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Advancing partnerships and resourcing
With an overall budget of $7.4 million in 2024, UN Women has three primary programmes in Lebanon (under which a number of projects fall) that seek to promote women’s rights and gender equality across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus. Work calling for legal reform and preventing violence against women and girls is crosscutting across all portfolios: ? Women, Peace and Security programme (budget of $1.7 million), aims to promote women's meaningful participation in conflict prevention and resolution, gender-responsive peacebuilding and increased women’s engagement and leadership in humanitarian action. ? Women’s Economic Empowerment programme, with a budget of $2.2 million, cuts across the humanitariandevelopment nexus to support inclusive recovery. The programme focuses on enhancing the resilience, self-reliance, and leadership of crisis affected women through access to comprehensive livelihood and protection services. Livelihood opportunities target vulnerable Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian women as well as women with disabilities through access to short-term paid employment in cash-for-work opportunities created in community kitchens, menstrual hygiene production, and carpentry. ? Governance and Participation in Public Life progamme, with a budget of $1.9 million. UN Women, in partnership with UNSCOL and UNDP, works collaboratively to increase women's representation in decision-making bodies, supporting legal reform to establish gender quotas within local municipal councils. Furthermore, the office continued to deliver Gender-Responsive Humanitarian Assistance. With the escalation of the conflict in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah since 17th September 2024 and almost 900,000 people displaced, among which 51 per cent were women and girls, the CO had strategically repurposed some of its funding and managed to supply immediate humanitarian assistance to women and girls.
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Business Transformation
2024 has been a challenging year for Lebanon, with offices having to shift to work in emergency mode to face the escalation of conflict. This affected the timeline for business transformation processes and internal strategies. Nevertheless, the office managed to remain agile and adapt to the new context by maintaining business continuity throughout the emergency.
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Empowered People and Products
The personnel at UN Women Lebanon have demonstrated commitment to implementing UN Women's mandate in accordance with UN values, including respect for diversity. Through various initiatives, such as inclusive recruitment practices, the office has strived to create a workplace that values differences. Upon joining, all personnel receive a comprehensive welcome email on their first day, featuring a welcome video, intranet link, organizational structure, core values, and competencies. New team members are encouraged to complete required reading within their first 100 days, including materials like the UN Women strategic note, standard of conduct, and policies on harassment. Mandatory courses should also be completed within the first 100 days. Additionally, each unit conducts an induction session, where new personnel are briefed on the unit's work, mandate, and goals. This holistic onboarding approach ensures that all staff members are well-informed and aligned with the UN principles. During and in the aftermath of the escalation, UN Women has systematically applied policies, procedures and administrative guidelines related to its duty of care towards its staff. This includes conducting regular wellness checks, covering the relocation costs of 15 local staff to safer areas, based on DSS advice; evacuation of 1 non-critical international staff, application of danger pay and flexible working arrangements as well as granting up to 10 working days special leave with full pay (SLWFP).
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Services and Processes
In 2024, UN Women continued to deliver on its services and processes with the highest moral and ethical standards. As a result of UN Women's mobilization efforts, the Strategic Note has been funded by non-core funding for 90 per cent. While they have not replied to formal survey links shared by UN Women, donors have consintenly provided informal feedback to reports submitted by UN Women, as demonstrated by the renewed commitments and pledges throughout and planned for 2025. UN Women has also led on mainstreaming gender across the UNCT and humanitarian coordination fora. chairs the Gender Working Group (with UNDP), which oversees gender mainstreaming into the work of the Lebanon Response Plan (LRP), including technically supporting the LRP sectors, as well as convenes the reform discussions on GEWE under the 3RF. In 2024, UN Women also led the activation and co-chairs the Gender in Humanitarian Action Sub-Working Group to strengthen the participation of women-led organizations into the humanitarian response and ensures that gender perspectives are incorporated into into all humanitarian planning, decision-making, and implementation processes, promoting accountability and strengthening the response's gender responsiveness. As a result, 19 UN agencies receive gender parity advice and/or technical assistance by UN Women,Showing 6 - 9 of 9