ILO Care policy investment simulator
This Technical Note provides guidance on how to use the online ILO Care Policy Investment Simulator by explaining the underlying methodology, calculations and results. The Simulator helps build tailor-made care policy investment packages to fill national gaps on care leave policies and services, as a means of advancing the ILO transformative
agenda for gender equality and non-discrimination. As such, this note provides an overview of the online tool and its workings. First, it explains how the policy inputs are defined and can be modified by the user. Second, it shows how the input data are compiled for the tool. Third, it clarifies and demonstrates the calculations, as a way to help readers understand how the results are obtained. Lastly, it offers information and pointers on how to interpret the results. With this note and the ILO Simulator, users will appreciate that investing in care policies has the potential to generate decent work, close gender employment and wage gaps, and yield a return on investment.
