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-IND_D_6.2
Renewed commitments for gender equality and women's empowerment (GEWE) translate into a new feminist agenda setting
UN Women is the Technical Knowledge Partner to MWCD for G20 EMPOWER, Ministerial Conference for Women’s Empowerment. UN Women is providing technical knowledge support to MWCD for W20 and also providing gender mainstreaming support to Sherpa’s office under India’s G20 Presidency. UN Women served as Primary Knowledge Partners for Sectoral Group of Secretaries (SGoS) MWCD vision towards 2023, 2030 and 2047. Towards the 2023 and 2030 agenda, achieving SDG 5 was prioritized under the four priority areas of education, health and nutrition, economic empowerment and socio legal empowerment.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-IND_D_6.3
Stakeholders (CSOs, private sector, academia, media, UN, etc.) mobilize and present key actions that will fuel progress on GEWE by 2025
UN Women and Gender at Work are working to deepen our commitment to strengthen action coalitions through building feminist youth leadership. UN Women is working with an existing network of youth leaders, national gender youth activists, feminist organisations and practitioners, researchers, activists, to map critical questions around the criteria for feminist leadership and core challenges to young leaders to step up as feminist leaders in their spaces. In addition, UN Women and National Association of Women’s Organisations (NAWO) collaborated to convene an intergenerational space, where a common vision on feminist futures is discussed between young and older feminists and to strengthen young feminist jurisprudence through partnership and collaboration between feminist organizations. The proposal included work on programme structure, timelines, content, and standard operational procedures necessary for an inter-generational transition in women’s leadership within NAWO's organisational structure. UN Women developed 8 policy briefs in partnership with CBGA on 2 Action coalition themes.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-IND_D_6.4
Advocacy and communications campaign builds momentum and galvanizes key groups and the general public towards support and action
UN Women India’s communications approach in 2022 was to maximise outreach through collaborative power, highlighting the core objectives and Action Coalitions of GEF. While online campaigns took lead in advocacy, they were supported and amplified by the Generation Equality Ally group. Public influencers, journalists, private sector, CSO partners, NGO’s and various Government ministries joined us in curating conversations, paving way for a gender-equal future. Mixed-medium communication helped us widen our outreach with short and long format videos, Instagram story interactions and Op-Eds. The year 2022 showcased the power of collaboration for UN Women India as its combined outreach of all platforms crossed over 8.6 million organic engagements across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-IND_O_1
Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The UN System-wide Action Plan (UN-SWAP) on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (GEEW) is a comprehensive process that the officer coordinates with support from all agencies. Three UN women staff from India attended a four-day training organized by UN Women ROAP on the Gender SWAP process and successfully coordinated the annual assessment process of the SWAP for UNCT India with inputs from gender focal points and others across agencies. As part of the GEEW agenda, the RCO conducted a session on gender parity and disability inclusion with the Operations management team (OMT), an inter-agency operations group on 3rd Nov 2022 with 24 participants from 12 agencies. UN women staff member conducted the session on gender parity and will be working with individual agencies who need strategies to improve parity in staffing.The OMT has been asked to track gender parity data across agencies. The agencies which have less than 47% will be asked to address their low number in 2023.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-IND_O_2
Increased engagement of partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate
There has been an increased engagement of partners in support of UN Women's mandate. The Government is exploring how to partner with UN Women in giving it access to plan and help utilise its funds - Government of Orissa on EVAW. UN Women has received finding from the private sector to create an Industry coalition on EVAW - This if from H&M and the process has just been initiated. UN Women is part of a consortium for mitigating the environmental impact of rice farming and has received funding for that from GIZ - Both private, academic institutions are part of this process UN Women has also secured additional funding to scale up GRB at the behest of its nodal ministry MWCD and has received funding for this from BMGF UN Women has been invited by the nodal ministry MWCD and the Gov of India to lead the process of engendering G20 and this is an ongoing processShowing 6 - 10 of 12
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