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GLOBAL COMPACT
Partnership projectsPromoting gender mainstreaming in workplace
Gender Index Project as a practical example how to use the GC framework combined with EU funding.
UNDP Poland23th of April 2007
London www.globalcompact.org.pl
Rzeczpospolita Internetowa (UNDP and TP Group Fundation)
Liga Miast (UNDP, PKN Orlen, Levi Strauss Ostrów Wielkopolski City, Płock City)
Our main projects with private sector
EQUAL - ESF
EUROPEAN INITIATIVE EQUAL AND
EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND as a tool for supporting GC activities
Partnership is the key!
EQUAL PROJECTS
Gender Index - action against women’s discrimination on the labor market by increasing employers’ knowledgeParent- Employee - Professional Development of Parents on Post-Maternity LeaveElaStan – flexible employment - promotion of the flexible forms of employmentMISARN - support to the Mentally Competent Youth and Young Adults with Physical Disabilities Rain Man - creation of the model, replicable social enterprise, that will employ people with autism
EQUAL PROJECTS
Social Economy - defining crucial requirements for the proper functioning of Polish model of social economy. Black Sheep - improving access to the labor market for (ex)-offenders Alliance for work - inclussion of the people aged 45+ at risk of unemployment, who would like to remain professionally and / or socially active, to labor marketWe can do more - working out a Polish model of a social co-operative on the basis of the experience of other countriesEco-chance - inclussion in the labour market people suffering from social exclusion due to long-term absence from the market
GC and EU – where is hiding synergy
Partnership again… with private sector of course
1. Using EU funds we are building with private sector useful and practical know-how, needed for them in their daily work
2. Using EU funds we have resourses for media campaigns (visibility)
3. Using EU funds we have support from EC side to develop developed know-how in future
Partnership projects under Global Compact
1. Inviting new companies to join the initiative and making „old” members
more active
FMCG ICT companies
( x, y)
Pharmace-utical comp.
Banks(a, b)
Partnership projects under Global Compact
2. Creating thematic coalitions – group of companies interested in the same thematic
area
Roma minority Gender
( a, x)
Social exclusion
ICT
ICT
Partnership projects under Global Compact
3. Creating think-tanks
Gender Coalition
Company y
Company x
U N D P
Think - tankContent-related support
Partnership projects under Global Compact
4. Building projects – cooperation of three partners
UNDP (Global Compact Office)
Cluster(companies, NGOs and media)
Think – tank(expert, experts)
PROJECT
U N D P
Partnership projects under Global Compact
5. Promotion of the project
PROJECT
PR activities,Media
campaigns
Promotion of:1. The results of the project.2. Social problem which is being tackled. 3. Company implementing the project.
Practical example
Gender Index action against women’s discrimination on the labor
market by increasing employers’ knowledge
Objectives
Counteract women discrimination in the workplace by constructing management models for gender sensitive companies
Increase the level of labour law observance among employers in relation to women’s situation in the workplace
Increase the level of employers’ knowledge and interest for activities promoting and empowering women in the workplace
Practical example
Gender Index action against women’s discrimination on the labor
market by increasing employers’ knowledge
Activities
Expert work aiming at the creation of research tool concerning the situation of women in a company / in the workplace
Public campaign on gender equality in the workplace with 16 regional debates National competition for a company with the best policy in promoting women and gender equality in the workplace
Gathering good practices concerning gender equality and the workplace in a form of a guide for employers. Building up a training model concerning gender equality and the workplace for employers and other stakeholders.
Practical example
Gender Index action against women’s discrimination on the labor
market by increasing employers’ knowledge
Products•Gender Index - practical instrument of analysis and control concerning the situation of women in companies
•Public debate on the situation of women in companies, its wider social background, as well as effects
•First group of Polish companies identified as having the best gender equality policies
•Good practices guide prepared for employers and comprehensive training model concerning gender equality and the workplace for employers and other groups involved.
Practical example
Gender Index action against women’s discrimination on the labor
market by increasing employers’ knowledge
Business involvement
• Participation in pilot research for testing Gender Index – gender equality indicator
•Participation in National Competition for the Best Gender Sensitive Company (target was 30 we have 52 companies!)
•Presentation of company activities in Best Practice Guide “Gender Equality in the Workplace”
•Participation of company representatives in special trainings “Gender Equality in the Workplace”
Thank You
www.globalcompact.org.pl
and
www.undp.org.pl