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    Summary of country programme

    UN Women’s Guatemala Strategic Note 2022–2025 seeks to advance gender equality and women's empowerment by supporting the equal participation of women in all aspects of life.  

    Priorities include increasing women's political participation and economic empowerment, ending violence against women, integrating gender in humanitarian action, and promoting the women, peace and security agenda. The programme emphasizes work with Indigenous, Afro-descendant, young and rural women, and women human rights defenders.

    UN Women works in partnership with the Government, academia, private sector, civil society and international organizations to achieve gender equality and make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for all women and girls.  

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    Advancing SDGs: UN Women's impact and key achievements
    In 2024 UN Women Guatemala promoted key initiatives for the advancement and protection of women's and girls' rights, consolidating strategic alliances and strengthening its influence in the governmental sphere. The main achievement of the year was the institutionalization and strengthening of the Gender Units within the Executive Branch (ministerial entities, secretariats, and departments), a result that directly contributes to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5.

    Progress toward gender equality in Guatemala was reinforced with the approval of Governmental Agreement 63-2024 (Acuerdo Gubernativo), signed by the President of the Republic and developed in coordination with the General Secretariat of the Presidency and the Presidential Secretariat for Women (SEPREM), with technical support from UN Women. This agreement reviewed and strengthened the regulatory framework initially established by Governmental Agreement 260-2013, which created the Gender Units as entities responsible for advising, coordinating, and monitoring public policies focused on human rights and women's empowerment.

    Governmental Agreement 63-2024 updated and expanded the functions of these units, institutionalizing them within all entities of the Executive Branch and assigning them to the highest authority in each institution. This regulatory framework ensures their relevance as advisory bodies for the implementation and monitoring of public policies related to women's rights and marks a milestone in gender equality in Guatemala. This achievement was made possible thanks to the technical support provided by UN Women to the General Secretariat of the Presidency and the Presidential Secretariat for Women (SEPREM).

    Additionally, the technical capacities of all Gender Units within the Executive Branch have been strengthened through the following training sessions led by the Presidential Secretariat for Women (SEPREM) with the support of UN Women:


    The workshop "Comprehensive Care System", held on July 19, 2024, which addressed the fundamentals, components, and dimensions of care systems, as well as public policies and international best practices as it relates to care systems.
    The first Bootcamp on Communication and Gender, held on September 10, 2024, where Gender Units deepened their knowledge on inclusive language, social media monitoring, and analysis of digital tools with a gender perspective.
    A second Bootcamp on Communication and Gender, held on October 8, 2024, which provided tools to ensure inclusive and culturally relevant communication, integrating human rights and a gender perspective into communication strategies. This training was aimed at the Gender Units and technical staff from Communication Units.


    These initiatives have contributed to the development of an action plan that will ensure the effective implementation of the Governmental Agreement, integrating gender equality as a cross-cutting axis in governmental policies.
    Advancing SDGs: UN Women's impact and key achievements
    In 2023 and in line with its mandate, UN Women Guatemala has developed initiatives to promote and defend the rights of women and girls. The three primary outcomes of the year are presented below, showing their alignment with the goals of the SDGs and the results of the Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2020–2025 (UNSDCF) to which they contribute:


    The first national institutional registry on political violence against women in electoral contexts has been implemented, marking a significant milestone for the advancement of women's political rights in the country. With the specialized support of UN Women within the framework of the Interagency project (UN Women-UNDP-UNFPA) to address electoral conflict, funded by the PBF, this process has contributed to strengthening the evidence-based decision-making capacity of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which will serve as a basis for the elaboration of guidelines for the prevention and response to political violence against women in different spaces. This result contributes to compliance with General Recommendation No. 23 of the CEDAW Committee regarding women in political and public life and also responds to the concluding obseravations of the CEDAW Committee to the 10th regular report of Guatemala on participation in public and political life. (SDG 5 - Target 5.5 and UNSDCF Outcome 3.3).



    Women's financial inclusion is prioritized as one of the pillars of the "National Financial Inclusion Strategy for Guatemala (ENIF) 2024-2027," led by the Central Bank of Guatemala, the Ministry of Economy and the Banking Superintendence. This activity is a significant milestone, setting a long-term goal to benefit women entrepreneurs. The Strategy was designed with technical support from UN Women under the Inclusive Financial Ecosystem programme. This outcome is in line with CEDAW Concluding Observations to the 10th country report on women´s economic empowerment (SDG 8 - Target 8.3 and UNSDCF Pillar 1. Outcome 1.1.)



