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Advancing partnerships & resourcing; effectively influencing for impact & scale ADD Resource mobilization.

In 2024, UN Women Malawi Country office developed the resource mobilization strategy to help it prioritize and broaden its resource base. The UN Women Country office will implement its resource mobilization (RM) strategy 2024-2028 aiming at securing long-term funding for the sustainability of the reminder of the UN Women current strategic note implementation allowing to achieve its mission of improving the lives of women and girls in Malawi. The objective of the RM strategy it to further diversify the donor base of the Country Office by tapping into non-traditional sources of funds while leveraging all available matching funding opportunities from traditional donors, including bilateral and multilateral donors, and the private sector. This will allow to multiply organizational resources, capacities, and innovations in the pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE). The CO will diversify its donor base by engaging with other non-traditional donors and the private sector; at the same time to strengthen existing donor relations by regularly engaging them in programme reviews and increasing the visibility of different programmatic results. Targeted outreach to key decision makers within Government Ministries, especially the Ministry of Finance and Parliamentarians with influence on budget allocations will be made to continue to mobilize resources from the Government. The use of up-to-date and accessible donor intelligence reports for Malawi to ensure that the case for financial support is well informed (i.e., donors’ priorities and interests are well understood) will be the focus.

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Nurturing an empowered Workforce and advancing an inclusive UN Women culture

UN Women has maintained and improved motivation for staff and personnel as an ongoing process and under different mechanisms. The office retreat was held as part of team building, 7 staff members benefitted from a Project Management Training organized by the UN Women Regional Office and the Head Quarters. M&E personnel also benefitted from three different training workshops on MER and outcome harvesting. Internal sessions were organized on the MER, financial management, sexual harassment.

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Effective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes

Timely submission of outcome-focused progress reports. This has been achieved through monitoring, spot checks, and targeted refresher training in Results-Based Monitoring (RBM) for both staff and implementing partners. Six monitoring and spot check sessions, alongside three RBM refresher trainings, were conducted. These refresher trainings benefited 105 personnel from 16 organizations including UN Women. The first training engaged 36 staff members from the UN Women Malawi Country Office. The second training involved 25 personnel from CARE, Christian Aid, UN Women, FOCESE, CARD, TIPOLISO, and WOLREC, while the third session benefited 44 individuals from CCJP, MHRRC, MAGUFINA, YONECO, God Cares, UN Women, Chipembere, YCD, CCSS, and Umunthu Plus. These sessions were designed to strengthen the capacity of partners in Results-Based Monitoring and Reporting, equipping participants with the essential knowledge and skills needed to effectively monitor and report on project outcomes.