Region:Asia Pacific
Current UN Women Plan Period Afghanisthan:2018-2022
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%)
outcome XM-DAC-41146-APA_O_1
Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment
In 2022, ROAP achieved OEE 1 in leveraging coordination and coherence in the UN System for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE), through the regional coordination mechanisms, the Issue Based Coalition on Human Rights and Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (IBC-HR/GEWE) and the Peer Support Group (PSG) through delivering system-wide guidance on: (i) the development of Common Country Analyses (CCA)/ Cooperation Framework (UNSDCFs)- by supporting the capacity development of UN Country teams developing their CCAs/UNSDCFs on the integration of the guiding principle of GEWE and Human Rights-based approaches (HRBA) together with UNFPA and OHCHR i.e. in the Pacific (3 UNCTs), and Papua New Guinea (PNG); (ii) in reviewing the CCAs/UNSDCFs for the UN Country Teams (UNCTs) in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Iran, Mongolia, Nepal, the Pacific, Pakistan, PNG, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka through the regional Peer Support Group (PSG). The ROAP also provided direct inputs into the draft documents CCAs and UNSDCFs for Cambodia and the Philippines at the request of the UNCTs, in addition to providing direct support and tools to UN Women offices to ensure that that our efforts at regional level are complemented by the guidance provided to our UN Women offices and their Gender Theme Groups (GTGs); (iii) Through capacity building of UNCTs on the use of UNCT tools i.e. the UNCT SWAP Gender Equality scorecard and the UNCT Gender Equality Marker (GEM), i.e. tailored trainings to the UNCTs in Bangladesh, China and Timor Leste (including on gender transformative programming linked to the UNCT GEM. Additionally, in collaboration with OHCHR, UNFPA, UNDP, and UNICEF, UN Women ROAP carried out 3 out of 4 sessions on piloting the Gender Theme Group Standards and Procedures with the participation of UNCTs Bangladesh, China, Pacific, and Vietnam. Supporting documents available here: https://unwomen.sharepoint.com/sites/roap/Strategic%20Planning/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2Fsites%2Froap%2FStrategic%20Planning%2F13%2E%20Quarterly%20Reports%2F2022%20Qs%20reports%2FQ3%20%26%20Q4%20of%202022&FolderCTID=0x012000C70540997AD78A4BAE55FCD07BE33E65&View=%7BB8974866%2D893E%2D4D54%2D96E2%2D59BDD7E2BCE5%7D#InplviewHashb8974866-893e-4d54-96e2-59bdd7e2bce5=
outcome XM-DAC-41146-APA_O_2
Increased engagement of partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate
The year 2022 witnessed the strategic vision we have embedded in the unit. The new partnership with LinkedIn has benefited the overall corporate communications performance from visibility of programmes towards the steadily growing in number of unique visitors of on the Asia-Pacific website and programme web pages. The ad grant from LinkedIn with a technical lead's expertise dedicated to support UN Women has driven The annual record of Facebook performance reached three million impressions with T witter of 1.2 million and I nstagram at 1.08 million impressions . Our unit also provided regional coverage to the global Donor Week Campaign giving visibility to donors and the programme impact. T he Asia-Pacific d o nor campaign garnered over 117,000 organic impressions on Facebook and Twitter. Starting in October, ROAP has begun using LinkedIn and the LinkedIn ad grant to regenerate the traffic. Six sponsored posts for six donors were made, garnering over 512,000 sponsored impressions . Our new Asia-Pacific LinkedIn Programme Showcase Page recorded 3.8 million post impressions.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-APA_O_3
High quality of programmes through knowledge, innovation, results-based management and evaluation
The ROAP Strategic Note and Strategic Notes for Nepal and Pakistan developed with RO support in 2023 were aligned with the global SN and respective UNSDCFs and met corporate quality standards (indicator AP_0_3.3A). All of the three SNs included learning from evaluation with the RO SN in particular integrating lessons learned from the MTR of the previous SN and responding to feedback from Country Offices to ensure enhanced support to country presences in alignment with the corporate ‘pivot to the field’. All BWP and AWP developed for 2023 are aligned with relevant Strategic Notes, national priorities and UNSDCF frameworks. Monitoring for continuous improvement of programme quality was undertaken methodically across the region in line with the approved MERPs, all of which met required quality standards. At regional level 134 of 137 indicators (97.81%) had baselines and targets required for monitoring. With travel becoming possible in most of the region in the course of 2022, the RO was able to resume hands-on support to Country Offices, with a particular focus on those experiencing crises and transitions. In particular, in recognition of the complex crisis in Afghanistan, nine RO personnel provided dedicated support to Afghanistan CO, with six travelling to work in Kabul and two supporting remotely. Two colleagues were deployed to Pakistan to support engagement in humanitarian assessment and response in the immediate aftermath of catastrophic floods. Members of the Myanmar Country Office team have been supported to work from Bangkok during 2022. The new ROAP SN builds in a focus on deployability across the RO, recognizing the increased prevalence of crises and the opportunities for UN Women to engage more deeply in crisis preparedness and response leveraging membership of the IASC. Over one hundred UN Women personnel from around the region benefited from a significant opportunity to build capacity in through a week-long programme co-organised with HQ Units in Bangkok and which included project management certification along-side HR, Finance, procurement, risk assessment and security training modules. Fourteen of the 16 evaluations or 87% of those planned in the region in 2023 were completed or in-progress by the end of the year (Indicator APA_0_3.5F) and in terms of quality 100% of evaluations were rated as “good” or “very good”. One additional CPE was undertaken in 2022 by Nepal, bring the total of CPEs undertaken since 2019 to six, noting that the CPE planned for Afghanistan was postponed in the light of the crisis situation and consequent pivoting of the country programme undertaken since the Taliban takeover in August 2021.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-APA_O_4
Improved management of financial and human resources in pursuit of results
W e made some progress towards human resources management. RO introduced simplified SC interview report and this helped to fasten the write up of interview report and subsequently, fasten the recruitment process. ROAP HR allowed COs to piggyback the consultancy contract for longlisting applications. So far, Afghanistan, Pakistan and PNG has been using this consultant. We plan to increase the number of consultants on retainer basis so other COs can use the service. This has reduced some of the workload of HR colleagues and therefore improve lead time in recruitment process.Showing 11 - 14 of 14
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