Outcome SEN_D_2.3

Changes attributed to UN Women in skills or abilities and capacities of individuals or institutions and/or the availability of new products and services contributing to Women’s equitable access to services, goods & resources

During 2022, The result was partially attained. Nevertheless, Senegal Program made efforts to contribute to improve skills or abilities and capacities of individuals or institutions and/or the availability of new products and services contributing to Women’s equitable access to services, goods & resources. UN Women Senegal strived to contribute to the efforts made by the Government of Senegal, which has made emergence a priority in its economic growth policy. To bring it to fruition, two projects have been implemented to support women in agriculture and entrepreneurship: Climate smart Agriculture through "Women's access to land and productive resources for a resilient agriculture phase of climate change" is being implemented in northern Senegal. to benefit women farmers. This intervention, aims to empower 16,000 women farmers and reduce their vulnerability to climate change The 3R Programme responds to the need for more programmatic interventions on recognizing, reducing and redistributing (3Rs) women’s unpaid care and domestic work as well as overall time poverty The Climate smart project mobilized women and young girls in the rice sector to increase their socio-economic empowerment by reducing the obstacles that prevent them from realizing their full potential: gender relations, strengthening of leadership, decision-making, and resources control. Thanks to a training program, advisory support and awareness campaigns on these key themes, women farmers are strengthened to defend and exercise their rights. The technical and entrepreneurial capacities of women farmers are also strengthened through practical training during which particular attention is paid to the use of innovative production methods, adapted to climate change (adapted varieties, technical itineraries, and short cycle seeds, among others). In addition, UN Women in partnership with BICIS bank and local financial institutions has implemented new practices that facilitate women's access to information, markets, credit, and agricultural insurance. At the same time, a new theme was introduced by UN Women Senegal to strengthen the support provided to the Government of Senegal in its efforts for gender equality and social protection in the National Strategy for women's economic empowerment (SNAEF) and its commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals in Target 5.4 "Make room for and value unpaid care and domestic work, through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of the sharing of responsibilities in the household and the family, according to the national context." UN Women Senegal has addressed the inequities in unpaid care by implementing the 3R Program (Transformative Approaches to Recognize, Reduce, and Redistribute Unpaid Care Work in Women’s Economic Empowerment Programming in Senegal). At national level, 3 policy briefs and have been developed to influence national and local policy formulation and interventions and disseminated to key stakeholders. 200 national authorities and 40 at local level have increased access to knowledge products and tools for enhanced knowledge and skills to implement laws, policies and services that address unpaid care work. At local level, 13 local governments have integrated the 3R approaches in their local development program that recognize and address the disproportionate share of unpaid care work by women and girls. 15900 women have access transformative care services (health assurance, timesaving, climate resilient infrastructure and/or technologies.

Changes attributed to UN Women in skills or abilities and capacities of individuals or institutions and/or the availability of new products and services contributing to Women’s equitable access to services, goods & resources

UN Women Senegal Program made efforts to contribute to improve skills or abilities and capacities of individuals or institutions and/or the availability of new products and services contributing to Women’s equitable access to services, goods & resources. UN Women Senegal strived to contribute to the efforts made by the Government of Senegal, which has made emergence a priority in its economic growth policy. To bring it to fruition, two projects have been implemented to support women in agriculture and entrepreneurship: Climate smart Agriculture through "Women's access to land and productive resources for a resilient agriculture phase of climate change" is being implemented in northern Senegal. to benefit women farmers. This intervention, aims to empower 16,000 women farmers and reduce their vulnerability to climate change The 3R Programme responds to the need for more programmatic interventions on recognizing, reducing and redistributing (3Rs) women’s unpaid care and domestic work as well as overall time poverty The Climate smart project mobilized women and young girls in the rice sector to increase their socio-economic empowerment by reducing the obstacles that prevent them from realizing their full potential: gender relations, strengthening of leadership, decision-making, and resources control. Thanks to a training program, advisory support and awareness campaigns on these key themes, women farmers are strengthened to defend and exercise their rights. The technical and entrepreneurial capacities of women farmers are also strengthened through practical training during which particular attention is paid to the use of innovative production methods, adapted to climate change (adapted varieties, technical itineraries, and short cycle seeds, among others). In addition, UN Women in partnership with BICIS bank and local financial institutions has implemented new practices that facilitate women's access to information, markets, credit, and agricultural insurance. At the same time, a new theme was introduced by UN Women Senegal to strengthen the support provided to the Government of Senegal in its efforts for gender equality and social protection in the National Strategy for women's economic empowerment (SNAEF) and its commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals in Target 5.4 "Make room for and value unpaid care and domestic work, through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of the sharing of responsibilities in the household and the family, according to the national context." Reinforcement of capacity of 31 public officer i n the gender sensitive procurement and the CO has for the first time organized the meeting of the steering committee of the Affirmative procurement project.