Outcome FIJ_O_2

Increased engagement of partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate

Fiji MCO continues to prioritise strong working relationships with Pacific stakeholders including Ministries/Departments of Women, civil society and the regional inter-governmental (CROP) agencies. The Fiji MCO has used technology-based solutions to continue to engage with partners across the Pacific, including holding zoom meetings with Ministers for Women and holding an online feminist dialogue series. Based on listener feedback and questions posed by listeners, awareness was raised on issues related to gender equality in Small Island Developing States as a result of the Gender-In-Focus South-South Gender Dialogue Series, a collaboration between the Fiji and Caribbean Multi-Country Offices. The online dialogue series has been a way to create spaces to reflect, learn and share on key issues of relevance to women and girls in SIDS and globally. These spaces have provided the opportunity to look at key current issues for women, through the provision of a safe, inclusive and diverse space for dialogue and discussion. The dialogue series has been developed through discussions with partners – and the need to have safe spaces as feminists to discuss challenges and successes. Each dialogue session has been moderated by a UN Women staff person and has had guest speakers who have expertise in the topics. The 3 dialogues held in 2021 have been successful with over 50 participants in each. The Fiji MCO continues to raise awareness of gender equality and women's empowerment issues and concerns in the Pacific through its communications efforts. Through traditional and social media, the Fiji MCO has continued to ensure that the experiences of Pacific women, particularly around COVID, are shared widely. UN Women co-chairs, alongside the Pacific Community (SPC), the Pacific Gender Coordination Group, established to strengthen coordination between regional organizations, UN Agencies, women-led civil society organizations, and development partners working on gender across the Pacific. A sub-group of the coordination group, the Gender Technical Working Group, provided technical support to Pacific delegations in the lead up to CSW65. Finally, the Fiji MCO established Pacific Gender Youth Activists in 2020 and continued to communicate through this group ahead of the Generation Equality Forum. Several Gender Youth Activists engaged in the GEF and the Asia-Pacific Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues in 2021.

Increased engagement of partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate

The Fiji MCO’s engagement with its partners is continuous and growing in number and engagement. Compared to 2021, in 2022 Fiji MCO selected and engaged 12 new partners to support programme implementation at output/outcome levels in 3 priority thematic areas (WEE, EVAWG and Humanitarian). This brings to date about 170 partners engaged in various capacities across all of the MCO’s programmes, including in consultations for the development of the new Fiji MCO Strategic Note (2023-2027). Engagement with stakeholders and the general public is through a number of ways including: through the Gender Theme Group consisting of over 50 members from across the Pacific region. These are CSOs, Government and development partners, including members of the UNCT in Fiji, Samoa and Micronesia. Through an integrated communications approach that aims to enhance advocacy and visibility around key events, and programmatic achievements. There were 87 media mentions of UN Women, Representative, or MCO Proj e cts up to the end of 2022 , owing to six MCO-issued press releases, engagement of the media to cover signature programme launches, 16 Days actions and other activities, including the MCO’s subscription to Pacnews wire services that then also disseminates UN Women’s press releases in the Pacific region . Social media saw growth across the year on these platforms: Facebook : 32,231 followers % growth over 2021. Audience profile – Men 4%; Women 66 .6% Twitter – 14 086 followers or 6 % growth In addition, 20 knowledge p roduct s were produced and disseminated to partners.