Addressing labour market challenges to equal opportunities and treatment for women in Tunisia

The overall objective of this project is to promote Tunisian women’s participation in the economy. Achieving impact on such an issue requires a long term engagement. This note describes a one-year project with specific outputs to be achieved during this duration. Further work, beyond this initial phase is foreseen subject to the availability of further resources from Norway (and/or other donors). This work will build in particular on the design of Tunisia’s National Employment Policy that the ILO is currently helping with (with Norway’s financial support). The project will pursue this overall objective through three complementary pillars. First, the low participation rate of women in Tunisia is a factor of its economic policy environment. In the first year the project will focus on the private investment regime, and to which extent fiscal incentives are conducive to employment creation including for women. Secondly, the project will appraise from a gender perspective the package of public services and subsidies that are made available in Tunisia to support the unemployed. Thirdly, the project will support key organisations involved in women’s entrepreneurship.

Project symbol

TUN/18/50/NOR

Admin unit

CO-Algiers

Start date

01/03/2019

End date

30/06/2021

Total allocation

871135

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

871135

Development Partners

Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Tunisia

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises as generators of employment and promoters of innovation and decent work