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-GTM_O_2
Promotion of partnerships and resources; effectively influencing impact and scale: UN Women effectively leverages and expands its partnerships, communications, and advocacy capacities to increase support and funding for the gender equality program, while ensuring sustainable resources for the fulfillment of its own mandate.
During 2022, UN Women Guatemala has effectively leveraged and expanded its alliances by increasing support and funding for the gender equality agenda, one of the main results being the mobilization of USD 4´668,269 through 11 new programs: 1. Weaving the participation and development of the political and economic capacities of indigenous women in Guatemala (Indigenous Foundation – FSC-IPARD) 2. PDI Guatemala (FAO - UN to UN) 3. Building capacities to facilitate gender-inclusive climate change adaptation and mitigation in Guatemala (GREEN CLIMATE FUND) 4. Enabling a financially inclusive ecosystem that contributes to the reduction of gender gaps in access to capital and markets in the Northern Triangle. Government of Luxembourg 5. Addressing electoral conflict from a comprehensive perspective (Peacebuilding Fund) $500,118 USD. 6. Creating the infrastructure to sustain peace (PBF - INFRAPAZ) 7. Memory and truth: Alliances between young pioneers and women peacebuilders (Government of Catalonia) 8. Promoting Localized Gender Accountability to Address Inequality and GBV in Humanitarian Crisis (Government of Germany) 9. Women Weaving Lives Free of Violence: A Community-Based Program to Strengthen Protection and Livelihoods for Women and Girls (CARE-BHA) 10. Strengthening the actions of the Inter-institutional Roundtable on Women, Peace, and Security, MIMPA (GPI2.0) 11. Transformative Reparation for a Culture of Peace (PBF) Likewise, in relation to the private sector, the number of companies that have signed the Women's Economic Empowerment commitment - WEPs promoted within the framework of the alliance between the Global Compact and UN Women was increased (7 new companies in 2022 for a total of 45 companies). 5 member companies of the private WEPs carried out institutional action plans to address internal gender gaps, including: Association of Exporters of Guatemala (AGEXPORT), Banco Agromercantil (BAM), Banco de Desarrollo Rural (Banrural) Biotrash, and XUMAK. In addition, 20 private companies received training and attended the series of workshops to strengthen their knowledge to design gender strategies. Regarding the specialized gender group within the G-13 donor group, in 2022 it was led by the Swedish Embassy and UN Women served as the Technical Secretariat. In this Group, opportunities for collaboration and joint advocacy were strategically and technically analyzed, to improve efforts to incorporate the gender perspective at different levels and work topics. Finally, UN-Women took advantage of its communications and advocacy capabilities to make visible the situation of violence against women and girls, and renewed commitments from United Nations agencies, embassies, international cooperation agencies, State institutions, organizations from civil society, the private sector, and academia, who joined the United Nations Secretary General's UNITE Campaign to end violence against women (November 25 and 16 days of activism) in Guatemala. In 2022, 16 strategic interagency events articulated with the Agencies of the United Nations System were planned and implemented. As part of the activities of the UNETE Campaign, the special HeForShe event held in conjunction with the OCR stands out, where the Guatemalan actor Benjamín Levy was the spokesperson. ÚNETE: activismo para poner fin a la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas | Naciones Unidas en Guatemala
outcome XM-DAC-41146-GTM_O_3
Fostering the transformation of the organization towards feminist excellence: UN Women strategically plans and transforms its business model to generate impact at scale, through agile and ethical leadership rooted in a culture of continuous improvement.
UN Women Country Office in Guatemala promotes planning, monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management as fundamental pillars for the high quality of programs and the transformation of the organization towards excellence. The main results achieved in 2022 are highlighted below: • Approval of the Strategic Note of the Guatemala Country Office by the Secretary of Planning and Programming of the Presidency of the Republic of Guatemala – SEGEPLAN. 2022 being officially the first year of its implementation in the country. • Monitoring, Evaluation, Research Plan -MERP- 2022 was developed satisfactorily. Donor and corporate monitoring reports were prepared and submitted on time and with high quality. • The final evaluation of the Project Creating new avenues of resilience to sustain peace from Kaqchiquel, Q'eqchi's and mestizo women, was developed in compliance with UN Women standards and with the support of the Regional Office. • Biannual Work Plan 2022-2023 of Guatemala updated and approved by HQ. The main findings of the final evaluation of the Project Creating new avenues of resilience to sustain peace from Kaqchiquel, Q'eqchi' and mestizo women, developed in the first quarter of 2022 are: • The project was innovative in Guatemala by introducing and addressing the issue of gender violence against women in digital spaces. • The project made it possible to create intergenerational alliances between women from different territories and for women to position themselves and demand a better response from the authorities to gender violence, including cybernetic violence. • The project contributed to the women's peace and security agenda by focusing on strengthening their leadership as change agents and peace builders. • One of the strengths of the project was linking a diverse set of United Nations institutions, organizations and agencies. • The project managed to make the women leaders with whom it worked aware of the importance of linking economic autonomy with the strengthening of their sociopolitical leadership, their capacity for advocacy and political participation in various spaces. • One of the main impacts of the Project was its ability to raise awareness and provide women with tools to address the problem of cyber violence.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-GTM_O_4
Fostering an empowered workforce and promoting an inclusive UNW culture: With its unique and inclusive culture, UN Women is an employer of choice with a diverse and high-performing atmosphere that embodies UN values.
