Key achievements
In 2021, the UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States (ROAS) worked in 10 countries and territories to achieve the following results:
of the League of Arab States (LAS) committed to collectively work towards a regional program on women’s employment with UN Women
signed the Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs)
viewed strategic communication on increasing Arab women’s employment in STEM, through the ROAS and CNN Arabic multiyear strategic partnership
(336 fathers, 336 mothers and 84 children) in Egypt, Morocco and Palestine engaged in a unique regional gender transformative parenting programme designed and implemented by UN Women in partnership with local civil society organizations
(members of the Issue-Based Coalition on Gender Justice and Equality) agreed to focus on coherent policy-support provision to Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams
in Palestine and 8.5 percentage points in Egypt, as reported by women
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