Specific Objectives

• To calculate raw, adjusted, and factor-weighted gender pay gaps using micro-data from the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES).

• To conduct quantile decomposition analysis in order to identify differences across the wage distribution (glass ceiling, sticky floor).

• To analyze within-firm and between-firm pay gaps, in order to determine whether inequality stems from pay-setting practices or from sectoral segregation.

• To estimate the so-called “feminization penalty” and examine how the concentration of women in specific occupations/sectors affects wage levels.

• To conduct consultations with stakeholders (trade unions, employers, institutions) and integrate their perspectives into the final recommendations.

• To provide practical and context-specific policy recommendations for reducing the gender pay gap.

Client: International Labour Organization and UN Women

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Specific objectives include:

1. To identify drivers of low female participation in the labor market and female productivity, by producing evidence and generating knowledge;
2. To emphasize the importance of decent jobs, a stimulative environment, working conditions, and systemic support as drivers of productivity and women’s potential, by piloting measures at “Comfy Angel” and in collaboration with the business sector;
3. To stimulate policy dialogue among relevant stakeholders (policymakers, business sector, Federation of Trade Unions);
4. To advocate for policies that enable decent jobs and a stimulative environment that will boost female productivity.

Donor: British Embassy in Skopje

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The action will be aimed at including gender in the programming through concrete interventions on three fronts: 1) Improving the accountability of local governments in implementing their commitments to gender equality, 2) Empowering local women and men to express their needs and priorities through the process of participative planning, and 3) Strengthening local stakeholders with capacities for monitoring the gender-responsive planning process.

Duration: January 2022 – February 2023

Donor: Reactor through European Union and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

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Client: UN Women

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Client: UNICEF

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Donor: Center for Research and Policy Making through the Gender Budget Watchdog Network

Timeline: December 2020 – May 2021

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This proposal envisages the following activities:

• Desk analysis of the LSGUs budgets for 2020 in order to map the envisaged gender-based program, their categorization and comparative analysis with the local policies and strategies for equal opportunities between men and women, in order to evaluate how many local programs and funds were allocated directly for women, before the Covid crisis.
• In-depth interviews with LSGUs’ officials to discuss in details the LSGUs response interventions to address the local citizen’s needs, with reference to the gender impact.
• (Online) focus groups with local citizens to assess their experience and attitudes toward LSGUs’ response measures that tackle the Covid-19 impact.

All activities will result in short gender budget policy analysis (15-18 pages) for each LSGU separately, with included assessment of the LSGUs response interventions from gender perspective, as well as policy and recommendations for improving the gender-budgeting process in the post-Covid period.

Client: UN Women Skopje

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Specific objectives include:

1. To evaluate / simulate the effect of the Covid-19 crisis on poverty, with special reference to gender poverty;
2. To make a qualitative assessment of the effect of the Covid-19 crisis on the target groups: women and youth at social risk, informal workers, recipients of social assistance and Roma;
3. To assess the fiscal implications of the measure for relaxation of the criteria for obtaining guaranteed minimum assistance;
4. To raise awareness of the eased entry into the system for guaranteed minimum assistance;
5. To propose measures for evidence-based policies, with potentially narrower targeting of the target groups.

Donor: The Government of North Macedonia

Duration: July – December 2020

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Provider: UNDP

Duration: December 2019 – January 2020

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The short-term goals of the project include: 1) assessing employers’ attitudes to gender inequality and discrimination in hiring and tin the workplace and the mechanisms for their prevention and protection; 2) to examine the experiences of workers in relation to gender inequality and discrimination and to assess whether they are reduced to isolated cases or systematically occurring; 3) to help policymakers make informed decisions based on evidence, data and recommendations; 4) to encourage social dialogue between key stakeholders (workers, employers and policymakers); 5) to raise public awareness of the regulatory framework for protection against gender inequality and discrimination in hiring and in the workplace.

Donor: Foundation Open Society

Duration: November 2019 – May 2020

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