WOMEN AT WORK INITIATIVE

This project is part of the Women at Work Initiative Phase II. It operates in the context of the Sida-ILO Partnership Programme (2020-21) contributing to the delivery of outcome 6 of the P&B 2020-2021. Its focus is to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in the world of work in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular Goals 5 and 8. The project works on three main axes supporting the thematic priorities of the Women at Work Initiative, i.e. increasing women’s access to quality work; promoting equal pay; the care economy, including measuring and valuing paid and unpaid work and promoting their balance, and extending maternity protection, childcare and other care services to workers in the informal economy; and prevent and tackle discrimination, and violence and harassment at work in the world of work. The three components aim to achieve the following outcomes: 1. Global Knowledge and Policy Dialogue on Care Economy and Future of Women Work promoted 2. The Equal Pay International Coalition is supported and upscaled at global and regional level 3. Ratification and implementation of C.190 promoted. Project activities include research, capacity development, and awareness raising and advocacy at all different levels with a view to addressing care work, paid and unpaid, equal pay, and violence and harassment, are at the heart of the gender equality transformative agenda to which this project contributes to. As highlighted in Outcome 6, a transformative agenda also requires ensuring that the work of women and men is valued and remunerated equally in accordance with the ILO Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) and to promote equal opportunities and treatment in line with ILO Discrimination Convention, 1958 (No.111), as important gender gaps persist. Violence and harassment in the world of work also features prominently in outcome 6, reflecting the new global mandate to end violence and harassment through the recently adopted ILO Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) and its accompanying Recommendation (No. 206). Furthermore, this project recognizes that gender equality and equal opportunities cannot be realized unless the rights of particular groups are ensured - including people with disabilities, indigenous and tribal peoples, ethnic minorities, people living with HIV, LGBTI people, and others particularly vulnerable to discrimination – and they have a voice in the world of work, so that no one is left behind.

Project symbol

GLO/20/54/SWE

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Lima
CO-Dhaka
GED

Start date

01/04/2020

End date

31/12/2021

Total allocation

1011713

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

986925

Development Partners

Sweden, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Country/Countries

Bolivia
Bangladesh
Global

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Gender equality and equal opportunities and treatment for all in the world of work