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Cooperative Support Programme for Palestine (CSP-OPT)

eval_number:

2290505

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2290505

location:

country:

State of Palestine

region:

Arab States

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eval_title:

Cooperative Support Programme for Palestine (CSP-OPT)

recommendations:

date:

2026-04-17 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Conditions of work & equality

category:

Gender equality

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action_plan:

The ILO welcomes this recommendation and reaffirms its commitment to promoting gender equality and women’s economic empowerment through inclusive cooperative development. Under the CSP programme, the ILO has taken steps to support women’s participation, including through the establishment of a Virtual Training Unit within the Cooperative Work Agency (CWA). This has contributed to improving accessibility and outreach by reducing mobility constraints and enabling more flexible participation, particularly for women with care responsibilities. In addition, training activities under the programme have included gender-disaggregated participation data, allowing for the monitoring of women’s engagement. The ILO recognizes, however, that further efforts can be made to better address the specific constraints faced by women with care responsibilities, including through more flexible scheduling, localized delivery, and adapted follow-up modalities. The ILO has also actively promoted women’s economic empowerment through targeted interventions, notably the development and operationalization of the childcare cooperative model in collaboration with the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions. This model has contributed both to creating employment opportunities for women and to addressing care needs, thereby enabling greater participation of women in economic activities. Going forward, the ILO will continue to strengthen its gender-responsive approach by placing greater emphasis on supporting women-led cooperatives, promoting women’s participation in leadership positions, and exploring practical measures to reduce participation barriers, including logistical support where feasible. Furthermore, the ILO will enhance its monitoring systems by strengthening the collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data, including indicators related to participation, training completion, leadership roles, and access to services. This will support more evidence-based programming and improved tracking of gender-related outcomes.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

title:

Recommendation 8: Address gender-related participation barriers through accessible delivery and feasible care solutions. The International Labour Organization Project Team and partners should implement practical measures to support women’s participation, including accessible training locations, schedules compatible with care responsibilities, and follow-up modalities that reduce travel burdens. Where care-related cooperative initiatives are pursued, these should be underpinned by a feasibility-based operational plan covering governance arrangement, service scope, revenue model, staffing, and safeguarding. To ensure effectiveness and accountability, these measures should be accompanied by strengthened routine monitoring, including the systematic collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated participation and outcome data (e.g., leadership roles, training completion, access to services, and market participation), in line with the data limitations identified in Section 4.7.

project_symbols:

PSE/19/01/ITA

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/2383756

information_source:

Country Office

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