PICs WINvest

completed

This project will deliver development impact by: 1. Working with organizations to address barriers to women’s employment by addressing firm-level challenges associated with hiring and retaining female employees, advancing women into leadership positions, and tackling the gender-specific root causes that drive absenteeism and turnover among workers. This will be achieved through remote delivery peer learning partnership for private sector companies across the Pacific Islands on addressing gendered impacts of COVID19 and creating safe and resilient businesses and through individual deep-dive gender engagements with companies to identify gender gaps, developing the business case for closing these gaps, proposing solutions, and, to the extent needed, supporting the companies to implement changes and document results. 2. Addressing barriers to women’s employment women’s employment in fisheries through financial literacy training 3. Addressing gender-based violence as a barrier to women’s workforce participation by training trainers in the Pacific to support companies to develop and implement workplace responses to gender-based violence. IFC will catalyze the resources developed through the three components and elsewhere in the Pacific for the benefit of the wider private sectors in the Pacific through innovative communication and dissemination platforms. The resources will demonstrate the business case for gender equality, provide guidance on implementing gender equality strategies; and document lessons learnt.