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outcome XM-DAC-41146-LAC_D_1.1
Latin America and the Caribbean democratic institutions are strengthened, and States advance towards gender parity in political participation at all decision-making levels
In 2023, this outcome has important progress, even though no new laws or reforms to advance gender balance in decision-making were adopted in the current year, progress was made in setting parity as a key pillar for the strengthening of democracies and the advance of gender equality agendas in the region. UN Women advocated for the full exercise of women’s political rights, focusing on the promotion of legal measures and institutional mechanisms to ensure parity representation in decision-measures, a comprehensive mitigation of violence against women in politics, as inclusive political financing, through advocacy, capacity-building and knowledge production initiatives, contributing to build consensus towards parity democracies, including within the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament ( Declaration ), the Ibero-American Congress of Municipalities ( Declaration ), as well as the Association of Women Electoral Magistrates of the Americas ( Agreements ). At country level, progress was made especially in Uruguay in support to the legislative debate on the parity bill , which is expected to be considered by parliament in March 2024. Both through coordinated UN System’s advocacy , as through UN Women specific technical assistance and incidence within sessions of the Commission on Human Rights and Gender Equality of the Senate, arguments in favor of a parity law were strengthened.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-LAC_D_1.2
More women lead and benefit from national and local initiatives in political dialogue, peacebuilding, conflict prevention, human mobility, humanitarian action and climate resilience
The implementation of the Migration MPTF Joint Programme (IOM, UNODC, UN Women) in Costa Rica is allowing UN Women to strengthen the capacity of Costa Rican authorities to identify, investigate and prosecute organized crime affecting migrants in transit, and reduce the vulnerability of migrants to human trafficking and smuggling through a gender and human rights perspective. UN Women has been developing initial diagnosis in alliance with IOM to guide project implementation and capacity building processes are under implementation. UN Women has been advocating for the inclusion of a gender perspective in the implementation of all efforts of the Joint Programme. An important achievement has been in the inclusion of sex-disaggregated variables and specific questions for the analysis of the information with a gender perspective the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) to produce gender-sensitive reports. This will facilitate analysis and decision making on human mobility to include a gender perspective by OIM , other agencies and possibly government counterparts.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-LAC_D_1.3
Ending Violence Against Women has advanced and a society free of gender stereotypes and discriminatory social norms is promoted with the engagement of women, girls, LGBTQ+ people, men and boys
In 2023, ACRO organized and supported 130 events, among webinars, high-level meetings, capacity building exercises and workshops, where more than 13,487 people participated and that reached 112,107 people. ACRO's activities benefited more than 70,496 women, girls, men and boys directly, and more than 166,814 indirectly. 224 partnetships were made as a result of ACRO's work, 92 with regional and governmental institutions, 36 with the private sector, 74 with civil society organizations, 8 with academia and 14 with other UN agencies. Finally, 174 civil society organizations had their capacities strenghtened, 6 advocacy and communications campaigns were launched impacting more than 88,100 people, 58 knowlegde products were developed and published, 3 laws and policies were adopted and strengthened in the region, and more than US$ 60 thousand was directly disbursed to civil society organizations.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-LAC_D_2.1
National care systems enable Latin America and the Caribbean women's economic autonomy.