UN Women Guatemala has consolidated for years a highly specialized, diversified, and efficient work team committed to supporting the development of UN Women’s mandate efficiently, specifically during 2022 the following advances stand out: A permanent dialogue between the representative and the entire work team to encourage staff and provide advice. This has been sustained in the second half of the year through weekly individual meetings, biweekly coordination meetings, and biweekly technical and operational committee meetings. The knowledge of the UN Women Guatemala Country Office team in financial, administrative and audit processes was strengthened according to institutional guidelines, thanks to the strategic advice provided by the Operations Manager of UN Women in Ecuador. In particular, a process analysis was carried out to identify optimization and efficiency improvement points. As a result, training activities and guide instruments are being integrated to strengthen knowledge in the processes. A functional analysis of labor competencies in the UN Women Guatemala Office was carried out to have a better vision of the necessary adjustments in the work team to adapt the functions to the current and future context, which allows the country office to strengthen its governance. and work efficiently. All team members made and implemented a work plan which includes a training plan section. Likewise, they received continuous feedback during the year and their respective annual performance evaluation to encourage continuous improvement. Awareness of a healthy mind and the general mental well-being of the entire work team has been fostered, encouraging the active participation of the staff in workshops organized by headquarters on mental well-being. The continuity of the operation of the Country Office and the operations processes was guaranteed. An inclusive culture for Persons with Disabilities was promoted by supporting the implementation of the UNDIS Strategy led by the OCR. The following could be said in regard to the framework: (1) UN Women Guatemala signed the interagency commitment to guarantee the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, within the framework of the commemoration of the Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 2, 2022. (2) The inclusive communication campaign #ConVoz (#withvoice) was designed and implemented by interagency to promote the inclusion of Persons with Disabilities and prevention of violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities, a campaign led by UN Women in coordination with OHCHR, UNFPA, and OHCHR. (3) Participation in the training workshop on the incorporation of accessibility criteria in bidding processes and contracting of goods and services led by the interagency group Operations Management Team (OMT).
outcome XM-DAC-41146-GTM_O_5
Effective products and services, as well as programmatic norms and coordination processes: UN Women efficiently and effectively fulfills corporate processes that promote the integrated implementation of its normative, operational, and coordination mandate at headquarters, regional, and national levels, including through shared services.
In 2022, UN Women Guatemala efficiently and effectively complied with the corporate processes to fulfill its mandate. The CO provided strategic support and advice to the UNCT to improve the incorporation of the gender perspective, exercising a leadership role in the following three interagency spaces: Specialized Gender Group (GEG) in 2022, was led by UN Women and co-led by UNFPA, achieving the following results: i) recognition of the Guatemalan UNS agencies that implemented gender equality projects and the empowerment of women through the "Protagonists of change for gender equality" award from the United Nations System in Guatemala (SNU), an initiative led by the Office of the Resident Coordinator (OCR) and UN Women https://www.undp.org/es/guatemala/noticias/reconocimiento-del-sistema-de-naciones-unidas-en-guatemala-2022-protagonista-de-cambio-por-la-igualdad-de-genero The Terms of Reference of the Interagency Gender Group where updated and the Work Plan for 2023 was proposed in compliance with global standards and procedures, thanks to the Webinars promoted by the UN Women Regional Office. iii) made visible the situation of inequality and exclusion of women in Guatemala and promoted the renewal of commitments, through the planning and implementation of strategic interagency activities within the framework of the United Nations Campaign of the Secretary General of the United Nations to put an end to violence against women (November 25 and the 16 days of activism). iv) Confidential report of the UNCT for the 85th meeting of the CEDAW Committee was carried out with the technical support of the GEG. UNSDCF Peace, Security and Justice Results Group in 2022 was led by UN Women, achieving the following results: i) the Ministry of the Interior (MINGOB) updated the 2022-2027 Action Plan of the National Policy for the Prevention of Violence and Crime Citizen Security and Peaceful Coexistence (PONAPRE) thanks to the interagency technical assistance (UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, PAHO/WHO, OHCHR and UNICEF) provided. ii) A specific subgroup on Violence against Women, Girls, and Adolescents was generated for the implementation of the Cooperation Framework thanks to UNFPA and UN Women (Leader and Co-leader) and the participation of UNDP, UNODC, OHCHR, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNAIDS, and OCR. In the humanitarian sphere, UN Women, as Leader of the Gender Working Group of the Humanitarian Country Team (EHP) and co-leader of the UNS Protection Group together with UNHCR, has actively worked to facilitate the incorporation of the gender perspective and the rights of Women in the Guatemalan Humanitarian Response. The main results of the year are: i) the Humanitarian Need Overview -HNO- updated in 2022, which has a gender and human rights approach. ii) the updated Protection Analytical Framework (PAF) in Guatemala, which incorporates gender analysis and General Recommendations # 30 (on women in conflict, post-conflict and conflict resolution) and # 33 (on Women's Access to Justice) of the CEDAW Committee.Showing 6 - 9 of 9
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