More policies promote decent work and social protection for women The regional companion report to UN Women’s 2018 Progress of the World’s Women report will compare & analyze the case studies of Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco and Palestine in terms of the care economy as well as, the impact of these factors on labor force participation and women’s rights. Additionally, ECO will avail platforms for civil society organizations to engage in dialogue and advocacy with government on gender-sensitive labor laws/policies. Furthermore, the capacity of the GoE to mainstream gender equality issues in public policies and programs will be enhanced through support to implementation of Gender-Responsive Budgeting, Gender Impact Assessments of policies and gender-sensitive public procurement. Also focus on increasing the number of women on corporate boards as well as addressing horizontal segregation through strengthening capacities of young women in technical schools to enter in non-traditional sectors.
Implementing partners: NCW, MOF, ERF, ECES, PS, local NGOs