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-WCA_D_3.1
More women and girls are protected from violence in West and Central Africa through normative, legal and policy frameworks and strengthened regional and national institutions that promote positive social norms.
Normative frameworks and the institutional environments have been strengthened to provide a multi-action approach to EVAWG by: A State of Play of EVAWG has been conducted in 11 countries of Central Africa and is to be extended to the rest Central African Countries, for the elaboration of the ECCAS Regional Convention on VAWG for Central Africa. A Regional VAWG Prevention Strategy has been validated and tested in four countries, to be published in 2023 and is being tested in four countries, with the purpose of translating it into National Action Plans. Commitments to provide technical support to ECCAS and governments on EVAWG legislation have been made, in particular regarding the organization of a regional Ministers' conference on EVAWG Engaging with Ministers in charge of GEWE portfolios, who attended UN Women High Level Forum on strengthening women’s movements Two sets of recommendations and engagements arose from the organization of two High-level Forums that gathered over 180 participants, including CSO, Traditional Leaders, Ministers and regional organization.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WCA_D_4.1
A comprehensive and dynamic set of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in Peace, Security, Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings is strengthened and translated into gender-responsive laws, policies, and institutions in West and Central Africa.
The regional office supported Chad to elaborate its first Nation Action Plan (NAP). A final version was produced and submitted by the Ministry of Gender to the office of the prime minister for an official adoption. The process was led by the Ministry of gender and a national multisectoral committee. UNWOMEN played a strategic role until its finalisation. UNWOMEN also supported Cote d'Ivoire to update its NAP and identify priorities for the two upcoming years. A three days workshop was organized under the leadership of the Ministry of gender and participants from governemental institutions and civil society organizations to validated key priorities and defined a coordination mechanism to garantee effective implementation of the NAP. Since UNWOMEN has become a full member of Interagency Standing Committee (IASC), was able to influence the policies, criterion and key documents such as strategies, action plans, into being more gender responsive, empowering women including Women Led Organizations as key actors and decision makers in the Humanitarian cycle. In relation to this, UNWOMEN now is conretely influencing the Humanitatian Country team in the different countries in the region with the introduction of gender policies, women empowement and localisation of Women Led Organizations , feminist, and organisation working on gender issues in the humanitarian sector. Including the regular production or development of gender assessment, gender alerts and gender rapide
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WCA_D_4.2
More women and girls in West and Central Africa have equitable access to high quality public goods, services, and resources that are responsive to their needs in Peace, Security , Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings.
As consequence of the capacity building initiative of Gender & DRR atelier carried out at regional level in Dakar (UN WOMEN Nov 2022), in which public institutions (gender and women ministry), Women Led Organisations and women organisation working in the sector, more women and girls, will be benefited from targeted gendered policies, risks preventions, action plans taking into consideration gender needs, the mainstreaming of gender and engagements made by these stake holders in their respective countries to improve access of women and girls to public and basis services. Practitioners on disaster risk reduction (DRR), disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change (CC) has been also aware about the need for gender-sensitive and inclusive DRR strategies and mechanisms in their countries and regions , including the global and regional frameworks (Sendai Framework, Africa Action Plan, ECOWAS Strategy for DRR and CCA). With the application of these national and regional frameworks at the institutional level, women and girls will have better or improved access to basic services and prevention mechanism on DRR, peace and security, and protection .
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WCA_D_4.3
More women and girls in West and Central Africa exercise their voice, agency and leadership, including through an enabling environment that supports women’s and youth organizations working in Peace, Security, Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings.
The Regional office continued to provide technical support and expertise to 3 regional organizations working on WPS namely: REPSFECO, Platform of women from the G5Sahel region and ROAJELF. An expert was temporary deployed for 6 months to the Platform of women of the G5Sahel region. This organization also received equipment for the operationalization of its regional office based in Mauritania. WCARO continued to support them to organize some advocacy initiatives and for the mobilization of resources. An annual meeting of the Group of women and Youth for peace and security in West Africa and the Sahel was organized in Liberia and the focus was on resource mobilization. Participants were trained on proposal development and resource mobilization. A global program on capacity building of women's organizations for peace was approved and financed by Nethelands for a total budget of USD 10 million . UNWOMEN built the capacities of a group of 45 young women and Girls in Chad . They were trained during a whole week on leadership, WPS agenda and diffrent themes related to GEWE. They have set up a very dynamic national network REJEFT and it has started to advocate for a better protection of young women's rights and their participation in different peace processes. A regional training on " Gender and Disaster Risk reduction, climate change and risk informed development was held in Dakar from 7 to 11 November. There was a total of 35 participants including 31 women and 4 men from 6 francophone countries of the Sahel region. They have built their capacities on integrating gender into national DRR strategies. A group of focal points for different countries have been set up and they will develop plans and projects to improve women's participation in DRR and climate change processes. In the case of humanitarian action indeed women and girls voice and influenced has improved and adquired more visibility due the support and active participation of UN Women in the Humanitarian cycle, Humanitarian Country Team and humanitarian reponses including decision making process, this is related to the new UN WOmen IASC membership and reactivation of regional GiHA network at regional level.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WCA_D_4.4
Gender statistics sex-disaggregated data and knowledge in West and Central Africa are produced, analyzed and used to inform policy-making, advocacy and accountability for delivering gender equality and women's empowerment results in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) settings.
35 participants were trained on collection of Disaggregated data. A draft guidance were developped and is under finalization. It will be shared widely with key actors working on DRR. UNWOMEN has also recruted an expert who continue to provide technical support to partners.Showing 6 - 10 of 15
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