Region:Asia Pacific
Current UN Women Plan Period Afghanisthan:2018-2022
World Bank Income Classification:Low Income
The World Bank classifies economies for analytical purposes into four income groups: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. For this purpose it uses gross national income (GNI) per capita data in U.S. dollars, converted from local currency using the World Bank Atlas method, which is applied to smooth exchange rate fluctuations.
Least Developed Country:Yes
Since 1971, the United Nations has recognized LDCs as a category of States that are deemed highly disadvantaged in their development process, for structural, historical and also geographical reasons. Three criteria are used: per capita income, human assets, and economic vulnerability.
Gender Inequality Index:0.575
GII is a composite metric of gender inequality using three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market. A low GII value indicates low inequality between women and men, and vice-versa.
Gender Development Index:0.723
GDI measures gender inequalities in achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: health, education, and command over economic resources.
Population:209,497,025
Source of population data: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects: The 2022 Revision
Male:19,976,265 (9.5%)
Female:189,520,760 (90.5%)
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WCA_D_3.1
More women and girls are protected from violence in West and Central Africa through normative, legal and policy frameworks and strengthened regional and national institutions that promote positive social norms.
In West and Central Africa, UNWOMEN has made significant progress on normative framework both at regional and country levels. At regional level, partnership with ECCAS resulted to the drafting of the first biding regional EVAW Convention if adopted in 2024 it will have a real impact on the lies and right of estimated hundred million women and girls in the region of Central Africa that are currently subject to SGBV. At country level CAR developp the law on sexual harassment in school to protect girls rights and access to education on post-conflict environnment.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WCA_D_4.1
A comprehensive and dynamic set of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in Peace, Security, Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings is strengthened and translated into gender-responsive laws, policies, and institutions in West and Central Africa.
In West Africa, UN Women has invested in the creation of an enabling environment for women's participation in peace processes. UN Women has worked with other partners to support all countries to develop National Action Plan for the implementation of UNSCR 1325 . In this vein, 22 countries out of the 24 covered by WCARO in the West and Central Africa region. UN Women is supporting NAP implementation by strengthening coordination and supporting the establishment of NAPs secretariats by ministries of gender and allocation of national budget for the implementation of the NAPs. WCARO has started to set up strong group of women with expertise on gender and DRR. They are influencing some regional DRR processes and have started to be invited to participate in the AU group of experts on DRR. UNWOMEN strategy for more impact was to focus on capacity building of actors, development of tools and guidance on gender and DRR and advocacy.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WCA_D_4.2
More women and girls in West and Central Africa have equitable access to high quality public goods, services, and resources that are responsive to their needs in Peace, Security , Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings.
WCARO adopted the following specific strategies aiming to improve women's access to humanitarian response: establisment of group of expert on gender and humanitarian action ( GIHA Group) in the region, advocacy , capacity building of key humanitarian actors, and specific support to women's organizations. UN Women has focused on building skills and providing tools to humanitarian actors (government Ministries, NGOs, regional women’s networks and platforms, women led organizations, Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs), UN agencies) to enable them to integrate gender in the design of interventions several countries in West and Central Africa. In Niger under the leadership of the Humanitarian Gender Theme Group, a Gender Alert highlighted the effects of sanctions by sub-regional bodies (ECOWAS and the West African Monetary and Economic Union (UEMOA) on women and girls after the military coup as a contribution to the UN’s dialogue on limiting the negative impact of the sanctions on humanitarian assistance in the country. UN Women in partnership with NorCap is currently supporting women's organizations that are working on humanitarian and disaster risk reduction issues in the Sahel region. UNWOMEN created space for them to interact with key decision makers and present their priorities and some solutions to different crisis particularly in the context of transition. UN Women coordinates the Regional and national Gender and Humanitarian Groups which include 30 experts from main international agencies and NGOs working in the humanitarian field A group of 20 women have developped their expertise on gender and DRR and influence through advocacy different DRR processes at the national and regional level including the AU GRoup on DRR
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WCA_D_4.3
More women and girls in West and Central Africa exercise their voice, agency and leadership, including through an enabling environment that supports women’s and youth organizations working in Peace, Security, Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings.
The main focus of WPS was related to women's participation in transitions and how they could influence peace in such context. An online meeting was organized with 100 participants from all the 6 african countries in transition namely: Mali, Burkina Faso, chad, Republic of Guinea, Gabon and Sudan. Another meeting was organized by AWLN with women from contries in transition in West Africa . The same debat was conducted during the annual meeting of the Group of Women and Youth for Peace and security in West Africa and the Sahel. Women from those countries continued to make advocacy in many fora at the national and regional level. UNWOMEN also supported women's organizations advocacy for more access to financing. This advocacy was conducted through an online meeting with key donors and representatives from different countries of the region. UNWOMEN has also idnetified implementing partners who will coordinate the project financed by Netherlands aiming to build capacity of 118 WOs. The project will allow to strenghten the advocacy of women's organizations for peace in the Sahel region.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WCA_D_4.4
Gender statistics sex-disaggregated data and knowledge in West and Central Africa are produced, analyzed and used to inform policy-making, advocacy and accountability for delivering gender equality and women's empowerment results in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings.
Under the technical guidance of the regional gender and statistic unit and of the Women Count regional project, many initiatives are in progress in the region to increase the number of SGG indicators, as the VAW Survey in Senegal, the TUS in Nigeria and Liberia the RGA on cost of living in Senegal. UN Women Senegal project, Women Count, has been granted a funds from the Government of Italy to support activities in Senegal to improve national-level SDG monitoring through Citizen Generated data. To support countries in the region on Statistics, the R O Gender Statistic unit has organized a regional webinar on the use of CDG for measuring SDGs. This was done in collaboration with ESARO to share with ANSD and other government agencies interested in statistics/SDGs and CSOs (over 40 persons and 16 CSOs ) what other African countries have already undertaken in this area. Publication of UNW Count programme is avilble and englobes 11 coutreies of Central Africa.Showing 6 - 10 of 10
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