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-MAR_D_3.1
Stakeholders are committed to prevent VAW and to deliver quality essential services to WSV
Outcome 3.1 was successfully achieved in 2022. Institutional representatives from the Office of the Public Prosecutor / tribunals; the Ministry of Health / hospitals; the Women’s machinery / housing centers for WSV; the police forces; and Royal Guard / specialized units strengthened their culture of monitoring and evaluation of essential services provision following a self-assessment on the implementation of the protocol at institutional level. The assessment generated recommendations to improve the service provision for WSV. This process will inform future regional evaluations on the quality of the service provision for WSV for better inter-sectoral coordination. The established culture of self-assessment reflects a strong sense of ownership and a clear commitment to service provision to ensure that quality services are provided. UNW further supported intersectoral coordination with service providers for WSV through the monitoring and evaluation of the territorial protocol for providing coordinated services to WSV. Police forces more adequately deploy in response to the prevalence of various forms of violence, taking into account occurrence time and geographical location. This is a result of the Police response to VAWG becoming increasingly informed by data analysis collected by the VAW field Units. For example, when the data collected in one district showed a low rate of complaints on cyber-violence, the National Police strengthened its communication strategy in this area on the services available to survivors of this particular form of violence. The National Police is committed to ensure a better coordination of their local response to deliver quality essential services to WSV. In 2022, In this regard: (i) The High Commission for Planning (HCP) developed a user-friendly online platform to display key gender statistics, including statistics from the national prevalence VAW study; (ii) the Office of the Public Prosecutor (OPP) published the annual report of judicial statistics, which includes VAW statistics and elaborated an integrated national action plan to end early and forced child marriage; (iii) the police forces continued to collect and disseminate VAW data (including the number of complaints received and processed, number of complaints dropped, authors' profiles, etc.). These efforts reflect stakeholders’ commitment to improve the quality of targeted essential services provision to WSV. UN Women supported each of these steps taken by duty bearers to better produce data, knowledge, and communication tools informing VAW policies. An increasing number of national institutions, private sector companies, NGOs, and other relevant stakeholders engaged in VAW prevention efforts. Stakeholders demonstrated national ownership over the 16 Days campaigns as a result of UNW’s continuous advocacy. UNW is solicited by current partners and non-partners to conduct awareness-raising activities during the 16 Days campaign. This is a testimony of an increased commitment to prevent VAW. This year, new key strategic partner, the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication, jointly organized, with UN Women, a film festival on women’s rights and gender-based discrimination that mobilized more than 700 people. In addition, the National Commission for Data Protection organized an event to launch a new platform dedicated to the protection of private citizens’ lives and the processing personal data of children, adolescents and women, including WSV when they report VAW cases to national institutions. UN Women partnered with the Commission to launch this platform.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-MAR_D_3.2
Cities and local stakeholders develop responses to develop empowering public spaces for women and girls
Significant progress was achieved for Outcome 3.2 in 2022. CSO worked to strengthen the capacities of local elected representatives and local authorities in their response to VAW by advocating for gender-sensitive local planning and budgeting. Stakeholders formulated a gender-sensitive city policy and prepared a gender-sensitive budget after learning about gender-sensitive approaches and key principles to prevent VAW in public spaces. They also have demonstrated improved understanding of gender mainstreaming techniques and tools and an improved ability to monitor the budgets of districts. UN Women support CSOs in this work by providing financial support – through a 85000 USD grant- enabling the recruitment of an expert who developed training material and facilitated trainings to local elected representatives and local authorities. Association Ennakhil developed awareness-raising modules on gender equality and safety for women and girls in public spaces, especially on how to recognize and react to GBV in public spaces. The aim of these awareness-raising workshops was to improve the participants’ understanding of gender-based violence in public spaces; to acquire knowledge of the legal framework of the fight against gender-based violence in public spaces; to understand how to take actions to prevent gender-based violence in public spaces. UNW supported the development of these modules, One of the positive externalities of this work to improve stakeholders’ abilities to develop empowering public spaces for women and girls was that the City of Marrakech (Marrakech Municipality) requested support from Ennakhil NGO to design a public green space responding to international standards and norms in terms of accessibility and safety for women and girls (gender sensitive).
outcome XM-DAC-41146-MAR_O_1
Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system to commit on gender equality and women’s empowerment
As chair of the GTG, in 2022 Morocco CO continuedfosteringthe GEWE dialogue through capacity strengthening, knowledege enhancement, and by leading the effective implementation of accountability tools such as the UNCT-SWAP GES and piloting the implementation of the new GTG standards and procedures.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-MAR_O_2
Increased engagement of partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate
In 2022, increased engagement of external partners and donors was manifest through the secured partnership with the French Development Agency and the mobilization of a 3M US$. Furthermore, the CO was able to convince the Finnish government to fund the CO to (i) promote sustainable finance for gender equality in Morocco and (ii) support the implementation of the WPS National Action Plan. Morever, UNW CO witnessed increased engagement from the UNDS agencies as the latter voluntarily allocated joint resources to support hte implementation of joint initiatives during the 16 day campaign.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-MAR_O_4
Improved management of financial and human resources in pursuit of results
During the reporting period, the Office ensured compliance with the guidelines and policies related to operations management. The Office has indeed updated on a regular basis the BCP via the online BCCMA, the DRP and followed the requirements of the UN Security Management System by ensuring the safety and security of personnel and the security of the premises and assets. In addition, the risk register has been updated and reviewed in a timely manner and in compliance with the Enterprise Risk Management policy & framework requirements. The Office designed a SharePoint structure which is now being used and implementing the recommended actions to improve its monitoring following a quality assurance mission provided by the RO.Showing 6 - 10 of 10
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