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The Road to Reforming Ethiopia’s Policies on Maternity and Paternity Leave

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dc.contributor.authorAlemayehu, Maereg Tewoldebirhan
dc.contributor.authorKhaitina, Viktoria
dc.contributor.authorWoldeyesus, Elshaday Kifle
dc.contributor.authorMykhalchenko, Olena
dc.contributor.authorSchulz, Katrin
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-17T18:42:08Z
dc.date.available2025-04-17T18:42:08Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-17
dc.description.abstractThis brief provides insight into how Ethiopia increased the duration of paid maternity leave from 90 to 120 days and introduced three days of paid paternity leave in 2019. While ensuring job-protected leave of adequate length and pay for both parents is critical for a variety of health, economic, and social development outcomes, just slightly more than half of economies in the Sub-Saharan Africa region provide paid maternity and paternity leave. The brief highlights specific characteristics of Ethiopia’s socioeconomic environment that incentivized the reform. It explores the critical role of political momentum and tripartite negotiations among the Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions, Ethiopian Employers’ Federation, and the government, coupled with persistence by the country’s trade unions, that led to the adoption of the reform. It outlines key lessons learned that could be useful to other countries seeking to enhance their own leave policies for parents. It also describes remaining challenges to the implementation and presents recommendations on how to address these challenges to improve gender equality in Ethiopia.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099318205292329927
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/43093
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/43093
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal Indicators Briefs; No. 17
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGENDER EQUALITY
dc.subjectDECENT WORK
dc.subjectPAID MATERNITY LEAVE
dc.subjectPAID PATERNITY LEAVE
dc.subjectWOMEN, BUSINESS AND THE LAW PROJECT
dc.subjectDECENT WORK
dc.titleThe Road to Reforming Ethiopia’s Policies on Maternity and Paternity Leaveen
dc.typeBrief
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.date.disclosure2025-04-17
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-20T02:18:02.890294Z
okr.doctypeBrief
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099318205292329927
okr.guid099318205292329927
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34071392
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34071392
okr.identifier.report182369
okr.import.id7135
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okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099318205292329927/pdf/IDU059d92bf30a959042a90beaf0e2e4952e8aa1.pdfen
okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.sectorFY17 - Law and Justice
okr.sectorFY17 - Public Administration
okr.themeFY17 - Economic Growth and Planning,FY17 - Data Development and Capacity Building,FY17 - Judicial and other Dispute Resolution Mechanisms,FY17 - Rule of Law,FY17 - Gender,FY17 - Data production, accessibility and use,FY17 - Jobs
okr.themeFY17 - Private Sector Development,FY17 - Human Development and Gender,FY17 - Economic Policy,FY17 - Public Sector Management
okr.topicGender::Gender and Economics
okr.topicLaw and Development::Labor & Employment Law
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Policies
okr.unitWomen
okr.unitBusiness & the Law- IFC (DECWL); Women
okr.unitBusiness & the Law-WB (DECWL)
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