Enhancing gender equality in programme areas of rights at work and employment creation

The project contributes to, and supports, an integrated and consistent way of mainstreaming gender in and through the ILO/Sweden Partnership Programme (ILO/SPP). Through its role of offering technical support and knowledge sharing on gender mainstreaming, the project promotes the ILO’s mainstreamed strategy on gender equality and supports the implementation of the ILO Governing Body’s decision of March 2005 which calls for a systematic integration of gender equality in all ILO technical cooperation. In collaboration with the field-based projects implemented under the ILO/SPP, as well as the ILO’s global Gender Network, the project is in a strategic position to analyse, compare and advise on different approaches to integrating gender concerns in various components of decent work country programming. Project outcomes: (i) ILO staff, constituents and other partners involved in the implementation of the ILO/SPP have increased capacity to mainstream gender in the design and implementation of country-specific Decent Work Country Programmes; (ii) ILO staff and constituents have access to and apply an expanded knowledge base of gender equality strategies thereby contributing to the organization’s mainstreamed strategy on gender equality. More specifically, the project: (i) provides technical support on gender mainstreaming to the projects implemented under the ILO/SPP; (ii) promotes knowledge management and knowledge sharing of the different gender mainstreaming approaches adopted in the above context; and (iii) promotes inter-linkages and cross-fertilization between ILO field offices, headquarters sectors and units, on mechanisms to plan for and implement various components of gender-sensitive Decent Work Country Programmes.

Project symbol

INT/05/61/SID

Admin unit

GENDER

Start date

01/02/2006

End date

30/09/2008

Total allocation

427173

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

427173

Development Partners

Sweden, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Discrimination at Work