Controlling is...

• the structured treatment of decisions as work processes, part of knowledge management in public administration (e-government),
• the enabling of self-steering by means of transparency of processes,
• not an overburdening, but rather promoting “sustained management”

thus ensuring

• clarity in decision-making processes and responsibility structures,

and is not

• control, but mutual process accompaniment,
• more work, but efficient,
• more difficult, but also reduces workload.

There is more information here under Gender Controlling – what is it?.

Sometimes “Gender Controlling” is spoken of in connection with the strategy Gender Mainstreaming. But two different types of controlling are being referred to:

a) gender in controlling

b) controlling of Gender Mainstreaming

You can, for example, read about what controlling means in the context of Gender Mainstreaming for the Federal Government here.