This Policy Brief discusses the importance of addressing issues of gender equality and employment guarantee policies, targeting UNDP country offices and their national partners (e.g., national, regional and local governments and parliaments, academia,media, civil society and the private sector). It aims to stimulate and inform country-level discussionswith a viewtowards developing locally-adapted gender-responsive job creation initiatives, and, as an advocacy toolwith a viewtowards increasing awareness of howgender equality can be promotedwithin government employment initiatives fromthe local to international levels.