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outcome XM-DAC-41146-COL_D_3.2
The national government and territorial governments, in particular category 5 and 6 municipalities, implement gender equality policies, plans, programmes and projects with the support of the United Nations Country Team and in accordance with national government guidelines (UNSDCF 3.2)
In 2023, UN Women Colombia made significant progress on outcome 3.2 (on track). With the support of Sweden, UN Women contributed to women’s political participation by developing a certified 100-hour training on Colombia’s political system, political planning and strategies, electoral management, and mainstreaming of the women’s rights perspective. More than 1.000 women enhanced their political leadership skills for the local elections by completing this course . Additionally, UN Women organized the National Forum of Elected Women and three Local Forum of Elected Women in the departments of Cauca, Nariño, and Chocó. These are spaces in which women exchanged experiences and strengthened networks for the advancement of the gender equality and women’s rights agenda, reaching 120 participating women at a national level and 189 participating women in the local instances (100 women in Nariño, 60 women in Cauca, and 29 women in Chocó). Still with Sweden’s support, UN Women promoted the increase of awareness of the Congress of the Republic on subrogate pregnancies and international standards on the rights of women and girls in the work towards the eradication of child marriage and early unions. With the support of KOICA and Canada, 360 public investment projects were marked with the Gender Budget Tracker as a result of the technical support received by 20 local government, including 3 governorates and 17 municipalities. Alongside, more than 350 representatives from Government institutions, civil society organizations and collegiate bodies have stronger technical capacities for planning and budgeting with a gender approach, considering the upcoming definition of 2024s budget, accountability processes, and handovers to new administrations. The CO also provided technical and financial support for the participatory formulation of the Care CONPES , and to enhance the capacities of the Care Manager’s Office of the Vice-presidency of the Republic to position the joint agenda for the “future of care in the country”. Regarding women’s economic empowerment, UN Women continued to work with the WEPs initiative, reaching 112 enterprises committed to the principles. Moreover, worked in alliance with International Finance Corporation (IFC) and UN Global Compact-Colombia to promote the participation of women-owned small and medium businesses in the project " Sourcing2Equal ", increasing their access to corporate procurement opportunities. With Sweden’s support, the CO continued to support the Empathy Store (Tienda de la Empatía) –an initiative that link women’s productive projects with commercial opportunities—, while with PRM the CO consolidated eight Economic Impulse Labs to support migrant women and women from host communities. Finally, in 2023, the CO worked towards the elimination of gender-based violence through the enhancement of the technical capacities of two (2) national institutions (General Attorney’s Office and Presidential Council for Women’s Equality - CPEM). Regarding the General Attorney’s Office, the CO supported the updating of the “Gender-based violence against women and feminicides” virtual training, while supporting the CPEM in consolidating the Articulating Mechanism for the Comprehensive Approach to GBV. At a local level, UN Women has sustained its work with the 7 cities (Medellín, Bogotá, Cali, Popayán, Villvicencio, Pasto and Barranquilla) that are current partners of the Safe Cities Program, and developed a diagnosis on the response capacity regarding GBV for 7 municipalities (Tumaco in Nariño; and 6 cities in lower Cauca Antioquia - Cáceres, Caucasia, El Bagre, Nechí, Tarazá and Zaragoza).
outcome XM-DAC-41146-COL_O_1
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 fiducia
The CO continues to position itself as an accountable and trustworthy organization, complying with the various corporate policies on PSEAs, Anti-fraud, resource management, accountablity, risk management, among others. Alongside, the CO constantly works towards the incorporation of different strategies and methods to promoter diversity within its staff, engaging in the adoption of an strategy to promote the work with ethnic groups and populations with an anti-racist approach.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-COL_O_2
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.
As a part of the efforts for the implementation of the resource mobilization strategy, the CO was able to achieve substantive results during the year, by meeting the targets of the RM strategy. This has guaranteed the sustainability and diversification of CO funding. In particular, during the first quarter, the phase 2 of Prodefensoras and a new programme on care funded by Canada have started, among others. Both are multiannual bilateral programmes. During the second half of the year, new multiannual negotiations and formulation have been successfully finalized: Sweden, Germany (BMZ) and PBF GPI, together with funding from WPHF and local governments (Cauca), among others. In addition, the CO counts with a solid and diversified hard pipeline. On partnerships and communication: Strategic partnerships with media outlets allowed for a worldwide dissemination of the documentary “When the Waters Flow as One” , developed by UN Women in partnership with the Swedish Embassy and the Truth Commission. Since its official release (March 8 th , 2023), the documentary has had more than 150 showings in more than 17 countries, reaching more than 15,000 in person viewers. The documentary was also premiered in the Week for Women, Peace & Security (New York), the Geneva Peace Week (Geneva), and in Washington D.C thanks to an alliance with the Organization of American States. The documentary also participated in 10 film festivals at a national and international level. It is expected that for 2024 the documentary can be premiered in a streaming platform. Thanks to the formative and awareness raising potential of “When the Waters Flow as One”, as well as its capacity to reach non-traditional audiences, the Cultural Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs prioritized it as a cultural product to be promoted in all Colombian Embassies and Consulates. The WEPs Initiative was reached 112 enterprises . UN Women signed a MoU with International Finance Corporation and UN Global Compact-Colombia to promote the participation of women-owned small and medium businesses in the project " Sourcing2Equal ", increasing their access to corporate procurement opportunities. The partnership with FENALCO-Nariño and the Universidad del Norte has been key for the strengthening of the Economic Impulse Laboratories financed by PRM, in which employability and entrepreneurship strategies have been implemented. This also promoted partnerships between public and private sectors to link migrant women in local economic communities, while enhancing women’s skills regarding financial education, basic digital tools, communication, and innovation. Consolidated alliances with various media outlets that have allowed the CO to position content for awareness raising in key events. Its participation in +Cartagena , a Latin-American summit of the advertising industry, allowed the CO to launch the 5 th edition of the Equal-to-Equal Awards , that recognize the most creative advertising campaigns that promote gender equality, receiving more than 60 proposals from more than 10 Latin-American countries. Alliances with non-traditional media of high national recognition, such as the newspaper El Espectador for the dissemination of 25N, and No Es Hora de Callar with El Tiempo newspaper were implemented. The CO continued the implementation of the Somos Mar Chatbot to strengthen access to information on care routes in GBV-cases and access to state services. The CO participated in the development of the third edition of the research “ Marketing and Communication Industries upon the Challenges for Sustainable Development ” by including specific questions on the implementation level of gender-equality measures within the participating corporations.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-COL_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
In 2023, biweekly delivery monitoring was implemented and options and tools were provided so that operations processes worked efficiently.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-COL_O_4
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
At UN Women Colombia we are currently working on an Inclusive Plan for our country Office. The goal of this is to carry out an action plan so that we can incorporate the values of UN wWmen, which include an inclusive culture. Indeed, taking into account the reality of our country, as Colombia is characterized by its diversity of ethnic groupsShowing 6 - 10 of 11