Outcome BRA_O_5

UN-Women efficiently and effectively discharges of all business processes that advance integrated delivery of its mandate at HQ, Regional and Country levels, including through shared services.

In 2024, UN Women reinforced its commitment to efficiently and effectively discharging business processes that advance the integrated delivery of its mandate. Building on its contributions to the Common Back Office (CBO) proposal, the organization played a central role in fostering collaboration and developing strategies for procurement, travel, human resources, ICT, and security. Throughout the year, UN Women maintained its significant role as a key member of the CBO committee, thoroughly evaluating proposals, including those from UNDP, from both technical and financial perspectives. Lot 01 for common premises became fully functional, enabling shared services to operate seamlessly. Additionally, the procurement function under the CBO began providing services to other agencies; however, UN Women has not yet signed the MOU required to start using these services directly. As 2024 drew to a close, UN Women contributions to the Common Back Office initiative highlighted its commitment to advancing sustainability and innovation within the broader UN framework. By addressing challenges, promoting risk assessments, the organization solidified its participation in the integrated service delivery. UN Women also continued to promote the Strategic Note Direct Funding (SNDF) modality to enhance programme effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, and sustainability. During the reporting period, UN Women established a new agreement with the Government of Austria under the SNDF modality, marking the second collaboration with this donor, and a second contribution from Gucci within this modality as well. This underscores the Country Office’s ability to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach, and the relevance of the results achieved. UN Women promoted integrated, coordinated, and coherent action within the UN System by providing technical inputs and advocating for the prioritization of gender and racial equality outcomes within the Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). Three of the ten priorities defined by the UN country team (UNCT) focus on the care economy and on ending gender-based violence and racial discrimination. Additionally, the UNCT established the promotion of gender, race, and ethnicity equality as a strategic result of the UNSDCF Communications Strategy and a transversal theme across other results, with specific attention to meeting the requirements of the UNCT System-Wide Action Plan (SWAP) Scorecard. Furthermore, the UNCT highlighted gender and racial issues in the 2024 Common Country Analysis, which informed the UNSDCF implementation. UN Women also led the Joint Programme Moverse,which promotes human rights and gender equality within Brazil's National Policies on Migration, Asylum, and Statelessness, in partnership with UNFPA and UNHCR. By fostering collaboration and coordination among participating UN organizations, UN Women ensured consistent and impactful joint results, especially in a year marked by the second Comigrar, a national conference aimed at proposing and discussing guidelines and recommendations for public policies for migrants, refugees, and stateless persons, through their social and political participation.