Outcome YEM_O_2

UN-Women effectively leverages and expands its partnerships, communications and advocacy capabilities to increase support for and financing of the gender equality agenda, while securing sustainable resourcing for the delivery of its own mandate.

UN Women Yemen CO continues to leverage and expand its partnerships, communication and advocacy capabilities to increase support for the gender equality agenda. More individuals, communities, and organizations engaged with UN Women’s WPS agenda through a strategic partnership with OSESGY. Strategic partnerships with civil society and women leaders enabled UN Women to reach out to a large number of audience and create platforms within its network to advocate for the WPS agenda and further expand its impact within the grassroot community. Specifically, understanding the challenges of the current peace process and the implementation of WPS and YPS Agendas in Yemen, during 2023 UN Women and OSESGY significantly enhanced their partnership, collaboration and communication to contribute to their respective mandates and mutually scale up results and impact, substantively and consistently coordinating and aligning strategies and activities to achieve a more inclusive and gender-responsive peace process. Other partners increased their exposure to gender mainstreaming concepts and practices through UN Women’s engagement in strategic UN and donors' partnership and coordination mechanisms, such a as the Yemen Partner Group (YPG) and Yemen Partner Technical Team (YPTT). These engagements aim to boost gender mainstreaming and financing for GEWE in Yemen. UN Women also contributed to review UN Yemen CCA using updated GEWE data to inform policy and programme development.

UN-Women effectively leverages and expands its partnerships, communications and advocacy capabilities to increase support for and financing of the gender equality agenda, while securing sustainable resourcing for the delivery of its own mandate.

UN Women Yemen CO continues to leverage and expand its partnerships, communication and advocacy capabilities to increase support for the gender equality agenda. Strategic partnerships with civil society and women leaders enabled UN Women to reach out to a large number of audience to advocate for the WPS agenda and further expand its impact within the grassroot community. Specifically, understanding the challenges of the current peace process and the implementation of WPS and YPS Agendas in Yemen, during 2024 UN Women and OSESGY continued to strengthened their partnership, collaboration and communication to mutually scale up results and impact in line with their respective mandates, substantively and consistently coordinating and aligning strategies and activities to achieve a more inclusive and gender-responsive peace process. Furthermore, UN Women strengthened its collaboration with the RC/HC to boost the capacities of UNCT and HCT for the effective mainstreaming of gender across all UN Yemen interventions. UN Women leveraged its coordination mandate by leading the establshment and operationalization of the Family Task Force, a new coordination mechanism that seeks to foster dialogue, promote joint planning, and enhance alignment of GEWE interventions. The Family Task Force – co-chaired by Yemen RCO and UN Women - is expected to enhance strategic coherence and coordination of GEWE interventions, maximizing the impact of UN system efforts and contributing to more efficient use of resources. This will in turn result in greater progress towards gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in Yemen. UN Women was also successful in increasing the GiHA capacity of the UN System in Yemen through the deployment of a Humanitarian Gender Specialist. The Specialist will provide technical support for the effective mainstreaming of gender across all humanitarian activities and interventions, working in close collaboration with UN Yemen HCT, the Humanitarian Gender Network as well as members of Humanitarian Clusters and Sub-Clusters. Furthermore, UN Women continues to promote and strengthen the integration of Yemeni women and girls’ voices in HCT and Humanitarian Clusters while enhancing the coordination and advocacy capacities of the Humanitarian Gender Network (which includes about 60 members from UN AFPs and civil society organizations).