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outcome XM-DAC-41146-BRA_D_1.1
By 2027, Brazilian society - especially groups and people in vulnerable situations - will have greater access to quality public goods and services, digital inclusion and new technologies, greater capacity to exercise their rights and contribute to the decision-making process, free of violence and discrimination, to reduce social inequalities and promote generation equality, gender, race, and ethnicity.
In 2024, the Brazilian society continued to face meaningful challenges to promote the human rights of women and girls and their contribution to the decision-making process, to reduce social inequalities and to promote gender, race, and ethnicity equality. Despite of that, notable advancements were observed. The Brazilian government made important progress in advancing Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) and mainstreaming gender, race, and ethnicity into the 2024-2027 Pluriannual Plan (PPA), marking a historic milestone as women’s issues were included as one of the five cross-cutting agendas for the first time since the 1988 Constitution. The cross-cutting agenda spans 45 of the PPA’s 88 programs, involving 21 ministries, with 85 objectives, 191 deliverables, and 75 institutional measures, supported by R$14.1 billion allocated in the 2024 Annual Budget Law. UN Women’s contributions included advocacy, technical assistance, and policy advice, driving the development of GRB methodologies and fostering institutional capacity and accountability to integrate gender equality into public financial management. The inclusion of the women’s agenda in the PPA and the allocation of dedicated resources reflect UN Women’s pivotal role in embedding gender considerations into Brazil’s budgetary frameworks. Collaboration with the Ministry of Planning and Budget, the Ministry of Women, and other federal institutions was crucial to facilitating dialogue and coordination for the adoption of GRB practices. UN Women achieved significant progress in advancing gender-sensitive climate change policies by supporting women parliamentarians, leading to the Charter of Alagoas being incorporated into the 10th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20) final declaration. The Charter of Alagoas, developed during the 1st G20 Women Parliamentarians’ Meeting, reaffirmed commitments to gender equality and emphasized transformative policy advocacy, focusing on the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women who face multiple forms of discrimination. UN Women provided integrated policy advice, technical assistance, and intergovernmental normative support to align the Charter with global frameworks such as CEDAW and the Paris Agreement, ensuring an intersectional perspective. The Charter’s integration into the P20 Declaration demonstrated a unified focus on gender-sensitive policies, highlighting priorities like political participation, economic empowerment, and climate resilience under Brazil’s Presidency. Collaboration with the Women’s Caucus of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and G20 parliamentarians was instrumental in drafting, aligning, and adopting the Charter, ensuring global relevance and impact. UN Women has consistently driven public and political support for gender equality in politics through awareness-raising, alliance-building, constituency mobilization, and influencing electoral bodies. A milestone in this agenda was the establishment of the Observatory of Women's Political Fundamental Rights by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), to which UN Women contributed with technical assistance and policy advice. The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI) enhanced its use of communication as a strategic tool to promote the human rights of Indigenous women, which contributes to challenging stereotypes, shifting public perceptions, and advocating for policy changes. As evidence of this progress, the Ministry now implements a strategic social media plan with gender perspective and monitors its communication performance. These efforts enable continuous improvement of its strategy, enhancing the visibility of its initiatives, amplifying positive narratives about Indigenous women, and strengthening its capacity to foster transparency and accountability. UN Women contributed to these advancements through direct technical support and collaboration. The MPI and the Ministry of Women strengthened participatory processes to integrate indigenous women specific needs and perspectives into their policies and strategies. For the first time, the ministries called a National Conference of Indigenous Women, through the Joint Ordinance No 3, enabling a higher influence of indigenous women in decision-making and policy making. This intersectional approach to the conferences is innovative and offers a unique opportunity to ensure public policies address the specific needs of Indigenous women, whose voices are often overlooked both in women’s policies (which may lack an ethnic-racial perspective) and in Indigenous policies (which may lack a gender perspective). UN Women provided technical support and policy advice to the organization of the Conference process, the mobilization of key stakeholders, and development of the pre-conferences methodology, in partnership with the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA).
outcome XM-DAC-41146-BRA_D_1.2
By 2027, Brazil will have advanced in economic inclusion that contributes to the reduction of poverty, hunger, vulnerabilities, inequalities, and discrimination of generation, gender, race and ethnicity, and that guarantees the right to transformative education for the full development of the person and access to decent work, opportunities for income generation, social, economic and care policy protection and resilient infrastructure, ensuring equal opportunities and sustainability.
