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-CAF_D_1.1
Central African women and girls of all ages fully participate, lead ans engage in political institutions and processes
The year 2022, a post-legislative and presidential election year, did not see any major changes in governance and the participation of women and girls in public life in the Central African Republic. Nevertheless, during 2022, many key initiatives were developed with the aim of achieving significant results in 2023. These include civic education campaigns, the establishment of official documents for the registration of women on the electoral list, advocacy for a gender-sensitive revision of the electoral code, advocacy for a more protective election security plan for women and minorities, training of women candidates, and the development of strategic partnerships for gender-sensitive legislative and budgeting processes. These actions aim to promote women's participation in the 2023 local elections
outcome XM-DAC-41146-CAF_D_2.1
Rural women secure access to productive resources and engage in sustainable agriculture in Central Africa Republic
Improving women's access to land and land security: UN Women also contributed to bridging the gap between land law and practice in the Central African Republic and to improving women's understanding of their land, inheritance and matrimonial rights. UN Women's technical and financial support enabled the government to develop three local charters for gender-sensitive land governance. As a result, 10 groups of 125 rural women each have received land (500 hectares ceded by local authorities, i.e. 50 hectares per group) under the program. 212 national actors are mobilized to promote an environment that protects the rights of women and girls with respect to land. As pilots, 2 communities in CAR have implemented gender-sensitive land governance processes. 30 political and administrative authorities and 69 community leaders (99 people) have capacity building on the need to integrate gender into the management of land-related conflicts and land allocation and are following the project process (management and monitoring of parcels). Women's land rights are critical to women's empowerment, poverty reduction and climate resilience. UN Women has been advocating with customary leaders, administrative authorities as well as husbands to be gender sensitive. An important part of this process is community engagement to improve land governance systems so that more equitable allocations are sustained over time through gender-responsive land practices.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-CAF_D_3.1
Centralafrican state and stakeholders are better able to prevent violence against women and girls and deliver essential services to victims and survivors
41% of women have confidence in the formal justice system.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-CAF_D_4.1
Women and girls affected by the conflict are supported for their recovery and play a role as actresses in peacebuilding
In 2022, the Office has recorded significant impact in promoting gender-sensitive peacebuilding process, humanitarian assistance and the successful engagement of women organisations in those two sectors. Through catalytic interventions, UN Women continued to defend the work of women rights defenders at local and national levels in critical areas for the country's peacebuilding, namely peace accords and related processes, addressing conflict-related mental traumas, ensuring women's voice and agency in promoting social cohesion and recovery. UN Women has ensured effective and visible contribution, both in quantity of women represented and in substance (thematic areas covered) in the National Dialogue, one of the provisions of the 2019 Peace Accord. Despite that the numeric representation of women remained low (around 8%) in the Dialogue itself, UN Women organized pre-dialogue consultations to ensure that women and women rights defenders from across the country were able to meet and strategize on key thematic areas for the few women delegates to cover during the Dialogue itself. This has been echoed at community level where expected impact of the national gatherings organized by UN Women, include an active participation of women at community level to participate in following up on the Dialogue recommendations' implementation. Cognisant of the role of WRD as first respondents to the crisis, UN Women has placed particular emphasis in supporting their mental health, advocacy power, convening ability and mediation.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-CAF_O_1
Advancing partnerships & resourcing
UN Women worked on increasing its relevance through fostering strategic partnerships with other actors in the country, offering its gender expertise while ensuring the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming in all sectors. The office developed a communications plan. In terms of communication and knowledge management activities, communication contributed to global agendas through its social media platforms. Support was also provided to the UN Country Team through the UN Communications Group. The communications officers, in collaboration with the program managers, ensured good visibility of donors and UN Women during the implementation of the various projects. The communication officer also covered the 16 days of activism and developed a Knowledge Management Plan as part of The Strategic Note annexes.Showing 1 - 5 of 9
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