Gender Mainstreaming in the ILO Norway Partnership Agreement in Cambodia

ILO is currently implementing two projects in Cambodia under the ILO-Norway Partnership: the ACT/EMP Strengthening Employers’ Organizations for Effective Social Dialogue and Promotion of Gender Equality project and the ACTRAV Trade Union for Social Justice project (known as the Workers Education Project or WEP). This Gender Mainstreaming Project (GMP) seeks to build upon and support work that is specifically relevant for gender equality promotion under these two projects. Following on from the activities undertaken under different phases of the Norway/ILO Partnership throughout 2008-2011 and earlier ILO support to promoting gender equality in employment and occupation and in enterprise development in Cambodia, this GMP project will focus on ensuring that the work of the Norway/ILO Partnership Agreement in Cambodia is gender mainstreamed: i.e. that “women’s as well as men’s concerns form an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation” of the ILO’s work in Cambodia, so that “women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated.” The Gender Mainstreaming Project will cooperate with other ILO initiatives under the Cambodia DWCP, in particular with the Spanish funded ILO Social Protection and Gender project (SPG) of the ILOs Better Factories Cambodia Programme which is geared at improving conditions of women workers in the country’s garment industry with a view to complement and build synergies on gender equality promotion with ILO partners within the country.

Project symbol

CMB/12/50/NOR

Admin unit

CO-Bangkok

Start date

01/06/2012

End date

31/12/2013

Total allocation

112065

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

112065

Development Partners

Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Cambodia

Outcomes

Discrimination at Work