Outcome BDI_O_1

Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for gender equality commitment

In monitoring and reporting for the UNSDCF, UN Women contributed to the review of indicators and activity categories for the UNSDCF Results Group in which it is principally involved, applying a gender-lens: RG3 – Social protection and Socioeconomic integration of the vulnerable (for which UN Women is lead); and RG6 – Peace, Justice & Human rights (co-lead). As co-lead of the PSEA working group, support was provided in a joint evaluation and sensitisation activity which took place in internally displaced persons and returnee camp sites in 3 provinces of Burundi. Through focus groups grouping women, girls, men, boys, local administration, and humanitarian actors operating in the camps, data was collected to analyse PSEA in humanitarian settings, and to sensitize stakeholders on the topic. A communication strategy is being drafted to spread key messages to stakeholders. 3 Joint programmes started implementation during the reporting year, contributing to advancing gender equality in the areas of nutrition and food security; socioeconomic empowerment of youth; and the leadership of women in the localisation of the UNSC Res. 1325.

Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for gender equality commitment

The UN System in Burundi has enhanced its coordination, coherence and accountability toward its commitments to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls (GEEWG) through UN Women’s efforts to reinvigorate coordination for GEEWG results at the level of the UN Country Team (UNCT). This reporting period, in the context of the elaboration of Burundi’s UNSDCF (2023-2027), UN Women enhanced its capacity in gender mainstreaming in programmes and projects through trainings and information sessions organized by its Regional Office, which were also attended by Burundi’s UN Resident Coordinator’s Office. Leveraging the acquired knowledge, UN Women and the UNRCO increased their collaboration with the aim of facilitating UN coordination for GEEWG. This has facilitated micro-initiatives, such as the design and delivery of information sessions (on the importance of gender equality, gender mainstreaming in the UNSDCF, gender-responsive M&E, the UNCT-SWAP Gender Scorecard, and the UNCT-Gender Equality Markers) to various interagency groups who are implicated in the development of the cooperation framework. Additionally, the Humanitarian Country Team has also enhanced its capacities to integrate gender in the Humanitarian Programme Cycle through a training of trainers (ToT), with UN Women’s support—timely, for UN Women’s membership in the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC). Gender being a cross-cutting theme, UN Women has also positioned itself in all 5 UNSDCF Results Groups during the elaboration of outcomes, outputs and their respective indicators to ensure that gender is integrated across the whole framework. Increased efforts to identify synergies in the work of various UN agencies in Burundi, in line with the operationalization of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN), has resulted in the development of a number of UN joint-programmes under the Common Chapter (NB: most are still at the phase of securing funding). Going beyond the UNS, UN Women has also submitted a gender-responsive HDPN proposal, instigating a partnership with the World Bank. Joint advocacy for GEEWG continues to be an integral initiative of the UN. Lessons learnt and best practices in advocacy and campaigning (such as key messages, stakeholders involved etc.) will inform the joint advocacy activities of 2023.

Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for gender equality commitment

UN Women continued to invest in UN Coordination through charing Gender and Human Rights Thematic Group( GHRTG) and building capacities of the group focal points in gender mainstreaming, gender, human rights and peace markers to ensure UN agencies develop gender sensitive CPD;UN Women enhanced coordination of the implementation of UNSDCF as chair of PMT and ensured quality joint work planning