Technical cooperation projects
- promotes ratification and implementation of the four key gender equality Conventions – Equal Remuneration Convention (No. 100), Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (No. 111), Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention (No. 156) and Maternity Protection Convention (No. 183);
- takes specific measures to promote women’s access to employment;
- works to extend gender-equitable social protection; and
- promotes equitable representation of women and men in decision making positions, and works to ensure that gender equality is on the agenda in tripartite discussions.
Interregional projects
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Gender Mainstreaming in the ILO/Norway Partnership Agreement
1 May 2012 - 31 December 2013
Through this project GENDER provides support to other ILO departments to help ensure their projects are gender-responsive throughout the project cycle.
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Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: Promoting Rights, Diversity and Equality in the World of Work (PRIDE)
1 May 2012 - 31 December 2013
This project is researching discrimination faced by Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender women and men, in order to promote tolerance, diversity and equality in the workplace.
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Gender Mainstreaming in the ILO/Sweden Partnership Agreement
1 January 2012 - 31 December 2013
Through this project GENDER provides support to other ILO departments to help ensure their projects are gender-responsive throughout the project cycle.
Country-specific projects
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Algeria
Implementing the common agenda for gender equality and empowerment of women
August 2009 - December 2013The 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.
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Bangladesh
Promoting gender equality and preventing violence against women at the workplace
May 2010 - June 2013This project, funded under the Spanish MDG Achievement Fund, is a joint endeavor of UN agencies in the country to support achievement of Millennium Development Goal 3 on gender equality.
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Ethiopia
Increased accessibility of sustainable financial and buisness development strategies to economically and socially disadvantaged women
September 2011 - March 2014 -
Indonesia
Women in leadership – Access to employment and decent work
May 2012 - February 2013The Project aims to improve equality in employment and labour market outcomes for women in Indonesia via strategies that reduce barriers to formal employment and address discrimination in employment for women.
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Kenya
Women's empowerment and gender equality
July 2012 - December 2012 -
Lebanon
Towards Counting As Workers: Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers (WMDWs) - Through a Participatory Policy Dialogue and Action Process
May 2011 - December 2012The initiative consists mainly, but not exclusively, of the publishing and dissemination of a workers’ information guide on human and labour rights of migrant domestic workers in the languages of the sending countries as well as English, French and Arabic.
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Lebanon
Palestinian Women Economic Empowerment Initiative
October 2012 - October 2013The development objective of the project is to address decent work deficits at work in the refugee camp economy of selected camps in Lebanon, while promoting economic empowerment and cooperation among women entrepreneurs.
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Lebanon
Action programme for protecting the rights of women migrant domestic workers
June 2011 - May 2014 -
occupied Palestinian territory
Gender equality and women’s empowerment
February 2009 - September 2012The ILO is participating in a joint initiative with the UN country team under the Spanish Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F) on “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”. The initiative is designed to promote Palestinian women’s social, economic and political empowerment.
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Pakistan
Promoting gender equality for decent employment
April 2012 - March 2015The project is based upon ILO’s conviction that gender equality in the world of work is a fundamental matter of human rights, social justice and is instrumental in achieving social and economic development goals. -
Uganda
Women's empowerment and gender equality
August 2009 - December 2013ILO’s component under this programme aims to promote employment and non-discrimination towards women in Uganda.
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Sri Lanka
Joint UN programme on prevention of and response to gender-based violence
2011 - 2013ILO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF and WHO, supported by the UN Resident Coordinator and the Chairperson of the UN Gender Theme Group in Sri Lanka – invests their combined expertise and resources through this Project to reduce Gender-Based Violence through multi-sectoral interventions, and the effective implementation of laws and policies in keeping with international standards.