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-KAZ_O_4
Nurturing an empowered Workforce and advancing an inclusive UN Women culture
UN Women strengthened leadership and team capacity to enable and promote an environment of collaboration, transparency, creativity and reflection. The team was regularly invited to participatory decision-making processes, for instance on the design of new initiatives, negotiations with Donors, and discussions of Resource mobilisation strategy. After the tragic events in January 2022, the office strengthened the capacity of female staff members through a two-days Women Security Awareness Training. Also, the Country Office was regularly involved in the work of the PSEA working group for advancing transparent monitoring and response.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-KAZ_O_5
Effective normative, programmatic and coordination Products, Services and Processes
During the reporting period, UN Women invested time and efforts in standardised knowledge products (for example, the Gender analysis of Gender Responsive Budgeting integration in the national planning and budgeting system). In the field of coordination and collaboration with the UN Country Team for strengthening gender mainstreaming of UNCT programming and gender-sensitive monitoring and reporting. UN Women was focused on joint programmes aimed at achieving systemic and transformative change and moving away from small standalone projects. UN Women also strengthened its grant-making and partner-selection modalities to support collaboration and transformative change. The office works constantly on internal business processes' improvement to use scarce resources efficiently.Showing 6 - 7 of 7
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