Region:Asia Pacific
Current UN Women Plan Period Afghanisthan:2018-2022
World Bank Income Classification:Low Income
The World Bank classifies economies for analytical purposes into four income groups: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. For this purpose it uses gross national income (GNI) per capita data in U.S. dollars, converted from local currency using the World Bank Atlas method, which is applied to smooth exchange rate fluctuations.
Least Developed Country:Yes
Since 1971, the United Nations has recognized LDCs as a category of States that are deemed highly disadvantaged in their development process, for structural, historical and also geographical reasons. Three criteria are used: per capita income, human assets, and economic vulnerability.
Gender Inequality Index:0.575
GII is a composite metric of gender inequality using three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market. A low GII value indicates low inequality between women and men, and vice-versa.
Gender Development Index:0.723
GDI measures gender inequalities in achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: health, education, and command over economic resources.
Population:209,497,025
Source of population data: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects: The 2022 Revision
Male:19,976,265 (9.5%)
Female:189,520,760 (90.5%)
outcome XM-DAC-41146-SDN_D_1.1
More women of all ages fully engage with political and economic institutions and in leadership
During the reporting period, progress was made to the outcome. “to enable more women of all ages engage and lead political and economic institutions”. Despite the politically tense situation in the CO, the diversity of the networks established in support of women’s political participation has played a key role in shaping the climate and momentum for acceptance of women’s political participation. In addition, the knowledge and technical support provided to women group, women in political parties and women provided by UN-Women directly contributed to facilitating women’s engagement and leadership in political and economic institutions. An example is the participation of women in the political process to restore the country’s path to the democratic transition and the support they received from the different networks to engender the political framework as well the negotiation skills they employed enabled them to successfully engender the political agreement.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-SDN_D_2.1
Women secure access to productive resources and engage in sustainable resources creation activities in rural, peri-urban, conflict, post-conflict and humanitarian settings.
Women's productive capacities and productivity are enhanced: The project that targeted women in Ashatt community in Red Sea with provision of goat has proven to be successfull in securing women' access to productive resources and in increasing milk production depite the short period of the provison of the goat (goats were distributed to women in October 2022). Most of the women who have been targetd by the project are heading households. The selected goats are highly productive and adaptive to the environment of the Red Sea, The average daily milk production stands at ten-pound per goat and is of a good quality, compared to the goats that are previously owned by households and are producing daily milk on average at two-pound per goat, which in most cases barely cover the internal family need. Women's productivity in value chain transformation is increased Women's benificaries of the project on enhancing women enterpreneurial capacities in agribusiness and fishery value chains transformations have engagaed in the fish drying and food processing. They stated that, they have produced variety of processed foods that include dried fish, onion, tomatoes, okra, green leaves and other variety of high quality dried vegetables. The training on the products quality management has supported women to supply their products in innvative way that fulfill the standards. With this result, women continued producing and their prodcutivity is getting increased regulary.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-SDN_D_4.1
Commitments on women, peace and humanitarian action are implemented in coordination between the UN System and national stakeholders, with more women and gender equality advocates influencing the processes
During the reporting period, UN Women has significantly contributed to the implementation of the UN and national commitments on Women, Peace and Humanitarian Action. The successful engendering of the Sudan HRP and HNO led by Sudan CO is the first step realize the implementation of UN commitments in this domain. In addition, the successful collaborative efforts between UN Women, UNITAMS, UNDP, Sida and the National women’s groups to engender the political framework agreement is a significant step towards realizing the implementation of WPS agenda. It is worth noting that among the key provisions included in the political agreement are: 1) ensuring 40 % women’s representation not only in the legislative Council but also executive institutions and the judiciary. 2) while the Juba Peace Agreement 2022 is now subject to review, the gender related provisions are not be reviewed but retained. 3) the state is to ensure that it abides by all UN security Council resolutions related to WPS. These are all key achievements that paves that way to realization of UN commitments in the WPS and humanitarian domains.Showing 1 - 3 of 3
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