orientation briefing on un-women briefing on un women – new york 17 january 2013
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ORIENTATION BRIEFING ON
UN-WOMEN
Briefing on UN Women – New York 17 January 2013
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Mandate and Functions
Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January 2013
Consolidation and transfer of existing mandates and functions to DAW, OSAGI, UNIFEM and INSTRAW
= Normative Operational
+ System-wide interagency
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The General Assembly, ECOSOC and the Executive Board constitutes the multi-tiered intergovernmental governance structure for the operational activities and provides operational policy guidance to UN-Women
The General Assembly, ECOSOC and the CSW constitutes the multi-tiered intergovernmental governance structure for the normative support functions and provides normative policy guidance to UN-Women
Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January 2013
Governance
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Structure
Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January 2013
Executive Director/Under-Secretary-General Two Deputy Executive Directors/Assistant Secretary-GeneralsField presence centered around five regional centresStaff and personnel in about 80 programme countries
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Five thematic areas
Women’s political leadership and participation
Economic empowerment National planning and
budgeting Ending violence against women Women, peace and security
Strategy and Priorities
Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January 2013
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Results – sample for global level
Orientation Briefing on UN-Women - 17 January 2013
Gender dimensions in intergovernmental processes and outcomes
o UN high-level decision-making bodies pay increased attention to gender dimensions in their input to intergovernmental meetings (i.e. CEB statement on Rio+20, LDC conference)
o Gender equality and women’s empowerment included as a stand-alone section in the Rio+20 outcome document and mainstreamed in other thematic areas
o Support to the QCPR process including through providing inputs into the SG report
o Intensely engaged in deliberations on the post-2015 development agenda
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Results – sample for country-level
Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January 2013
o In 2011 and 2012 eight countries increased the number of women elected to office at the local and national levels
o National planning documents incorporated priorities and allocated budgets for gender equality in 18 countries
o Worked with 57 countries in 2011 to build capacity on advancing policy and legal reforms, developing new national action plans and improving serving delivery to end violence against women
o Provided capacity development assistance in 21 countries in 2011 to promote women’s participation, access to justice and contributions to post-conflict and peacebuilding processes
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Results – global and country level
Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January 2013
Coordination and accountability for gender equality strengthened:
o Chairing or co-chairing gender theme groups in 45 countries
o Contributed to the development of United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks in some 20 countries
o Offices in all eight “Delivering as one” pilot countrieso Expanded and strengthened partnerships with UN
entities – UNFPA, UNESCO and UN-Habitato A system-wide action plan on GEWE endorsed by
CEB