outcome XM-DAC-41146-TUN_O_3

UN Women strategically plans for and transforms its business model to deliver impact at scale, through agile and ethical leadership rooted in a continuous improvement culture.

The Tunisia CO was more rigorous around the recovery of costs and made full use of opportunities for inter-agency collaboration and streamlined operating practices, including through shared services. T he CO improved knowledge management through Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) related to operations procedures (eg: procurement, finance, HR transactions) to support more efficient and effective delivery of programmatic results. The lessons learned on new ways of working imposed by COVID-19 served the CO well to respond with agility to the challenges associated with Tunisia's evolving political crisis and social unrest. The CO leveraged partnerships with CSOs, and the international community, and focused on higher-level outcomes related to knowledge production, gender mainstreaming and coordination that increased the effectiveness and efficiency of our results. Coordination around GEWE has been enhanced: three Joint Programmes have been implemented ( UN Women and UNDP address economic violence as part of the JP ‘Addressing GBV post COVID-19 in Tunisia’; in partnership with FAO, IFAC and WFP, it entered phase II of ‘Accelerating Progress Towards Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment;’ a JP with UNDP and WHO promotes women and girls’ leadership in the socio-economic and health response to COVID-19) and one new joint programme has been designed (on promoting Tunisia’s Social dialogue in partnership with ILO). The UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard exercise and the subsequent empowerment of the gender coordination group to have an elevated role in the development and implementation of the next UNSDCF have been successfully coordinated by UN Women.

outcome XM-DAC-41146-TUN_O_4

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.

During the reporting year, s taff increased performance awareness, promoted a culture of accountability, and advanced their knowledge and further develope d their skills to better manage programmes and integrate the organization’s overall strategic directions into implementation and operations, as a result of trainings and capacity development activities related to programme and operations functions by the Conflict Cluster Office (CCO). A challenge remained with the high staff turnover due to unattractive salaries and lack of professional career development within the office, which led to operational and programmatic bottlenecks and the increased workload for ad-hoc temporary, in-house substitutes.

outcome XM-DAC-41146-TUN_O_5

UN Women efficiently and effectively discharges of all business processes that advance integrated delivery of its normative, operational and coordination mandate at HQ, Regional and Country level, including through shared services.

The Cluster Office continue to ensure the timely and quality discharges of all business processes to advance its triple mandate.