Jafar, Salmar, 2013, Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment, Midterm or interim evaluation

2.3 DIRECT ACTIONS IN COMMUNITIES

2.3.6. Vocational education/skills training

Recommendation: 12) Consider including possible types of employment that are often not considered for TVET such as sales service provider, security guard, IT sector, development of new products based on traditional crafts, and green jobs.

Reference: Jafar, Salmar, 2013, Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment, Midterm or interim evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: the evaluation recommend the training of women to join unconventional occupations like hospitality, ancient knots making, on line earning and new more marketable patterns in the hand woven cloth cottage industry.

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2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.1 Social dialogue and IE

Recommendation: 4) Include media organisations in policy level dialogue to develop messages such as on gender sensitive reporting and the promotion of decent work.

Reference: Jafar, Salmar, 2013, Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment, Midterm or interim evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: the project was found to have conducted a series of policy level dialogues with senior representatives of national and regional level media organizations. This resulted in 150 policy level representatives to agree on a declaration unanimously signed to promote gender sensitive reporting in their respective organizations.

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2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.5. Strengthening IE with attention to gender issues

Recommendation: 10) Promote the registration of associations of women dependent on the informal economy and the formation/participation of women in trade unions.

Reference: Jafar, Salmar, 2013, Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment, Midterm or interim evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: the evaluation noted that the project is ensuring women’s workers’ rights in the informal sector through registration of Home Based Workers (HBW)s and formation of trade unions.

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2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.5. Strengthening IE with attention to gender issues

Recommendation: 15) Avoid delays in addressing advocacy and awareness raising on gender issues in project time lines. Include attention to this issue at the earliest feasible stage.

Reference: Jafar, Salmar, 2013, Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment, Midterm or interim evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: The evaluation indicated at midterm that work with women parliamentarians, law enforcing agencies is planned for year four this should be reconsidered and can be started now for measuring the outcomes of the project by end of year five.

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2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.5. Strengthening IE with attention to gender issues

Recommendation: 22) Support the development of networks that can help strengthen advocacy with representatives of parliamentarians, media, duty bearers.

Reference: Jafar, Salmar, 2013, Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment, Midterm or interim evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: an approach to bridge the gap between the public and policymakers by creating and strengthening a network of women leaders to reach out to over 500 representatives of parliamentarians, media, judiciary and police has not been implemented because a grassroots women’s group from amongst the trainees has to be created as a strategy. This network will be initiated during the 4th year of project which will have minimal outcome.