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-COL_D_4.1
Women, Peace and Security commitments and accountability frameworks adopted and implemented in conflict and post-conflict situations.
In 2021, UN Women continued providing support to the implementation of the commitments contained in Resolution 1325 through the implementation of the Peace Agreement and gender mechanisms incorporated through these state entities. Particularly, UN Women contributed to the significant progress in the appropriation of the commitments and legal frameworks of the Women, Peace & Security agenda by the three components of the Integral System for Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition (SIVJRNR) the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the Truth Commission, and the Search Unit for Disappeared Persons. The increased appropriation of the legal frameworks of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda were also evidenced in the Ombudsman's Office (Early Warning System, delegate for Women and Gender), the Ministry of the Interior, the Protection Unit and the National Commission for Security Guarantees, (https://colombia.unwomen.org/es/biblioteca/publicaciones/2021/experiencias-alrededor-de-la-construccion-del-modelo-territorial). The This, through the implementation of a comprehensive territorial risk mitigation strategy for Human Rights Defenders, protection for them and their associative network from a preventive perspective, and the enhancement of the response capacity of the Ombudsman's Office as the national human rights entity. As such, UN Women supported the development of 4 gender risk monitoring and documentation systems with a territorial approach, and 6 emergency and rapid response funds that have benefited 499 people. Likewise, Un Women supported the Ombudsman's Office in consolidation a strategy to identify and warn of individual and collective risks of defenders for the construction of 4 Defender Reports in Chocó, Cauca, Nariño and Antioquia with the participation of 670 women and 137 organizations, while advocating before instances as the National Protection Unit, and carried out support for the territorialization of the Comprehensive Guarantees Program, and advanced in the technical strengthening of civil servants and in the development of mental health policies within the entity. Within this framework, 3,819 women leaders and defenders in 71 municipalities of the departments of Antioquia, Cauca, Chocó and Nariño, have self-protection and collective protection strategies in place for the defense of human rights. UN Women –under a rapid response approach and reinforced protection to safeguard the security of women and young leaders— supported 5 women's organizations with the activation of response support (SRR) for the mitigation of security risks in the context of social protest, in alliance with the Urgent Action Fund. It was developed in the cities of Bogotá, Barranquilla, Buenaventura, and Santander de Quilichao. This, amidst the context of social protest that occurred in 2021. UN Women developed processes for the exchange of experiences, products, and high impact actions like the exchanges among women organizations and networks from Colombia and Brazil, initiatives like the Mesoamerican Initiative for Women Defenders and the Urgent Action Fund, that have inspiring protection strategies that translate into strengthening tools for defenders. UN Women also supported communities of practice that promote the creation and dissemination of de-stigmatizing communication campaigns and the recovery of knowledge that put the worldviews of ancestral peoples at the center as strategies to safeguard life and the protection of the territory. In 2021, and for the fourth consecutive year, UN Women commemorated the International Day of Human Rights Defenders with participation of more than 500 people, including leaders, state and government entities, the diplomatic corps and international cooperation. This, in close alliance with media. UN Women also produced knowledge documents such as the Document of International Standards to Judge Sexual Violence in Transition Contexts (https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/report/estandares-internacionales-para-juzgar-la-violencia-sexual-en-el-marco-de-los-conflictos-armados/estandares_internacionales250521.pdf), a proposal to approach sanctions in the JEP from a gender perspective, and the book “Voices of Brave Women” in alliance with the Campaign No Es Hora De Callar to make visible the violence experienced by women journalists (https://www.eltiempo.com/justicia/servicios/libro-voces-de-mujeres-periodistas-valientes-611369). In coordination with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Verification Mission, UN Women provided technical support to spaces for the consolidation and implementation of regulatory frameworks related to prevention and protection of violence, such as the National Commission for Security Guarantees and the National Unit of Protection in the Risk Assessment Committee. UN Women also provided recommendation of mechanisms to address the specific needs of women and the Comprehensive Program of Guarantees for Women Leaders and Defenders.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-COL_D_4.2
Peace talks, recovery, conflict resolution and peace building planning processes and transitional justice processes include provisions on women’s rights, participation and protection.
