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    Summary of country programme

    UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office (MCO) focuses on delivering four interlinked programme areas underpinned by support for intergovernmental and normative processes:

    • Women’s Political Empowerment and Leadership (WPEL) – through advocacy, policy change, and capacity building, UN Women works with partners to increase women’s representation in parliament in the region with the lowest number of women parliamentarians globally.
    • Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) - to advance WEE, UN Women addresses the intersection between women’s economic empowerment, safety, and discrimination, leadership, governance and participation, disaster preparedness, and livelihoods.
    • Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) – the programme aims to enable women and girls in the Pacific to live free from violence. It takes a holistic approach to this complex issue, supporting Pacific-led activities to improve policies, meet the immediate needs of women experiencing violence, and prevent violence from occurring.
    • Gender and Protection in Humanitarian Action (GPiHA) and Disaster Risk Reductionby integrating gender and protection concerns into disaster preparedness and response, humanitarian assistance promotes women’s safety, dignity, equality, and empowerment.

    The Fiji MCO Office covers Fiji, Solomon Islands, The Republic of Marshall Islands, Palau, Kiribati, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Tokelau, Niue, and Cook Islands.

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    Advancing SDGs: UN Women's impact and key achievements

    Empowering Pacific women to advance gender-responsive disaster resilience policies. Pacific women leaders from Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, representing government agencies, civil society organizations (ADRA, DIVA for Equality, FemLINKPACIFIC, and Vanwods), participated in forums, including the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on DRR (APMCDRR) in October 2024 and COP 29 in November 2024, advocating for inclusive DRR frameworks, sustainable climate adaptation and influenced disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate resilience policies at national, regional, and global levels. Supported by the Women�s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Programme, these women leaders highlighted the Pacific�s vulnerabilities and proposed actionable solutions. With an outcome of their advocacy being enactment of inclusive disaster management legislation in Fiji. At APMCDRR, women leaders emphasized expanding opportunities for Pacific women in forums to enhance networking, capacity-building, and grassroots advocacy. Key priorities included leadership development in DRR, integrating DRR policies into local protection mechanisms in Solomon Islands, and attracting private sector and donor investment to strengthen resilience. A significant result of their advocacy was the enactment of inclusive disaster management legislation on October 4 in Fiji where the Minister of Rural and Maritime Development reaffirmed a strong commitment to inclusive DRR and resilience. As a leader in implementing the Sendai Framework and a pilot country for the Early Warning for All Initiative, Fiji advanced early warning systems and ensured no one was left behind. The �Heritage of Resilience� session, co-hosted by Fiji�s National Disaster Management Office, Ministry of Women, and UN Women, showcased community-driven solutions in DRR policies. At COP 29, Pacific leaders advocated for gender equality and inclusion, emphasizing a rights-based approach in UNFCCC processes. Discussions highlighted the meaningful involvement of vulnerable groups, local communities, and Indigenous Peoples in accessing climate finance, capacity building, and technical support. During the WRD supported �Empowering Women for Climate Resilience� panel which featured leaders from Fiji, Vanuatu, and Solomon Islands showcasing gender-responsive policies, climate finance, and community-led initiatives, Indigenous Advocate Lavenia Naivalu highlighted the role of women in creating sustainable, community-driven climate solutions, including ecosystem restoration, traditional practices revival, and gender-inclusive adaptation plans. By engaging global and regional platforms, Pacific women leaders shaped inclusive policies addressing the vulnerabilities of women, girls, and marginalized groups leading to the enactment of inclusive policies, such as Fiji's disaster management legislation, which contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals by promoting gender equality and resilience in the face of climate change.

