outcome XM-DAC-41146-KAZ_O_4

Nurturing an empowered Workforce and advancing an inclusive UN Women culture

UN Women strengthened leadership and team capacity to enable and promote an environment of collaboration, transparency, creativity and reflection. The team was regularly invited to participatory decision-making processes, for instance on the design of new initiatives, negotiations with Donors, and discussions of Resource mobilisation strategy. After the tragic events in January 2022, the office strengthened the capacity of female staff members through a two-days Women Security Awareness Training. Also, the Country Office was regularly involved in the work of the PSEA working group for advancing transparent monitoring and response.

outcome XM-DAC-41146-KAZ_O_5

Effective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes

During the reporting period, UN Women invested time and efforts in standardised knowledge products (for example, the Gender analysis of Gender Responsive Budgeting integration in the national planning and budgeting system). In the field of coordination and collaboration with the UN Country Team for strengthening gender mainstreaming of UNCT programming and gender-sensitive monitoring and reporting. UN Women was focused on joint programmes aimed at achieving systemic and transformative change and moving away from small standalone projects. UN Women also strengthened its grant-making and partner-selection modalities to support collaboration and transformative change. The office works constantly on internal business processes' improvement to use scarce resources efficiently.