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Key results of UN Women's Strategic Plan 2018–2021

During the Strategic Plan 2018–2021, UN Women worked with a breadth of partners to support the translation of global norms and standards into real changes in the lives of women and girls, and enhance the coherence and impact of the work of the United Nations Development System on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. With its partners, UN Women directly contributed to the following results to create a more enabling environment for the realization of women’s rights:

Global Norms and Standards

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SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES

of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (3 agreed conclusions and 1 political declaration)

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CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES

participated in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (2018–2019) and 20,732 registered (2020–2021)

Leadership and Governance

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OF SEATS

in national parliaments are held by women, up from 23% - SDG indicator 5.5.1(a)

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OF GENDER-SPECIFIC SDG INDICATORS

have available data, up from 26%

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ASPIRING WOMEN LEADERS

and political candidates enhanced campaigning and other skills

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COUNTRIES

developed and implemented national action plans on gender equality and gender-responsive budgets

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NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

integrated a gender equality focus

Economic Empowerment

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Outcomes and conclusions
COUNTRIES

home to 1.6B women and girls, have a stronger legal, regulatory and policy environment on women’s economic empowerment

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GOVERNMENTS AND COMPANIES

and international organizations opened markets for women through policies prioritizing purchases from women-owned businesses

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PRIVATE SECTOR COMPANIES

signed the Women’s Empowerment Principles

Ending Violence Against Women

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CITIES

supported by UN Women have data on the prevalence of sexual harassment against women and girls in public spaces

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COUNTRIES

have adopted or strengthened legislation addressing violence against women and girls in private and public spaces

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COUNTRIES HAVE LEGISLATION

to prevent, investigate, sanction and redress femicide/ feminicide/ gender related killings of women

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COUNTRIES

home to 2.5B women and girls, have national action plans and strategies to end violence against women also addressing social norms, attitudes and behaviour transformation

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COUNTRIES

home to 2.7B women and girls, have improved access to quality support services for survivors of violence

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PEOPLE

(including >22.5M women and girls in 2021) reached through grants from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women

Women, Peace and Security, Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction

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OF PEACE AGREEMENTS

have specific provisions to improve the security and status of women and girls (2020), increased from 25 percent (2015–2017)

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IN PEACEBUILDING FUND RESOURCES

allocated for peacebuilding projects that address women’s specific needs, advance gender equality and/or empower women as their principal objective (2017–2021)

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IN THE PROPORTION OF PEACE PROCESSES

led or co-led by the UN which included women in mediation teams / negotiating delegations, consultations with women’s civil society organizations, and technical gender expertise (2017–2021)

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IN GENDER ANALYSIS

informing country-level, evidence-based Humanitarian Needs Overviews (2017–2021)

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UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES

and territories with national action plans on women, peace and security in 2021 (79 in 2018)

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CRISIS-AFFECTED WOMEN AND GIRLS

benefitted from UN-Women supported humanitarian services

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GENDER-RESPONSIVE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

legislation, policies, strategies, plans and assessments, covering 778 million people, were achieved with national governments and 1,407 women’s organizations

UN Coordination

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UNITED NATIONS ENTITIES

are consolidating gender mainstreaming standards across key functions of the UN system through the UN-SWAP 2.0 accountability framework

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OF UNITED NATIONS COUNTRY TEAMS

completed the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard (UNCT-SWAP) report annually in 2021, up from 7% in 2018

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OF TOTAL FUNDING

were allocated to strengthen the gender lens in the second call of the Multi-Partner Trust Fund in the COVID-19 response, via the gender equality marker, up from 5%

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UN ENTITIES' LATEST DATA

on gender parity is consolidated on the first UN System-wide Dashboard on Gender Parity launched in 2021 by UN Women and UNDP

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HUMANITARIAN COUNTRY TEAMS

engaged annually with Inter-Agency Standing Committee Gender Accountability Framework reporting

Partnerships and Communications

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HE FOR SHE COMMITMENTS

by individual men and boys

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COMPANIES

are members of the Unstereotype Alliance with half a trillion dollars in global advertising yearly

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SOCIAL MEDIA

followers, up from 8.2M

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IMPRESSIONS

earned via media outreach, 1.2B in social media reach and >4M campaign video views around the Generation Equality Forum

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COMMITMENTS

to the six Action Coalitions at the Generation Equality Forum in terms of policy, programmes, advocacy or finances