In 2024, the Brazilian Government demonstrated significant progress in promoting the economic inclusion of women through implementing gender-responsive institutional changes, such as programmes, policies and laws, that contribute to enhancing women’s access to decent work, income generation and social protection. Under Brazil’s presidency, the G20 discussions consolidated Member States’ commitments to promoting women’s economic empowerment, as evidenced by the Rio de Janeiro Leader’s Declaration and the Chair’s Statement on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, The first stated, in its article 32, full commitment to the gender equality agenda, highlighting the acknowledgement of women’s contribution and leadership in all sectors and levels of economy and its importance to global GDP. The second remarked on women’s inequality in access to economic rights and affirmed the Member States’ commitment to reducing the gender gap in the labour market, promoting equal pay, poverty alleviation measures, and advancement of women in entrepreneurship, among others. A pivotal subject remarked by both documents is the commitment to reduce the inequalities in the responsibility for care work. The 2024 Leader’s Declaration continued the efforts of the 2023 G20 New Delhi Leader’s Declaration, which already brought the care work perspective, committing Member States to address the unequal distribution in paid and unpaid care and domestic work, however, it innovates by adding the perspective of the promotion of the social and gender corresponsibility on care and defying the social norms that prevent an equal distribution of care responsibilities. The Chair’s Statement on Gender Equality, in turn, has elected the economic autonomy and care economy and systems as one of its three priority themes for 2024, amplifying global awareness and driving transformative action from Member States to prioritise the development of care policies towards a care society. At the national level, the Brazilian Government took concrete steps to address, reduce, and redistribute women’s unpaid care work. Early in the year, Brazil pledged its commitment to the Global Alliance on Care, announced at an International Seminar hosted by UN Women in the city of Belém, during which the country also positioned itself as a regional leader in the care economy agenda. The culmination of these efforts resulted in the enactment of Law #15.069/2024, which established the National Care Policy. This law promotes a gender-responsive approach by recognizing that care is a shared responsibility among the state, families, civil society, and the private sector. It emphasizes the equal responsibility of men and women and upholds the rights of both paid and unpaid care workers. Additionally, the law introduces a National Care Plan and includes legal provisions for budget allocation to ensure its implementation. Moreover, the Government maintained an active engagement with civil society organizations to promote social engagement and participation during the approval process of the Policy and the implementation of its National Plan (under development) and collaborated to promote various forums to advance the discussion of the agenda. Another priority of the G20 Rio de Janeiro Leader’s Declaration is the commitment to support the inclusion of refugee and migrant people, ensuring their full access to human rights and fundamental freedom (article 34). In this context, the Brazilian Government has shown remarkable progress in promoting refugee, migrant and stateless women's effective participation in decision-making that will inform the development of gender-responsive policies. In 2024, the Ministry of Justice convened the second National Conference on Migration, Refugee and Statelessness, the first such event in a decade. The conference resulted in the approval of 60 proposals by delegates, which are expected to inform the National Policy on Migration Refuge and Statelessness and, thus, affect the access to rights of thousands of women living in the country. The proposals have covered a range of topics including gender equality, having suggested the creation of policies and programmes, such as “Community Mothers”, which aims to structure a care support network to be offered by refugee, migrant and stateless women themselves, and a socioeconomic inclusion national programme that will privilege women and other vulnerable groups. These results are partially attributed to the increased capacities and enhanced knowledge and skills of the Brazilian Government to which UN Women contributed throughout the year. The Country Team provided continuous technical support and policy advice to public institutions through their qualified participation in interministerial working groups, collaboration in the organisation of seminars and events, revision of technical documents, commissioning of goods and services, and provision of normative guidance to support advocacy efforts.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-BRA_D_1.3
By 2027, Brazil will have expanded and strengthened the systems of rights guarantees so that they are even more effective in the transversal integration of respect for human rights and equality of generation, gender, race and ethnicity, in confronting their violations and the multiple forms of discrimination and violence, including gender-based violence, and to promote the coordinated action of different instances at all levels of government, as well as the participation of civil society.?
