Assuring an accountable organization through principled performance: UN-Women SAMCO is an accountable and trustworthy development organization that manages its financial and other resources with integrity and in line with its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations
Assuring an accountable organization through principled performance: UN-Women SAMCO is an accountable and trustworthy development organization that manages its financial and other resources with integrity and in line with its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations
Assuring an accountable organization through principled performance: UN-Women SAMCO is an accountable and trustworthy development organization that manages its financial and other resources with integrity and in line with its programmatic ambitions and fiduciary obligations
UN Women reports on this indicator in a global scope, signified by "(Desk Review)" at the end of the indicator statement (see the Our Global Results page for the global result)
UN Women reports on this indicator in a global scope, signified by "(Desk Review)" at the end of the indicator statement (see the Our Global Results page for the global result)
UN Women promotes a culture of risk management, accountability, harmonization of business practices and transparency in its operations (processes, procedures, and equipment in place in SAMCO (Procurement, Finances, Administration, ICT, Security)
Increased engagement of partners in support of UN Women's mandate
In 2022 partners supported UN Women's mandate financially and non-financially. Private sector partners, such as tMTN and ABSA, provided financial support to the Women's Economic Empowerment and Ending Violence Against Women programs. Our traditional donor the Irish Government and UK also financially supported the EVAW programme, GEF and Women Empowerment programmes to be implemented in 2022. Non-financial partners; Nokia provided non-financial support through the Action for Employment program targeting young vulnerable girls from informal settlements. by Nokia; and Facebook Africa (Meta) continued supporting the #SheMeansBusiness Digital Marketing Programme across several South African provinces. SAMCO continued to leverage Women Empowerment Principles (WEPS) www.weps.org and Unstereotype Alliance www.unstereotypealliance.org to engage private sector to support GEWE within their organisations and CSI programmes. The engagements have also served to challenge signatories to go beyond just financially supporting GEWE to elevating issues of gender equality within their companies. By Qtr4 cumulative signatories was at 117 with strategy to focus more on Stock Exchange listed companies for 2023.The WEPs engagements have also served to challenge signatories to go beyond just financially supporting GEWE to elevating issues of gender equality within their companies. The Loeries Mentorship Program (an Ally member of the Unstereotype Alliance) provided a structured platform to ensure skills transfer to help young advertising professionals navigate a career path in advertising. Nine of the 15 candidates selected to participate in the program were from South Africa. Partnerships with implementing partners continued to be strengthened to ensure GEWE is amplified directly and indirectly with their ongoing work. In collaboration with government and civil society earnstly GEF gained momentum to commence the localisation of the Action Coalitions since the 2021 GE Forum. A draft strategy developed by government and stakeholders is being finalised. A communication strategy is being finalised to support effective partnership building and resource mobilisation. A Communiction Analyst onboarded in 2022 Qtr4. Partnership with UNCT was strenghtened to identify joint programming and advocacy work across programmes. One of the notable collaboration was around the #BreakTheBias campaign and competition targetting young people to commemorate national women's month. https://southafrica.un.org/en/190781-breakthebias-photo-and-video-competition UNCT collaboration in supporting the Presidential GBVF Summit was successful: https://gbvf.org.za/summit-updates https://twitter.com/AletaFMiller/status/1587440992050769921Disclaimer and notes
References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).