Outcome ZAF_O_2

Increased engagement of partners in support of UN Women's mandate

UN Women SAMCO continued to leverage on partnerships with regional bodies, civil society organizations (CSOs) and private sector to achieve results. New partnerships with private sector and civil society organizations were established to ensure effective and timely response to COVID-19. The partners provided support in implementing various activities that impacted on the targeted beneficiaries i.e. skilling and trainings, advocacy and lobbying as well as contributing to the financial resources that facilitated programme delivery

Increased engagement of partners in support of UN Women's mandate

In 2022 partners supported UN Women's mandate financially and non-financially. Private sector partners, such as tMTN and ABSA, provided financial support to the Women's Economic Empowerment and Ending Violence Against Women programs. Our traditional donor the Irish Government and UK also financially supported the EVAW programme, GEF and Women Empowerment programmes to be implemented in 2022. Non-financial partners; Nokia provided non-financial support through the Action for Employment program targeting young vulnerable girls from informal settlements. by Nokia; and Facebook Africa (Meta) continued supporting the #SheMeansBusiness Digital Marketing Programme across several South African provinces. SAMCO continued to leverage Women Empowerment Principles (WEPS) www.weps.org and Unstereotype Alliance www.unstereotypealliance.org to engage private sector to support GEWE within their organisations and CSI programmes. The engagements have also served to challenge signatories to go beyond just financially supporting GEWE to elevating issues of gender equality within their companies. By Qtr4 cumulative signatories was at 117 with strategy to focus more on Stock Exchange listed companies for 2023.The WEPs engagements have also served to challenge signatories to go beyond just financially supporting GEWE to elevating issues of gender equality within their companies. The Loeries Mentorship Program (an Ally member of the Unstereotype Alliance) provided a structured platform to ensure skills transfer to help young advertising professionals navigate a career path in advertising. Nine of the 15 candidates selected to participate in the program were from South Africa. Partnerships with implementing partners continued to be strengthened to ensure GEWE is amplified directly and indirectly with their ongoing work. In collaboration with government and civil society earnstly GEF gained momentum to commence the localisation of the Action Coalitions since the 2021 GE Forum. A draft strategy developed by government and stakeholders is being finalised. A communication strategy is being finalised to support effective partnership building and resource mobilisation. A Communiction Analyst onboarded in 2022 Qtr4. Partnership with UNCT was strenghtened to identify joint programming and advocacy work across programmes. One of the notable collaboration was around the #BreakTheBias campaign and competition targetting young people to commemorate national women's month. https://southafrica.un.org/en/190781-breakthebias-photo-and-video-competition UNCT collaboration in supporting the Presidential GBVF Summit was successful: https://gbvf.org.za/summit-updates https://twitter.com/AletaFMiller/status/1587440992050769921