Commitment title:

Intensifying our efforts for the full implementation of ICPD Programme of Action

Commitment description:

• The Government of Ireland commits to reducing the gender gap in employment and the gender pay gap. The Government of Ireland commits to take action to support increased access to education, training and employment opportunities for social excluded women, particularly those living in poverty and Traveller and Roma women, to encouraging increased action by businesses on equality and diversity, and to provide support for female entrepreneurship, including in rural communities.

• The Government of Ireland commits to strengthen our interventions to reach the furthest behind first in our international development co-operation. We will increase our focus in understanding key drivers of marginalisation and the needs of most marginalized groups in order to inform the implementation of our international development co-operation.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
  Gender equality and leaving no one behind.