outcome XM-DAC-41146-LBY_O_4

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 has been made towards this output during the reporting year. Staff increased their performance awareness, promoting a culture of accountability, and advanced their knowledge and further developed their skills to better manage programmes and integrate the organization’s overall strategic directions into implementation and operations. This is a result of several trainings and capacity development activities on programme and operations provided by the Conflict Cluster Office (CCO). Newly recruited staff engaged in quick onboarding, as a result of an online learning platform that contains standard operating procedures (SoPs), training materials, and induction sessions, developed by the office. Additionally, programme officers developed their capacities to deliver quality, results-based monitoring throughout the year, to ensure institutional knowledge with current programmes, through technical support from the office. This is in response to challenges related to the high staff turnover due to unattractive salaries and lack of professional career development within the office, which led to operational and programmatic bottlenecks and the increased workload for ad-hoc temporary, in-house substitutes .

outcome XM-DAC-41146-LBY_O_5

UN Women efficiently and effectively discharges of all business processes that advance integrated delivery of its normative, operational and coordination mandate at HQ, Regional and Country level, including through shared services.

Progress has been made as parliamentarians took steps to draft and adopt non-discriminatory legislation including to empower women (output 1.2.1) through enhanced understanding and support for the Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) draft law by 13 House of Representatives (HoRs) members (11 women and 2 men). During a consultation meeting, a drafting committee handed over a developed draft of a law on EVAW to the HoRs members, marking a significant step towards addressing and preventing violence against women. Attendees to the consultation also signed final statement encompassing a set of action points. Foremost among these points is the commitment of HoRs members to actively advocate for the draft law within Parliament, with the goal of securing a vote in its favor. The EVAW law, once adopted, will address structural barriers to women’s freedom from violence by prohibiting VAW and providing a framework for prosecution. In addition, the draft law addresses the diversity of needs of different kinds of women through an intersectional approach by an inclusive definition of violence against women that encompasses various forms of violence, including physical, sexual, psychological, online, and economic abuse. This ensures that the diverse experiences and needs of women from different backgrounds are recognized and addressed by defining and addressing the forms of discrimination experienced by women based on factors such as race, ethnicity, religion, age, disability, socioeconomic status, and migration status.