...Reaching 71 countries in 2008, UNIFEM continued to respond to requests to strengthen the capacities of planning, finance and other sectoral ministries to integrate gender equality into poverty reduction and other economic policies...We have supported legal and policy reforms to increase women’s access to decent work in Afghanistan, China, and the Republic of Moldova...An initiative that offers concrete lessons for advancing women’s economic security directly is...partnership...in Egypt, where a Gender Equality Model is setting up a voluntary certification scheme for private firms to meet standards for hiring, training, and promoting women, as well as a healthy work environment for women...[F]ive of the 10 companies have already met requirements and are slated to receive a gender equality seal...