Outcome MDA_O_1

UN Coordination

3,522 women and 1,313 men from the most vulnerable and excluded groups improved their recovery from COVID-19, as result of the joint initiative of UN Women and OHCHR with the Human Rights (HR) CSO Task force and public social assistants. This was made possible due to the financial support provided by Austrian Government through MPTF fund. Retired teachers who continue to work now have the right to paid leave, due to amendments of the labor code made possible through the Bill proposed by the Women Parliamentary Caucus, supported by Common chapter agencies. A joint UNCT Confidential report to UPR and an advocacy brief on GEWE for further confidential sharing with Permanent missions in Geneva were submitted as UNCT and UN Women engaged with HR mechanisms. A significant amount of new data and qualitative gender analysis have been produced through the Gender Brief (issued by UN Women) and the Comprehensive Gender Assessment (produced jointly by UN Women, UNFPA, the World Bank under RCO coordination) to enable increased monitoring of progress on SDGs by the Government, in line with national 2020 VNR. A Common Country Assessment (CCA), revised by UNCT, which is gender transformative with GE mainstreamed across all thematic areas and a focused chapter on GEWE. The CCA was consulted with a broad range of CSOs and groups of population, including from most vulnerable groups. The UNCT produced a NCT-SWAP GE Scorecard comprehensive assessment and met or exceeded nine out of fifteen performance indicators that represents 60%. UNCT Moldova Youth and disability scorecards from 2021 have GE mainstreamed. 40 members of the UNCT GTG and RGs strengthened their capacities – through a comprehensive 5 half days training - on gender mainstreaming in programming and RBM, gender related indicators and GEM coding, in line with UNCT-SWAP GE and UN Partnership Framework evaluation. In Belarus, where UN Women acts as Non- Resident Agency through Moldova CO support, the CCA contains a separate GE chapter and was updated with 2021 data. A comprehensive gender equality scorecard assessment was conducted in 2021. In 80% of the targets, the UNCT is meeting and exceeding standards (specifically in programming, partnership, leadership and gender architecture), while in 13,33% approaching targets (UNSDCF indicators, and gender parity), and in 6,67% missing targets (resource tracking). Capacities of UNCT and senior staff , on HRBA and GE civic space and conflict sensitivity management were enhanced under the leadership of OHCHR and RCO. Dedicated sessions on gender analysis and gender budgeting as key to gender sensitive programming, due diligence when engaging with CSOs, women human rights defenders, as well as gender and conflict sensitivity analysis were delivered by UN Women staff and experts.

UN Coordination

As per the coordination mandate, UN Women continued to lead, promote and coordinate the UNCT efforts in advancing gender equality at country level. UN Women continued to chair the GTG holding two meetings in the reporting period. As well UN Women continued to chair the RG2 on Economic development and PSEA Task Force, co-chaired the RG1 on Governance and gender equality), and actively participating in UNCT meetings and all other thematic groups (SDG M&E Group, OMT, UNCG,) participated in UNCT meetings. Following the approval by the UNSDG of the new GTG Standards and Procedures, in 2021, the UN GTG has in place a reviewed and aligned version of the ToR, endorsed by the UNCT. UN Women and RCO led the work on the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard annual reporting, the report being developed, presented to the UNCT for endorsement and uploaded on the reporting platform in due time. In 2022, UNCT met or exceeded ten out of 15 performance indicators (66 %), registering an increase compared to 2021 (66% in 2021). A Comprehensive Gender Assessment, undertaken by the UNCT(UN Women, RCO, UNFPA) and the World Bank, was finalized and officially launched, which is a part of the CCA and informed the development of the new Cooperation Framework 2023-2027. The new UNSDCF 2023-2027 has been finalized and endorsed by the Government, UN Women actively participating and contributed meaningfully to the process. Since the onset of the refugee crisis and beginning of the war in Ukraine, on 24 February 2022, UN Women has engaged to respond to the crisis through the coordination and operational work. On the coordination work, a Gender Task Force was established as part of the Refugee Coordination Structure under the Refugee Coordination Model, leaded by UN Women and co-leaded by the Gender Equality Platform, having 50 partners from government bodies, UN entities, International NGOs and local women’s organizations. In the reporting period eight joint initiatives were implemented, out of them three were new initiatives (1.UN Women, UNFPA and UNICEF joint initiative to assess the costs of expanding early childhood education and care and its potential impact on employment creation and women Labour participation rate; 2.Joint project of UN Women, UNDP and OHCHR, financed from PBF, to facilitate an enabling environment for improved cross-river interconnection between CSOs, communities, the Peoples’ Advocate and the focal point for human rights on the left bank of the Nistru river, reduced social tensions and the continuation of the fragile Transnistrian conflict settlement process in the context of growing regional and domestic geopolitical tensions exacerbated by the war in Ukraine; 3. Joint UNDP-DPPA Programme has approved seed funding for the catalytic conflict prevention activities in Moldova. UNDP and UN Women Moldova will implement activities at country level for the period of November 2022 – October 2023). ) Belarus: 35 representatives from profile Ministries namely MLSP, MoF, MoE, MoH, Ministry of Economy, Belstat, research institutions raised their awareness on GRB during an introductory thematic meeting and 8 online training session organized under the leadership of Belarus Ministry of Laboure and Social Protection in partnership with UN Women, under the Joint Programme “Promoting new tools of sustainable development budgeting that prioritize vulnerable populations in Belarus” funded by the Joint SDG Fund. Effective cooperation with UNDP Belarus was started within Rapid Integrated Assessment of state budget allocation, analyses of SDG integration in national strategic documents at national and local levels. The need to develop a mechanism for tracking finances on gender equality and women’s empowerment, as per national indicator 5.c.1.1 is highlighted in recommendations 14 specialists from 9 UN entities, including members of Result Group on Gender Equitable Society, GTG, and M&E group were capacitated through series of online training sessions on Gender Mainstreaming in Programming and Budgeting, and Gender marker, carried out under coordination with ECA RO. To lead, promote and coordinate efforts on gender equality and empowerment of women in UNSDCF implementation UN Women contributed to CCA update through gender lens, coordinated preparation and submission of UNCT Belarus SWAP report, co-chaired Result group on Gender Equitable Society/GTG, participated in Task Forces on M&E, PSEA, Task Force on Vulnerable groups, participated in UNCT meetings.