outcome XM-DAC-41146-BRA_O_3

UN-Women strategically plans for and transforms its business model to deliver impact at scale, through agile and ethical leadership rooted in a continuous improvement culture.

To be completed

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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

In 2024, UN Women continued to strengthen its position as an employer of choice by fostering a unique and inclusive culture that reflects the organization’s core values. This approach was underpinned by a commitment to diversity, equity, and the empowerment of its workforce. Building on the foundations laid in 2023 through the Inclusive and Empowered Workforce Action Plan, the organization advanced its strategic objectives to create a highly performing cadre of personnel that embodies UN values. In 2023, the CO personnel implemented key actions outlined in the Inclusive and Empowered Workforce Action Plan. These actions reflected the organization’s commitment to fostering an inclusive work environment. The plan prioritized recognizing individual aspirations and development plans, actively supporting professional growth and career advancement, and addressing barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion within the workplace. Building on these efforts, UN Women enhanced its inclusive culture by achieving higher representation of underrepresented groups within its workforce, emphasizing gender parity, intersectionality, and cultural diversity. This progress was supported by targeted recruitment campaigns and partnerships with institutions promoting inclusivity. Additionally, the organization provided mandatory and elective training on unconscious bias, inclusive leadership, and allyship to promote an equitable workplace culture. The CO implemented dashboards tracking the completion of cyber security and diversity-related courses, which ensured accountability and transparency. The organization also promoted a supportive work environment by enhancing policies that supported work-life balance, such as hybrid work arrangements. Employee resource groups provided safe spaces for dialogue and advocacy on key issues, including LGBTQ+ inclusion, accessibility for persons with disabilities, and cultural exchange programs. In 2024, UN Women also focused on acknowledging and recognizing contributions. A structured framework for Individual Work Development Plans together with the goals set in the Performance Management and Development assessments enabled staff to align their career goals with organizational objectives, ensuring both personal growth and organizational success. Additionally, 100 per cent of personnel completed the required diversity and inclusion courses, such as “I Know Gender: An Introduction to Gender Equality for UN staff”, reflecting the organization’s commitment to continuous learning and improvement. UN Women remains in its mission to foster an inclusive, empowered workforce. Future initiatives include expanding mentorship programs to enhance career pathways for underrepresented groups, investing in technologies and infrastructure to support accessibility and inclusive workspaces, and continuing to refine policies and practices to meet the evolving needs of its diverse workforce. As UN Women reflects on its progress in 2024, the organization’s commitment to an inclusive and empowered workforce stands as a testament to its core values. By prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion, UN Women not only fosters a high-performing cadre of personnel but also exemplifies its mission to advance gender equality and human rights on a global scale. In Brazil, UN Women fulfils its mandate through a unique and inclusive organizational culture, supported by a diverse, highly skilled team dedicated to excellence and committed to promoting the core United Nations values, particularly equity and diversity.

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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.

In 2024, UN Women reinforced its commitment to efficiently and effectively discharging business processes that advance the integrated delivery of its mandate. Building on its contributions to the Common Back Office (CBO) proposal, the organization played a central role in fostering collaboration and developing strategies for procurement, travel, human resources, ICT, and security. Throughout the year, UN Women maintained its significant role as a key member of the CBO committee, thoroughly evaluating proposals, including those from UNDP, from both technical and financial perspectives. Lot 01 for common premises became fully functional, enabling shared services to operate seamlessly. Additionally, the procurement function under the CBO began providing services to other agencies; however, UN Women has not yet signed the MOU required to start using these services directly. As 2024 drew to a close, UN Women contributions to the Common Back Office initiative highlighted its commitment to advancing sustainability and innovation within the broader UN framework. By addressing challenges, promoting risk assessments, the organization solidified its participation in the integrated service delivery. UN Women also continued to promote the Strategic Note Direct Funding (SNDF) modality to enhance programme effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, and sustainability. During the reporting period, UN Women established a new agreement with the Government of Austria under the SNDF modality, marking the second collaboration with this donor, and a second contribution from Gucci within this modality as well. This underscores the Country Office’s ability to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach, and the relevance of the results achieved. UN Women promoted integrated, coordinated, and coherent action within the UN System by providing technical inputs and advocating for the prioritization of gender and racial equality outcomes within the Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). Three of the ten priorities defined by the UN country team (UNCT) focus on the care economy and on ending gender-based violence and racial discrimination. Additionally, the UNCT established the promotion of gender, race, and ethnicity equality as a strategic result of the UNSDCF Communications Strategy and a transversal theme across other results, with specific attention to meeting the requirements of the UNCT System-Wide Action Plan (SWAP) Scorecard. Furthermore, the UNCT highlighted gender and racial issues in the 2024 Common Country Analysis, which informed the UNSDCF implementation. UN Women also led the Joint Programme Moverse,which promotes human rights and gender equality within Brazil's National Policies on Migration, Asylum, and Statelessness, in partnership with UNFPA and UNHCR. By fostering collaboration and coordination among participating UN organizations, UN Women ensured consistent and impactful joint results, especially in a year marked by the second Comigrar, a national conference aimed at proposing and discussing guidelines and recommendations for public policies for migrants, refugees, and stateless persons, through their social and political participation.