Annual Report 2019–2020
This report tells UN Women’s story over the period 2019–2020. It shares how we and our many partners are striding forward to realize a better world for women and girls—one of equality and empowerment. Looking forward, we will draw on our full resources and experiences in protecting and advancing the rights of all women and girls. That is what we do and who we are, as a leader, mobilizer, convenor, provider of programmes, and partner for change. More
- Economic empowerment (23)
- Employment (15)
- Migration (12)
- Migrant workers (11)
- Governance and national planning (11)
- Human rights (10)
- Gender equality and women’s empowerment (10)
- Ending violence against women and girls (9)
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (8)
- Gender-responsive budgeting (7)
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (6)
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- United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) (46)
- Instituto para las Mujeres en las Migración (IMUMI) (2)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (1)
- Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) (1)
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) (1)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (1)
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) (1)
Friday, August 14, 2020
This research uses participatory methodologies to explore the experiences of diverse crisis-affected women around gender-transformative change in four humanitarian settings in Bangladesh, Colombia, Jordan, and Uganda. The study provides entry points and recommendations for Grand Bargain signatories to move towards gender-transformative humanitarian action by enhancing women’s meaningful participation in humanitarian responses, and the localization of humanitarian action to women’s rights organizations and self-led groups.
Gender-responsive humanitarian response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Monday, July 13, 2020
Complementing the Global Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19, this accompanying gender programme from UN Women seeks to support the whole of the humanitarian system to deliver better for women and girls in the midst of this global pandemic. The programme’s overall objective is to ensure that the most affected and at-risk women and girls play their fullest role in response to COVID-19 and are protected from its impacts.
Gender, climate and security: Sustaining inclusive peace on the frontlines of climate change
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Grounded in a series of case studies from research and programming experience, this report offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how gender, climate, and security are inextricably linked.
Feminist perspectives on the 2030 Agenda in Ecuador: Selective engagement, inclusions and omissions
Thursday, March 26, 2020
This paper examines how the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been integrated into the national debate on gender equality in Ecuador. It identifies which policies from the Agenda have been taken into account and which have been rejected. It also examines how the actors involved in clarifying the scope of these policies—women’s movements, sexual diversity organizations, public officials, and UN agencies—have coordinated their activities with the Agenda.
Monday, February 24, 2020
This publication illustrates in a practical way how participating cities of the Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces Global Initiative are working to implement women’s safety approaches through the lens of intersectionality. These include a range of women-led solutions, from the creation of data, to integrated policies with meaningful participation of women’s rights organizations, to urban planning solutions that prioritize minoritized women, and prevention initiatives addressing discriminatory behaviours.
Spotlight on SDG11: Harsh realities: Marginalized women in cities of the developing world
Monday, February 17, 2020
This study, based on data from 59 low- and middle-income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Southern Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, finds that women and their families bear the brunt of growing income inequality and failures to adequately plan for and respond to rapid urbanization. The publication examines the effects of multidimensional poverty in urban areas, with women facing greater exposure to life in slum-like conditions than men.
Transnational families, care arrangements and the state in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Thursday, December 5, 2019
This paper concerns the implications of migration within Central America for family life. Focusing on the case of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, it shows how Nicaraguan families develop strategies based on a history of informal and flexible caregiving. While these informal strategies allow families to navigate the challenges migration and family separation entail, they also contribute to continued vulnerability and reinforce the gendered burdens of caregiving within transnational families.
Women, peace and security: Strengthening accountability through the Universal Periodic Review
Friday, November 1, 2019
This research brief focuses on the Universal Periodic Review process in the Human Rights Council and shows the potential for a powerful relationship between this process and enhanced accountability for human rights obligations relating to the women, peace, and security agenda.
Leveraging digital finance for gender equality and women’s empowerment
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
This working paper provides a basis to review the barriers, risks, and opportunities related to gender and the accessibility and utilization of digital finance, and to help identify pathways that could be leveraged for potential impactful investment returns for women.
TRANSFORM – The magazine for gender-responsive evaluation – Issue 15, August 2019
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Issue 15 of TRANSFORM focuses on governance and national planning (GNP), an area of work that has contributed to UN Women’s identity and for which it is recognized and valued. The evaluation of UN Women’s GNP portfolio from 2011 to 2017 assessed the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and extent to which human rights approach and gender equality principles were integrated adequately in UN Women’s approach to GNP.