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UN Women's Strategic Plan results 2022-2025
Welcome to the report scorecard for UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2022–2025. This section of the Transparency Portal provides an overview of results from implementing the plan, including the latest figures and data. The links below allow you to explore UN Women's impact areas, systemic outcomes and organizational outputs, all in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and making progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment. For the full report on the implementation of the Strategic Plan in 2025, please check back here shortly.
across 110 countries now have a more supportive legislative and policy environment protecting their rights following UN-Women's successful collaboration with national partners
laws
were adopted, revised or repealed to further advance and protect the rights of women and girls, in line with international norms and standards, including 99 on women’s economic empowerment and 21 on women’s political participation
organizations
across 100 countries have strengthened capacities to deliver quality goods, services, and resources for women across the humanitarian-development-peace continuum
countries
adopted 732 gender-responsive national and local multi-sectoral policies, strategies and plans, addressing issues such as equal pay, the care economy, violence against women, the environment and climate change, and women, peace and security, potentially benefitting 2.9 billion women and girls
US dollars
disbursed to civil society organizations, local women-led organizations and networks as the backbone of open and democratic societies, and inclusive humanitarian responses and peacebuilding processes
processes and mechanisms
were established to enable the meaningful and safe participation in decision-making of women and over 10,300 civil society organizations have strengthened leadership capacities across 128 countries
women and girls
accessed services, goods, resources and/or information, including 7.4 million in humanitarian and crisis settings, in close partnership with the United Nations system, national actors and women-led organizations
countries
adopted strategies for the prevention of violence against women for the first time, strengthening protection for nearly 1.3 billion women and girls – these efforts are leading progress on SDG indicators 5.2.1 and 5.2.2 to reduce the proportion of women and girls subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence
women and girls
are expected to benefit from 36 newly adopted women, peace and security national action plans with monitoring indicators, bringing the total to 117 countries and territories that are implementing plans to prevent and reduce the devastating impacts of conflict on communities
increase
since 2021 in the number of United Nations country teams that reported on the UNCT-SWAP, strengthening the accountability of the United Nations system to women and girls
increase
in the number of private companies that have committed to fostering business practices that empower women through adoption of the Women’s Empowerment Principles
women and girls
across 83 countries now have a more supportive legislative and policy environment protecting their rights following UN-Women's successful collaboration with national partners.
laws
were adopted, revised or repealed to further advance and protect the rights of women and girls, in line with international norms and standards.
organizations
across 95 countries with strengthened capacities to deliver quality goods, services, and resources for women across the humanitarian-development-peace continuum.
countries
adopted 490 gender-responsive national and local multi-sectoral policies, strategies and plans, addressing issues such as equal pay, the economy of care, violence against women, environment and climate change, and women, peace and security, potentially benefitting 2.7 billion women and girls.
US dollars
have been disbursed to civil society organizations, local women-led organizations and networks, working towards the achievement of gender equality, including in conflict and crisis settings.
processes and mechanisms
- such as dialogues or coalitions - have been established in in 104 countries to enable the meaningful and safe engagement of civil society representatives in policy design and decision-making.
additional countries
have adopted strategies for the prevention of violence against women. These efforts are leading progress towards SDG(Sustainable Development Goal) indicators 5.2 and 5.2.2 to reduce the proportion of women and girls subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence.
women and girls
- including entire communities - stand to gain from inclusive efforts to prevent conflict, build sustainable peace and reduce the devastating impacts of violence on their lives and communities, as outlined in the 18 new national action plans on women, peace and security adopted since 2021.
increase
in the number of United Nations Country Teams who reported on the UNCT-SWAP(System-wide Action Plan) - strengthening accountability of the UN system to women and girls.
additional private companies
(137% increase since 2021) have now committed to fostering business practices that empower women through the Women’s Empowerment Principles.
gender-responsive
national and local multi-sectoral policies, strategies and/or plans were adopted in 58 countries, with the potential to benefit 2.6 billion women and girls
partner organizations/institutes
in 82 countries have increased capacities to influence gender-responsive legislation, strategies, policies, action plans and/or institutional reforms
countries
have a process to design and implement Violence Against Women (VAW) prevention strategies, or with VAW prevention interventions based on global norms and standards
women
across 79 countries, including many survivors of violence and internally-displaced women and refugees, accessed information, goods, resources and/or services with support from UN Women
organizations
across 87 countries have enhanced capacities to deliver and/or monitor essential services, goods and resources for women and girls in humanitarian and development settings
civil society organizations
or mechanisms, across 84 countries, enhanced leadership capacity and enabled meaningful and safe engagement in decision-making
countries,
UN Women worked to ensure statistical systems do not turn a blind eye to women, supporting 76 gender statistics/data initiatives to inform policy, programming and budgeting and/or develop national plans and strategies, and 31 countries used the data for policies and programmes
of United Nations Country Teams
that developed Cooperation Frameworks in 2023 prioritized gender equality (72 per cent in 2022) with UN Women’s support
of resolutions
adopted by the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Human Rights Council integrated a gender perspective
countries
advanced gender-responsive fiscal laws, policies, budgets, and systems
countries
advanced policies to end violence against women and girls, with a strong focus on prevention including addressing harmful social gender norms
local and national women's organizations
across 30 countries supported to participate in humanitarian coordination and decision-making processes
gender statistics and sex disaggregated data
collection initiatives were implemented
laws
across six regions adopted or amended to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment
of United Nations Peacebuilding Fund resources
were allocated to projects supporting gender equality and women’s empowerment
Results by Strategic Plan impact areas
Impact 1Governance and participation in public life
Women fully and equally participate in leadership and decision-making and women and girls benefit from gender-responsive governance.
Women and girls contribute to, and have influence in, building sustainable peace and resilience and benefit equally from the prevention of conflicts and disasters, and from humanitarian action.
A comprehensive and dynamic set of global norms and standards on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is strengthened and translated into genderresponsive laws, policies, and institutions.
More men and boys and women and girls adopt attitudes, norms and practices that advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, including those that promote positive social norms.
More women and girls exercise their voice, agency and leadership, including through an enabling environment that supports women’s and youth organizations.
Gender statistics, sex-disaggregated data and knowledge are produced, analyzed and used to inform policy-making, advocacy and accountability for delivering gender equality and women's empowerment results.
UN Women is an accountable and trustworthy development organization that manages its financial and other resources with integrity and in line with its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations.
UN Women effectively leverages and expands its partnerships, communications and advocacy capabilities to increase support for and financing of the gender equality agenda, while securing sustainable resourcing for the delivery of its own mandate.
UN Women strategically plans for and transforms its business model to deliver impact at scale, through agile and ethical leadership rooted in a continous improvement culture.
Output 4: Nurturing an empowered workforce and advancing an inclusive UN Women culture
With its unique and inclusive culture, UN Women is an employer of choice with a diverse and highly performing cadre of personnel that embodies UN values.
Output 5: Effective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes
UN Women efficiently and effectively discharges of all business processes that advance integrated delivery of its mandate at HQ, Regional and Country levels, including through shared services.
