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-WSM_D_2.8
Women market vendors have the ability to succeed and advance economically
The Markets for Change work in Samoa is delayed as no activities have taken place, except for discussions and negotiations with stakeholders. An outcome of the Project Management Committee (PMC) meeting in October 2022, was the formal agreement to adopt provisions to create inclusive and representative market vendor associations in agreement with the marketplace landlord (ACC), the Ministry of Women, Community and Social Development (MWCSD), Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries (MAF), and the Samoa Land Corporation (SLC).
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WSM_D_3.1
Women and men in target communities demonstrate support to survivors of violence and practice balanced power in their relationships
Efforts to implement a transformative approach to promote gender equality and prevent VAWG at community level are progressing and are complementary to efforts undertaken through the Spotlight Initiative Samoa Country Programme. Primary interventions include implementation of the Get Into Rugby Plus (GIR+) programme, which expanded to the island of Savaii and solidified strong relationships between Lakapi Samoa and Ministry of Women, Children and Social Development (MWCSD). The GIR+ programme has demonstrated how pairing life skills curriculum with rugby can facilitate gender equality practices between girls and boys and challenge gendered norms within communities and families. Primary prevention efforts also focused on strengthening the skills and capacities of the Village Family Safety Committee s (VFSC) in partnership with Samoa's National Human Rights Institute (NHRI). These committees are set up in every village in Samoa, and implement community-based approaches as a means of bolstering systems of accountability for GBV and facilitating recovery and support for survivors. These approaches are serving three crucial functions in the communities: 1) educating community members and service providers, 2) offering support to victims, and 3) reinforcing institutional capacity. The VFSCs are also playing an important role in linking community members to service providers. The presence of VFSCs provides women and girls with reassurance of their protection and safety and their ability to pursue justice and other support. UN Women strengthened engagement with Nuanua Le Alofa (NOLA) , a national organization representing people with disabilities. NOLA has promoted the human rights of all women through prevention related messaging and increasing the knowledge and skills of women with disabilities on VAWG, their rights, how to access services while documenting recommendations on how to increase accessibility for people with a disability.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WSM_D_3.2
Women and Girls, especially from particular groups (with disabilities, rural, sexual and gender minorities) from target countries, who experience violence have access to quality essential services (health, social service, police and justice) to recover from violence.
Women and girls have increased access to essential services, especially those from marginalized groups and geographically hard to reach locations through the ongoing partnership between UN Women and the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Development (MWCSD) to strengthen the multi-sectoral service delivery coordination and response protocols. VAWG is being proactively addressed at the at village and community levels through the launch and rollout of the Samoan Talanoa Toolkit, a first of its kind in Samoa, contributing to access to essential services, alongside primary prevention, particularly beneficial for remote and maritime women. National efforts centered on increasing awareness and access to services for women and girls with disabilities and supporting strategic planning with the incoming MWCSD CEO on the roll out and uptake of the Inter-Agency Essential Services Guidelines.
outcome XM-DAC-41146-WSM_D_6.1
Global normative and policy frameworks for gender equality and women’s empowerment are implemented in Samoa
Samoa and Cooks Islands are undertaking gender analysis and review for compliance with the CEDAW Convention and its principles. Samoa's civil servants have gained a deeper appreciation of gender and fiscal justice after capacity building in Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB). Four government ministries have analysed their budgetary documents, through a rights-based and gender-responsive lens and put forward GRB recommendations and action points for various stages of their respective ministerial budget cycles. The analysis is assisting in monitoring the Samoa government's compliance with CEDAW and also identifying how CEDAW can be used to set equality-enhancing criteria in budget activities to achieve national priorities and the SDGs. This will contribute towards performing evidence-based financial management which will allow the Samoa Government and its partners to make strategic investments that advance gender-responsive sustainable development at lower transaction costs. In the Cook Islands, government ministries are progressing towards assisting the State to become more effective in preparing towards its CEDAW 4 th periodic reporting. A review of the country's progress from 2028 toward CEDAW compliance has identified gaps and challenges and produced a set of recommendations for the State on how these could be addressed.Showing 6 - 10 of 10
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