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Strategies
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Earmark
50% of state projects aimed at alleviation of unemployment to
women and eliminate policies that discriminate against women’s
access to productive assets.
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Encouraging
private sector employers to hire women by offering special
incentives such as tax breaks.
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Enhance
women’s participation in decision and policy making process in
terms of management, representation, syndicate election,
voting and selection.
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Examine
the new labor laws in terms of their impact on women’s labor
participation.
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Gender
sensitization of economic planners, project planners and
implementers.
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Measure
the extent and nature of both formal and informal labor force
participation.
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Provide
easy credit to poor women especially women heads of households
and in micro-enterprises to alleviate poverty.
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Provide
women in agriculture with energy and burden saving technology,
and provide easier access to credit and extension.
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Raise
women’s awareness of their working rights through gender
training workshops, media campaigns and the establishment of
women’s watch groups.
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Training
in data collection with more accurate meaningful gender
sensitive data.
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Training
women in non traditional female occupations.
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