    The concluding observations of the CEDAW Committee to the 10th Periodic Report of the country incorporate critical aspects regarding gender equality and women's empowerment. These include contributions from key state actors, particularly the Presidential Secretariat for Women (SEPREM), women's civil society organizations, and the Intersectoral Mechanism for Monitoring CEDAW, with the support provided by UN Women and the Specialized Gender Group of the United Nations Country Team. The concluding observations underscore the implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda; the implementation of the National Action Plan for Resolution 1325 (NAP 1325); the strengthening of the Interinstitutional Table on Women, Peace, and Security (MIMPAZ), among others. (SDG 16 - Target 16.3 and UNSDCFOutcome 4.1.)

    Results and resources

    Outcomes (aligned with interagency frameworks)
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    By 2025, the prioritized population will have greater access, under conditions of equality and security, to spaces for political, and civic participation at the national and local levels, promoting urban and rural development from different spaces. (UNSDCF Pillar 3. Strong institutions. Outcome 3.3.)

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    : Women, Indigenous, Afro-descendant Garífuna and young women, and their organizations, increase their political participation as well as their capacities to influence relevant local and national decision-making processes.

    GTM_D_1.1.1

    . Women, Indigenous, Afro-descendant Garífuna and young women, and their organizations, increase their political participation as well as their capacities to influence relevant local and national decision-making processes.

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    : Gender equality mechanisms are strengthened and public institutions access knowledge products and technical assistance to prevent violence against women in spaces for political and electoral participation, to improve planning with a gender perspective, as well as to monitor investments that are gender-sensitive and with an ethnic marker.

    GTM_D_1.1.2

    Gender equality mechanisms are strengthened and public institutions access knowledge products and technical assistance to prevent violence against women in spaces for political and electoral participation, to improve planning with a gender perspective, as well as to monitor investments that are gender-sensitive and with an ethnic marker.

    GTM_D_2.1

    By 2025, the Guatemalan State will increase the access of the prioritized population to decent work, productive means, and economic services at the national and local levels, adequate for competitiveness and the climate business, within a framework of inclusive, sustainable, socio-economic development. (UNSDCF Pillar 1. Economic development. Outcome 1.1.)

    GTM_D_2.1.1

    : Public and private institutions have improved the knowledge to design, implement and monitor policies, strategies, budgets for the generation of economic opportunities in business, entrepreneurship, and employment for women, and for the design and implementation of a comprehensive care system.

    GTM_D_2.1.1

    . Public and private institutions have improved the knowledge to design, implement and monitor policies, strategies, budgets for the generation of economic opportunities in business, entrepreneurship, and employment for women, and for the design and implementation of a comprehensive care system.

    GTM_D_2.1.2

    : The most excluded women and rural women have access to technical education opportunities, business strengthening and market linkage services and financial resources for integration into the labor market, the development and growth of their businesses, and to generate conditions of economic resilience to ensure their livelihoods against the adverse effects of climate change.

    GTM_D_2.1.2

    The most excluded women and rural women have access to technical education opportunities, business strengthening and market linkage services and financial resources for integration into the labor market, the development and growth of their businesses, and to generate conditions of economic resilience to ensure their livelihoods against the adverse effects of climate change.

    GTM_D_3.1

    By 2025, State institutions will improve access to justice, dignified and transformative reparation, comprehensive protection, and prevention of violence against women, youth, adolescents, and childhood. (UNSDCF Pillar 4. Peace, security and justice. Outcome 4.2.)

    GTM_D_3.1.1

    : The competent State institutions, at national and local level, improve their capacities to prevent and respond to women, girls, adolescents and survivors of violence, including better and greater access to comprehensive protection and essential services.

    GTM_D_3.1.2

    : Civil society women's organizations and survivors of violence against women enhance their capacities to demand their rights to essential services, comprehensive protection, justice and transformative reparation, and to promote processes of prevention of violence against women, girls, and adolescents through cultural changes and social norms.

