Outcome UKR_O_1

Assuring an accountable organization through principled performance

In 2023, UN Women continued to leverage its triple mandate on coordination, normative accountability and operational relevance. Three national-level plans and assessments, including 1) the Humanitarian Needs Response Plan 2024, 2) the Multi-Sector Needs Assessment 2023, and 3) Rapid Gender Analysis 2023 incorporated the voices of women and girls, positioning their needs and priorities at the forefront of Ukraine’s humanitarian response efforts, as a result of UN Women’s efforts to mainstream gender into the UN humanitarian coordination response. Further, as the co-chair of the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group GiHA and full member of the Humanitarian Country Team in Ukraine (obtained in 2023), UN Women continued to effectively coordinate the collective efforts of humanitarian actors, UN and non-UN organizations in order to be effective in complex crisis settings. In addition, expert and coordination work of the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group, co-chaired by UN Women led to attaining the following results: 10 clusters and UN Working Groups including Protection, Child Protection, Education, Food Security and Livelihood, Health, Shelter, Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Accountability to the affected Population Working Group, Age and Disability, and Cash Working Groups have integrated gender dimensions into sectors’ work and cross-sector joint actions through the introduction of gender-tip sheets that provide strategic and practical guidance. The third Rapid Disaster Needs Assessment (RDNA3) for Ukraine includes a gender-specific impacts sub-chapter for the first time. As opposed to the previous two reports, the third report, as a direct result of UN Women leading the gender sub-chapter working group, contains much more data on how the war has impacted Ukrainian women, particularly in terms of the unpaid care burden and its limitations on women, the increase in GBV vulnerability, and constraints on women’s inclusion in decision-making. Women's Human Rights Organizations operating in frontline areas improved their capacities to address urgent needs and opportunities through the establishment of communication channels between WHROs and the United Nations Country Team (more results are reported under Output 1.2). UN Women contributed to these results by facilitating dialogues with the UNCT and the Humanitarian Coordinator, as well as facilitating the participation of women-rights CSOs.