Progress against 2024 milestones

In 2024, UN Women supported 109 countries/territories to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN Women achieved good performance (reaching at least 90 per cent of 2024 milestones) for 69 per cent of indicators with data available at the development results output level. Thirty-one per cent of indicators saw early achievement of 2025 targets. Please note: The figures in this report exclude 26 indicators that are only monitored at component or disaggregated levels or that are not assigned a 2024 milestone.

Strategic Plan annual results data notes

The Transparency Portal is an official annex of UN Women’s Executive Director’s Annual Report. It spotlights progress on development and operational results at impact, outcome and output levels, measured by indicators profiled in global results. An initial scorecard shows performance towards milestones by indicator, followed by details on indicator baselines, milestones and targets. Field-level data from which global results are tallied, appear under country results.

All indicators are based on the Strategic Plan’s Integrated Resource and Results Framework (IRRF). Baselines refer to data from 2021 unless otherwise stated. Targets refer to 2025 or 2030 as stated. In 2024, as a result of the mid-term review of the 2022-2025 Strategic Plan, a Revised IRRF was published, listing all changes from the original IRRF. 

For all indicators with available data, progress from the baseline to the annual milestone is noted in three categories: 90 per cent or more (green), 60 to 89 per cent (amber) and less than 60 per cent (red). The scorecard sets a maximum ceiling of 150 per cent for any given milestone. Ten out of 11 impact indicators are Sustainable Development Goals indicators.

The methodology to measure indicators is either cumulative or annual. The first approach, an accumulation of results so far, involves counting the number (generally, countries and territories) reported under an indicator, including the baseline value plus all subsequent years. Countries and territories are counted only once throughout the Strategic Plan period, unless stated otherwise. The second approach calculates results by counting the number reported under an indicator in the current year. 

All UN Women field and headquarters offices monitor and report their contributions to UN Women’s Strategic Plan through the corporate results management system. The Transparency Portal shares key data from that system with external audiences as part of UN Women’s commitment to transparency and accountability. Footnotes on indicator scorecards list countries and territories reporting contributions to results.