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outcome XM-DAC-41146-EGY_D_1.1
By 2027, women and girls realise their rights in the social, health and livelihood spheres, as laid out in the Egyptian Constitution, and their leadership and empowerment are guaranteed in a society free of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls.
In 2023, two fierce wars broke out on Egypt's borders (Gaza and Sudan), significantly destabilising the region and Egypt's already heavily impacted economy. These realities dominated dialogue during the 2023 Egyptian Presidential election, and the overall economic crisis in the country dominated national partners' priorities. Policy level changes on gender equality have been minor but there is increasing momentum for advancing women’s labour force participation and women-owned business opportunities as a key driver for riding the economic storm. Women have increased representation on the boards of directors of public bodies and their business sector companies, as a result of a presidential decree. UN Women contributed to this result through providing more women with capacities to enable them to serve well on these boards. Egypt’s Presidency of COP27 ended in November 2023 and it has opened avenues in both public and private sector for significant attention to the importance of green and climate smart approaches with a gender lens.UN Women capitalized on that attention by ensuring climate smart approaches are more integrated into the results chain. UN Women reached approximately 70,000 through its partnership with the Government of Egypt’s national programme on enhancing women’s financial inclusion through an innovative digital banking mobile application developed through UN Women’ support. Furthermore, UN Women reached 2800 women through job placement, entrepreneurial support and employability skills development, ensuring a decent income generating opportunity for them. In 2023, UN Women has supported the strengthening of policy and regulatory frameworks to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) through the generation of research, evidence and analyses of trends on women’s rights in the context of family and personal status legislation as well as creating safe spaces for women and girls. It has also provided essential services for 200 women who have experienced gender-based violence and reaching 200,000 women through national and community-led behaviour change initiatives and campaigns
outcome XM-DAC-41146-EGY_O_1
Assuring an accountable organization through principled performance: 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.
The primary efforts of the ECO in 2023 to this end was the heavy lift of adapting and learning the new ERF system, during two regional crises (Sudan and Gaza) and with a heavy programme cycle overall
outcome XM-DAC-41146-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.
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.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-EGY_O_3
[Advancing business transformation:] 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.
The Government of Egypt executed approximately 50% of the ECO's overall advances, allowing for UN Women to reach multiple governorates and many women. However, in 2022 and 2023, UN Women's overall delivery was impacted significantly by both administrative delays as well as interministerial coordination issues. UN Women ECO requested the ROAS team to provide more support going forward on how these partnership modalities could be differently contracted to avoid such large advances remaining unliquidated.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-EGY_O_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.
2023 was a difficult year for the Egypt CO. The economic crisis in the country , along side the Sudan and Gaza wars greatly added to the pressures of the office both at an office-wide and individual level. For enhanced team building, the ECO held two one-day retreats, and have focused providing the office with greater certaintiy in terms of individual career advancement. Mental health support was offered by the UNDSS stress counselor in response to Gaza. Under the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF 2023-2027) and UN Women Egypt Country Office’s accompanying Strategic Note (2023-2027), it is important to ensure the UN Women Country Office’s structure reflects the commitments of scaling up programme investments, strengthening support to UN coordination on gender equality and women’s empowerment, and ensuring a continued right-sized office capacity to deliver as per UN Women’s corporate requirements. To this end, and under the UN Women Regional Office for Arab States, the UN Women Egypt Country Office conducted a light-touch functional review exercise to ensure that the current organisational and job design match existing functions and the current needs of the Egypt Country Office under the UNSDCF, ECO Strategic Note and new ERF system; and that the subsequent post levels are aligned with the Job Descriptions as per current UN Women global rules and regulations.Showing 1 - 5 of 6