Asia & the Pacific RO

Gender-responsive policy and legislative frameworks are developed and implemented to promote safe migration, decent work and sustainable development for all women workers, including migrant workers

Intergovernmental normative support: Governments have increased capacity to promote gender-responsive labour and migration governance

Capacity development and technical assistance: Frontline service providers have enhanced capacity to response to the needs of women migrant workers.

Advocacy and social mobilisation: Governments, employers, women workers and community members are mobilized to engage in campaigns and advocacy for the recognition of rights and contributions of women workers.

Advocacy and social mobilisation: Governments, employers, women workers and community members are informed of gender-disaggregated data and evidence and mobilized to engage in campaigns and advocacy for the recognition of rights and contributions of women migrant workers.

More women lead, participate and have access to business opportunities to advance sustainable and inclusive growth (Outcome 7)

Knowledge: Women’s networks, public institutions and the private sector in the EU and Asia share expertise and knowledge to advance an enabling business environment for women’s economic empowerment

Capacity development and technical assistance: Women-owned business and entrepreneurs have increased capacity to engage with governments and private sector companies in policies and dialogues for advancement of women’s economic empowerment in selected countries in Asia

Advocacy and representation: More private sector companies implement the WEPs, including the gender-sensitive business culture and practices in EU and Asia

Needs of women are better addressed by climate change and disaster risk reduction actions for ensuring alternative climate-resilient livelihoods

Advocacy and social mobilisation: CSOs representing women and women's groups are able to lead, participate in and influence climate change and DRR decision-making processes

Comprehensive and disaggregated data: Governments and key stakeholders are able to generate, analyse and use sex, age, and diversity disaggregated data to inform climate change and disaster risks and actions.

Integrated policy advice: National policymakers are able to integrate gender equality commitments in climate change and DRR regulatory and policy frameworks

Capacity development and technical assistance: Women are able to use renewable energy to enhance climate-resilient livelihoods

Intergovernmental normative support: Regional normative and policy frameworks on climate change and DRR incorporate gender equality and human rights

An enabling legislative and policy environment in line with international standards on EVAW and other forms of discrimination is in place and translated into action

Capacity development and technical assistance: More countries and stakeholders are better able to deliver quality essential services to victims and survivors, and agencies are strengthened to advocate, develop and implement laws and policies on EVAW and other forms of discrimination.

Policy and technical advice: Laws, policies and strategies are regularly reviewed and reformed to conform with international human rights standards, with effective monitoring of the implementation.

Capacity development and technical assistance: Capacity of institutions to implement laws and policies and to deliver services for eliminating violence against women and other forms of discrimination is strengthened

Comprehensive and disaggregated data: Improved data and evidence on VAW and its response, linkages between violence and women’s economic participation and empowerment, and experiences of migrant women and other forms of discrimination

Favorable social norms, attitudes and behaviors are promoted at national, community and individual levels to prevent VAW

Advocacy and social mobilisation: Women, girls, men and boys at community and individual level are educated and mobilised in favour of respectful relationships and gender equality

Governments and civil society are able to assess and inform progress in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the SDGs as well as other global and regional normative frameworks

Intergovernmental normative support: The Regional Commission and UN Women Field presences have access to capacity, strategic partners and finances to support Regional Preparatory Meetings for the Commission on the Status of Women and the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (SDGs)

Intergovernmental normative support: ROAP contributes technical expertise/knowledge products (incl. technical papers, statistics etc.) towards strengthening regional and national implementation of normative GEWE frameworks (i.e. deliberations and outcome documents of regional inter-governmental processes incl. annual Asia -Pacific regional pre-CSW, Beijing+25 preparatory meetings and Asia -Pacific Forums for Sustainable Development (and related processes)

Intergovernmental normative support: Evidence informed gender-responsive disaster risk reduction and response laws, regulations, policies, plans and budgets are in place and operationalized in line with commitments to gender equality and human rights under the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction and the SDGs under Agenda 2030.

