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Win-Win Gender Equality Means Good Business (in co-delegation with UN WOMEN) - Midterm joint evaluation

eval_number:

2859

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2859

location:

country:

Americas - regional

region:

Americas

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eval_title:

Win-Win Gender Equality Means Good Business (in co-delegation with UN WOMEN) - Midterm joint evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2021-02-10 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

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action_plan:

1. Connect women-led business associations and networks and women entrepreneurs in EU and LAC, through: A) mapping of stakeholders and of business opportunities (including engagement with the six LAC country embassies in European countries and EU delegations in the six countries to help identify these opportunities); Responsible party for implementation: Win-Win Regional Coordinators, NPSSs. B) establishment of formal and informal partnerships (including building on existing ones with RedIbero and IWCA, and active engaging EU to foster partnerships with other stakeholders mapped, including trade promotions agencies in LAC and Europe and employer’s organizations in Europe); Responsible party for implementation: Win-Win Regional Coordinators, NPSSs. C) promotion of high-level dialogues and exchanges between EU and LAC woman-led businesses and entrepreneurs, employers’ organisations, etc.; Responsible party for implementation: Win-Win Regional Coordinators, NPSSs and Win-Win Communications Specialist. D) support to the establishment of a formal network platform grounded/based on existing platforms to reinforce LAC and EU women-led business connections; Responsible party for implementation: Win-Win Regional Coordinators, NPSSs E) commercial missions. Responsible party for implementation: Win-Win Regional Coordinators, NPSSs 2. Develop communications material for disseminating women entrepreneurship business cases in LAC and EU that convey concrete value for potential EU and LAC stakeholders’ involvement in the programme. Responsible party for implementation: NPSSs and Win-Win Communications specialist.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Latin America and the Caribbean

title:

Depending on whether such action is aligned with the results of the exercise described in Recommendation 1, step up efforts to build and formalize linkages between EU and LAC woman-led businesses and entrepreneurs. Recognizing that this is unfamiliar territory for UN Women, consider the following strategies: a. Actively enlist EU, through the Brazil Regional FPI programme, to contact trade promotion agencies both in LAC and Europe. b. Actively enlist ILO to build on ILO connections with employers’ organizations in Europe. c. Engage the six LAC country embassies in European countries and EU delegations in the six LAC countries to help identify business opportunities. d. In all interactions with potential EU and LAC stakeholders in this area, communicate a concrete value proposition for their involvement; ideally, this would be linked to the design of the financing mechanism in Outcome 3, but at minimum it should demonstrate that engagement with Win-Win has the potential to lead to new business opportunities and/or opportunities for joint advocacy and action around the enabling environment for women’s entrepreneurship and business participation. e. In line with point d, design a proposal for a formal networking platform to link identified woman-led businesses and entrepreneurs and their organizations from the six LAC countries and the EU countries. f. Contract experts in trade facilitation to support implementation in this area. g. In moving this work forward, seek opportunities to build on the advances to date through the MoU with RedIbero and activities with IWCA.

project_symbols:

RLA/17/03/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/14510

information_source:

Regional Office

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