In 2024, Brazil made significant steps to expand and strengthen the systems of rights guarantees, with notable advances in actively engaging with the international human rights system, eliminating violence against women, protecting women human rights defenders, and mainstreaming gender and race in the United Nations System. CEDAW Review Following the fourth periodic CEDAW review, Brazil now benefits from an applicable to the country that significantly broadens the response to the challenges faced by diverse women and girls . For the first time, the CEDAW Committee made recommendations to Brazil on Quilombola , transgender women and gender-diverse persons, women human rights defenders, climate change, and environment . The Committee also demonstrated greater understanding of human rights issues faced by Black , Indigenous and Quilombola women, grasped the diverse manifestations of gender-based violence (such as online), and institutional challenges hindering gender equality and women's progress in the country, in comparison to previous review cycles of Brazil. Civil society organizations significantly increased engagement in the review and benefited from new dialogue platforms for mobilization: they submitted record-high 42 shadow reports, signed by 90 entities . The Brazilian delegation was able to engage openly and constructively with the Committee and position key sensitive agendas (such as abortion, land rights and gender identity). UN Women contributed to these results by providing technical support for both the Ministry of Women and women’s and feminist organizations and carrying out learning-focused activities in collaboration with OHCHR, c. Ending violence against women The Brazilian state enacted new policies, plans, and tools integrating gender, intersectionality, and human rights, seeking to strengthen gender equality in access to justice. The justice system made progress in incorporating gender, intersectionality, and human rights perspectives into statements, plans, guidelines, and other relevant documents. The National Forum of Judges of Domestic and Family Violence Against Women (FONAVID) and the National Forum for Permanent Dialogues with the Justice System on the Maria da Penha Law issued new instruments that include provisions from the international women’s rights framework. This is the case of the Guidelines for the Application of Emergency Protective Measures. In the Executive Branch, the Federal Government launched a Work Plan to implement the National Pact for Preventing Femicide, with a budget exceeding 400 million dollars – the largest investment ever made by the government for preventing violence against women (VAW). Alongside measures that strengthen the system of rights guarantees for women, the Work Plan includes specific initiatives for Afro-Brazilian women, including Quilombolas, Indigenous women, LBT persons, rural women, and women human rights defenders, showcasing a commitment to an intersectional approach. The Ministry of Women spearheads the Pact, a gender-responsive platform that galvanises multisectoral efforts aimed at eradicating intersectional discrimination and violence against women and girls. Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) The MDHC the advanced draft for the first National Protection Plan for Human Rights Defenders. The version incorporates measures to respond to needs and protect the rights of WHRD. This plan was developed in response to a court order from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) which mandated the creation of measures to protect human rights defenders. Throughout the year, the Sales Pimenta Working Group conducted consultations and public hearings to ensure broad participation in the plan's development. As an observer in the Working Group, UN Women relied on analyses developed over several years of collaboration with feminist and women’s organizations to advance a gender-responsive perspective. UN Coordination The United Nations country team (UNCT) made remarkable progress in promoting gender equality and incorporating an intersectional framework. The Results Groups for the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) elected care economy, e nding gender-based violence and racial discrimination as three of the ten priorities for the year. Also, the UNCT highlighted gender and racial-related issues in the 2024 Common Country Analysis, which informed the UNSDCF. In addition, the UNCT established the promotion of gender, race, and ethnicity equality as a strategic result of the UNSDCF Communications Strategy and a transversal theme to the other results, with specific attention to meeting the requirements of the UNCT System-Wide Action Plan (SWAP) Scorecard. Finally, the UNCT to enhancing initiatives to address gender and racial issues within the UN System and to improving organizational culture. This progress was partially driven by UN Women leadership, policy advice, advocacy and technical support in conducting a survey on organizational culture regarding gender and racial equality, within the scope of the UNCT-SWAP Scorecard, and for the elaboration of plans and initiatives.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-BRA_O_1
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.