    Advancing SDGs: UN Women's impact and key achievements

    Fiji -the second country globally to adopt a National Action Plan on the prevention of violence ! On 2 June 2023, following a process that commenced in 2019, the Government of Fiji launched its first ever National Action Plan to Prevent Violence Against All Women and Girls (Fiji NAP) (2023-2028), with an initial commitment of FJD 1 million from the national budget and a further FJD 6 million from the Government of Australia. This NAP establishes Fiji as the first Pacific Island Country (and the second globally, alongside Australia), to develop a whole-of-government, whole-of-society, inclusive, and costed national action plan on the prevention of violence against women and girls. The Fiji NAP focusses on the dismantling of patriarchal norms and practices which have served to drive gender inequalities and perpetuate different forms of violence against women and girls across Fijian society. The plan aims to be comprehensive in that it reflects to inputs from diverse women, men and youth from different sectors including civil society, faith-based, traditional institutions, the private sector and the disciplined forces. The Fiji NAP directly addresses women and girls who are particularly vulnerable such as women and girls with disabilities, as well as people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and sex characteristics, and also child sexual abuse. It also addresses masculinities toxic, and the importance of working with men and boys. Lastly it seeks to engage actors in the areas of education, sports, informal sector, faith-based and traditional entities and institutions. UN Women supported the Fiji NAP Technical Working Group which served as custodian to the process, with technical expertise and financing. In addition, in collaboration with the Government of Fiji�s Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection (MWCSP), UN Women supported broad-based consultations on the NAP. This ground-breaking initiative will contribute towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, specifically � namely SDG target 5.2: "Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation." This is one of the priorities under the Pacific UNSDCF (2023-2027) Outcome 2 i.e. By 2027, more people, particularly those at risk of being left behind, benefit from more equitable access to resilient, and gender-responsive, quality basic services, food security/nutrition and social protection systems. The Fijian Government has committed to leveraging this NAP to work at all levels of society, to create a safer environment for women and girls. For UN Women, the medium-term goal is to see this initiative replicated across the Pacific where the prevalence rates of violence against women are up to double the global average, and as such negatively impacted socio-economic and political development.

    Results and resources

    Impact: All women and girls in Cameroon will fully enjoy and exercise their human rights, in a gender equal society, and meaningfully contribute to the country's sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development and EU integration

    Impact

    All women and girls in Cameroon will fully enjoy and exercise their human rights, in a gender equal society, and meaningfully contribute to the country's sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development and EU integrations

    Outcomes (aligned with interagency frameworks)
    FIJ_D_1.1

    By 2027, people enjoy and contribute to more accountable, inclusive, resilient and responsive governance systems that promote gender equality, climate security, justice and peace, ensure participation, and protect their human rights. [CF Outcome 4]

    FIJ_D_1.1.1

    State and non-state actors in the Pacific are capacitated to advocate for, and support the development of gender-responsive policies, laws, action plans, and budgets, and the collection, analysis and utilization of gender data to support effective gender mainstreaming efforts by governments, in line with global, regional and national commitments on GEWE, with support from UN Women.

    FIJ_D_1.1.2

    Opportunities and mechanisms are created and/or promoted across all spheres of development and levels of decision-making, to advance Pacific women's and girls' leadership capabilities, their voices and agency, with support from UN Women.

    FIJ_D_1.1.3

    State and non-state actors in the Pacific have increased opportunities, enhanced skills, and access to knowledge and data to support state parties in monitoring and reporting progress on key international, regional and national commitments on GEWE, and to track follow up actions, with UN Women's support.

    FIJ_D_1.2

    By 2027, the operational, normative and collaborative potential of the UNCT Cooperation Frameworks to contribute to greater gender equality is fully optimised by UN Women’s interventions.

    FIJ_D_1.2.1

    Pacific UNCTs are equipped (through training and access to tools/guidance, data, and knowledge products), to coherently and systematically advance joint action on GEWE, across all Pacific Island Countries and Territories, in line with the Pacific UNSDCF (2023-2027), with support from UN Women.

    FIJ_D_2.1

    By 2027, more people, especially those at risk of being left behind, contribute to and benefit from sustainable, resilient, diversified, inclusive and human-centred socio-economic systems with decent work and equal livelihoods opportunities, reducing inequalities and ensuring shared prosperity [PCF Strategic Priority 3: Prosperity]

    FIJ_D_2.1.1

    Pacific women in the informal sector have increased skills, increased access to key resources (finances, technological tools) and services (including social assistance and social insurance) and business opportunities to advance their economic potentials, and adaptiveness in crises, with UN Women's support.

    FIJ_D_2.1.2

    Pacific women in the informal economy are equipped to effectively advocate for increased women's representation in decision-making mechanisms and processes, to ensure that their needs and priorities are addressed by state actors, with UN Women's support.

    FIJ_D_2.1.3

    State and non-state actors including private sector, have increased  awareness, technical support, skills and data, to design, implement and track gender-responsive policies, laws, strategies, and programmes to advance GEWE, through UN Women's support.

    FIJ_D_2.1.4

    Pacific women have increased access to disaster resilient facilities and operating systems to support their economic empowerment and resilience to disaster risks, with UN Women's support.

    FIJ_D_3.1

    By 2027, more people, particularly those at risk of being left behind, benefit from more equitable access to resilient, and gender-responsive, quality basic services, food security/nutrition and social protection systems. [PCF Strategic Priority 2: People]

    FIJ_D_3.1.1

    Pacific governments, communities and individuals are engaged in promoting social norms change to advance GEWE, across a diversity of areas, in collaboration with key stakeholders in the areas of culture, faith, and sports at national and regional levels, through UN Women's support.

