The Country Gender Equality Profile (CGEP) represents an important guide to assess the existing situation regarding women’s empowerment and gender equality. The CGEP describes and analyses the present situation in Georgia mainly based on the indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while at the same time considering the BPfA and CEDAW frameworks. More
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The unequal gender distribution of unpaid care work is not only an essential barrier to women’s economic empowerment and women’s participation in public life more broadly, but also constitutes a major impediment to the social and economic well-being of communities at large.
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This brief reviews causes and consequences of women’s economic inactivity, also in light of Covid-19 pandemic.
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A gender equality approach to social protection programmes is key to enabling men and women’s equal access to protection from poverty. This brief highlights some aspects of the social protection system and the ways it responds to women’s needs in Georgia.
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Poverty affects men and women in different ways. This brief reviews the causes and differential experiences of women’s and men’s poverty in Georgia.
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This brief explores the gender gap in unpaid domestic and care work in Georgia, also in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This issue brief explores the obstacles to women’s economic participation and whether the existing employment structure considers women’s interests.
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This brief reviews economic activity of rural women and the reasons for the existing employment structure, while proposing some strategies to raise women’s economic activity in rural Georgia.
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The ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI) – in collaboration with UN Women in the scope of the project “Women’s Economic Empowerment in the South Caucasus” (WEESC), funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) – has implemented a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) to study the prospects and organize a policy dialogue towards the possible ratification of Convention No. 189.
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This issue brief describes the facts and figures related to women in decision-making in Georgia. By visualizing data from Country Gender Equality profile (2020) and other relevant studies, the publication shows that women are under-represented in decision-making positions in the parliament, executive government, civil service, and local government.
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This issue brief describes four different branches of institutional mechanisms for the advancement of Women in Georgia, highlighting their functions and roles in ensuring gender equality and women’s empowerment in Georgia.
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This is brief outlines the key issues on the gender pay gap and is based on the Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market in Georgia.
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This brief provides a short description of the UN Women project “A Joint Action for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Georgia” (JAWE) funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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This brief provides a short description of the regional UN Women project "Women’s Economic Empowerment in the South Caucasus (WEESC)" with funding from the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the Austrian Development Agency (ADC).
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This brief provides a short description of the activities implemented in Georgia in the scope of the UN Women project “Women’s Economic Empowerment in the South Caucasus (WEESC)"" with funding from the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the Austrian Development Agency (ADC).
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This brief provides a short description of the activities implemented in Azerbaijan in the scope of the UN Women project “Women’s Economic Empowerment in the South Caucasus (WEESC)" with funding from the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the Austrian Development Agency (ADC).
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This brief provides a short description of the activities implemented in Armenia in the scope of the UN Women project “Women’s Economic Empowerment in the South Caucasus (WEESC)" with funding from the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the Austrian Development Agency (ADC).
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This brief provides a short description of the UN Women project "A Joint Action for Women's Economic Empowerment in Georgia (JAWE)" generously funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.
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This Brief provides a short description of objectives and activities the project “Equal Access of IDPs to Economic Opportunities in Georgia”, implemented in 2016-2017 by UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and generously funded by the European Union.