Mainstreaming Gender eQuality

at the ILO Turin Centre

INTERNATIONALLABOUR STANDARDS

RIGHTS AT WORK

SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL DIALOGUE

EMPLOYMENTQUALITY

QUANTITY

GENDER AND

DECENT WORK

The WID scenario...

Centre’s Programmes

WID

Gender awareness in

Tentative gender mainstreaming...

Centre’s Programmes

Gender awareness in

Sustainable gender mainstreaming...

Centre’s Programmes

Gender awareness in

Gender mainstreaming: tools

Gender Focal Points

Training

Programme & material development

Needs’Analysis, Gender Audit

Functions

Training

• Raise awareness on gender issues

•Eliminate discrimination in the work place

•Develop organizational capacity to achieve

equality

Gender-sensitise training materials

•Establish a network of trainers of trainees

Gender Unit delivery On-LINE course TESTED

Gender Unit Delivery: on-going course

Functions

GENDER FOCAL POINTS

To disseminate gender related information

Act as gender contact in their unit

Monitor gender issues in their own unit

Aim at increasing women’s participation

Resource mobilisation (project design)

Functions

PROGRAMME & MATERIALS

DEVELOPMENT

Gender-sensitise training materials

& experts, curricula, colleagues...

Institutionalize programs

Capacity building

Functions

GENDER AUDIT

Identify the gaps in an organization

Analyse organizational capacity to integrate

gender issues

Greater of integration of policies, programmes

and structures

Gender mainstreaming

Two examples:

•International Labour Standards and Gender Equality

• Women’s Entrepreneurship Development

RESULTS: …… increased impact and participation

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2105

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No act G + W

No of pax

Gender mainstreaming

TRENDS IN GENDER SENSITIZATION OF TRAINING ACTIVITIES

2000 2001 2002

No. G/ W activities

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No. pax in G/W

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Direct delivery

• Gender audit, institutional advice

• On-line training:

Gender, Poverty, Employment

Mainstreaming Gender eQuality

• Training materials: CD-Rom...

ILS

EMPSD

ENTDEV

DELTA

SOCPRO

SOCDIA

ACTRAV

EMPACT

MANDEV

ESF

GenderCoordination

Unit

ArabStates

Africa

Asia

Europe

Americas

DELNET

GLOBALIZED!!

The impact

Globalisation and Gender Equality

Application of Gender Mainstreaming to analyse

the impact of globalisation on women and men:

i.E employment security and stability, social

security, etc.

The impact

Globalisation and Gender Equality

Care Economy And Paid Work

Formal and InformalEconomy

Quality of EmploymentAnd Social Protection

Structural Linkages