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Road to Jobs: Bringing decent work to rural households of the Northern Provinces in Afghanistan - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2360

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2360

location:

country:

Afghanistan

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Road to Jobs: Bringing decent work to rural households of the Northern Provinces in Afghanistan - Final Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2022-07-25 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Conditions of work & equality

category:

Gender equality

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comments:

- The cooperative laws and other legislations in the country related to establishing and operating common interest groups are strict with complicated reporting requirements, demotivating target beneficiaries to be brought together in saving/self-help groups, cooperative and other similar structures. - In this new environment in Afghanistan, there is need to come up budgets that will cater for the additional costs that will come with the inclusion of women in project activities especially in the design of the second phase of R2J project. Such costs associated with the need for a "Mahram" for female project staff and project beneficiaries, creation of women friendly and compliant workspaces, added training expenses that allow for segregation of men from women etc. These will all have budgetary implications

action_plan:

Continue to work towards women economic empowerment especially in an ever-changing environment where women rights are constantly being violated.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Asia and the Pacific

title:

Adopting a gendered lens to better assess and address the sociocultural barriers women face in the local labour market. Specific measures that increase their bargaining power and render them more resilient, such as bringing them together in savings groups or cooperatives, can help ensure they equally benefit from interventions.

project_symbols:

AFG/14/01/SID

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/15010

information_source:

Country Office

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