About UNIFEM
Reducing Women's Poverty and Exclusion
While globalization offers new opportunities, it has also intensified economic insecurity for many poor women. As capital moves freely across borders, these women are increasingly concentrated in insecure, unsafe and badly paid work in the informal economy or forced to join the growing "undocumented" migrant labour stream.
UNIFEM works to enhance women's economic security by strengthening their rights to land and inheritance, increasing their access to decent work, and empowering women migrant workers in both sending and receiving countries. In Jordan, a country of destination for migrant workers, UNIFEM has worked with the Government to formulate a minimum standard contract for migrant women that is being used to monitor working conditions. Also in Jordan, UNIFEM's partnership with CISCO Systems helped shape gender-sensitive training programmes that have increased women's access to job opportunities presented by information technology. The initiative will be replicated in several Arab countries.
Women have recognized that if you want to see how governments are implementing their commitments to women, follow the money. In more than 40 countries UNIFEM supports national and local initiatives to include gender perspectives in budgeting processes, and to collect and use sex-disaggregated data in public policy formulation.
Read more about UNIFEM's work in this area
Next: Ending Violence Against Women
Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
