The 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, as a demonstration of the UN working as One to achieve gender-equitable development outcomes.

This UN Women-ILO Joint Programme (JP) is focused on achieving three key outcomes:

• 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.
• 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.
• Ensuring that investments in care service provision – in health, long-term care, and education are costed, financed and implemented through policy advice, capacity development and technical support.

The JP is being implemented jointly by UN Women and ILO field offices in six countries: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco and Nepal.

The JP uses a range of implementation modalities, including:

• Technical policy support (Development of Policy Tools, Policy Research & Analysis, Technical Advisory)
• Capacity development / Training
• 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)
• Policy advocacy (including policy dialogue)