Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment
Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment
Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment
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UNCT’s accountability to ensure gender equality and the empowerment of women in the UN agencies individual programs, and through joint UN programming, promoted through UN Women’s leadership and technical expertise
Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment
This output was achieved, during 2022 the UN in Lebanon enhanced their commitment to GEWE. All UN-led frameworks/response plans developed in 2022 in Lebanon prioritized gender equality and the improvement of outcomes for women and girls across humanitarian and development interventions. These include three national level response plans in Lebanon include: the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan 2022 (LCRP), and the Emergency Response Plan (ERP). For example, GEWE is visible mainstreamed throughout over 85% of the UNSDCF outcomes, including one outcome that specifically targets women participation. In the LCRP, gender equality is mainstreamed in 90% of the sectoral operational response plans (9 out of 10), 70% of which score a 4 on the gender marker. In the ERP, gender equality is prioritized across the humanitarian plan’s three strategic objectives and gender is mainstreamed across in 100% (8 out of 8) of the sectoral operational response plans. This was a result of UN Women’s leadership, technical expertise, coordination work and capacity to mobilize strategic partnerships. UN Women conducted gender analysis of the largest national surveys in the country, including: the Labour Force and Household Survey with ILO and the Central Administration of Statistics; the Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment (MSNA) with OCHA and REACH; and the Vulnerability Assessment for Syrian refugee with UNHCR, WFP, and UNICEF. With this data, UN Women worked with the gender focal points from the GWG to ensure all sector strategies or pillar chapters across the three plans describe the diverse impact of women and girls and include different approaches to address gender equality in their strategies or response plans. One concrete example includes the WASH sector prioritizing female menstrual hygiene through making it a sector objective and increase funding, in response to rising period poverty across the country. Contributing to the gender responsiveness of the implementation, UN Women strengthened the capacity of 1,271 humanitarian and development personnel (81% female, and 19% male, ranging from frontliners to head of agencies) on diverse gender equality issues, over a total of 61training sessions. Over 96% of participants reported that they gained new knowledge and skills on diverse gender issues that will be useful in their work. Of the 1240 trained, 41 gender specialists partook in advanced gender trainings of trainers, equipped them to facilitate more trainings (the impact and results from the gender cascade trainings are still being assessed). From the last gender TOT, 83.3% of participants reported learning new information about gender issues that will help them in their humanitarian work, and 78% said they feel confident and prepared to train their colleagues on GiHA.Disclaimer and notes
References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).