Outcome LBY_O_1

UN Women is an accountable and trustworthy development organization that manages its financial and other resources with integrity and in line with its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations.

During the reporting year, the Libya CO upheld its accountability and turstworthiness by ensuring effective and robust results-based management, financial management controls, internal and external transparency of financial data, timely and accurate donor reporting, responsive and secure information systems, environmental sustainability and a reduced carbon footprint, and physical security. UN Women has an excellent reputation and the position of one of few resident agencies operating inside Libya through leveraging of regular resources. Despite challenges on the ground due to increasing resistance from conservative groups, women’s needs and voices are being placed in the centre of Libya’s reconciliation processes, through UN Women key role in ensuring this. Women’s empowerment was duly mainstreamed throughout UN Women key role in the new United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2023-2025, including as the co-chair of Pillar 1 (Peace and Governance). International support for women in Libya has been leveraged through UN Women’s capitalisation on its normative and advocacy mandate. UN Women also leveraged its triple mandate to support coordination on women’s empowerment in Libya by chairing the Women’s empowerment working group (GTG) and supporting the accountability framework for UNCT on Women’s empowerment. UN partners showed their support by joining and leading campaigns, for example during the ‘16 days of activism.’ The CO received funding from several donors (Finland, Norway, France, Germany, and UK) to implement various programmes in WPS, WPPL and EVAW, covering programme, administrative and operational costs. Financial reporting to those donors and reporting on budget and resources allocations to HQ have been completed on time and in line with corporate rules and regulations. Furthermore, these funds were properly managed in line with its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations with respective program teams and responded to the identified needs.

UN Women is an accountable and trustworthy development organization that manages its financial and other resources with integrity and in line with its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations.

The CCO ensured the timely planning, monitoring and reporting of regular and non-regular resources during the reporting period. That was achieved through regular oversight from management, with technical support provided by operations and regular requests for inputs from programme colleagues on implementing the non-core budget.