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-GEO_O_2
Advancing partnerships & resourcing; Effectively influencing for impact & scale
The UN Women Georgia Country Office bypassed its fundraising targets in 2022, having secured a hard pipeline commitment from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for work in the G&PPL thematic area for 48 months starting in March 2023 with a total budget of USD 4 million, as well as USD 2 million from the Government of Norway for 36 months starting in June 2023. Under the EVAW thematic area, the new phase of the UNJP from the Government of Sweden commenced in July 2022 with a total budget of USD 2,360,725 (scheduled to end in December 2026). The SDC and the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADA) are supporting UN Women work in the WEE thematic area, with a hard pipeline donor commitment obtained for an additional USD 2.5 million from the Government of Norway for 36 months starting in June 2023. Under the WPS thematic area, additional resources have been mobilized again from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (September 2022–August 2023) in the amount of USD 210,000. Further, resources have been mobilized from UNDP through the USAID/UNDP “Partnership for Resilience Programme” for the period of July–December 2022 in the amount of USD 103,681 and then again for the period of January–December 2023 in the amount of USD 186,779.56; and also from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs for EVAW work in Abkhazia for the period of December 2022–November 2024 in the amount of USD 200,205. Thus, the total proposed budget of the SN at the time of its endorsement (2021–2025) in terms of non-core resources equaled USD 18,718,815.56, of which USD 13,619,977 was mobilized at the end of 2021 and an additional USD 3,061,390.56 was mobilized by the end of 2022. As of December 2022, more than 170 private companies (about 70,000 employees) are signatories to the Women’s Empowerment Principles: Equality Means Business (WEPs), 66 of which joined in 2022. These companies have an increased understanding of the gender dimension of corporate sustainability and implement initiatives that advance women in the workplace, marketplace and community. A growing number of businesses adapted their policies, programmes and initiatives to create diverse working environments where women and girls can succeed. In addition, the companies were introduced to grass-roots women to provide women entrepreneurs and rural women with free trainings, internships, mentorship, employment and business opportunities in order to achieve more active participation by women in the economy and more inclusive economic growth in the Georgian context. The CO website content and highlights are regularly updated and fully meet the thematic priorities of the CO as well as the RO and HQ. In 2022, the CO website saw a 85.1 per cent increase in new visitors—47,438 new users with 119,629 page views. As for the Facebook page, the following data were generated for 2022 (our audience reach anywhere on FB): our activities were seen 2,627,600 times (posts, comments, shares, etc.), and there were 22,359 page visits (how many times someone searched and viewed the page) and 7,531 new likes. Total likes/follows amounted to 52,978. The current Facebook audience for the page is made up of 90 per cent women aged 18–45 and 10 per cent men aged 25–35. The UN Women Georgia CO Twitter account data show 104 followers, 145 tweets and 5,921 profile visits for 2022. Further, there were 1,168 articles, Internet news announcements and TV and radio reports/programmes covering UN Women activities in Georgia. In total, there were 962 online news announcements, 159 TV news reports, 18 radio news and talk shows and 29 newspaper articles. The most popular human story published on the CO website and shared on FB and Twitter can be found at https://georgia.unwomen.org/en/stories/feature-story/2022/05/grace-hopper-award-motivation-for-girls-seeking-careers-in-ict.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-GEO_O_3
Advancing business transformation
Designing and implementing high-quality programming in line with the UN Women SP 2022–2025 and the UNSDCF Georgia (2021–2025) remains the CO’s top priority. The BWP of the CO for the years 2022–2023 was developed and approved in a timely manner with highly positive feedback received throughout the process from the ECA RO as well as HQ colleagues. The Georgian SN has been rated as the fourth best in UN Women globally. The UN Women Georgia Country Office continues to implement its Knowledge Management Workplan for 2021–2025, which is informed by UN Women global KM Guidance. During the reporting period, the CO completed three Participatory Gender Audits and one Gender Impact Assessment. The CO worked on a number of important studies on GEWE issues, including but not limited to the Time Use Survey, the National Survey on Violence against Women (second wave), the Women’s Entrepreneurship Development (WED) Assessment and the study on Women’s Participation in Technology.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-GEO_O_4
Nurturing an empowered workforce and advancing an inclusive UN-Women culture
As the 2022 was the year of recovery from the isolation caused by COVID-19 imposed restrictions, the CO maintained flexibility in ensurin the employess had enaogh space and time for the smooth tranistion from 100% working from home modality to going back to the office arrangments: the colleagues enjoyed hybrid working arrngment with no stress attitude for the overall CO work performance remaining at a top-quality level. The CO kept all core and critical programme positions occupied. The human resources requirement, caused by the successful fund raising efforts was met throughout the whole reporting period so the CO was able to perform all activities uninterrupted, with the high level of the delivery (above 90%). Regular all staff and operations meeting, as well as staff working meetings and retreats were held, to maintain clear, transparent communicaton within increasing CO team, to review new corporate pocilicies and guidelines, as well as operational flows, ensuring the CO team is on the same page and adheres to the consistent work practice, inline with the corporate requirements. Despite turbulent economic and political landscape, triggered by Russian-Ukraine war, affecting CO operations in the break away region of Abkhazia, all prpgrammatic activities were finalized in full agreemnet with initial worplan, thanks to very close support and full engagement from the side of the CO management and programme leads.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-GEO_O_5
Effective normative, programmatic and coordination products, services and processes
The CO continues regular monitoring of all AWP activities across all outcomes via field visits, staff meetings, coordination meetings with responsible parties, quarterly and annual reporting on SN implementation in the RMS and updates to the tracking tool for grass-roots women and social mobilization beneficiaries. The final evaluation for the UN Joint Programme “Transforming Social Protection for Persons with Disabilities in Georgia” was finalized in the third quarter, and the final evaluation for the “Good Governance for Gender Equality in Georgia” project has been initiated. Moreover, during the reporting period, the CO participated in two evaluation initiatives implemented by the ECA RO and HQ: (1) Regional Evaluation of UN Women’s Support for Capacity Development of Partners to Respond to the Needs of Women and Girls in Europe and Central Asia; and (2) Corporate Evaluation of UN Women’s Contribution to Women’s Economic Empowerment by Advancing Gender-Responsive Laws, Frameworks, Policies and Partnerships. In 2022, the CO supported 17 research activities and completed 15. The CO has further prepared and submitted 17 donor reports all in time (16 were due in 2022 and one was due in January 2023). All donor reports have been uploaded to DAMS before the deadlines. The CO remains in Tier I when it comes to donor reporting, with a 100 per cent compliance rate for donor reporting obligations.Showing 6 - 9 of 9
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