Senegal ’s New Roadmap for a Gender Transformative Human Resource Management Policy

September 07, 2018The country is taking steps to change the working lives of health workers —particularly women. Female health workers in Senegal not only juggle full-time jobs during the day and work a “second shift” when the get home at night, but they are often deployed to health posts far from home. This can exacerbate interpersonal and family conflict, including with their spouses. It can also create delays and bottlenecks in the services they provide to their clients.The Senegal Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (MSAS) recognized the need to be more responsive to these and other issues of gender inequality, as well as to forms of workplace violence and discrimination, in its foundationalPlan to Institutionalize Gender in the MSAS and Reinforce Gender Integration Capacity, developed in 2015.This strategic planning document aims to integrate gender equality in human resources management in the health sector, such as promoting decent work and a culture of gender equality; challenging stereotypes; supporting female health workers to integrate professional work and family life; and countering gender-based violence, discrimination and sexual harassment in health professional workplaces, starting with a sectoral code of conduct.Rights, entitlements, opportunities, and access are not equally distributed throughout society.To implement this plan, Senegal ’s MSAS Gender Cell worked with IntraHealth International’sNeema project last month to convene 38 gender focal ...
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