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INFORMAL ECONOMY AND VULNERABLE GROUPS>> Women Documents and programmes of interest
It intends to contribute to the efforts made to advance towards the definition of policies that may serve to achieve gender equity by means of promoting decent work. It gathers the main results of the research and activities carried out by ILO experts within the framework of work priorities in Latin America between the years 1999 and 2005. |
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With 33 million women joining the labour market between 1990 and 2004, this means that women now represent 40 per cent of the economically active population in urban areas in Latin America. The authors of this study examine in detail the progress achieved in female rates of labour force participation, as well as the continuing gap between men and women in terms of access to quality jobs, of unemployment, remuneration and social protection. The sex-based inequality observed has got worse in some respects and has improved in others.
It intends to contribute to visualize the research that is currently being conducted by universities of different countries in the Southern Cone. It also tries to raise awareness about the exclusions caused by the present changes in the labour world. Researchers from Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay have taken part in a lively conceptual and methodological debate on the inclusion-exclusion of women in the labour world. From a gender analysis perspective, they discussed the link between the concepts of citizenship and labour and a variety of national experiences were analysed in connection with equity policies of employment. The vision shared by a wide range of social and political actors shows that there is willingness to open the dialogue and take commitments towards the search of gender policies in the labour world.
The purpose of this study is to establish a social demographic and labour profile and to become familiar with the motivations, problems, satisfactions and training needs of female homeworkers in Chile and suggest recommendations to guide training policies rooted in the reality of this group of women.
In order to fight against poverty and promote a sustainable and inclusive rural development, adopting a gender dimension and articulating with the local productive and social environment are widely acknowledged imperatives. This requires building up networks, mobilising multiple resources and actors and, above all, a global analysis and a variety of changes in which personal, family, productive and socio-political dimensions are indivisibly articulated. Vocational training has a key role in the fulfilment of these objectives even though its contribution is not always explicit and actors are often unaware of it. By systematising ten years of work of AMRU from the perspective of the processes of change in these four dimensions, this book enables to visualise its contributions and learn and acquire good practices in order to increase labour opportunities, citizenship participation and the quality of life of women and rural families.
This document is the result of a diagnosis on the social labour dimension of women workers in Latin America and the Caribbean and their participation in trade unions. The information gathered will serve as the basis for an analysis and future developments in the field of trade union policies and social and political proposals to the whole society.
The aim of this material is to transfer the strategy of the Occupational Project as training and a guide to reinforce people's employability. The intent of the document is to promote reflection concerning one of the main guiding axes of the intervention model proposed: the intersection of competency and gender approaches. Furthermore, it seeks to share the learning derived from how it is done, i.e., to place at the disposal of stakeholders the methodologies and instruments developed (tools) and present examples of results achieved (experiences). In this way, the aim is to provide samples of suitable and coherent learning both of the conceptual and methodological axes of the intervention model of FORMUJER, and of competency-based training principles.
While women are many times discriminated and edged out of the labour world, they are strongly represented in the informal economy and, trade unions of women in the informal economy have been emphasized. Home-based textile workers in Argelia, Brazil and the United States, street vendors in India and Moldavia, free-lance hairdressers in Ghana, peasant farmers in Peru, home-based child carers in Croatia; fishmongers in Chad…all have their tale to tell as trade unionists. The fundamental trade union principle of solidarity is at stake, but so is the very survival of the trade union movement worldwide.
For millions of women in the developing world, maternity health care is almost unavailable. For millions more, other maternity benefits are even harder to get. Through an ILO research initiative, innovative ways of providing maternity protection to poor women in the informal economy are being promoted, Anne Sieger reports.
New employment opportunities within so-called "free zones" and "export processing zones (EPZs)" can help women rebuild their lives as well as their country's economy after wars or natural disasters. In the Dominican Republic and other developing countries, increasing numbers of women are finding work in the zones as well as through micro-enterprises and micro-financing. Still, a new job does not always imply a better life; new work is not always good work. This report examines the experience of one woman who found work, as well as other trends affecting low-quality jobs for women today.
This document gathers four experiences developed in Peru for the
promotion of employment for women by favouring microenterprises.
To implement this project, work was carried out in coordination
with representative organisations of urban women groups.
Women at Work presents a series of empirical studies that use household survey data from Latin America to analyze trends in female labor force participation rates, the impact of trade liberalization on women's work, tendencies in gender wage differentials and occupational segregation, and the gender implications of pension reform.
Through this teaching guide, the Casa de la Mujer (House of Women) of Unión intends to contribute to the design and implementation of gender-based vocational training proposals. The guide has important contributions brought by the Latin American experience of the Programme to Strengthen Technical and Vocational Training of Low Income Women in Latin America (FORMUJER).
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This programme has been jointly financed by the IADB. CINTERFOR/ILO has been in charge of its regional coordination and technical and methodological monitoring, while the running of its National Pilot Projects has been assigned to the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Human Resources Training of Argentina, the INFOCAL Foundation of Bolivia and the INA (National Training Institute) of Costa Rica through their National Executive Units. The Programme's objectives have been: boosting the quality, relevance and gender equity of technical-vocational education in the region; creating favourable conditions for equal participation of women in TVET; matching training supply to current demands labour markets; raising the technical level of women and widening the range of their training options; and disseminating the models and methodologies developed in the programme throughout Latin America. This Occupational Project (OP) strategy has been developed and
approved within the framework of the Formujer Programme. It intends
to contribute to the work of trainers and counsellors in training
for work institutions, labour mediation spaces (job exchanges, job
placement offices) and community assistance centres (NGOs, churches,
neighbourhood associations, etc). From the experiences developed
during the execution of the Programme it has been found that people
enhance their employability when: - they are capable of adapting
their experiences, abilities and needs by developing competencies
to face the labour context and see themselves as builders of their
own destiny, identifying their own possibilities and difficulties
as well as those offered by the environment. The OP intends to approach
the work on employability by means of training and follow-up actions
in order to design individual or collective occupational projects
for men and women who have employment problems or who are unemployed.
It is a programme developed by the National Bureau of the Small
and Medium-sized Enterprises of the Ministry of Labour and Employment
Promotion. Its aim is to improve the labour participation of women
who run productive and services units by favouring their employability,
the improvement of their economic performance and the development
of their opportunities in the market. In this way they may overcome
their level of poverty and achieve personal and citizen development.
The general objective of this Programme is to contribute to the strengthening of active employment policies through the development of the abilities that can favour the access of women to the labour world in equal conditions. The target population is women who live in urban or rural areas across the country and have lost their job or are looking for a job for the first time or are in any restrictive employment situation.
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