Promoting Workers Rights and Gender Equality at Work in Africa

This project aims at strengthening the capacities of ILO constituents in Africa with selected country level interventions in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda, with a view to improving the protection of workers’ rights and gender equality at work. The project will deliver capacity development, empowerment and support to trade unionists, including women and youth, in their advocacy and action work, and design, support and pilot Equality@Work initiatives with workers’ organizations, employers’ organizations and government departments in the targeted countries and sectors. In order to strengthen constituents’ capacities to improve the protection of workers’ rights and gender equality in the targeted countries and sectors, the project intends to: i) provide trade unions with adequate knowledge, capacities and practical tools to engage and participate actively in the International Labour Standards system and its supervisory mechanism and support them in the implementation of tailored campaigns to promote the ratification of relevant international labour standards (Outcome 1), ii) provide ILO constituents with capacities and tools to develop and implement measures to enhance gender equality at work such as model workplace policies and tools with focus on care policies and services in the garment sector in Ethiopia and violence and harassment at work in workspaces in agriculture in Malawi (Outcome 2).

Project symbol

RAF/22/11/NOR

Admin unit

CO-Dar es Salaam
CO-Lusaka
RO-Africa
CO-Addis Ababa
CO-Abuja

Start date

05/12/2022

End date

30/06/2024

Total allocation

898738

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

898738

Development Partners

Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Uganda
Mozambique
Africa - regional
United Republic of Tanzania
Ethiopia
Malawi
Ghana

Outcomes

Outcome 2: Strong, representative and influential tripartite constituents and effective social dialogue
Outcome 5: Gender equality and equality of treatment and opportunities for all