    GTM_D_4.1

    By 2025, the strengthened State institutions will increase citizen security, access to justice, and the transformation of conflicts, seeking greater coordination at the national and local levels. (UNSDCF Pillar 4. Peace, security and justice. Outcome 4.1.)

    GTM_D_4.1.1

    : State institutions consolidate their capacities and coordinate to develop initiatives for women's access to security, justice, transformative reparation; conflict transformation, sustaining peace and the rule of law.

    GTM_D_4.1.2

    : Women, indigenous women, and defenders lead initiatives for improved protection, access to justice, transformative reparation, sustaining peace and the rule of law.

    GTM_D_4.1.2

    4.2. Women, indigenous women, and defenders lead initiatives for improved protection, access to justice, transformative reparation, sustaining peace, and the rule of law.

    GTM_D_4.1.3

    : More women participate and lead humanitarian response and post-disaster recovery interventions, applying the humanitarian - peace - development triple nexus.

    GTM_D_4.1.3

    4.3. More women participate and lead humanitarian response and post-disaster recovery interventions, applying the humanitarian - peace - development triple nexus.

    GTM_D_4.1.4

    4.1. State institutions consolidate their capacities and coordinate to develop initiatives for women's access to security, justice, transformative reparation; conflict transformation, sustaining peace, and the rule of law.

    GTM_D_5.1

    By 2025, State institutions will improve access to justice, dignified and transformative reparation, comprehensive protection, and prevention of violence against women, youth, adolescents, and childhood. (UNSDCF Pillar 4. Peace, security and justice. Outcome 4.2.)

    GTM_D_5.1.1

    The competent State institutions, at national and local level, improve their capacities to prevent and respond to women, girls, adolescents and survivors of violence, including better and greater access to comprehensive protection and essential services.

    GTM_D_5.1.2

    Civil society women's organizations and survivors of violence against women enhance their capacities to demand their rights to essential services, comprehensive protection, justice and transformative reparation, and to promote processes of prevention of violence against women, girls, and adolescents through cultural changes and social norms.

    Organizational effectiveness and efficiency
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    Ensure a responsible organization through principle-based performance: UN Women is a responsible and trustworthy development organization that manages its financial resources, among others, with integrity and consistency to its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations.

    GTM_O_2

    Promotion of partnerships and resources; effectively influencing impact and scale: UN Women effectively leverages and expands its partnerships, communications, and advocacy capacities to increase support and funding for the gender equality program, while ensuring sustainable resources for the fulfillment of its own mandate.

    GTM_O_3

    Fostering the transformation of the organization towards feminist excellence: UN Women strategically plans and transforms its business model to generate impact at scale, through agile and ethical leadership rooted in a culture of continuous improvement.

    GTM_O_4

    Fostering an empowered workforce and promoting an inclusive UNW culture: With its unique and inclusive culture, UN Women is an employer of choice with a diverse and high-performing atmosphere that embodies UN values.

    GTM_O_5

    Effective products and services, as well as programmatic norms and coordination processes: UN Women efficiently and effectively fulfills corporate processes that promote the integrated implementation of its normative, operational, and coordination mandate at headquarters, regional, and national levels, including through shared services.

