Tunisia has a roadmap to employ more women — but nobody's tracking whether it works

Tunisia identified the barriers keeping women out of work: skills gaps, no childcare, transport problems, wage discrimination, restricted access to loans. The World Bank now says the country needs to fix these things in coordination with real monitoring, not just announce them.

Tunisia's female labor force participation is stuck below the regional average despite women having more education than men in some age groups. The structural barriers are known; the problem is that previous policy efforts treated them as separate problems instead of coordinated ones. This note is the World Bank saying: you need a system, not a checklist. The actual test is whether Tunisia will fund childcare and transport alongside skills training, and whether it will publish numbers that show whether women actually move into jobs.