Intergovernmental normative support: Civil society organization's, particularly women's organizations representing the most marginalized/vulnerable, are able to inform decision making platforms at the regional and international level

National and regional platforms are strengthened to inform inclusive and gender-responsive measures to prevent the spread and the negative socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in line with the UN Secretary-General Socio-Economic Framework for COVID-19 Response

Governments, civil society (incl. community leaders), academia, young bloggers and cyber defenders have increased access to information and capacity building support to advance gender-responsive cybersecurity, informed by UNSCR1325 commitments

Women have better access to formal and informal legal systems

Advocacy and social mobilisation: Advocacy is conducted to promote the adoption of domestic laws and court decisions in the target countries consistent with international human rights law and standards, including CEDAW.

Capacity development and technical assistance: Gender discriminatory attitudes and stereotyped behaviours towards women are acknowledged and addressed by formal and informal justice providers in the target countries.

Capacity development and technical assistance:  Grassroots women’s organizations and community based women’s organizations are empowered and well positioned to document, monitor, liaise, and facilitate interactions with formal and informal justice providers, and their resilience is enhanced to build a just and sustainable future.

Capacity development and technical assistance:  Grassroots women’s organizations, communities and community-based justice mechanisms are empowered and well-positioned to provide justice for women.

Women are empowered to build resilient, cohesive and peaceful communities to prevent radicalisation and violent extremism

Capacity development and technical assistance: Women have the capacity, resources and skills to promote social cohesion in communities at risks of radicalisation

Capacity development and technical assistance (DPMC and SC)

Integrated policy advice: Women’s groups and networks working on social cohesion and de-radicalisation are able to influence and contribute to the development of gender-responsive policies on counter-radicalisation

Comprehensive and disaggregated data: New evidence and knowledge are generated with particular focus on understanding the incentives for joining violent extremism, identifying the gender social norms underpinning these choices and the role women can play to influence individual decision-making

Capacity development and technical assistance: Knowledge exchange and south-south cooperation among Muslim-majority countries in South-East Asia and South Asia is fostered

Women have increased resources and capacity to lead efforts that build resilience and social cohesion in their communities

Governments have increased access to the necessary gender expertise and women’s groups have increased capacities to influence the development of gender-sensitive policies to prevent and counter terrorism, violent extremism and hate speech

Governments have increased access to the necessary gender expertise and women’s groups have increased capacities to influence the development and implementation of gender-sensitive policies to prevent and counter terrorism, violent extremism and hate speech

Young women leaders have strengthened capacity to use social media to produce and disseminate alternative narratives to terrorism, violent extremism and hate speech

Regional multi-stakeholder platform of cooperation among South and Southeast Asia countries is strengthened to promote good practices and evidence on the use of gender and social media to promote peace and counter violent extremism, hate speech and misogyny is generated

Timely gender-sensitive data on the impact and responses to crisis, including COVID-19, are produced and their use is promoted to inform policies, programmes, advocacy and research

Data on the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on gender equality is produced

Data on the availability and need for services on violence against women and girls is produced

Nationally representative population-based data focusing on livelihoods, resilience and unpaid care and domestic work is produced

Country-specific data collection tools on disasters/crisis needs assessments include a gender perspective and inform regional guidelines

Gender-responsive COVID-19 policies are regularly monitored and best practices are documented to inform recovery plans

Capacity of governments is strengthened to mainstream gender in evidence-based COVID-19 policies and recovery plans

Gender statistics, sex-disaggregated data, and knowledge are produced, analysed and used to inform policymaking, advocacy and accountability for delivering gender equality and women’s empowerment results

Gaps in the planning, coordination, production and use of gender statistics are identified and sustainably addressed.

Technical capacity of governments, civil society and other key actors is strengthened to improve the production and use of gender statistics.

Advocacy and partnerships are strengthened at global, regional and national levels to promote the financing, production and use of gender statistics.

Increased data production and analysis to monitor the SDGs and other national and international priorities.

Statistical business processes are increasingly modernized to improve the production of gender statistics.

Increased accessibility, dissemination and communication of gender data.

User-producer dialogues are institutionalized to increase the quality and use of gender statistics.

Increased use of gender statistics for policy-making, budgeting and reporting is promoted.

Programmatic knowledge and results are systematically captured and shared to enable learning, scaling-up and replication.