The result had a significant advance during the year . In 2021, a documentary on Women and Peacebuilding in Colombia was developed in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Resolution 135 in alliance with Sweden and the Truth Commission, acting as a pedagogical contribution to other peace processes in the world and as a communicative piece for the dissemination of the participation of women in the construction of peace in Colombia. Among the advances on the implementation of the Resolution 135, it is important to highlight the strengthening of the the Special Unit for Women as a mechanism for follow-up, promotion and monitoring of the implementation of the gender approach of the Peace Agreement, unprecedented at a global level. Thanks to the technical and financial support of UN Women, the Unit was able to carry out the electoral process for the new cohort through a participatory and democratic process in which 37 Assemblies along the 32 departments of the country were involved. Six hundred fifty-two (652) women and 545 women's organizations participated in person in the aforementioned process. UN Women also supported the formulation and implementation of the strategy for gender mainstreaming within the Territory Renewal Agency -ART as the governing entity for the implementation of the Development Programs with a Territorial Approach – PDETs. This, through (8) technical tools that will be issued through Resolution; and with a pilot partnership in improvement co-financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, governorates, mayors, the private sector and UN Women in the departments of Nariño and Arauca. UN Women also sensitized 160 officials of the ARN at the territorial level in reincorporation and gender.Also, 100 women in reincorporation benefited from the different care actions in various departments of the country, impacting 300 more people from their family nuclei, and from the support to productive projects lead by ex-combatant women.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-COL_D_4.3
Gender equality commitments adopted and implemented in humanitarian action which includes disaster risk reduction and preparedness, response and early recovery
In partnership with the WPHF, UN Women advanced in this result by supporting the strengthening of capacities in gender and humanitarian action of 16 Civil Society Organizations and 2,554 women. This, by qualifying their role in the response and using tools for their participation and incidence in the incorporation of gender equality. Specifically, 4 documents were prepared to support the incidence of CSOs in relation to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls and to provide recommendations to national and local entities to mitigate the impacts of this crisis; 6,118 humanitarian aid and biosafety kits were delivered to 1,607 women according to ethnic-territorial conditions; and 693 productive enterprises (individual and collective) led by women were supported with technical and managerial assistance aimed at mitigating the effects of the pandemic. UN Women also responded to the Venezuelan migration crisis, allowing 921 women (818 Venezuelans and 137 Colombians) in 6 municipalities of the Colombian Caribbean coast to receive health care and attention of their GBV cases through virtual mobile units. Also, 100 women from Nariño and 53 on the Caribbean coast in economic crisis due to COVID-19 received support with food kits for 3 months and 1,000 hygiene kits were delivered. Institutional capacities for the care of GBV in the migrant population were strengthened through the training of 67 public servants on the Caribbean coast and Nariño, as well as the creation of different communication pieces that reached at least 15,000 people, and were designed and implemented 2 chatbots (Riohacha and Barranquilla) to guide Colombian and Venezuelan women on issues such as health, GBV and migration; 508 Colombian and Venezuelan women created a network through community Dialogues in 2 cities on the coast and 2 in Nariño, and carried out 7 community advocacy actions on the Caribbean coast and Nariño; socioeconomic integration was favored by carrying out a diagnosis of the productive, commercial and employability vocation of 615 women from the Caribbean coast and 98 from Nariño. In addition, 12 enterprises on the Caribbean coast and 14 in Nariño were strengthened. Finally, advice was provided for access to the Temporary Protection Statute and support was provided for 7 pre-registration and/or biometric registration sessions on the Caribbean coast and Nariño that benefited 873 people. In 2021, UNW women –in alliance with CERF—strengthened 2 coalitions of women's organizations and 2 institutional gender mechanisms in the Departments of Chocó and Nariño in their humanitarian response capacities with a gender and differential approach, including the delivery of Resilience kits for 533 women in situations of greater vulnerability (heads of household, LGTBIQ +, with disabilities, indigenous people, Afro-descendants, etc.) in contexts of forced displacement and environmental disasters. In accordance with its coordination mandate, UN Women Colombia has a fundamental role in strengthening the gender approach in the response of the humanitarian architecture and the migratory situation through its co-leadership in the Area of Responsibility and the GBV Subsector, where they participate 34 partners linked to the EHP and/or the Interagency Group on Mixed Migratory Flows (GIFMM) linked to the R4V; the inclusion of the gender approach was supported through the use of the Gender with age marker (GAM) in the R4V; and the gender approach was included in the planning of the humanitarian response (HNO and HRP 2022) as well as in that linked to the population from Venezuela (RMRP 2022). In addition, UN Women has the co-leadership of the United Nations Task Force for the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, promoting the approval and dissemination of the inter-agency Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for this type of case, in addition to supporting the strengthening of capabilities in this regard, in different regions of the country.Showing 6 - 8 of 8
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