outcome XM-DAC-41146-TUN_O_3

UN Women strategically plans for and transforms its business model to deliver impact at scale, through agile and ethical leadership rooted in a continuous improvement culture.

Progress towards this output was made. The Tunisia CO was more rigorous around the recovery of costs, made full use of opportunities for inter-agency collaboration and streamlined operating practices, including through shared services. T he CO improved knowledge management through Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) related to operations procedures (eg: procurement, finance, HR transactions) to support more efficient and effective delivery of programmatic results. The lessons learned on new ways of working imposed by COVID-19 served the CO well to respond with agility to the challenges associated with the evolving political crisis and social unrest in Tunisia. The CO leveraged partnerships with CSOs, the international community, and focused on higher-level outcomes related to knowledge production, gender mainstreaming and coordination that increased the effectiveness and efficiency of our results. Coordination around GEWE has been enhanced: three Joint Programmes have been implemented ( UN Women and UNDP address economic violence as part of the JP ‘Addressing GBV post COVID-19 in Tunisia’; in partnership with FAO, IFAC and WFP, it entered phase II of ‘Accelerating Progress Towards Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment;’ a JP with UNDP and WHO promotes women and girls’ leadership in the socio-economic and health response to COVID-19) and one new joint programme has been designed (on promoting Tunisia’s Social dialogue in partnership with ILO). The UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard exercice and the subsequent empowerment of the gender coordination group to have an elevated role in the development and implementation of the next UNSDCF have been successfully coordinated by UN Women. Lessons learned: The Coordination mandate requires significant resources in terms of staff time in a small team, and the Tunisia CO responded by linking programming and coordination more closely and through intense engagement of senior staff for coordination.

outcome XM-DAC-41146-TUN_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 was made towards this output. During the reporting year, s taff increased performance awareness, promoted a culture of accountability, and advanced their knowledge and further develope d their skills to better manage programmes and integrate the organization’s overall strategic directions into implementation and operations, as a result of trainings and capacity development activities related to programme and operations functions by the Conflict Cluster Office (CCO). A challenge remained with 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. As a response, the office developed an online learning platform that contains standard operating procedures (SoPs), training materials, and induction sessions which supported the quick onboarding of newly recruited personnel, and technical support was provided to strengthen programme officers' capacities to deliver quality, results-based monitoring throughout the year, and to ensure institutional knowledge with current programmes.

outcome XM-DAC-41146-TUN_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.

UN Women efficiently and effectively discharged its business processes and advanced our normative, operational and coordination mandate in a synergetic way in the area of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and social cohesion. 20 members of the Tunisian network for women promotors of peace and social cohesion from the north, center and south of the Tunisia built their capacities on early warning, risk assessment and conflict prevention through a three day training. The workshop was held by UN Women in collaboration with the Office of the Resident Coordinator and aimed at building local and national capacities for conflict prevention and peacebuilding, as well as informing the UN on major trends and developments. Throughout the training, participants were very engaged, reflected on the theories and concepts from a practical perspective and by the end of the workshop gained capacities to develop conflict maps , centered around three key driving factors of conflicts they have identified: Climate change Migration Domestic Violence Following this workshop, and based on the pre and post-evaluation tests members of the network are now more equipped with tools to analyze conflicts (specifically on how to conduct a System Conflict Analysis) and thus have a better understanding of the needs at the local level and on the ways to address them to have a greater impact on the peace and development environment in Tunisia. During the workshop, members of the network with the support of a local consultant developed the framework for the network and identified their objectives and plans for 2024.