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BASIC Project: Gender equality in the world of work in Angola, Brazil, China, India and South Africa - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

1142

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1142

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Organizational coordination

category:

Organizational issues

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description:

Another important lesson from the project is the value of undertaking specific actions on gender equality as a part of ILO work at the country level. It is critical to mainstream a focus on gender equality into the full range of interventions undertaken by the ILO, as is the intention of the current ILO Programme and Budget (2010-2011), to ensure that a gender perspective is brought to all sectoral areas of intervention. However, specific actions on gender equality can both support this mainstreaming strategy and mean that actions to promote gender equality are able to progress still further. The BASIC project represents a good example of this type of specific action on gender, in that it created the space (and budget) for a dedicated team working on specified activities on gender equality, it allowed for additional funding and support to constituents and experts working on gender issues in each country, and created the space for dedicated capacity building activities focused on gender equality. This means that the BASIC countries were able to go much further in promoting gender equality in decent work than they would have been purely through attempting to mainstream a focus on gender into their other country activities. This underlines the importance of the ILO continuing to seek out and employ specific actions on gender equality like the BASIC Project.

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url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/176406

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

BASIC Project: Gender equality in the world of work in Angola, Brazil, China, India and South Africa - Final Evaluation