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outcome XM-DAC-41146-MEX_D_4.1
Mexican State advance in the promotion, protection and respect of the full exercise of women human rights to access to justice and reparation for the entire population , especially that found in contexts of greater vulnerability, in conditions of equality and under the principle of leaving no one behind
The security and justice institutions of the Mexican State (Ministries of National Defense, the Navy and Public Security) made advancements in the promotion, protection, and respect of the full exercise of women human rights to access to justice. This haven been possible thanks to the contribution given by UN Women CO with 119 high-ranking military officers (30% of them women) to be deployed in UN Peacekeeping Operations , increased their knowledge about the Women, Peace and Security agenda, sexual violence in conflicts, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and gender-sensitive conflict analysis ; and over 2,900 police officers from the national and local level increased their capacities on apply mechanisms to guarantee the protection and respect for the human rights of women and girls, while addressing gender-based violence and seeking punishment against aggressors. Mexico became the 3rd country in the world to receive financing from the Elsie Initiative Fund, to carry out a measurement of the barriers that uniformed women face in participating in peace and security operations . With this initiative 1,200 surveys were carried out in Mexico to personnel of the Secretary of Defense National, Navy and Security and Citizen Protection, and 45 interviews with senior officers, to collect data to identify the main barriers and design measures to accelerate uniformed women's leadership. The Ministries of National Defense, the Navy and Security and Civil Protection are in process of getting data of the barriers that limits women's participation in peacekeeping operations. Additionally, the women peacekeeping local forces increases their capabilities to implement local peacebuilding actions plans that will allow them to occupy more leadership roles. 80 women's networks were generated, in 54 municipalities of 11 states and with more of 1,500 women participating in municipal peacebuilding networks . Likewise, in coordination with the Federal Government, UNDP and the embassies in Mexico of Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland and Uruguay, the first National Meeting of Women peacebuilders was organized, which brought together 124 women from all 11 states. The National Search Commission (CNB) increased the tools that facilitates information on enforced disappearance to collectives and families who suffered from this crime with a tool that contains key elements of national regulations and State responsibilities and recommendations on forced disappearance created jointly by UN Women, the CNB and UNHCHR. With the support of CO, the CNB advanced in the harmonization of the protocol for searching missing women. UN Women CO implemented its first humanitarian response intervention, to support Haitian women and girls migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Mexico . In the context of a significant raise of Haitian population arrival to Mexico, the CO facilitated small grants to four CSOs working on the field in context with high rates of Haitian population, to increase their capabilities in providing assistance to Haitian women and girls through the delivery of dignity kits, translation to creole to increase women and girls' access to legal, health and migration services, and integration activities and to promote their inclusion in host communities. With these actions, women are in process of occupy more leadership roles in the Peace and Security Agenda and the tools and protocols are turning to become more gender sensitive and approachable to victims.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-MEX_D_6.1
By 2025, the Mexican State has a comprehensive strategy for social development, combating multidimensional poverty and inequality, with an integrated approach to human rights, gender, interculturality, life cycle and territory, which incorporates re-distributive mechanisms without leaving anyone behind.
The close collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carry out the Gender Equality Forum , in Mexico City, gave as a results seven key partnerships to promote gender equality (Strategic partnership between the Ford Foundation, the Equality Fund and the Government of Canada; Women Moving Millions; Feminist path; Group of Friends of Gender Equality; Global Alliance of Care and the Global Acceleration Plan). This international meeting registered more than 13,000 participants from all over the world, 48% of whom were 34 years old or younger. Of all these results and partnerships, the CO gives a close follow up to the Global Alliance of Care announced on 31 March and launched in Paris on 2 July 2021. The Alliance counts with 52 members who includes institutions and organizations implementing Action Coalition in the care economy: governments, international institutions, civil society organizations, private sector, philanthropic organizations, academia, youth and feminist movements. Ministers, deputy ministers and representatives from 21 countries, within the framework of the Generation Equality Forum establishes a Group of Friends for Gender Equality . An initiative presented by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, within the framework of the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations, as part of its feminist foreign policy. This in order to promote coordinated action, in multilateral forums, to accelerate gender equality and promote the human rights of women and girls, through the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and other international commitments. T he CO supports Mexico to encourage its international cooperation actors to join its efforts to improve coordination on gender equality and women's human rights . The International Cooperation Gender Roundtable (ICGR), currently chaired by the Embassy of Switzerland for the period of 2021-2022, has put a strong focus on women human rights defenders and journalists. The CO work at the IC G R has resulted in the raise of the members by adding Uruguay, Chile and Italy throughout the last year . Likewise, an event was held with legislators and the Embassy of Spain called "The time of women" which had two international parliamentarians and 30 elected national legislators to exchange experiences and good practices in order to strengthen their capacities as legislators in the new parity government and the 18 Embassies engaged with the 25 th November actions that the CO organizes to eradicate violence