outcome XM-DAC-41146-ETH_O_4

Nurturing an empowered workforce and advancing an inclusive UN-Women culture

The CO conducted a staff retreat and SN /WP planning workshop from 14-18 October 2024. The event provided opportunity for staff team building and reflection as w ell as review of the programme implementation and planning for the 2025 workplan . The HR unit supported programme teams with recruitment of staff and consultants following corporate po licies and procedures. In 2024, UN Women ECO actively participated and represented in three cross-regional knowledge-sharing events, contributing to and benefiting from global insights and strategies (cumulative total of 11 cross-regional knowledge exchange) 1) Global Humanitarian Strategic Planning at UN Women HQ: UN Women GiHA team attended, gaining insights on humanitarian strategic planning. This knowledge was applied to revise the Humanitarian Country Team's (HCT) gender roadmap for monitoring and reporting. 2) Global Leadership Training for Deputies at UN Women HQ: This training provided innovative leadership strategies that have been integrated into the country office's core programs and resource mobilization efforts. 3) UN Women WCARO & ESARO WEE Learning week at Abuja, Nigeria. It aims at Accelerating the progress of WEE in Sub-Saharan Africa amidst changing contexts.

outcome XM-DAC-41146-ETH_O_5

Effective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes

UN Women actively collaborated with other agencies through UN common premises with UNDP RSC, participation in Operations M anagement Team( OMT) Business Operations Services and its technical working groups including Finance, HACT, Procurement, ICT, HR. The participation in these groups ensured UN Women benefit from UN system wide initiatives. The CO has consistently u sed and followed corporate systems/tools, policies and procedures for compliance and enhanced efficiency in business processes. Quantum system and the Global Services Tracker( GST) have facilitated efficient and continuous service improvement in financial services with the average res olution times for financial services requests for the year at 4.51 days. In 2024, UN Women ECO collaborated with global team on 1 evaluation: feminist collaborative evaluation of un women’s approach to social norms change . The Country office involved in proposal development, data collection and reviewing of the final report for the feminist collaboration evaluation led by UN Women HQ . Also, UN Women Ethiopia office contributed for the final evaluation of the current UNSDCF 2021-2025 led by UN Resident Coordinators Office by techni cally supporting on the evaluation proposal , during data collection & reviewing & adding inputs in the draft evaluation report .