Outcome EGY_O_1

Enhanced coordination, coherence, and accountability of the UN system for GE commitments

In 2021, re-activated the Gender Theme Group, which had formerly been subsumed under a Government/UN mechanism of the UNPDF. Un Women conducted indepth training of the Gender Theme Group, based on their direct requests for support. During the drafting of the next UN Cooperation Framework, UN Women coordinated and took the lead in drafting the Gender Pillar (one of five pillars of the draft Cooperation Framework). UN Women leads three joint programmes; and lead the development of a US$39 million programme proposal to USAID in a non-traditional funding opportunity and involving two other UN agencies and three INGOs. While short-listed for the financing, USAID in the end gave it to their traditional contractors in this area. However, the process helped shaped some future work with UNFPA and ILO. Under the UN RC, UN Women is the technical advisory agency and main drafter of the UN System's first decentralised Spotlight INitiative country programme. Throughout 2021, UN Women continued to lead the planning, monitoring, coordination and reporting against the current UNDAF's gender pillar.

Enhanced coordination, coherence, and accountability of the UN system for GE commitments

Through UN Women's leadership under the UN RC, the new UNSDCF (2023-2027)has both a stand-alone pillar on GEWE as well as being mainstreamed through three of the five pillars. UN Women negotiated with the MoFA on sensitive terminology and supported the UN RC in finding compromise language. Cabinet approval of the UNSDCF was secured just prior to COP27. Using the momentum of COP27, UN Women and UNDP have come together (through UN Women's initaitive) for the first time in a Joint Programme on gender-responsive renewable energy (pending) With Egypt's Presidency of COP27 on behalf of Africa Group, the UNCT was incredibly busy in 2022. UN Women Egypt was designated as the lead agency on the one Presidency Inititative on Women (the African Women's Climate Adaptive Priorities - AWCAP), and the Egypt CO took the lead in coordinating 11+ agencies (globa, regional and country level entities including UNFCCC) in providing harmonised technical advise to the Government of Egypt in the shaping of the initative. Evolving into the AWCAP, UN Women Egypt liaised with the three regional offices in AFrica to mobilise 7 countries to sign off on the initiative. Launched at COP27 under the auspices of the President of Egypt and in the presence of the UN Women ED, the AWCAP is the first initiative of its kind in a COP, and UN Women is designated as the global lead.