The Guide to Gender-Sensitive Indicators (and the Project-Level Handbook) are the final products of a 14-month research project completed with the Division for Women in Development and Gender Equity in CIDA's Policy Branch. This Guide explains why gender-sensitive indicators are useful tools for measuring the
The Tech-girls and Tech-women program are designed to empower young girls and women from the Middle East to pursue careers in science and technology through mentorship and exchange programs.
Numerous awareness-raising campaigns that have been implemented on a local or national level, mainly initiated by non-governmental organizations and international organizations.
The programme objective is to strengthen the capacity of policy makers and social partners to adopt and implement gender-sensitive labour migration policies, legislation and administration. This will be done by promoting:
i) the adoption and implementation of policies, legislation and administration for better regulation of labour migration flows;
ii) strategies to enhance social security coverage of migrant worker and their families, and;
iii) the improvement of skills’ matching between sending and receiving countries and reducing de-skilling.
A five-year, technical cooperation programme with a targeted approach for the trafficking of women and girls from South Asia. The objective is to reach 100,000 women and girls in major South Asian countries and major destination countries of South Asian workers for an overall reduction of incidences.
The project aims to develop a coherent framework of migration policy across national boundaries in order to ensure the rights of low skilled, rural female domestic workers from the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia and Somalia) in the Middle East and Sudan. The project seeks to improve coordination and cooperation of social partners, civil society, institutions and organizations working on migration issues in Ethiopia, as well as in the receiving countries. It provides female domestic workers with accurate information prior to migration and with safe havens to turn to in emergencies.
This project is designed to strengthen national institutional capacities to govern labour migration and to reinforce male and female migrant worker protection. The project:
i) provides national stakeholders with knowledge, capacities and practical tools to elaborate and implement coherent rights-based, gender-sensitive labour migration policies through consultation with social partners and relevant civil society organizations;
The TRIANGLE project aims to significantly reduce the exploitation of labour migrants in the region through increased legal and safe migration and improved labour protection. The project will promote both bilateral and regional approaches to deal with shared concerns, make regionalism more effective, and enhance the capacity of institutions in ASEAN. The project objectives are in line with the strategic priorities of the ASEAN Labour Ministers Work Programme (2010-2015).
This is a Health care program in which either migrants or employers pay USD 20 for health care check-ups, USD 1 for co-payment for hospital visits and USD 43 for a one-year health insurance. This is the same benefit package as for Thai nationals that includes disease prevention, health promotion, work related disabilities, low-cost in- and out- patient hospital care, accident and emergency. The anti-viral drugs, to prevent mother to child or mother to fetus infections are also available.
The Co-Development Project between Ecuador's Cañar province and the the Murcia Region in Spain ran between 2008 and 2009. It aimed to improve contitions for migrants from the province of Cañar in the Murcia Region by generating a series of good practices that could potentially be replicated elsewhere.