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%)
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Advancing partnerships & resourcing; Effectively influencing for impact & scale
UN Women Ethiopia Country Office has used all internal and external outlets as well as advocacy through events to communicate the impact its work under the Strategic Note 2021-2025. The office developed and published 17 impact stories and four videos on its various programmatic interventions ensuring its visibility internally and externally using national, regional and headquarters websites. In 2022, the social media platforms were also utilised to send daily messages to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment and to create visibility through sharing impact stories, videos and events. UN Women increased its social media presence and the reach through Facebook and Twitter. The annual total record of Facebook and Twitter reached 480,293 impressions, with majority of it achieved through Twitter with 380,400 impressions. Both platforms have recorded a significant increase throughout the year, as evidence by a growth in visits and views on Facebook from 8,595 in quarter 1 to 48,694 and Twitter from 79,100 in first quarter to 137,300 in the end of 2022. This significant growth has been a result of regular and coordinated advocacy messages, live tweets of events and dissemination of fact sheets, including partner appreciation quote cards produced and shared throughout the year attracting more audience to the social media platforms, while raising awareness of gender equality and women’s empowerment and profiling the work of UN Women in Ethiopia. One key media partnership was undertaken promoting girls in information, communication and technology (ICT) UN Women built new partnership with Fana Broadcast corporate, one of the largest media houses in Ethiopia with a nation-wide coverage in TV and radio, to sponsoring production and airing of TV and radio advertisement as well as a radio program involving Ethiopian coders who sent message of importance of ICT for girls, the coders and girls who participated in the UN women signature programme “African girls can code initiative” also discussed their experience in coding during prime-time broadcast for four days. The knowledge production and sharing through website and social media has also supported the overarching goal of becoming a knowledge hub on gender equality and women’s empowerment issues and advocacy efforts. Accordingly, 26 knowledge products were produced and shared during 2022. In 2022, UN Women continued to increase financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment through expanding the pool of available resources for gender equality by exploring new partnerships and strengthening the current one. As a result, UN Women secured 53% non-core available funding out of total 2022 budget that has been directly applied to the Strategic Note 2021-2025 implementation. UN Women successfully galvanized partners to join several donor missions in 2022, which gave an opportunity to jointly review the key achievements of the UN Women programme in Ethiopia and mobilize more resources for the implementation of the Strategic Note 2021-2025 and its ongoing thematic programmes In addition, a Strategic Partners Consultative Forum has been created by strategic partners and UN Women recognized as a mechanism for in-country strategic high-level consultations with main contributors who provide direct Strategic Note funding (non-earmarked) throughout the implementation of the UN Women Ethiopia Strategic Note 2021-2025.
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Advancing business transformation
During 2022, UN Women Ethiopia continued to participate in UN System wide collaboration on operational management through the Business Operations Strategy (BOS) implementation and reporting. UN Women actively participated in the Operations Management Team (OMT) Working Groups on finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, common premisses and administration, security where activities for joint planning and implementation are developed, common issues and experiences shared. The Joint Procurement Working group developed and /or renewed long term agreements (LTAs) with suppliers/contractors for various goods/services. The LTAs enabled UN Women to access a ready pool of suppliers for procurement of goods/services thereby cut on processing time hence reduction in transaction costs. The LTAs also enabled UN Women to get better prices since the LTAs prices are better due to benefits of economies of scale. UN Women continued to participate in cost sharing arrangements with UNDP on common premises, security and communication services infrastructure for better and cost-effective services. In addition, UN Women had cost sharing arrangements with UNDP on contract management for its personnel and payment services. It also participated in cost sharing arrangements on UN System wide security, safety and health management through the country level UN Department of Safety and Security and the UN Health Care Centre. This enabled the safety and wellbeing of staff and property.
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Nurturing an empowered workforce and advancing an inclusive UN-Women culture
In 2022, UN Women Ethiopia ensured that all staff has been provided with the orientations on performance management, performance, and capacity development planning. Performance planning and review are done for all staff and areas for development/capacity building identified. In addition, UN Women has revitalized its Staff Learning and Development Team to develop the learning plan by coordinating with staff and management. As a result, several learning initiatives has been convened which empowered the staff with capacities and knowledge on strengthening results-based management, monitoring and data collections methods to ensure a culture of continuous learning and experience sharing. In addition, a number of initiatives for staff engagement including staff retreat, regular general staff meetings, programme and operations team meetings have been implemented by UN Women. These fora provided opportunity for staff to have better coordination of programmes, shared vision on targeted results and feeling of togetherness/oneness. Moreover, UN Women continued to ensure the implementation of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and sexual harassment, as tackling sexual misconduct continues to be a priority for UN-Women and the UN system at large. UN Women Ethiopia ensured 100% compliance of staff with the completion of the mandatory course on SEA and sexual harassment. As part of its annual risk management process, the office assesses the risk on SEA and sexual harassment and identifies risk mitigation measures. To enhance a culture of accountability and continuous service improvement, UN Women has started the implementation of performance accountability systems including the Global Service Tracker and the Quarterly Business Review (QBR). The tools provided operational management data and compliance rates for management decision making and implementation of a continuous improvement system.
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Effective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes
In 2022, UN Women continued to strengthen its grant-making and partner-selection modalities to support co-created, transformative change. As a result, the key programme staff enhanced its capacities on partner selection procedures. UN Women continued use of systems for partner agreement management as well as enhanced due diligence prior to engagement of partners. UN Women has been instrumental in various UN system wide programme fora including the Humanitarian Country Team, Programme Management Team, UN Senior Management Team and the UN Country Team to ensure its programmes are line with and contributing to the results and goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework. Operationally, the country office continued to participate in the Operation Management Team forum and the Business Operation Strategy and its initiatives on common shared premises, piloting the common back-office operations. UN Women commissioned an impact assessment of the long-term intervention on prevention and response to violence against women and girls (VAWG)of one of implementation partners, the Association for Women’s Sanctuary and Development (AWSAD), in Oromia region. Overall, the impact assessment registered promising and commendable achievements in relation to providing quality comprehensive rehabilitation and reintegration services, especially in meeting the needs and priorities of survivors of VAWG in Oromia region as well as in terms of wider scalability and program expansion. A key lesson learnt from the impact assessment is on the need to diversify market-oriented skills development programme so that survivors are able to secure jobs relevant to their skills. Further recommendation was suggested to conduct in-depth research on the economic empowerment in prevention and response to VAWG to generate evidence driven data and analysis for future programming and advocacy. UN Women has participated as a case study for an external mid-term assessment was conducted on the global Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) project ‘Women and girls who have experienced/are experiencing GBV or are at risk of GBV benefit from provision of and access to quality services and empowered to increasingly engage in decision making and leadership in GBV response, mitigation and prevention’ in Amhara and Afar regions. Key findings from the assessment indicate on the need for flexibility, agility and adaptability of UN Women and partners to operate in dynamic humanitarian context in the country. Furthermore, the assessment highlighted a need for long-term and holistic approach to capacity building of women’s led organizations to effectively participate in humanitarian action.Showing 6 - 9 of 9
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