Gender and Waste Nexus: Experiences from Bhutan, Mongolia and Nepal

GENDER GAP – NEPAL

FEMALE MALE

Nepal

POPULATION WITH AT LEAST SOME SECONDARY EDUCATION - age 25 and above, 2011 - EDUCATION

AVERAGE MONTHLY WAGE - 2008 -

EMPLOYMENT DISTRIBUTION BY OCCUPATION - 2008 -

55.9% LOW SKILL JOBS 33.5%

US$ 58

US$ 35

%

%

20.6% MEDIUM SKILL JOBS 48.3%

27.3 %

23.5% HIGH SKILL JOBS 18.2%

US$ 5

LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION - 2017 -

PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT - 2017 -

UNEMPLOYMENT - 2017 -

43.1 %

LITERACY RATE - age 15 and above, 2017 -

79.3%

87.1% 26.8%

17.1%

1.1% 1.6%

57.2 %

EMPLOYMENT DISTRIBUTION BY STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT - 2017 -

77.8 %

0.4% EMPLOYERS 2.2%

ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION

10.1% EMPLOYEES 30.5%

ENROLMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

MANAGEMENT LAW ENGINEERING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

28.6% OWN-ACCOUNT WORKERS 45.9%

60.9% OTHERS 21.5%

0

50

100%

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT - 2018 -

CABINET MINISTERS - 2018 -

22 / 59

91 / 275

4 / 22 POLITICAL

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

CHAIRPERSON

SPEAKER

PRIME MINISTER

Sources: International Labour Organization (ILO), ILOSTAT database, https://www.ilo.org/ilostat/; ILO, Nepal Labour Force Survey 2008; Inter-Parliamentary Union, https://www.ipu.org/; National Planning Commission Secretariat and National Bureau of Statistics (NPC-CBS), Annual Household Survey 2016–2017; UNESCO Institute for Statistics, http://data.uis.unesco.org/; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2018), Human Development Indices and Indicators: 2018 Statistical Update.

PRESIDENT OF NEPAL REPRESENTATION

Figure 10

the International Development Partners Group has set up the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Working Group, which aims to ensure the coordinated collective support of the Nepalese Government. So far, seven major ministries including those on agriculture, education, forests, health, local and urban development (which includes waste), and water and sanitation have accepted the policy

and guidelines (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion [GESI] Working Group 2017). Specially trained staff or dedicated units established in those ministries monitor results. Nepal is party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and supports the SDGs.

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