Outcome TUN_O_5

UN Women efficiently and effectively discharges of all business processes that advance integrated delivery of its normative, operational and coordination mandate at HQ, Regional and Country level, including through shared services.

UN Women efficiently and effectively discharged its business processes and advanced our normative, operational and coordination mandate in a synergetic way in the area of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and social cohesion. Firstly, it implemented operational activities under two projects: ‘Empowered Women for Resilient, Peaceful Communities in Southern Tunisia,’ funded by Japan; and ‘Women, Peace and Security in the Arab States,’ funded by Finland. Under the latter, operational activities included the evaluation of the first National Action Plan (NAP) on UNSCR 1325 and strengthening the capacity of civil society to monitor the next phase of the NAP. Under the former, operational activities included a participatory research study, ‘Empowered women for resilient, peaceful communities in Southern Tunisia,’ with 170 women from seven municipalities in Southern Tunisia with favourable conditions for radicalization and violent extremism and a large-scale advocacy campaign on women’s roles in preventing violent extremism (PVE) and economic development. Secondly, it ensured findings from the operational activities reached international partners, including the UN (coordination) and national partners to ensure normative progress. For example, the findings of the NAP evaluation was shared with the Minister of Women’s Affairs and the 22 members of the NAP Steering Committee (Ministries of Justice, Interior, Defence, Foreign Affairs, Health, Religious Affairs, Finance, Economy and Planification, Education, Culture Affairs, Youth and Sport). Similarly, the operational work on PVE was embedded in normative advocacy by UN Women with 48 focal points from the National Commission for Countering Terrorism who increased their knowledge of gender mainstreaming. Moreover, the mentioned research study was published in a way that the 170 women had their priorities heard by 78 decision-makers from ministries at national and local level, CSOs, and media representatives. UN Women organized the event ‘Empowered women and girls today, for a sustainable future’ with a view to inform TICAD 8, the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development event to be held in Tunisia. It did so in partnership with the Japanese Embassy, the Ministry of Family, Women, Children and the Elderly, the Chamber of Women Entrepreneurs, the Chamber of Commerce, the Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, and the Tunisian-Japanese Chamber of Commerce. UN Women’s recommendations made it into TICAD’s final declaration.

UN Women efficiently and effectively discharges of all business processes that advance integrated delivery of its normative, operational and coordination mandate at HQ, Regional and Country level, including through shared services.

UN Women efficiently and effectively discharged its business processes and advanced our normative, operational and coordination mandate in a synergetic way in the area of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and social cohesion. 20 members of the Tunisian network for women promotors of peace and social cohesion from the north, center and south of the Tunisia built their capacities on early warning, risk assessment and conflict prevention through a three day training. The workshop was held by UN Women in collaboration with the Office of the Resident Coordinator and aimed at building local and national capacities for conflict prevention and peacebuilding, as well as informing the UN on major trends and developments. Throughout the training, participants were very engaged, reflected on the theories and concepts from a practical perspective and by the end of the workshop gained capacities to develop conflict maps , centered around three key driving factors of conflicts they have identified: Climate change Migration Domestic Violence Following this workshop, and based on the pre and post-evaluation tests members of the network are now more equipped with tools to analyze conflicts (specifically on how to conduct a System Conflict Analysis) and thus have a better understanding of the needs at the local level and on the ways to address them to have a greater impact on the peace and development environment in Tunisia. During the workshop, members of the network with the support of a local consultant developed the framework for the network and identified their objectives and plans for 2024.

UN Women efficiently and effectively discharges of all business processes that advance integrated delivery of its normative, operational and coordination mandate at HQ, Regional and Country level, including through shared services.

The Cluster Office continue to ensure the timely and quality discharges of all business processes to advance its triple mandate.