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
More policies promote decent work and social protection for women
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work, such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
ComplementaryCapacities of national authorities, civil society and relevant partners is strengthened to mainstream gender equality scale-up investments in care service, and promote macro-level economic policy accelerators and related policies that support gender-equitable inclusive growth
In addition to results reported by UN Women field offices (shown here), results achieved in countries and territories through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) are included in a non-duplicative manner in the global reporting on this indicator (see the Our Global Results page).
Engagement at community and corporate level to promote the value of women's work and encourage women enter the labour market
More policies promote decent work and social protection for women
Through different UN Women Egypt programmes including Global Affairs Canada, Sida JP, and KOICA, 30 additional companies in Egypt signed the WEPs CEO Statement of Support that makes the total number of WEPs signatories increase by 50% too reach a total of 72 companies in 2022. This includes the Financial Regulartory Authority (FRA) which includes a pool of financial and insurance companies which is the first financial authority worldwide to adopt and promote the WEPs among its members. Results include supporting number of companies to review their policies, conduct their gender gap analysis, and develop their relative action plans. Currently, more focused support is tailored to provide companies with policies on harassment in the workplace and more HR tailored support and gender & marketing training based on the individual companies' action plan. In connection to this, UN Women through Sida Decent Work and KOICA funded programmes, supported companies to commit to the WEPs principles 1 and 4 to promote women on corporate boards and in leadership positions in addition to promoting a gender sensitive workplaces and availing equal training opportunities for women employees through the collaboration with the AUC where women employees had access to 50% scholarship to be trained on: Finance for non Financers, Advanced Management, Digital Marketing, Executive Leadership, Management for first time managers and Human Capital Certificate. In 2022, 74 women emloyees received trainings and some were promoted to senior management level, out of which around 35.15% are funded by their companies (most of which are WEPs signatories). This includes provision of board placement advocacy resulting in nominating 180 candidates to 36 EGX companies, additional 10 candidates to Archer Finance, and another 13 candidates to Beltone Financial Holding .Disclaimer and notes
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