This technical note encompasses Haiti's gender assessment, evaluates the success of gender specific actions implemented between 2011-2017, and presents a Gender and Transport Action Plan (GAP). The GAPs main aim is to guide investments in Haiti's transport sector in conceptualizing and designing gender-sensitive transport projects. By proposing specific gender actions and outcomes, the GAP establishes a clear path to integrate a gender dimension into operations design, implementation and, monitoring and evaluation. The GAP presents an overall plan to support the development of Haitian women. However, it focuses in the needs of women as transport services users and devotes specific attention to two female sub-groups, comprised by Haitian women engaged in informal trade of local and regional products. These women are known as Madan Sara (MS), and local female mango producers and traders (MPT). The decision of focusing on MS is related to their vital role in the Haitian local labor market and the peculiarity of their work, which has specific transport needs. Understanding and addressing these female groups transport constrains could strategically improve the outcomes of upcoming transport investments and bring more benefits to its beneficiaries.

Este estudio busca entender si existen brechas de género al interior de las firmas latinoamericanas y del Caribe en función de su perfil exportador y analiza en qué medida las características de las empresas, así como también los aspectos vinculados a la estructura económica y social de los países pueden influir en la desigualdad de género en las empresas de la región. El informe refleja la existencia de segregación vertical y horizontal en las empresas de la región y muestra cuáles son los determinantes de la equidad de género intrafirma. La existencia de mujeres en posiciones altas de decisión potencia a las mujeres en la empresa a crecer profesionalmente y acceder a mejores posiciones. También se comprobó que las capacitaciones a la fuerza laboral, el trabajo con tecnologías avanzadas y la cultura empresarial favorece también a la mujer como trabajadora. Finalmente, brinda recomendaciones de política.

En este estudio se caracterizan las diversas formas en que las familias con responsabilidades de cuidado aquellas en las que habita al menos un niño o niña de hasta 4 años, una persona con discapacidad y/o una persona mayor con dependencia que residen en barrios populares se organizan y distribuyen responsabilidades entre sus integrantes para acceder a los recursos que necesitan para cuidar en un contexto de carencias materiales persistentes. Los resultados ponen en evidencia que las estrategias de desarrollo urbano con perspectiva de cuidado tienen un enorme potencial para mitigar la reproducción de las desigualdades sociales y entre géneros y para remover los mecanismos de transmisión intergeneracional de desventajas sociales. La incorporación de la perspectiva del cuidado en las estrategias de desarrollo urbano promueve intervenciones tendientes a reducir la carga de dependencia de las familias, redefinir el pacto intergeneracional y entre géneros de las dinámicas familiares de cuidado y dinamizar la economía del cuidado y promover el acceso de las mujeres al trabajo formal.

This research analyzes the effects on women who participated in the Bolivian Road Conservation Program utilizing Microenterprises (PROVIAL). The PROVIAL program is a road maintenance program that hires Road Maintenance Microenterprises (abbreviated as MCV in Spanish) to perform routine maintenance work throughout Bolivia's national road network. While regular wages invariably increase household income, a priori, it was unclear if participation in MCVs would have other effects on women, specifically on their ability to exercise agency. To assess the changes experienced by women MCV members (in Spanish, these women are known as socias) resulting from their participation in the PROVIAL program, both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Adding to the existing evidence, this report finds that including women in microenterprises, as part of a road maintenance program, has a positive effect on women's agency. Moreover, the implementation of Bolivia's MCV program produced a win-win situation for both the government and the socias. Integrating gender considerations into the design of public works programs can have a high payoff. Given its low implementation cost, integrating gender considerations is low-hanging fruit, and an outgrowth of an existing road maintenance policy that could be actively harnessed. Women's participation in MCVs is not a magic bullet, and other labor market policies are needed as well, but it has proven to be one way to facilitate women's entry into formal jobs found within the infrastructure sector.