Outcome EGY_O_2

[Advancing partnerships & resourcing; Effectively influencing for impact & scale:] 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.

2025 was a challenging year for UN Women in terms of resource mobilization due to the large cuts caused by the terminatio of USAID funds in January 2025. UN Women coordinated and signed one new joint programme with the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security, as part of an intergaency partnership on tech-facilitated violence against women and girls. Through this partnership, funding of 300,000 USD was mobilized for this programme. ECO met with multiple donors in 2025 and is intensifying its efforts to scan the donor landscape and priorities for GEWE for successful mobilization in 2026.

[Advancing partnerships & resourcing; Effectively influencing for impact & scale:] 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.

Ensuring strong national ownership, UN Women coordinated two new Joint programmes with the European Union and USAID, as part of an interagency partnership. These are the first of their kind for the EU (in Egypt) and USAID (globally). Both programmes have been developed in consultation and in alignment with the national government counterpart, ensuring programme results are aligned to the country’s strategy for gender equality and women’s empowerment. The programmes build on successful models of implementation in the areas of Women’s Leadership and Participation, Women’s Economic Empowerment and Ending Violence against Women. UN Women is the leading agency under the EU funded programme, while a participating agency in partnership with UNFPA under the USAID funded programme.

[Advancing partnerships & resourcing; Effectively influencing for impact & scale:] 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.

In 2024, UN Women has been able to pledge around 3.3 million USD for the gender equality agenda under different partnerships. UN Women coordinated one new joint programme with the UNTFHS, as part of an intergaency partnership on tech-facilitated violence against women and girls. Through this partnership, funding of 300,000 USD has been mobilized for this programme. ECO has also reached an advanced stage in its conversation with KOICA to secure funding for the humanitarian response in Egypt to support the livelihood and protection of refugee women and host community nationals. This has been possible through well planned communication and advocacy efforts of the ongoing humanitarian work UN women has been doing under the Japan funded programme.