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outcome XM-DAC-41146-APA_D_6.1

Governments and civil society are able to assess and inform progress in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the SDGs as well as other global and regional normative frameworks

In 2021, the Asia-Pacific Beijing+25 regional synthesis report was officially launched jointly by UN Women and UNESCAP on International Women’s Day. A brief interactive video summarising the report content and recommendations was screened at the event for all participants from Governments, Donors, UN Agencies, CSOs, and the private sector. The total number of participants was 71 in-person participants and 119 online participants via Zoom and 2,400 unique viewers via Facebook Live from across the region. The report highlight video can be found here. As part of the Generation Equality Regional Journey for Asia and the Pacific, the ROAP convened six Generation Equality Asia-Pacific Regional Multi-stakeholder dialogues in the areas of Feminist Action for Climate Justice on Earth Day (22 April) (300 participants); Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality on 19 May (attendees at the highest peak: 158); Economic Justice and Rights on 25 May (attendees at the highest peak: 165); Gender Based Violence on 16 June (175 participants) and; Feminist Movements and Leadership on 17 June (attendees at the highest peak: 268) and 3-day Youth Activism Accelerator Sessions (attendees 1,715 over 3 days). These dialogues brought together stakeholders from across the region representing civil society including women's rights and youth-led movements, the private sector, governments, academia, philanthropy, International Financial Institutions, and the UN, to discuss areas of action under each of the Action Coalition Areas and to invite stakeholders to consider committing with these areas. In addition, as part of the #16daysofactivism and #IamGenerationEquality campaigns, the ROAP produced seven stories of youth activists who are at the frontline of fighting gender-based violence in their respective countries. The stories feature contributors from Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia and include key actions the interviewees have taken to combat GBV, as well as actions that the reader can take to make a difference. With the UN Coordination approaches, governments and a wide range of civil society are able to assess and inform progress in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the SDGs as well as other global and regional normative frameworks. APA_D_6.2: Enabling and well-coordinated policy environment is in place to ensure gender-responsive localisation and effective monitoring of the SDGs in the Asia-Pacific region As a result of the Women Count programme implementation and completion of its first phase, the enabling environment to produce and use gender statistics has been enhanced in many countries. For instance, Vietnam selected a set of priority gender indicators with UN Women's support, which they now use to guide data collection reports on gender issues, and inform national policies. Similarly, countries across the Pacific, through the adoption of the Pacific Roadmap, now have a sub-regional strategy for the production and use of gender data across the region. This has prompted countries such as Tonga to create national coordination groups on gender statistics, countries such as Palau to collect more data on gender issues, and the whole region has created a Pacific Gender Statistics Coordination group, a community of practice where priorities are discussed and solutions (in the form of finances or technical support) are identified to address current gaps.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-APA_D_6.2

Enabling Environment Supportive, well-coordinated policy environment is in place to ensure gender-responsive localisation and effective monitoring of the SDGs in the Asia-Pacific region

As a result of the Women Count programme implementation and completion of its first phase, the enabling environment to produce and use gender statistics has been enhanced in many countries. For instance, Vietnam selected a set of priority gender indicators with UN Women's support, which they now use to guide data collection reports on gender issues, and inform national policies. Similarly, countries across the Pacific, through the adoption of the Pacific Roadmap, now have a sub-regional strategy for the production and use of gender data across the region. This has prompted countries such as Tonga to create national coordination groups on gender statistics, countries such as Palau to collect more data on gender issues, and the whole region has created a Pacific Gender Statistics Coordination group, a community of practice where priorities are discussed and solutions (in the form of finances or technical support) are identified to address current gaps.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-APA_D_6.3

Quality, comparable, regular and accessible gender statistics are available to address national data gaps and meet policy, planning, programme, budgeting and reporting commitments under the SDGs, CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action and other national priorities

The quality and availability of gender statistics have increased substantially across the region as a result of the support provided by the UN Women's gender statistics team. For instance, several surveys were supported including a Time Use Survey in Bangladesh, a Gender-Environment survey in Mongolia, 11 Rapid Assessment Surveys on the consequences of COVID-19 in 11 countries, followed by a second round of Rapid Assessment Surveys in 7 countries that took place towards the end of the year. In addition, UN Women has supported countries with data reprocessing. For example, Mongolia now generates multi-level disaggregated SDG estimates and publishes them regularly in their SDG database, and 10 ASEAN member states generate new estimates and include them in the ASEAN Gender Outlook, which is now a Flagship publication for ASEAN. Furthermore, some countries, such as the Philippines, were supported to include select modules on existing surveys, such as a module on COVID-19, unpaid care, and domestic work attached to their Labor Force Survey. Geospatial data and survey data were integrated and reprocessed to generate information on the gender-climate nexus.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-APA_D_6.4

Gender statistics are accessible to all users (including government, civil society, academics, and private sector) and can be analysed to inform research advocacy, policies, plans, programmes and budgeting and promote accountability

As a result of extensive training provided on using gender data, including through the use of the UN Women-SIAP Training Curriculum on Gender Statistics, many data users are now capable of finding, analyzing, and using gender data for decision-making. In addition, UN Women has produced a large number of publications on gender data, ranging from papers on civil registration and vital statistics to analysis of time use survey data in Afghanistan, or progress reports and factsheets on select topics, such as gender and environment technical paper that was put together and used for discussions during Commission on the Status of Women.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-APA_D_6.5

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.
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