Outcome MOZ_O_4

Advancing partnerships & resourcing; Effectively influencing for impact & scale

During the reporting year, UN Women Mozambique has actively expanded and strengthened its partnership portfolio during the reporting period, focusing on multi-sectoral collaboration to advance gender equality, women’s economic empowerment (WEE), and other strategic priorities. Key New and Renewed Partners (2024 and 2025): EY: Partnership established (MoU pending) to support WEE initiatives. CARITAS Diocesana, LIVANINGO, ROSC, AMASI: responsible partners of the KOICA-funded project. NAFEZA & Young Africa: Partners for the Rapariga BIZ Programme. National Statistics Office: Collaboration for piloting the Time Use Survey. Potential Partners: Government of Turkey: Exploring partnership opportunities for WEE. African Development Bank: Potential joint work on Gender Sensitive Budgeting training. Mozambican Association of Final-Year students (AEFUM) Government of Japan Japan International Cooperation Agency Strategic Partnership Modalities: Partnerships span government entities, UN agencies, civil society organizations, private sector actors, and financial institutions. Modalities include MoUs, joint programming, technical support, advocacy, and direct implementation. These collaborations are designed to leverage expertise, resources, and networks for greater impact on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Advancing partnerships & resourcing; Effectively influencing for impact & scale

In 2024 UN Women Mozambique continued advancing partnerships to effectively influence change at scale. The CO has a total of 20,805 followers on Facebook and 1,379 followers on Twitter and is using both platforms to give visibility to the work of UN Women in Mozambique and implementing partners. It is also worth mentioning the efforts in partnership building and maintenance. Adding to the existing implementing partners, the CO also worked with: 1. AIESEC: MoU signed to work on youth engagement, advancing gender equaity and WEE. 2. FAO: conversations on-going and working on a joint-programming proposal on Blue Economy & Gender 3. WB: conversaitons on-going to establish agreements on gender and ICT projects and gender & Blue Economy. 4. Girl Move Academy: partnership established in the framework of AGCCI. 5. Vodacom: partnership established to work on EVAW. Dissemination of messages, private sectorengagementdialogues, etc. 6. EY: partnership established and MoU pending approval, to work on WEE matters. 7. GIZ: talks and meetings on track to collaborate on WPS projects. 8. PMCET: AGCCI partner, considered an implementaiton partners.NGOworkin on training women in ICT. 9. Standard Bank: meetings have been held to form a partnership regarding WEE and female access to financing. 10. Access Bank:meetings have been held to form a partnership regarding WEE and female access to financing. This has showed the CO commitment to diversifying partnerships by also bringing the private sector to the table in efforts to advance UN Women´s mission in Gender Equality,

Advancing partnerships & resourcing; Effectively influencing for impact & scale

The CO continued its efforts on RM and on partnership formulation bringing in a total of $6m from KOICA and $2m from Japan. The CO further developed some concept notes and proposals during the year that are expected to bring in additional funds in 2024. To strength and accelerate implementation, the CO established 4 new additiional partnerships making a total 7 all that contributed to the CO results. The CO floated another call for proposal to select more partners and this process is expected to conclude in the year 2024.