    FIJ_D_3.1.2

    State and non-state actors in the Pacific support the development and/or review of relevant policies, laws and strategies on prevention and response to VAWG, in line with global, regional and national standards, best practices and emerging evidence, with UN Women's support.

    FIJ_D_3.1.3

    State and non-state actors and institutions are equipped with technical expertise, capacity building opportunities, good practices, data and information, to support increased access at all levels of society, to uninterrupted, timely, relevant, quality and coordinated VAWG support and services for women and girls in all their diversity, including in crises situations.

    FIJ_D_3.1.4

    The women’s rights movement in the Pacific, civil society networks, and other stakeholders (especially those representing groups facing multiple forms of discrimination), have enhanced skills and opportunities to promote state accountabilities at national, regional and global levels on efforts to address VAWG, with UN Women's support.

    FIJ_D_4.1

    By 2027, people, communities and institutions are more empowered and resilient to face diverse shocks and disasters, especially related to climate change, and ecosystems and biodiversity are better protected, managed and restored. [PCF Strategic Priority 4: Planet]

    FIJ_D_4.1.1

    Regional and UN humanitarian actors in the Pacific are more coordinated and equipped to collectively advance GEWE and protection into humanitarian action, through increased access to skills building opportunities, tools/guidance, data/information, with UN Women's support

    FIJ_D_4.1.2

    Women and girls in crisis-affected situations in the Pacific are equipped to lead and engage effectively in humanitarian preparedness,  response and recovery efforts, through UN Women's support.

    FIJ_D_4.1.3

    State and non-state actors in the Pacific have strengthened capacities to advance gender-responsive disaster and climate resilient policies, laws, and action plans, and budgets, and to facilitate the collection, analysis and utilization of sex and age disaggregated data,  in line with the Paris Agreement and Sendai Framework.

    FIJ_D_4.1.4

    Pacific women and girls demonstrate greater leadership, voice and agency in advancing national and regional efforts disaster and climate resilience, and enhanced capacities to respond and recover from crises, with UN Women's support.

    Organizational effectiveness and efficiency
    FIJ_O_1

    Assuring an accountable organization through principled performance

    FIJ_O_2

    Advancing partnerships and resourcing

    FIJ_O_3

    Advancing business transformation

    FIJ_O_4

    Nurturing an empowered workforce and advancing an inclusive UNWomen culture

    FIJ_O_5

    Effective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes:

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    OutcomeFIJ_D_1.1
    Outcome result statementAligned with: (i) SP Outcomes 1,2,4,5,6,7 (i) UNSDCF Strategic Priority 4: Peace, specifically Sub-Outcome 5(Effective Public Resources Management); Sub-Outcome 6(Expanded women’s &youth’s leadership role in decision-making); (ii) SDG 5 specifically Targets 5.1(End discrimination); Target 5.5(Women’s leadership); Target 5.c(Public Allocations to GEWE)
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_1.1
    OutcomeFIJ_D_1.2
    Outcome result statementUN System coordination
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_1.2
    OutcomeFIJ_D_2.1
    Outcome result statement[Former Outcome 2.1] Women in the Pacific, including those from identified LNOB groups, are equally leading, participating, and benefitting from gender-responsive economic services, systems, and governance. [Former Outcome 2.2] Institutions, legal frameworks, policies and measures (mechanisms, processes and services) for advancing women’s economic empowerment at national and local levels are reformed/adopted and implemented.
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_2.1
    OutcomeFIJ_D_3.1
    Outcome result statement[1] Prevention: Favourable social norms, attitudes and behaviours are promoted at the family, community, and societal levels to prevent VAWG. [2] Services: Women, girls and children who experience violence (including before, during and after emergencies), have access to coordinated and high quality, essential services (health, police and justice, social services) to recover from violence and perpetrators are held to account.
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_3.1
    OutcomeFIJ_D_4.1
    Outcome result statement[1] Humanitarian planning, response frameworks and programming are gender responsive and protection inclusive. [2] More women play a greater role in and are better served by disaster risk reduction, recovery, and resilience processes
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_D_4.1
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    OutcomeFIJ_O_1
    Outcome result statementAssuring an accountable organization through principled performance
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_O_1
    OutcomeFIJ_O_2
    Outcome result statementAdvancing partnerships and resourcing
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_O_2
    OutcomeFIJ_O_3
    Outcome result statementAdvancing business transformation
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_O_3
    OutcomeFIJ_O_4
    Outcome result statementNurturing an empowered workforce and advancing an inclusive UNWomen culture
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_O_4
    OutcomeFIJ_O_5
    Outcome result statementEffective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes:
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-FIJ_O_5
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