UN Women has advanced the implementation of a regional agenda for the promotion of Integrated care systems . In this regard, during 2023 UN Women ACRO provided technical assistance and policy support to 14 countries in LAC region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay) to advance in policy and normative frameworks for integrated care systems. As a result, in 2023 Ecuador approved a specific legislation to implement a comprehensive set of care policies, becoming the fourth country of the region, -together with Uruguay, Costa Rica and Venezuela– with and specific law approved. In Colombia the law 2281 of January, 42023 that creates the Minister of equality and Equity and Equality stablishes the creation of the national care system. (art 6.). In Argentina Decree 89/2023 (February, 2) creates the Economic recovery, employment generation and social inclusion programme for domestic workers. Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Peru also have discussing legislative projects underway which counted with the advisory of UN Women. At local level the Municipality of Bogota adopted the agreement that regulates and institutionalizes the District Care System in Bogotá. Furthermore, additional national and local strategies, policies and/or action plans for the promotion of care have been developed and adopted in the region with UN Women’s support Overall and up to December 2023, this results in a total amount of 30 national and local strategies, policies and/or action plans for the promotion of care have been developed and adopted in the region within 11 countries with the support of UN Women. In terms of promoting the financing of care policies and systems , during 2023 UN Women ACRO supported the calculation of cost and returns of investment in care in 13 municipalities of , using the modeling and tool to design financing strategies of comprehensive care systems developed and launched in 2022. This adds to the existing costing exercises supported by UN Women in . As a result of these exercises, it is estimated that 24.8 million people will benefit from care services by 2030 in these 5 countries. Furthermore, using gender responsive budgeting tools, in 2023 UN Women was able to identify that from 2019 to 2021, governments of Latin America and the Caribbean allocated USD 4.17 billion in their national budgets on care programmes and policies. In terms of capacity building , with the support of UN Women until 2023, near 2,000 care workers had already been trained in the whole LAC region , reaching an estimated 1.85 million indirect beneficiaries. Furthermore, as part of its coordination role within the United Nations system UN Women partnered with UNDP-ILO-ECLAC-UN Women Interagency Initiative on Gender, Care and Social Protection to promote the 4th edition of the virtual course towards integrated care systems: training for action in public policy in the first half of 2023 through a 7 week length course. As a result, in 2023 more than 219 policy makers from national governments (45%), local governments (14%), civil society and women organizations (8%), trade unions (13%) and other policy makers (20%) reported to having increased their capacity to advancing the agenda and implementing integrated care systems aligned with the Buenos Aires Commitment resulting from the XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. At regional level, in 2023 UN Women ACRO started the implementation of the project “Transforming Economies. Towards the Recognition, Reduction and Redistribution of Unpaid Domestic and Care Work in Latin America and the Caribbean” with the support of AECID. As a result, a comprehensive analysis of regulatory frameworks, policy instruments and mapping of good local practices in Latin America to promote the recognition, reduction and redistribution of care work has been developed serving as the basis for organizing a regional seminar of exchange of experiences that will take place in February of 2024. Also at the regional level, during 2023 UN Women continue to work to consolidate Care as a political priority and commitment in the intergovernmental sphere . In this regard, f ollowing up on the Buenos Aires Commitment adopted in 2022, UN Women together with ECLAC achieved to position Care as the main issue of discussion for the next Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean to take place in Mexico in 2025 through an agreement adopted during the Sixty-fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers held in Santiago, Chile in October 2023. Furthermore, taking advantage of the special opportunity opened by the EU-CELAC Summit held in Brussels in July 2023, UN Women worked to position Care also at the center of the Bi-regional discussions . In this regard, UN Women in alliance with ECLAC and the EU-LAC Foundation and the support of the government of Argentina, promoted the adoption of a bi-regional Pact for Care between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union, with the aim of promoting cooperation in public policies and comprehensive care systems between the countries of both regions. The proposal of the Pact was presented during the EU-LAC Gender Equality Forum held in Berlin on May 11 and 12, convened by the EU-LAC Foundation, where, in addition to Argentina, the governments of Germany, Mexico and Spain added their support. The pact was also included in the Declaration of the EU-LAC Civil Society Forum held in Brussels in July, prior to the EU-CELAC Summit . Furthermore, the proposal of the bi-regional Pact for care was included in the commitment to advance gender equality signed by several women parliamentarians from the EU and Latin America during the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) held in Madrid in July 2023, urging "to strengthen bi-regional cooperation to ensure the right to care, to receive care and self-care in conditions of equality and quality and therefore, to advance in the consolidation and financing of comprehensive care systems" as well as in the Declaration of the Bureau of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly held in October 2023 in Santo Domingo expressing the "need to adopt a gender approach in the framework of EU - CELAC relations, promoting a bi-regional pact for care based on the European Care Strategy and the Buenos Aires Commitment that enhances cooperation on public policies and comprehensive care systems". Finally, in October 2023, the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, during the Sixty-fifth Meeting , agreed to encourage ECLAC and UN Women together with the EU-LAC Foundation, to promote the bi-regional pact for care "with the aim of promoting cooperation on public policies and comprehensive care systems with a gender perspective between the countries of both regions, within the framework of the implementation of the Buenos Aires Commitment and the European Care Strategy, and to promote cooperation initiatives in this area with other regions of the world". In 2024 the work to position the Pact will continue. Finally during 2023 UN Women ACRO continue to support care work at the global level, supporting the Global Alliance for Care which already reached 168 members (including national and local governments, international organizations, private and philanthropic organizations, and civil society organizations), becoming the largest multi-stakeholder engagement platform to date that promotes a transformation of the care economy globally. As part of the Alliance and in partnership with the EU-LAC Foundation, ECLAC and the National Women’s Institute of Mexico (INMUJERES) UN Women ACRO conducted a series of five interregional dialogues on Comprehensive Care Systems , to place the priority populations that receive and provide care at the center.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-LAC_D_2.2