Explore global results from UN Women’s Strategic Plans. Learn more about the entity’s contributions to gender equality and women’s empowerment and the achievement of all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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UN Women's Strategic Plan results 2022-2024
Welcome to the report scorecard for UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2022–2025. This section of the Transparency Portal provides an overview of results from implementing the plan, including the latest figures and data. The links below allow you to explore UN Women's impact areas, systemic outcomes and organizational outputs, all in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and making progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment. For the full report on the implementation of the Strategic Plan in 2024, please click here.
adopted 490 gender-responsive national and local multi-sectoral policies, strategies and plans, addressing issues such as equal pay, the economy of care, violence against women, environment and climate change, and women, peace and security, potentially benefitting 2.7 billion women and girls.
women and girls
- including entire communities - stand to gain from inclusive efforts to prevent conflict, build sustainable peace and reduce the devastating impacts of violence on their lives and communities, as outlined in the 18 new national action plans on women, peace and security adopted since 2021.
additional private companies
(137% increase since 2021) have now committed to fostering business practices that empower women through the Women’s Empowerment Principles.
laws
were adopted, revised or repealed to further advance and protect the rights of women and girls, in line with international norms and standards.
women and girls
across 83 countries now have a more supportive legislative and policy environment protecting their rights following UN-Women's successful collaboration with national partners.
additional countries
have adopted strategies for the prevention of violence against women. These efforts are leading progress towards SDG(Sustainable Development Goal) indicators 5.2 and 5.2.2 to reduce the proportion of women and girls subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence.
organizations
across 95 countries with strengthened capacities to deliver quality goods, services, and resources for women across the humanitarian-development-peace continuum.
processes and mechanisms
- such as dialogues or coalitions - have been established in in 104 countries to enable the meaningful and safe engagement of civil society representatives in policy design and decision-making.
US dollars
have been disbursed to civil society organizations, local women-led organizations and networks, working towards the achievement of gender equality, including in conflict and crisis settings.
increase
in the number of United Nations Country Teams who reported on the UNCT-SWAP(System-wide Action Plan) - strengthening accountability of the UN system to women and girls.
Results by Strategic Plan impact areas
Impact 1Governance and participation in public life
Women fully and equally participate in leadership and decision-making and women and girls benefit from gender-responsive governance.
Women and girls contribute to, and have influence in, building sustainable peace and resilience and benefit equally from the prevention of conflicts and disasters, and from humanitarian action.
A comprehensive and dynamic set of global norms and standards on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is strengthened and translated into genderresponsive laws, policies, and institutions.
More men and boys and women and girls adopt attitudes, norms and practices that advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, including those that promote positive social norms.
More women and girls exercise their voice, agency and leadership, including through an enabling environment that supports women’s and youth organizations.
Gender statistics, sex-disaggregated data and knowledge are produced, analyzed and used to inform policy-making, advocacy and accountability for delivering gender equality and women's empowerment results.
UN Women is an accountable and trustworthy development organization that manages its financial and other resources with integrity and in line with its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations.
UN Women effectively leverages and expands its partnerships, communications and advocacy capabilities to increase support for and financing of the gender equality agenda, while securing sustainable resourcing for the delivery of its own mandate.
UN Women strategically plans for and transforms its business model to deliver impact at scale, through agile and ethical leadership rooted in a continous improvement culture.
Output 4: Nurturing an empowered workforce and advancing an inclusive UN Women culture
With its unique and inclusive culture, UN Women is an employer of choice with a diverse and highly performing cadre of personnel that embodies UN values.
Output 5: Effective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes
UN Women efficiently and effectively discharges of all business processes that advance integrated delivery of its mandate at HQ, Regional and Country levels, including through shared services.
