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Increased engagement of partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate

Throughout 2021, UN Women expanded and strengthened partnerships with its stakeholders on women’s rights and gender equality in Lebanon across civil society, government, and international organizations. Concrete results include: Strengthened its engagement with UN agencies as well as national and international NGOS through the restructuring of the Gender Working Group, from a group of UN agencies into a network of 42 national and international organizations (UN agencies: 19, INGOs: 6, and NGOs: 17) to collaborate on women’s and gender equality issues in Lebanon across the HDP nexus. In addition, 15 member states/donors collaborate with the group in an observatory status capacity. UN Women expanded its CSO networks through the expansion of the UN Women hosted Feminist Platform, coalition of 52 civil society organizations working on women’s rights issues In Lebanon. UN Women scaled-up up advocacy on gender priorities within Lebanon’s reform process, through its government partners, namely the NCLW, and a network of embassies, namely led by female ambassadors. Work on this included for example a meeting jointly organized with UNDP and the Embassy of Germany on “Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics in Lebanon” to discuss concrete steps to be taken in the lead up to the elections on women’s political representation, including a coordinated call for action to Government to, inter alia, adopt a gender quota in parliamentary elections in Lebanon. One result from this was an op-ed signed by 22 Ambassadors, the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and the Head of UN Women on women’s political representation . https://daraj.com/en/83662/ UN Women strengthened its relationship with the World Bank, coordinating technical work and advocacy on women’s rights. One concrete visible outcome was a joint high-level event between UN Women, the EU and the World Bank on women’s rights and gender equality, which generated concrete commitments from the Government of Lebanon on the integration of these issues into their reform agenda. https://arabstates.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2021/11/un-women-the-european-union-and-the-world-bank-launch-two-reports In addition, UN Women increased its engagement of donors, partners, as well as the public through communications and advocacy campaigns. UN Women Lebanon’s Twitter followers increased from 1300 to 4652. One example is UN Women Lebanon’s partnership with Twitter MENA, local TV station, LBCI & Annahar local newspaper to launch a campaign that sheds light on the importance of engaging women in dialogue and negotiations, acknowledging that equal participation is directly linked to more durable solutions and sustainable outcomes. ‘The Missing Peace’ campaign launched on Twitter in both English and Arabic languages using the hashtags #TheMissingPeace was articulated around removing half of the alphabet from UN Women’s Tweets on the day, allowing the audience to experience and visualize a dysfunctional public dialogue. The campaign generated 3,353,590 impressions, reached 2,981,951 twitter users, trended for three days in a row and received 8,232 mentions from over 61 countries . https://arabstates.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2021/11/un-women-partners-with-twitter-mena-lbci-annahar-to-launch-the-missing-peace

Increased engagement of partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate

This output was achieved. In 2022, partners increased their engagement in support of UN Women’s mandate. This was a result of UN Women increasing the number of partners and quality of support they provided on gender equality and women’s empowerment through its coordination mandate. UN Women increased attention to and action towards gender equality issues across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus, with efforts centralize in the Gender Working Group (GWG). In 2022, the GWG expanded its organizational memberships to a total of 70 organizations, an increase of 40% from the end of 2021, when the group opened its membership to non-UN agency members; in additional 15 member states and development cooperations are engaged in the GWG in an observatory status. UN Women expanded its CSO networks by strengthening the UN Women hosted Feminist Platform, a coalition of 52 civil society organizations working on women’s rights issues In Lebanon. This included representative from the Platform meeting with Prime Minister Mikati to demand stronger representation of women in the cabinet formation. UN Women scaled-up up advocacy on gender priorities within Lebanon’s reform process, through its government partners, namely the NCLW. In addition, UN Women increased its engagement of donors, partners, as well as the public through communications and advocacy campaigns. UN Women Lebanon’s Twitter followers increased from 4652 to 6220. One example is the Vote Equal Campaign that engaged 14 international partners to raise awareness on the importance of women’s political participation. The campaign generated 2.5 million impressions and reached 750000 social media users.