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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 CCO Tunisia Libya continued to leverage and expand its partnerships, communication and advocacy capacities for financing for gender equality. The Tunisia CO conducted a light review of its Biannual Work Plan to analyze new opportunities for partnerships and resourcing. The CO focused on forging new alliances with non-traditional partners and developed a ToR to develop a private sector strategy. In addition, in 2023, the office continued to work with men and boys for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE). 12 projects on gender equality, positive masculinity and addressing gender discrimination have been chosen to be implemented by the 194 participants from the Kef and Kebili regions , including 165 men (77.58% of them under 30 years), who enhanced their capacities, through a UN Women Tunisia organized bootcamp entitled “Positive masculinity: men and boys as strategic allies in female leadership”. By the end of the intense two-day training, the participants had improved their knowledge of gender discrimination (including its causes and consequences), the characteristics of male domination in society, fair social relations, and positive masculinities and were ready to take action to prevent discrimination against women and girls, combatting gender-based violence and promoting positive masculinity in their communities. During the second part of the bootcamp and following a design-thinking approach focused on human beings and collective intelligence, the 194 participants divided into 29 groups (Kef: 17 groups; Kebili: 12 groups) and worked day and night to find innovative solutions and design and develop project ideas with a positive social impact in their communities. The 17 women and girls contributed to the 29 groups by helping the male participants understand and analyse their day-to-day experiences.

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 CCO Tunisia Libya continued to leverage and expand its partnerships, communication and advocacy capacities for financing for gender equality. The Tunisia CO conducted a light review of its Biannual Work Plan to analyze new opportunities for partnerships and resourcing. The CO focused on forging new alliances with non-traditional partners and developed a ToR to develop a private sector strategy. Moreover, the Tunisia CO finalized and presented the UNCT-Swap Gender Scorecards results, with important findings and suggested recommendations on how to leverage investment towards GEWE that was endorsed by the UNCT. Building on the Score-Cards results, UN Women in collaboration with the RCO has developed strategies to implement the action plan for 2023 aiming at strengthening gender mainstreaming efforts in UNCT Tunisia. In addition, in 2022, the office continued to work with men and boys for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE). Firstly, through the ‘Men and Women for Gender Equality’ (MWGE) programme, whose International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), a quantitative and qualitative analysis of men's and women's beliefs and attitudes regarding GEWE included 1,200 men, which were reached by the implementing partner, the Arabic Institute for Human Rights through a household survey that addressed women's participation in public and political life, domestic violence, reproductive and sexual health, economic opportunities, and sexual harassment. In parallel, the other implementing partner, Beity, conducted key informant interviews with 34 men to conduct a qualitative analysis that complemented the quantitative findings. At least 100 representatives of civil society organizations and media outlets (77 women/24 men) increased their knowledge in the development and launch of the study. Through 58 articles and interviews, the outlets further disseminated the findings in national and international media platforms. While there are no recorded numbers, UN Women expects that thousands of people (men and women) in the general public improved their knowledge of the root causes of gender inequality and its impact on daily life. MWGE is not only unique due to its engagement with men and boys for GEWE. Its overall structure relies on strong interaction between UN Women with the national implemeting partners and the regional partner, Equimundo. Secondly, UN Women worked with boys (12-17) from the Tunisian Scouts under a Joint Programme with UNDP addressing economic gender-based violence (GBV). In 2022, 19 youth leaders from the Tunisian Scouts, including 5 boys, created four giant canvases with awareness raising messages on economic GBV, a little-known issue among the general public. The canvases were presented during three weeks on the esplanade of Diar Lemdina, a popular tourist village. The topics addressed ranged from the labour market and decision-making to the too-common death of female agricultural workers and the management of financial resources within the household. The 5 boys created the canvases under the supervision of two painters and a psychologist in a period of three days. They were among the winners of the first drawing competition on GBV with almost 200 youth in 2021.

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 continued leveraging youth voices at the center of GEWE initiatives. In 2024, UN Women became chair of the Youth Coordination Group, and as part of its coordination mandate, organized an open-door session with other UN sister agencies, UNICEF (co-chair) and the Consultative Youth Office under the Ministry of Youth and Sports, to leverage the collaboration between the MoYS and UNCT. the open day sports was an opportunity for strategic engagement between the UN and youth government representatives, to discuss how they can align their mandates and capacities to implement Tunisia's Youth National Strategy. In addition, UN Women continued working with the Scouts. During the reporting period, the partnership with the Scouts focused mainly on promoting community engagement initiatives for GEEW and positive masculinities. The highlight of the campaign NUBADER, under which the first ever Scouts badge for Gender Equality was created, with the potential to reach over 2,000 young men and women Scouts members in Tunisia. Finally, UN Women engaged with 40 young men and women from marginalized zones within Tunis capital to build their skills in leadership, social cohesion, and conflict mediation. Participants also increased their knowledge about the SDGs, with focus on SDG 5 on Gender Equality and SDG 11 on Inclusive Cities.