The project has three distinct but integrated components:
- Strengthening national mechanisms to promote equal employment opportunities for women;
- Under this component, the project will inform and sensitize stakeholders on issues of gender equality and constraints in the existing policy and legal framework, and enhance their skills and knowledge to address them. Activities will be undertaken to develop the capacity of government, employers and trade unions to design and implement policies and programmes that reflect real needs, genuine priorities and interests of workers, particularly women;
- Enhancing skills and employability of poor women in rural and urban areas of selected districts;
- A targeted 6,300 poor women and men, from urban and rural areas of Pakistan, will be trained in employable skills using the ILO’s Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) methodology. TREE is a comprehensive community-based training package that helps identify and assess local economic opportunities, design and deliver community-based skills development and provide post-training services;
- Strengthening capacity of media to raise awareness on issues related to working women; and
- Activities under this component will build the capacity of media and communication specialists on gender sensitive communications, national policy frameworks on gender equality and international labour standards. Information will be interactively shared through promotional and informative packages in national and regional languages.
Project implementation
The project will target three priority sectors (currently under discussion with stakeholders). The project has been planned following three overarching principles – integrate, innovate and impact. Activities will be integrated across each of the three components, innovatively building on past strengths, in order to maximize impact.
For further information please contact:
Ms Frida Khan
National Project Coordinator
Tel: +92 51 2276456-8 Ext. 233
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