World Bank Income Classification:Low Income
The World Bank classifies economies for analytical purposes into four income groups: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. For this purpose it uses gross national income (GNI) per capita data in U.S. dollars, converted from local currency using the World Bank Atlas method, which is applied to smooth exchange rate fluctuations.
Least Developed Country:Yes
Since 1971, the United Nations has recognized LDCs as a category of States that are deemed highly disadvantaged in their development process, for structural, historical and also geographical reasons. Three criteria are used: per capita income, human assets, and economic vulnerability.
Gender Inequality Index:0.575
GII is a composite metric of gender inequality using three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market. A low GII value indicates low inequality between women and men, and vice-versa.
Gender Development Index:0.723
GDI measures gender inequalities in achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: health, education, and command over economic resources.
Population:209,497,025
Source of population data: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects: The 2022 Revision
Male:19,976,265 (9.5%)
Female:189,520,760 (90.5%)
Women have better access to formal and informal legal systems
Enhance women's access to justice for women in formal and informal systems and bridge the gap between these systems through women's empowerment and reduction of gender biases.
Women have better access to formal and informal legal systems
UN Women reports on this indicator in a global scope, signified by "(Desk Review)" at the end of the indicator statement (see the Our Global Results page for the global result)
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work, such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
Complementary
Common indicators are those that appear verbatim the same in at least two entities' results frameworks and are drawn, where possible, directly from other globally agreed frameworks.
Common
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work, such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
Complementary
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work, such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
Complementary
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work, such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
Complementary
Data reported for 2022 results against this indicator was obtained as part of a learning process on social norms and therefore may not accurately reflect the results obtained. Internal reviews of data collected on social norms across relevant indicators, coupled with external reviews, are informing the design of UN Women’s principled approach to social & gender norms change. This will be reflected in changes to the indicators to be introduced in the Mid-Term Review of the Strategic Plan.
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work, such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
Complementary
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work, such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
Complementary
Advocacy and social mobilisation: Advocacy is conducted to promote the adoption of domestic laws and court decisions in the target countries consistent with international human rights law and standards, including CEDAW.
Capacity development and technical assistance: Gender discriminatory attitudes and stereotyped behaviours towards women are acknowledged and addressed by formal and informal justice providers in the target countries.
In addition to results reported by UN Women field offices (shown here), results achieved in countries and territories through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) are included in a non-duplicative manner in the global reporting on this indicator (see the Our Global Results page).
In addition to results reported by UN Women field offices (shown here), results achieved in countries and territories through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) are included in a non-duplicative manner in the global reporting on this indicator (see the Our Global Results page).
In addition to results reported by UN Women field offices (shown here), results achieved in countries and territories through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) are included in a non-duplicative manner in the global reporting on this indicator (see the Our Global Results page).
Capacity development and technical assistance: Grassroots women’s organizations, communities and community-based justice mechanisms are empowered and well-positioned to provide justice for women.
In addition to results reported by UN Women field offices (shown here), results achieved in countries and territories through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) are included in a non-duplicative manner in the global reporting on this indicator (see the Our Global Results page).
Women have better access to formal and informal legal systems
UN Women, together with programme partners OHCHR and the International Commission of Jurists, continued to strengthen women’s access to justice, leveraging their comparative advantage. During the reporting period, several initiatives were undertaken including training and community-based justice providers on promoting and protecting women’s human rights in the provision of justice, strengthening gender-responsive and people-centered justice at the community level, providing legal aid for women, providing platforms for exchanges between justice providers, women justice seekers, and women civil society, and convening a critical mass of gender champions within the formal justice sector. For example, the capacity of 177 judges, magistrates, and community judicial members was increased to provide justice for women; and, UN Women hosted 105 community dialogues with women’s rights organizations involving 2,006 women in Nepal, Indonesia, and the Philippines In addition, UN Women continues to identify and breakdown harmful gender stereotypes and norms that prevent women from accessing justice, including by engaging communities for social norms change in Nepal, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The programme also worked with women’s civil society organizations (CSOs) and women’s human rights defenders (WHRDs) to advance a common understanding of how women’s rights movements in the region can jointly advance access to justice. In this regard, 111 WHRDs including 35 Indigenous women, 40 women from the Pacific Islands, and 36 women environmental defenders were supported to increase their understanding of how to engage with government representatives on women’s human rights issues. Throughout the reporting period, additional priorities and opportunities emerged, including bolstering partnerships with national human rights institutions and engaging with United Nations country teams on the protection of women human rights defenders; upscaling best practices from the national level to the regional level, such as Nepal’s practice on diversifying justice mechanisms through community-based justice mechanisms, which led to higher satisfaction among women users and a whole-of-community approach to protects women justice seekers; and, leveraging global research and advances on justice driven by the 2021 Justice Action Coalition. Harnessing the advancements made in 2021, a regional strategy to provide a regional approach to Women's Access to Justice within and outside the UN system is under development in partnership with CSOs, UN sister agencies, governments, and global experts.Disclaimer and notes
References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).