In 2024, the UN Women Country Office (CO) in Brazil continued to strengthen its operational effectiveness and financial management, aligning with programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations. Building on the achievements and lessons learned in 2023, the CO continued to implement processes to ensure accountability, transparency, and the effective use of resources. The CO successfully navigated the second full year of operating under Quantum, leveraging its functionalities to improve decision-making and oversight. Personnel continued to have enhanced capacities in using Quantum. Access to real-time data on finances (BI dashboards) enabled more precise and timely interventions, contributing to the overall efficiency of program implementation. This innovation facilitated proactive decision-making and strengthened internal controls. Regular exercises of month-end closure and quarterly reviews were conducted, enabling the identification and rectification of potential inefficiencies. These measures contributed to a transparent and accountable financial management framework. The commitment of the CO to resource integrity remained a cornerstone of its operations in 2024. Enhanced internal controls were implemented to safeguard against misuse and ensure that resources were aligned with programmatic priorities. Key actions included conducting comprehensive risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities in financial systems, strengthening procurement processes to ensure compliance with organizational policies and best practices, and implementing a robust monitoring framework to track resource allocation and utilization. The integration of operations and programme initiated in 2023 continued in 2024, demonstrating its value as a model for integrated organizational management. The CO made significant strides in 2024 toward becoming an accountable and trustworthy development organization. By building on the foundations established in 2023, the CO achieved improvements in financial resource management, operational efficiency, and resource integrity. These advancements underscore the commitment of the CO to aligning its operational framework with its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations, setting a strong precedent for continued success in the years to come.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-BRA_O_2
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.
Brazil CO has successfully engaged with several external actors to promote the values and projects of UN Women, ensuring impactful outreach and advocacy. During the “21 Days of Activism” campaign, in November, the population of the municipality of Salvador had increased awareness on violence against women in relationships, as a result of a communications campaign launched by UN Women in partnership with Instituto Gloria and the advertising agency Plan International. The campaign had relevant media results and social media mobilization. Also , as part of this campaign, the population of Brazil had increased awareness on mobilization to eliminate violence against women in the scope of the Orange Day, as a result of the illumination of the iconic Brazilian landmark, the Statue of Christ the Redeemer, by UN Women in partnership with the Cristo Redentor Sanctuary. Additiona l ly , G20 Women’s Empowerment Working Group delegates, including Ministers, Ambassadors and Govern ment Officials of 29 countries and 12 international organizations had access to strategic messages about UN Women’s priorities and expectations, as a result of UN Women partnership with its Goodwill Ambassador, Camila Pitanga, and its interaction and message to the working group’s final meeting. Beyond this audience, more than 30,000 people had access to this information through social media, hearing Camila’s remarks on gender-sensitive climate action. Moreover, 10,000 people had access to information on violence against women through their attendance of a theatre play produced by UN Women in partnership with Mauricio de Souza Produções, a long-time partner. The play, called “Tina Respeito”, engaged a well-known Brazilian comic character to address critical issues related to violence against women. Additionally, 63 CSOs received 1.3 tons of food, collected across the 26 play performances. These collaborations have significantly strengthened UN Women efforts in raising awareness and promoting positive change. In addition to these recent initiatives, UN Women Brazil CO has built longstanding partnerships in communications that have been integral to its advocacy work. UN Women and the Ministry of Women social media audiences, for instance, had increased access to information on gender-sensitive budgeting and data, as well as on efforts to eliminate femicide and violence against women, as a result of