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Advancing business transformation

Among others, UN Women’s mandate is to lead and promote coordination on gender equality and women’s empowerment. In other to enhance the visibility of APPWA, the Country Office supported three meetings to coordinate organisations working on women’s political participation, including; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), SEND Sierra Leone, National Democratic Institute (NDI), the 50/50 Group, TROCAIRE, European Union (EU), ECSL, AMNET Sierra Leone, and PPRC. With UN Women support, APPWA Strategic Plan 2022-2026 was developed and launched. APPWA engaged the PPRC in three meetings as part of the roll out of the strategic plan to advocate for more women on Political parties’ nomination lists to thElectoral Commission. During these meeting, UN Women took leadership in coordinating organizations’ activities, focused on gender, across the country. The technical working on Women Political Participation formed and engaged political parties on increasing women’s political participation before, during and after.

Advancing business transformation

The CO transformed it business modality by effective planning, strategic partnership and focusing on best practice and lession learnt from other country offices, resource mobilise and allocate resources appropriately to create impact for women and girls. A good example is leveraging from CORE resources to empower rural women with tools and strengthened their capacity which led to improved yields.

To institutionalize a strong culture of results-based management, reporting, knowledge management and evaluation

The Country office summitted quarterly reports on a timely basis. In addition the Country office contributed t report for the UNDAF through the results group