post gender impact assessment of public policies and legislation; b) Gender budgeting � including an analysis of obstacles pertaining to the use of Gender Budgeting Annex (IX-A), procedures to conduct budget gender impact assessments at sectoral level (ex ante and on going), definition of gender equality budget performance indicators and development of online data collection tools; c) Gender mainstreaming in public procurement; d) Diagnostic report of the level of data disaggregation that currently exists across policy areas. ii. Make recommendations for improvements in equality related policy fields The proposals will include recommendations on a) how to improve the gender impact assessment of public policies, legislation and budgeting, including specifically the critical sectors where the gender perspective has been significantly absent, such as tourism, environment (including energy, mobility, land planning), infrastructures (incl. housing), agriculture, finance; b) tools and procedures to facilitate a better mobilization of public services; c) the identification of needs for improvement to reach the target of having all administrative data produced by the central administration disaggregated by sex by 2023, and also in light of the monitoring needs under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, and the indicators of the State Budget Law; d) setting up a first national intergovernmental online platform on information and data regarding all gender budgeting procedures developed at national level; e) an action plan for effective implementation of the prepared proposals, with the eventual need to have a communication plan, among others; f) a monitoring and evaluation plan to strengthen the performance capacity of the gender equality focal points in each ministry (�Conselheiros para a Igualdade�) and personnel specifically in charge of the budget process.