Implementing the Common Agenda for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Algeria

The Common Programme for Gender Equality and Empowering Women in Algeria, designed in a participatory process that involved several government ministries and organizations of civil society, is supported by seven UN entities: UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS, ILO, UNIDO and UNIFEM.

The Agenda aims to assist the government to implement a national programme of structural reforms, in response to the challenges of sustainable development. The Agenda also supports national efforts to promote gender equality and empower women, with emphasis on improving their access to employment.

The ILO is participating in the Agenda for gender equality and empowers women in Algeria, financed by the Fund office to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of the UNDP-Spain.

ILO is supporting its constituents, the governments, and workers’ and employers’ organisations, in order to improve their knowledge on factors that limit or hinder women’s access to decent work. This includes training for women on skills needed in the labour market, as well as improving women's access to existing job-finding mechanisms and to credit.

ILO Algeria is responsible for coordinating ILO activity, with technical assistance from the country offices in Cairo and Dakar, as well as from GENDER.