Set standards for monitoring and assure quality
Identify priority areas for coordinated UNCT programming to address critical gender inequalities, ensure inclusiveness of the vulnerable and Leaving No One Behind The monitoring and evaluation framework of the strategy will also include targets and indicators to help ensure implementation is kept on track.Įnhance UNCT programmatic and operational quality, effectiveness and efficiency The strategy will thus include specific actions, outcomes and responsibilities. In this light, the new strategy shall outline the roles and priorities of the UNCT to target areas of inequality and to mainstream transformative approach from a gender perspective into each organization’s area of specialization. The United Nations agencies in Pakistan must work collectively to achieve this vision by implementing individual agency policies to support the Government in meeting its commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment. The UNCT Gender Strategy (2022-2026) will be based on an overarching vision of employing mainstreaming strategies to each UN agency as well as focusing coordinated efforts on strategically targeted areas to help promote gender equality in Pakistan.
The strategy will be designed to strengthen and expand UNCT efforts on gender equality and women’s empowerment in Pakistan. The United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Pakistan is required to develop its Gender Strategy in line with the country’s United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) and the UN priorities for gender mainstreaming that increasingly recognize the importance of inter-agency collaboration at the country level to achieve gender equality goals.
Using existing training resources, including institutions and infrastructure, Agencies are to assist in the development and application of unified training modules and tools on gender mainstreaming and to promote the collection, analysis and use of accurate, reliable, comparable and relevant data, disaggregated by sex and age, during programme development and the evaluation of gender mainstreaming in order to assess progress towards achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women. These also call upon managers to provide leadership and support, within the United Nations system, to advance gender mainstreaming, to strengthen planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation to allow system-wide assessment of progress in gender mainstreaming. The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) requests the United Nations System, including its agencies, funds and programmes, within their respective mandates, to continue mainstreaming the issue of gender in accordance with previous resolutions of the ECOSOC, in particular resolution 2008/34 titled “Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system”, and the General Assembly resolution 64/289 namely the “System-wide coherence”, including mainstreaming a gender perspective into all operational mechanisms, inter alia the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework and other Development Frameworks. Agencies are required to strengthen efforts to mainstream gender in all programmatic spheres and to strengthen the capabilities of the United Nations system as a whole in the area of gender equality. Promotion of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment through the process of gender mainstreaming is part of the mandate of all UN agencies, funds and programmes.
The IAG plays a central role in provision of strategic support and advice to UNCT collaboration with Governments to achieve SDG 5 and the gender equality dimensions of other SDGs (SDG 8, 10 and 16 in particular) throughout the Cooperation Framework, the provision policy advice and joint programmes. There is the need for gender-responsive performance management and strategic planning, sex-disaggregated data, reporting and resource tracking, while drawing on gender expertise to mainstream gender equality in the preparation of the Cooperation Framework. Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls is crucial to progress across all the Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda, the GEWGE IAG aims to promote gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls. The Gender Equality and Women and Girls Empowerment Inter Agency Group (GEWGE IAG) serves as the Gender Theme Group that is defined as an interagency coordination group that “provide(s) strategic support and advice to United Nations country teams in enhancing their gender mainstreaming efforts.”
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