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-SSD_O_2
Increased engagement of partners in support of UN-Women’s mandate
UN Women South Sudan engaged with civil society organizations, the government partners and donors. UN Women partnered with over 30 civil society/women led organisations to influence the strategic note process. These organisations are receiving technical support in various activities including peacebuilding, women economic empowerment, ending violence against women and humanitarian response. UN Women continued to serve as the secretariat for the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Working Group co-chaired by the Embassy of Sweden in South Sudan and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Juba. Coordination of WPS activities in South Sudan in general and mapping of the members engagement with the Government institutions with regards to WPS. The CO also conducted a donor round table meeting to discuss the findings of the mapping of women led organisations implementing humanitarian work in south sudan.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-SSD_O_4
Improved management of financial and human resources in pursuit of results
The CO managed to achieve its target in 2022 and followed cost reduction and cost-cutting approach by regularly monitoring project budget and management budgets. Emphasis was put forward to utilise every single dollar contributed by the donors. This approach has resulted to minimise the balance against 4 operationally closed projects in 2022 where the balance amount was less than $1000 for 3 projects and $10,000 for 1 project. The $10,000 balance was left due to technical issues of Atlas as the Atlas report indicated that the balance was less than $1000 dollar. However while communicating with RO, the CO was informed of the higher balance and technical issues which is yet to review why this was occurred. Responsible staff were held accountable and regularly reminded to manage the project budget especially the Non-CORE and spend them as it is agreed in the AWP. This has helped the CO in totality to manage 2022 budget and expenditure better than the previous yearsShowing 6 - 7 of 7
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