Promoting Decent Employment for Women through Inclusive Growth Policies and Investments in the Care Economy

This UN Women - ILO Joint Programme brings together the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, and the United Nations specialized agency devoted to advancing social justice and promoting decent work, to promote decent work for women through inclusive growth policies and investments in the care economy. This UNW-ILO Joint Programme is focused on achieving three key outcomes: (i) Creating the political consensus for the adoption of macro-level economic policy accelerators that support gender-equitable inclusive growth and more and better jobs for women, through evidence-based policy analysis and advocacy, technical advice and capacity strengthening. (ii) Adopting sectoral and industrial policies that tackle occupational and sectoral segregation and enhance women’s access to decent employment opportunities, through policy advice, capacity development and technical support. (iii) Ensuring that investments in care service provision – in health, including long-term care, and in education, including in early childhood education – are costed, financed and implemented through policy advice, capacity development and technical support. This JP will be coordinated by Global Policy Team based in the Employment Policy Department (ILO HQ), and will be implemented in six countries from the Global South jointly by UNW and ILO field offices. The selection of the final six countries will be based on (a) geographical mix and balance (b) core capacity of UNW and ILO offices (c) demand from the UN Resident Coordinator and government for programme activities, outputs, and outcomes (d) potential impact on national employment and economic policies that promote gender equality, women’s employment and inclusive growth. The JP will use a range of implementation modalities, including: A. Technical Policy Support (Development of Policy Tools, Policy Research & Analysis, Technical Advisory) B. Capacity Development/ Training C. Knowledge Management (A global Community of Practice, including of feminist economists and development practitioners, and promotion of South-South learning exchanges, building national Solution Exchanges and other innovative knowledge platforms for the dissemination of good practices as well as structured platforms to promote policy dialogues among key stake-holders). D. Policy Advocacy (including policy dialogue) The JP has funding from the Swiss Development Cooperation Agency (SDC). Contact persons: Valeria Esquivel (esquivelv@ilo.org), Anuradha Seth (seth@ilo.org)

Project symbol

GLO/19/15/UNW

Admin unit

CO-Kathmandu
CO-Addis Ababa
DWT/CO-Cairo
EMPLAB
CO-Algiers
CO-Buenos Aires

Start date

01/04/2020

End date

31/12/2023

Total allocation

825737

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

814670

Development Partners

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Outcome 5: Gender equality and equality of treatment and opportunities for all