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Technical note
ILO care policy investment simulator: Technical note
This Technical Note provides guidance on how to use the online ILO Care Policy Investment Simulator by explaining the underlying methodology, calculations and results. The Simulator helps build tailor-made care policy investment packages to fill national gaps on care leave policies and services, as a means of advancing the ILO transformative agenda for gender equality and non-discrimination.
The care economy and decent work in Sri Lanka: Opportunities, challenges and future trends
ILO Policy Brief
From global care crisis to quality care at home: The case for including domestic workers in care policies and ensuring their rights at work
ILO Policy Brief
From global care crisis to quality care at home: The case for including domestic workers in care policies and ensuring their rights at work (Hindi)
UN Women - ILO Policy Tool
UN Women - ILO Joint Programme Synthesis Report, Argentina
UN Women - ILO Policy Tool
Sectoral potential for the creation of female jobs and proposed avenues to achieve gender equality on the labour market.
A Moroccan Perspective
ILO Report
Care at Work: Investing in Care Leave and Services for a More Gender Equal World of Work
Companion Regional Report for the Middle East and North Africa
Infographic
Towards Dignity and Autonomy: A Comprehensive Look at Personal Assistance Policies for Persons with Disabilities Worldwide
This infographic presents the findings from a review of personal assistance policies and practices from across the world and formulates recommendations on how to ensure that personal assistance promote full inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in community, including by improving the working conditions of assistants. This research is a product of the cooperation between the International Labour Organisation and the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL).to take an active role in its provision and that has a long-lasting impact on their rights. Looking into personal assistance services globally may shed light on how to structure care and support services to reduce inequalities.
Towards Dignity and Autonomy
A Comprehensive Look at Personal Assistance Policies for Persons with Disabilities Worldwide
The report presents the findings from a review of personal assistance policies and practices from across the world and formulates recommendations on how to ensure that personal assistance promote full inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in community, including by improving the working conditions of assistants. This research is a product of the cooperation between the International Labour Organisation and the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL).to take an active role in its provision and that has a long-lasting impact on their rights. Looking into personal assistance services globally may shed light on how to structure care and support services to reduce inequalities.
Empowering for Independence: Building High Quality Personal Assistance Services for Persons with Disabilities
This factsheet focuses on the provision of personal assistance, as a support service that enables persons with disabilities to take an active role in its provision and that has a long-lasting impact on their rights. Looking into personal assistance services globally may shed light on how to structure care and support services to reduce inequalities.
UN Women - ILO Policy Tool
Assessing the employment situation in five countries and promoting a gender responsive structural transformation
A consolidated report on lessons learned and policy insights
UN Women - ILO Policy Tool
SAM-based analysis of gendered employment sectoral strategies in Ethiopia
UN Women - ILO Policy Tool
Gendered employment analysis and policy recommendations in Ethiopia
Evidence from Hawassa and Yirgalem Intergrated Industrial Parks
ILO Country Brief- Jordan
Care Work in China: Who does care work, what is its economic value and how has it been affected by Covid-19?
UN Women and ILO worked together to produce this report to better understand care work and the economy of care in China, where policy recommendations are put forward to strengthen the societal reorganization of care to help shape a more equal and inclusive society.
Experiences on training and certification for care work in Latin America
Guide for the national debate on the incorporation or improvement of training and certification services for care in early childhood, elderly and people with disabilities.
Gender equality and women workers
Investments in childcare for gender equality in Asia and the Pacific
The report highlights why and how investing in childcare impacts positively on gender equality and decent work in Asia and the Pacific.
Mainstreaming Care Work to Combat the Effects of Climate Change
Chapter VI.2 of the Report: "Green Jobs, an Opportunity for Women in Latin America. Climate Change, Gender and Just Transition"
Maternity protection
Maternity leave in metropolitan Indonesia: Evidence on duration, benefits and job protection
This study assesses the actual experience of women workers in accessing statutory maternity leave in terms of duration, benefits and job protection in metropolitan Indonesia.