Output 3: Business transformation
Output 2: Advancing partnerships and resourcing
During the first year of its Strategic Plan 2022-2025, in collaboration with an expanded set of partners, UN Women worked to safeguard and advance the rights of women and girls across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus and achieved the following early results:
Global normative frameworks and gender-responsive laws, policies and institutions
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of resolutions
adopted by the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council integrated a gender perspective
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policies, strategies, and plans
adopted, that are national/local multi-sectoral and gender-responsive, across 42 countries and territories
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laws
across six regions adopted or amended to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment
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countries and territories
have adopted National Action Plans on women peace and security, and 90 of them have indicators to monitor progress
Financing for gender equality
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countries and territories
advanced gender-responsive fiscal laws, policies, budgets and systems enabling governments to better track and target public resources
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government partners
applied newly-obtained knowledge, technical skills and capacities to effectively mainstream gender into fiscal laws, policies and standards
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of resources
were allocated to projects supporting gender equality and women’s empowerment by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, thereby exceeding its 30% gender funding target
Positive social norms, including through engaging men and boys
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countries and territories
advanced policies to end violence against women and girls, with a strong focus on prevention including addressing harmful social norms
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programming initiatives
to prevent violence against women and girls developed and implemented across various settings to support positive changes around gender/social norms, including by engaging men and boys and faith-based institutions
Women’s equitable access to services, goods & resources
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women
including survivors of violence and internally-displaced women and refugees, accessed information, goods, resources and/or services through UN Women supported platforms and programmes in relation to livelihoods, financial services, social protection and legal aid
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countries and territories
UN Women expanded work on preventing and responding to sexual violence in public and/or private spaces, with 31 countries and territories focusing on new multi-stakeholder initiatives on sexual harassment and adaptations to urban settings in 18 countries and territories
Women’s voice, leadership & agency
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global initiatives
launched to support women’s rights organizations, and youth and adolescent girls to lead the call for gender equality, disbursing approximately $59 million to civil society organisations working on gender equality and women’s empowerment, including through the UN Trust Fund and the Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund
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local and national women’s organizations
across 40 crisis-contexts supported to participate in humanitarian coordination and decision-making processes
Production, analysis and use of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data and knowledge
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inter-agency coordination mechanisms
strengthened statistical systems contributing to increased data to monitor SDG gender indicators, up from from 42% in 2021 to 50% in 2022
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countries and territories
demonstrated the use of SDG gender data for gender-responsive policy decision-making in statistical systems
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Women’s Resilience to Disasters Policy Tracker
was developed as a centralized database of gender-responsive frameworks and plans across 193 United Nations Member States on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), climate change and resilience, that allows monitoring and analysis of progress and enables replication of good practices
UN system coordination for gender equality
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peacebuilding processes
inclusive of young women supported in 9 countries and territories
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of humanitarian response plans
of Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) that UN Women engaged with incorporated steps to advance gender equality outcomes (exceeding the milestone of 75%)
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United Nations Country Teams
implemented the United Nations Country Team-System-wide Action Plan (UNCT-SWAP) (up from 38 in 2020 and 61 in 2021)
Organizational efficiency and effectiveness
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Transparency Portal
launched to deliver on UN Women’s commitments to international aid transparency and accountability
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increase
in the total number of partnerships, diversifying the Entity’s base of support and expanding its ability to drive lasting and impactful change
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of milestones
relating to the implementation of internal and external audit recommendations achieved
Impact 3: Ending Violence Against Women
Impact 4: Women, peace and security, humanitarian action & disaster risk reduction
Impact 2: Economic Empowerment
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Resource Overview 2022
Progress against 2022 milestones
In the first year of its Strategic Plan 2022-2025, UN Women supported 98 countries and territories, including high-income countries, to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. The Entity achieved good performance (reaching at least 90 per cent of the 2022 milestone) for 77 per cent of indicators with data available at the development results output level.
Please note: This figure excludes 40 indicators that are only monitored at component or disaggregated levels or that are not assigned a 2022 milestone. The Outcome indicators include a post-publishing correction of Figure 1 from the Annual Report of UN Women’s Executive Director.
Output 1: Principled Performance
Outcome 7: UN System Coordination
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