MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS supports countries conducting diagnostic studies of the legal, regulatory and institutional framework for investment and provides technical assistance activities to support countries in implementing the reviews’ recommendations and improving the prospects for gender parity, decent work, and sustainable development.
Gender equality and decent work are a human right and most countries are committed to it, but striving to fulfil this fundamental aspiration in isolation from a country's main strategies has proved quite ineffective. Indeed, economic policies, including employment, labour and trade policy, are powerful instruments to translate gender equality and decent work aspirations into reality. For this to happen, they have to be coordinated and convergent. Employment and labour reforms should be based on a thorough understanding of their impacts not only on a country as a whole, but also on specific segments of the population, including women and men. If market opening is expected to have detrimental effects on women (or on other groups), it may need to be postponed or adjusted. In many cases, the new market environment needs to be accompanied by flanking policies to facilitate the adjustment and absorb shocks. Labour and employment policies developed keeping in mind the wellbeing of all segments of the population and implemented along with corrective measures may greatly contribute to reaffirm the role of international markets as a tool for inclusive and sustainable development.
HMCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS enables countries to strengthen their social and economic performance by creating new arenas of gender parity and decent work under the principles of international labor standards, offering an opportunity to maximize social and economic development as a requirement to determine the national capability and readiness of the country to face the sustainable era.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS supports countries conducting diagnostic studies of the legal, regulatory and institutional framework for investment. Specific to each country, the Reviews are published as advisory reports containing concrete policy advice. MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS then provides technical assistance activities to support countries in implementing the Reviews’ recommendations and improving the prospects for gender parity, decent work, and sustainable development.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS supports countries in the formulation, implementation, and review of national employment policies, strengthening their links to national development strategies and promoting dialogue on appropriate employment and labor policy options. As an integral part of a larger response, our national implementations address an increased demand to build the capacity of member states to design and implement effective and inclusive national labor and employment policies.
The multi-dimensional challenges to design and implement macroeconomic and sectorial interventions require far reaching policy responses and the involvement of many different stakeholders in their design and implementation. National employment policies that comprise macroeconomic and sectoral policy responses as well as labour market policies and institutional solutions, offer a practical framework for tackling the multidimensional labour market challenges highlighted above. They also promote policy coherence by encouraging inter-ministerial coordination and inclusiveness by involving all key stakeholders, such as Central Banks, ministries of Finance and Economic Affairs, key sectoral ministries, in addition to the ministry in charge of Employment, the social partners and other representatives of groups affected by the measures to be taken.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS designs and implements national employment policies that comprise macroeconomic and sectorial policy responses and labor market policies and institutional solutions, offering a practical framework for tackling multi-dimensional challenges of the labor market international stakeholders in the design and implementation.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS supports countries in formulating, implementing, and reviewing national employment policies, strengthening their links to national development strategies, and promoting social dialogue on appropriate employment policy options. As an integral part of a larger response, MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNER’s national interventions contribute to addressing an increased demand to build the capacity of Member States in designing and implementing effective and inclusive national labor and employment policies.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS supports companies delivering the corporate purpose, governance, and duties by emphasizing the business case for corporates to promote gender equality, exploring how embedding gender equality across business strategy and operations is a smart investment, and demonstrating that gender equality is a key component of corporate sustainability, transforming business for a sustainable future.
The Gender Economic Governance problems are challenging for both the public and private sector stakeholder. But even the number of stakeholders within each individual organisation with all their different issues internally, is in itself gigantic and diverse. Here too, the stakeholder platform forms a powerful answer. What conditions is the organisation not meeting to attain Gender Parity? What is not yet foreseen in the organisation that makes it possible? What is still missing or what is in the way? During the Corporate stakeholders platform, a refinement process arises in which the Board works on two sides. On the one hand, the conditions for Gender Economic Governance that must be met and, on the other hand, the further translation of the vision for Gender Economic ROI within the organisation into practice.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS establishes Gender Economic Governance as a fundamental pillar to the economy and sustainable development of the country setting the conditions for a private sector response to what is essentially a business problem: An evaluation of the bottom-line impact of investing in the implementation of Gender Economic Governance, assessing in real terms – revenues, profits, growth, productivity, customer satisfaction, or whatever metrics are used to deem a company successful.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS fosters outcome-oriented multi-stakeholder partnerships to expand on the Gender Dividend at the national level, providing enabling environments for companies’ participation in domestic and transnational business networks, including systematically and regularly engaging all existing business stakeholders in dialogue on the implementation of Gender Economic Governance and showing how these are translated into market opportunities.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS facilitates the sharing of experiences, including successes, challenges, and lessons learned, with a view to accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, assisting Member states on their Voluntary National Reviews, also seeking to strengthen policies and institutions of governments and to mobilize multi-stakeholder support and partnerships for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
As part of its follow-up and review mechanisms, the 2030 Agenda encourages member states to “conduct regular and inclusive reviews of progress at the national and sub-national levels, which are country-led and country-driven” (paragraph 79). These national reviews are expected to serve as a basis for the regular reviews by the High Level Political Forum. As stipulated in paragraph 84 of the 2030 Agenda, regular reviews by the High Level Political Forum are to be voluntary, state-led, undertaken by both developed and developing countries, and shall provide a platform for partnerships, including through the participation of major groups and other relevant stakeholders.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS guides countries to assess general rights and specific institutional, legal, judicial, and administrative conditions, assisting special procedures mandates and developing working methods on specific social and economic development allegations, prevailing on the relevance of countries’ commitments to their national development strategies for sustainable development.
MCI MULTILATERAL PARTNERS facilitates the sharing of experiences, including successes, challenges, and lessons learned, with a view to accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, assisting Member states on their Voluntary National Reviews, also seeking to strengthen policies and institutions of governments and to mobilize multi-stakeholder support and partnerships for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
“MCI Multilateral Partners is bringing the craft of gender economic governance from global development risks to the financial markets and establishing gender economic governance as a macro-critical investment discipline.”
