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Principled Performance

In 2024, UN Women Lebanon continue to deliver on its mandate while respecting the highest ethical and principled standards. In 2024, UN Women Lebanon further increased its annual budget to about 7.4 M USD and estimated delivery rate of 93 per cent. This is despite several challenges related to the impact of the escalation of hostilities impacting Lebanon and directly affecting UN Women personnel; some staff was internally displaced, while non-essential personnel had to be evacuated. Nevertheless, UN Women maintained business continuity throughout the war. UN Women has systematically applied policies, procedures and administrative guidelines related to its duty of care towards its staff. This includes conducting regular wellness checks, covering the relocation costs of 15 local staff to safer areas, based on DSS advice; evacuation of 1 non-critical international staff, application of danger pay and flexible working arrangements as well as granting up to 10 working days special leave with full pay (SLWFP).

Principled Performance

In 2023, UN Women Lebanon made significant process towards being an accountable and trustworthy organization managing its resources in line with its programmatic ambitious and obligations. UN Women Lebanon’s financial, partner and donor management further improved. In 2023, UN Women Lebanon further increased its annual spending to $6 Million and estimated delivery rate of 95 per cent. The operations team build their capacities and engaged in further trainings and the office underwent changes in structure, ensured clearer segregation of roles and responsibilities as well as improved its business processes to support this result. UN Women has also joined forces with other COs in the region to ensure operational gaps such as Finance and Procurement functions are covered. Furthermore, UN Women Lebanon closely monitored the implementation for their partners. This is evidenced by the fact that UN Women conducted 17 partner audits in 2023 (for 2022) in which the office gave 41 audit recommendations, 11 of which were financial findings for a total of $13,217. The CO also submitted 87 percent of the donor reports in-time.