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    OutcomeGTM_D_1.1
    Outcome result statementBy 2025, women will have greater access, under conditions of equality and security, to spaces for political, electoral, and civic participation at the national and local levels, with emphasis on women belonging to groups most excluded, such as indigenous women, young women, Afro-descendant women.
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    OutcomeGTM_D_2.1
    Outcome result statementBy 2025, women, especially women belonging to excluded groups, will increase their access to dignified and decent work, productive means, and economic services at the national and local levels, suitable to improve competitiveness and consolidate businesses in an inclusive, sustainable, and socio-economic development framework.
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    OutcomeGTM_D_3.1
    Outcome result statementBy 2025, State institutions will improve their strategies for the prevention of violence against women, youth, adolescents and girls, and their access to essential services, comprehensive protection, justice, and transformative reparation.
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    OutcomeGTM_D_4.1
    Outcome result statementBy 2025, strengthened State institutions will increase citizen security, access to justice, transformative reparation, conflict transformation, and humanitarian action; ensuring the participation and leadership of women in construction processes and the maintenance of peace, the rule of law, and the defense of human rights.
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    OutcomeGTM_D_5.1
    Outcome result statementBy 2025, State institutions will improve access to justice, dignified and transformative reparation, comprehensive protection, and prevention of violence against women, youth, adolescents, and childhood. (UNSDCF Pillar 4. Peace, security and justice. Outcome 4.2.)
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    OutcomeGTM_O_1
    Outcome result statementEnsure a responsible organization through principle-based performance: UN Women is a responsible and trustworthy development organization that manages its financial resources, among others, with integrity and consistency to its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations.
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-GTM_O_1
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    OutcomeGTM_O_2
    Outcome result statementPromotion of partnerships and resources; effectively influencing impact and scale: UN Women effectively leverages and expands its partnerships, communications, and advocacy capacities to increase support and funding for the gender equality program, while ensuring sustainable resources for the fulfillment of its own mandate.
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    OutcomeGTM_O_3
    Outcome result statementFostering the transformation of the organization towards feminist excellence: UN Women strategically plans and transforms its business model to generate impact at scale, through agile and ethical leadership rooted in a culture of continuous improvement.
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-GTM_O_3
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    OutcomeGTM_O_4
    Outcome result statementFostering an empowered workforce and promoting an inclusive UNW culture: With its unique and inclusive culture, UN Women is an employer of choice with a diverse and high-performing atmosphere that embodies UN values.
    IATI identifierXM-DAC-41146-GTM_O_4
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    OutcomeGTM_O_5
    Outcome result statementEffective products and services, as well as programmatic norms and coordination processes: UN Women efficiently and effectively fulfills corporate processes that promote the integrated implementation of its normative, operational, and coordination mandate at headquarters, regional, and national levels, including through shared services.
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    $746.44 K in total
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    $634.18 K in total
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    $746.44 K in total
    2023 2022
    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) $373,220
    2023
    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
    Total contribution:$373,220
    Development:$373,220(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    		 $373,220
    2022
    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
    Total contribution:$373,220
    Development:$373,220(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    2023
    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)$373,220
    Total contribution$373,220
    Development$373,220(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    2022
    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)$373,220
    Total contribution$373,220
    Development$373,220(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    Other resources (non-core)

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    $634.18 K in total
    2023 2022
    Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) $19,540
    2023
    Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)United Nations organization
    Total contribution:$19,540
    Development:$19,540(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    		 $19,540
    2022
    Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)United Nations organization
    Total contribution:$19,540
    Development:$19,540(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    Germany $54,186
    2023
    GermanyOECD-DAC donor
    Total contribution:$54,186
    Development:$54,186(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    		 $54,186
    2022
    GermanyOECD-DAC donor
    Total contribution:$54,186
    Development:$54,186(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) $74,779
    2023
    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)United Nations organization
    Total contribution:$74,779
    Development:$74,779(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    		 $74,779
    2022
    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)United Nations organization
    Total contribution:$74,779
    Development:$74,779(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    Peacebuilding Fund $79,176
    2023
    Peacebuilding FundUnited Nations pooled fund
    Total contribution:$79,176
    Development:$79,176(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    		 $79,176
    2022
    Peacebuilding FundUnited Nations pooled fund
    Total contribution:$79,176
    Development:$79,176(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    Spain $89,408
    2023
    SpainOECD-DAC donor
    Total contribution:$89,408
    Development:$89,408(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    		 $89,408
    2022
    SpainOECD-DAC donor
    Total contribution:$89,408
    Development:$89,408(100%)
    Humanitarian:$0(0%)
    2023
    Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)$19,540
    Total contribution$19,540
    Development$19,540(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    Germany$54,186
    Total contribution$54,186
    Development$54,186(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)$74,779
    Total contribution$74,779
    Development$74,779(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    Peacebuilding Fund$79,176
    Total contribution$79,176
    Development$79,176(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    Spain$89,408
    Total contribution$89,408
    Development$89,408(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    2022
    Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)$19,540
    Total contribution$19,540
    Development$19,540(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    Germany$54,186
    Total contribution$54,186
    Development$54,186(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)$74,779
    Total contribution$74,779
    Development$74,779(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    Peacebuilding Fund$79,176
    Total contribution$79,176
    Development$79,176(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
    Spain$89,408
    Total contribution$89,408
    Development$89,408(100%)
    Humanitarian$0(0%)
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