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Services and Processes

In 2023, UN Women Lebanon efficiently and effectively discharged all business processes that advanced integrated delivery of GEWE on country level. This included that all four response plans have a robust gender analysis, 90 humanitarian and development personnel (72 women, 17 men and 1 non-binary) increased their capacity on diverse gender equality issues, six UN agencies are better able to implement their projects in a gender responsible manner and all UN agencies have increased knowledge on the gender equality marker. All response plans in Lebanon – across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus - have robust gender analysis (with data largely produced by UN Women), resulting in better quality and more accurate information on the situation of diverse women and girls, and marginalized groups across the country. UN response and contingency plans as well humanitarian reports were gender mainstreamed. This included the flash updates, the mobility snapshots as well as the contingency plan developed by the emergency inter-sector coordination group related to the humanitarian situation resulting from the conflict in the south. Furthermore, the tools and methodology Rapid Needs Analysis of collective shelters in the South highlights the needs of women and girls. The analysis, strategy and dashboard of Lebanon’s Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) reflects on the situation of women and girls. In coordination with the gender focal points of the LCRP sectors, 11 Gender and GBV tipsheets were produced (one per sector) to ensure a gender sensitive emergency preparedness and 11 Gender Sector plans (one per sector) were developed and are being integrated in the new Lebanon Response Plan (LRP). In addition, UN Women co-chaired two coordination forums, the Gender Working Group and the LGBTIQ+ Task Force. Through this work, UN Women increased number of partners and the quality of support provided on issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment through its coordination mandate. The Gender Working Group (GWG) expanded its organizational memberships to a total of 91 actors, an increase of 31% from the end of 2022. 90 humanitarian and development personnel (72 women, 17 men and 1 non-binary) increased their capacity on diverse gender equality issues ranging from the gender in humanitarian action (GIHA), PSEA, GBV, and SOGIESC. As a result, the capacity of sectoral gender and GBV focal points, sector partners and UN Women partners was built after three trainings done by UN Women. Thirty-one employees from international organizations, local organizations and UN agencies gained knowledge on Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) in Humanitarian action with a 11% increase in knowledge. Additionally, thirty two women community leaders and partners gained the skill to train others on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) with a 29% increase in knowledge. In addition, 10 gender focal points (one per sector under the LCRP) were appointed, trained, and technically supported. Under the principle of leave no one behind, the SPFIII support played a leading role in advancing the LGBTIQ+ agenda in Lebanon through its support to the LGBTIQ+ TF. UN Women has substantially advanced the LGBTIQ+ agenda across the humanitarian and development nexus in Lebanon, contributing to increased actions by national and international partners through historic public advocacy, policy, expanded programming, and funding for Lebanese LGBTIQ+ organizations – all in the backdrop of a hostile and dangerous environment to work on this agenda. Evaluation findings further were used to further improve the quality of UN Women’s programmes. UN Women conducted two evaluations in 2023 and is closely following up on the recommendations to ensure that they are considered in future programming. Six UN agencies are better able to implement their projects in a gender responsible manner, through technical advice provided by UN Women. This includes gender assessments of WFP’s National Poverty Targeting Programme run with the Ministry of Social Affairs, in addition to gender mainstreaming support to the RCO, FAO, UNIDO, UNICEF, and UNDP for their work under the Productive Sectors Development Programme. In addition, all UN agencies increased their knowledge on the Gender Equality Markers as well as on gender sensitive monitoring through a training provided by UN Women in collaboration with the RCO.

Services and Processes

In 2024, UN Women continued to deliver on its services and processes with the highest moral and ethical standards. As a result of UN Women's mobilization efforts, the Strategic Note has been funded by non-core funding for 90 per cent. While they have not replied to formal survey links shared by UN Women, donors have consintenly provided informal feedback to reports submitted by UN Women, as demonstrated by the renewed commitments and pledges throughout and planned for 2025. UN Women has also led on mainstreaming gender across the UNCT and humanitarian coordination fora. chairs the Gender Working Group (with UNDP), which oversees gender mainstreaming into the work of the Lebanon Response Plan (LRP), including technically supporting the LRP sectors, as well as convenes the reform discussions on GEWE under the 3RF. In 2024, UN Women also led the activation and co-chairs the Gender in Humanitarian Action Sub-Working Group to strengthen the participation of women-led organizations into the humanitarian response and ensures that gender perspectives are incorporated into into all humanitarian planning, decision-making, and implementation processes, promoting accountability and strengthening the response's gender responsiveness. As a result, 19 UN agencies receive gender parity advice and/or technical assistance by UN Women,