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outcome XM-DAC-41146-RD_O_6
Output 2.1. UN-Women KCO 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.
Significant progress was made in 2024 with regard to leveraging and expanding our partners, communications and advocacy capabilities. UN Women leveraged its partnerships within the UN System through participation in 14 out of 17 joint programmes (ongoing and under development). UN Women in partnership with the Gender Theme Group developed a Gender Checklist, to guide the JPs to ensure the programmes have a focus on gender equality. This helped the agency position and advocate for GEWE within UNCT and UNSDCF. A total of usd 1.6M was secured during the year from RC MPTF and joint programming. UN Women has also utilized its secretarial position in the Development Partners Gender Group to influence conversations at the donor level, ensuring more investment for GEWE and raising awareness of emerging gender issues and how donors can support them. In 2024, Canada announced a gender call for proposal. Through the Generation Equality Forum, UN Women leveraged on the Multi-stakeholder advocacy for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment, which also led to increased support for GEWE. In partnership with the government, UN Women through the National Sector Working Group, also helped ensure that national laws, policies, and frameworks are gender-responsive. UN Women’s partnership with women’s rights organizations has furthermore ensured that gender issues are made visible, and the needs of women lobbied and incorporated into laws and policies. With regard to youth, UN Women continued to monitor and support the African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI) project beneficiaries. AGCCI is a collaboration between UN Women, the African Union Commission (AUC), and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which has made significant strides in bridging the gender gap in the digital space. Since its commencement in 2023, the initiative has empowered 112 girls across Kenya (15 trained in 2024 Q1), equipping them with technical skills and sparking an interest in pursuing careers in the ICT sector. A highlight of AGCCI’s success was its hands-on, supportive learning environment, which not only developed technical expertise but also inspired greater confidence and curiosity among the participants. Beyond acquiring coding skills, these young women gained critical life skills such as public speaking, networking, and leadership.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-RD_O_7
0utput 3.1. 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
Building on the functional review that was conducted in 2023 and the recommendations made by the Business Transformation Team and the Change Management team, the Office continued in 2024 to ensure that it has strategic planning and enhanced business processes. The Change management team worked closely with senior leadership and staff, and played a key role in the staff retreat during which a consultant was brought in to support the office. The team discussed how to engage in difficult conversations and underwent team bbuilding exercises. Business processes across teams were also continously tracked and recommendations on how to enhance them further will be finalized in 2025. The Wellness team continued to carry out activities to create office/team cohesion and improve the office culture. The learning and development committee promoted a learning culture in the office, often by working together with the Regional office e.g Fraud Risk management.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-RD_O_8
Output 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.
Progress under this output is ongoing. The senior management team is committed to ensuring that there is capacity to deliver programme implementation and that identified gaps are enhanced as required. By carrying out capacity building initiatives, such as annual refresher in Results-based management, the risk training, programme management etc. the office ensures that its workforce is aware of Policies and guidelines, and fit to design and implement programmes and projects. The Change facilitation team contined to play a critical role in enhancing business processes, and through the Wellness team build a nice working environment. Staff members have conducted their mandatory courses as planned, and a number of people have benefitted from detailed assignments, cross-exchange and learning with other country offices and promotions.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-RD_O_9
Output 5.1. Effective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes
During the year 2024, the Kenya CO improved its business processes by making use of the corporate dash board (Power BI) to generate financial reports e.g delivery and utilization reports, partner aged advance, AAA reports. There was also significant progress achieved in terms of evaluations. Out of the three evaluations submitted for assessment, 100% were good or very good. These three were evaluations were: - Final evaluation of the women economic empowerment through climate-smart agriculture (WEE CSA) in Kenya project- assessed as good - Final evaluation report of the Let it not happen again project, finalized in Jan 2024 - assessed as very good - Final evaluation report for the Women's leadership, empowerment, access and protection (LEAP) project - assessed as very good In addition, the Office carried out a MTR of the Kenya SN 2023-2026, which confirmed that the Programme is relevant and UN Women able to address the needs of women and girls. KCO was also part of the Final evaluation of the Consolidating democratic dividends for sustainable transformation project in Kenya (UN Women, UNDP and OHCHR), and included in the Corporate thematic evaluation of UN Women's support to women's political participation. Finally, UN Women colleagues took part in the light CCA review which is currently undergoing and will be completed in 2025Showing 6 - 9 of 9