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Region:Asia Pacific Current UN Women Plan Period Afghanisthan:2018-2022

World Bank Income Classification:Low Income

Least Developed Country:Yes

Gender Inequality Index:0.575

Gender Development Index:0.723

Population:209,497,025 Male:19,976,265 (9.5%) Female:189,520,760 (90.5%)

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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 have been possible thanks to the contribution given by UN Women Country Office. 119 high-ranking military officers (30% of them women) to be deployed in UN Peacekeeping Operations, increased their knowledge about: Women, Peace and Security agenda, sexual violence in conflicts, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and gender-sensitive conflict analysis. Over 2,900 police officers, from the national and local level, increased their capacities on how to apply mechanisms to guarantee the protection and respect for the human rights of women and girls, while addressing gender-based violence and the application of justice. 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 National Defense, 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. Additionally, thanks to the Elsie Initiative, the women peacekeeping local forces increased their capabilities to implement local peacebuilding actions plans that will allow them to occupy more leadership roles. 80 women's municipal peacebuilding networks were generated, in 54 municipalities of 11 states and with more of 1,500 women participating. Likewise, in coordination with the Federal Government, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the embassies of Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Uruguay in Mexico, the first National Meeting of Women peacebuilders was organized, bringing together 124 women from all 11 states. The National Search Commission (CNB for its acronym in Spanish) increased the tools that facilitate 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 the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR). With the support of the Country Office, the CNB advanced in the harmonization of the protocol for searching missing women. UN Women Country Office implemented its first humanitarian response intervention to support migrant Haitian women and girls, as well as refugees and asylum seekers in Mexico. In the context of a significant raise of Haitian population arrival to Mexico, the Country Office facilitated small grants to four Civil Society Organizations working in the field in contexts 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 services from Creole to Spanish, 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 in Mexico are better prepared and equipped to occupy more leadership roles in the Peace and Security Agenda, and the tools and protocols for peace and a life free of violence are becoming 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 generated 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 Country Office 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 the 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 established 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. This Group promotes 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. The Country Office supports Mexico to encourage its international cooperation actors to join 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 Country Office work at the ICGR has resulted in the increase of 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 to strengthen their capacities as legislators in the new parity government and the 18 Embassies engaged with the 25th of November actions that UN Women organizes to eradicate violence against women. UN Women Country Office provides continuous support to the Mexican government to have a comprehensive perspective and strategy to leave no one behind in the process of development, particularly women in vulnerability. UNW Mexico contributed with inputs to the UNW Regional Office to strengthen the process of developing a General Recommendation on indigenous women and girls by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee of Experts. The Country Office also gave workshops on local mechanisms for the advancement of women and municipal authorities regarding the Mandate and work of the CEDAW Committee, its functioning and its observations to the Mexican State. Knowledge products and knowledge sharing through trainings and workshops organized by the Country Office, 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 Generation Equality Forum (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 support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at national level, the Country Office continues generating strategic alliances to disseminate and adapt training courses, such as "I know Gender", and courses 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 Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) of Mexico in the Generation Equality Forum. The dialogues were intersectional, intergenerational and Mexican Civil Society and youth, as well of indigenous women had an important role. The CSAG coordinated a national consultation with women. UNW also facilitated the participation and support of the CSAG of Mexico in the GEF Paris. In the framework of the GEF Executive Director’s visit to Mexico, 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.

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