against women. Un Women CO gives continuous support so the Mexican government can have a comprehensive perspective and strategy to leave no one behind, particularly women in vulnerability. For this, UNW Mexico contributed with inputs to the UNW RO to strengthen the process of developing a General Recommendation on indigenous women and girls by the CEDAW Committee of Experts and gave workshops of local mechanisms for the advancement of women and municipal authorities regarding the Mandate and work of the CEDAW Committee , functioning and its observations to the Mexican State. Knowledge products and knowledge sharing through trainings and workshops organized by the CO, give more information that facilitates substantive progress towards achieving the goals and commitments of the Beijing Platform for Action, CEDAW, SCR 1325 and other global regulatory and political frameworks that promote the reduction of poverty, inequalities and substantive equality between men and women. With the efforts made jointly with the Mexican government, the GEF gave insights and new partnerships that are working as mechanisms that give more tools and discussion spaces to empower women in Mexico, the region, and the world. To give support to the implementation of the SDGs at national level, the CO continues generating strategic alliances to disseminate and adapt training courses such as "I know Gender" and on sexual harassment and harassment to the national context, so that key audiences such as officials of the federal public administration and of some states, as well as the Community of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (more than 70,000) can increase their knowledge to create strategies and actions in their institutions with gender perspective. UN Women facilitated the participation and support the CSAG of Mexico in the Generation Equality Forum. The dialogues were intersectional, intergenerational and Mexican CS and youth, as well of indigenous women had an important role. The CSAG coordinated a national consultation with women, as part of the consultation process. UNW facilitated the participation and support of the CSAG of Mexico in the GEF Paris. In the framework of the ED’s visit to Mexico for the GEF, a special meeting was organized with the CSAG regarding violence against women and how to tackle the different challenges of new normality in Mexico after COVID19. <p style="margin-bottom:6.0
outcome XM-DAC-41146-MEX_O_1
Enhanced coordination, coherence and accountability of the UN system for commitments to gender equality and women´s empowerment
UN Women supported the RC efforts on the elaboration of the UNSDCF 2020-2025 biannual work plans 2020-2021 for the four results groups, also UN Women is leader for the results group 1 Equity and Inclusion and the plan includes products (outcomes), sub-products (outputs) and indicators. This year, jointly with the office of the resident coordinator, the mid-term review of the SWAP was carried out with the analysis of all its indicators and the updating of six indicators. The results of the evaluation were reflected in the annual report on the SWAP platform.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-MEX_O_2
Increased engagement of partners in support of UN Women’s mandate
With the different communications strategies at Country Office and programmatic level, relevant topics such as economic empowerment and eradication of gender violence are positioned in different media. With the interagency work, communication is also positioned as key to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. The communications work is also positioned regionally with the knowledge sharing and capacity building offered to Colombia, Urugay, Chile, among others. The generation of alliances reaches non-traditional actors with the National Chapter of Mexico of the Unstereotype Alliance with its private sector members and with the Allied Media Network that changes current mainstream coverage of women's rights by committing to gender equality and human rights principles. The CO knowledge management is growing in the office with the process to create a statistics repository with a mapping of strategic documents and knowledge sharing products at the global, regional and national levels. The knowledge products generated by the CO gets special places with academic institutions with the alliances generated and strengthened through the year with institutions such as the Colegio de México. Partnerships in UN Women have a diverse scope thanks to the different actors allied with this CO. Mexico CO works with governments at local and national level, international funds, private sector, cooperation funds and foundations. This allows a variety of projects and a diversification of resource mobilization opportunities. The CO is committed to increase its RM to count with more areas of intervention therefore, it has joined to the team a resource mobilization specialist who is working to reach more partners.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-MEX_O_3
High quality of programmes through knowledge, innovation, results-based management and evaluation.
The CO is continuously looking to improve knowledge management with different tools, e.g. a mentoring program, workshops to better integrate the program areas. These tools will be expanded in 2022. The close collaboration between the operations team, particularly procurement team, and the M&E team allows a more efficient processes. The M&E has been in continuous capacity building through different workshops and trainings given by HQ, RO and partners. The alignment of the SN to the new SP 2022-2023 enhanced the knowledge of the whole team to the global UNW priorities. Project Managers, Administrative Assistants, M&E and operations team are well synchronized in the process of monitoring the activities and its programmatic and financial implementation. The process of tools revision occurred during the whole 2021 and the Office at whole levels were involved. During 2021 these revisions included the Procurement area and it improved the coordination already existed. The CO is increasing the ownership of the evaluation processes. This is making more efficient the cases when an evaluation should take place and is also increasing its presence to evaluate non-traditional areas such as the communications campaigns. Office premises are continuously reinforced to have better security standards in cases personnel wishes to assist to the Office. However, teleworking has been the new way pf working and has been successfully worked since its first implementation in march 2020. Additionally, a continuous monitoring system of the vaccination have been carried out and this has demonstrated a high rate of vaccination among the personnel of the CO.Showing 6 - 10 of 11