Opening doors: more and better decent work opportunities for domestic workers in Peru.

The project seeks to improve the socio-economic conditions of women providers of care and empowering them, especially domestic workers. To contribute to this achievement, two intermediate outcomes results were defined: i) support the creation of a National System of Care that, through gender transformative actions, contributes to the recognition of the value of unpaid care work, to the reduction of the burden of care. work assumed by women disproportionately and to a more equitable redistribution of care responsibilities between women and men and between households and the State. Likewise, ii) to contribute to Increase mobilization and leadership of women domestic workers to claim and defend their rights as valued professionals within Peruvian society. To this end, the ILO also seeks to generate inclusive policies that adequately reward care workers, particularly domestic workers, promoting fair remuneration for their work based on its formalization and improvement of conditions and ensuring representation in key spaces and the claim for respect and value of their role in the care economy. The project will be carried out in Peru, in Lima and in selected regions of intervention. It will last for 3 years and will be in charge of the Office of the International Labor Organization - ILO for the Andean Countries, based in Lima, that will work in close coordination with the Federations of Domestic Workers and Trade Union and in collaboration with the women's movement. The main strategies proposed to achieve these results will be: The construction of gender-responsive and inclusive national policies s and regulatory frameworks of the National Care System (NCS) that helps move from fragmented care policies towards one focused on articulated and universal public policies, recognizing care as a human right and integrating it with inclusive public policies. Increased access of women domestic workers to a strengthened professional competency certification system that improve the transition of care workers to formal employment or other jobs. The generation of information that can be instrumental for key stakeholders to ensure compliance with the policies related to the care economy, which encourages the promotion of the formal hiring of care workers, particularly women domestic workers. The expansion and improvement of the offer of comprehensive services that encompasses different dimensions in the recognition of the labor rights of women domestic workers Increased knowledge of domestic workers about their rights and their abilities to influence, promote and negotiate. Promoting increased unionization of domestic workers. The promotion and reduction of the knowledge gap on the rights of domestic workers by other women's organizations and unions to work collaboratively and advocate for enforcement of domestic workers rights.

Project symbol

PER/21/04/CAN

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Lima

Start date

15/03/2022

End date

31/03/2027

Total allocation

3131009

Total expenditure

Status

Active

1985993

Development Partners

Canada, Global Affairs Canada

Country/Countries

Peru

Outcomes

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