multiple collaborations between the two organizations to produce social media content. The CO has also partnered with several Civil Society Organizations, including ANMIGA (an indigenous women association), the National Quilombola Confederation, and the Lelia Gonzalez Institute, to amplify our collective impact, allowing for a wider reach and impact of both UN Women and those CSOs’ on social media platforms. These enduring collaborations have been essential in strengthening the Office’s communication strategies and fostering a broader understanding of gender equality issues across Brazil. Also during the reporting period, UN Women leveraged its partnership with UN entities to enhance financing for gender equality outcomes through the Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) for the Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Legal Amazon. UN entities had increased access to information on gender mainstreaming and the promotion of gender equality within the MPTF, as a result of guidelines developed by UN Women, which include a financial benchmark requiring that 30 per cent of the overall funds be allocated to programmes and projects identifying gender equality as their principal objective (coded as 3 in the Gender Equality Marker). While the guidelines are yet to be formally adopted by the MPTF Steering Committee, the UN Resident Coordinator, government counterparts, and prospective donors have expressed support for the adoption of a gender equality strategy and the 30 per cent financial benchmark. UN Women also reestablished its partnership with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) with participation in the Brazil-Chile International Business Forum mission of Brazilian Presidency in Santiago Chile. UN Women was positioned as key partner in the Chile-Brazil Seminar “Women Connecting Borders”, the first technical activity of the free trade agreement between Brazil and Chile focused on gender equality during the Brazilian presidential visit to Chile. The rapprochement with Apex Brasil to the Brazil also impacted the reconnection of UN Women Chile CO with ProChile (the Chilean government agency responsible for promoting exports). UN Women Brazil CO also deepened the reestablished relationship by supporting the Brazilian participation in the Expoartesanías, one of the largest and most significant artisan fairs in Latin America, annually held in Bogotá that showcases traditional and contemporary craft. Among the support, UN Women developed or ApexBrazil the international film exhibit called Imaginários Mágicos das Mulheres Artesãs (in English Magical Imaginaries of Women Artisans). The exhibit, with full curatorship of Brazil CO in collaboration with Ministry of Women, was the first audiovisual exhibit showing audiovisual pieces from several ApexBrasil partners on women artisans from all Brazilian regions with diverse crafts including traditional sweets, lacework, clay items (such as pots, miniatures of historical scenes, and animal heads), textiles, and other local materials. This collaboration aimed to to promote positive social norms and empowerment of Brazilian women artisans to promote their contribution to the Brazilian cultural heritage worldwide. The partnership with ApexBrasil also emerged new potential partners, as the Brazilian Cultural Institute (Instituto Brasileiro de Cultura - IBRACO), Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas - SEBRAE), the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional – IPHAN), and the Brazilian Tourism Board (Instituto Brasileiro de Turismo - Embratur). Finally, over 300 employees of eleven member companies had increased capacities to combat stereotypes in their advertising campaigns as a result of UN Women continuous partnership and support to audiovisual industry companies in the scope of the Unstereotype Alliance. The relationship with the class association of the sector called APRO - Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Production Works also deepened in 2024. APRO, that participated actively in Unstereotype Alliance work plan in 2024, gathers 76 per cent of professionals of audiovisual industry, developed in close collaboration with UN Women the Reframe platform, which will provide to its member companies information about literacy with a good practices guide on ESG, and a carbon footprint calculator for audiovisual productions. It was launched in APRO´s annual event in which UN Women Brazil also was presented as key partner and showcase the global study titled “Inclusion= income: the business case for inclusive advertising,” based on the analysis of 392 brands in 58 countries including Brazil developed by Unstereoype Alliance Secretariat, which empirically proves that inclusive advertising has a positive impact on profits, sales, and brand value.Showing 1 - 5 of 8