Introduction to the toolkit

Introduction

The goal of this toolkit is to enable WePOWER partners in South Asia, particularly utilities, to help employees who are newer parent(s), especially mothers, better balance the professional demands and childcare responsibilities.

Employers, as well as employees, can benefit from such an approach. Research shows that parents who feel supported by their organization demonstrate loyalty, commitment to their jobs and employers, and are more likely to remain in the workforce.

The following seven tools make up the core of this toolkit. The tools provide templates that organizations can customize to suit their own conditions and circumstances. They are designed to help you to design, implement, and gauge the effectiveness of the measures they undertake to support their working parent especially mother employees.

 

 

Structure of the Toolkit

This toolkit is organized into four sections: 

1) Context

• Background: Summarizes the existing data and literature from multiple sources. In many instances, we supplement data from South Asia with relevant country specific and global data.
• Challenges: Organizes the key challenges into broad categories to help provide some clarity to the complex issues confronting employers and employees.
• Solutions: Discusses what is being done by stakeholders to address the challenges.

2) Tools: Presents the 7 core tools for organizations to support their working parents.

3) Examples: Showcases relevant activities and initiatives undertaken by WePOWER partners 

4) Additional resources: Further readings which have been organized into topics.

 

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