TRANSFORM – The magazine for gender-responsive evaluation – Issue 21, June 2021

Date: Friday, June 18, 2021

This issue of TRANSFORM summarizes the “Corporate thematic evaluation of UN Women’s support to National Action Plans on women, peace, and security”. Through this evaluation, the Independent Evaluation Service assessed the criteria of coherence and coordination, effectiveness, organizational efficiency, sustainability, and the extent to which a human rights approach and gender equality principles were integrated into National Action Plans to meet women, peace, and security commitments and adopt accountability frameworks in conflict and post-conflict countries.

Fund for Gender Equality annual report 2019–2020

Date: Monday, July 6, 2020

Supported by photos, data, infographics, and individual impact stories, the annual report highlights key achievements of the 18 active projects in 2019. It offers a snapshot of the impact the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 on grantees and the populations they serve, and the ways they are responding to it. Finally, it presents the results from its latest efforts to accelerate progress by fostering innovation and peer learning.

Fund for Gender Equality annual report 2018-2019

Date: Friday, June 28, 2019

Supported by photos, data, infographics, and individual stories of impact, UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) annual report presents main aggregated results achieved by its 25 active projects. It highlights the process and outcomes of its fourth grant-making cycle, 2018–2019, a scaling and innovation initiative. The report also features FGE’s South-South and triangular cooperation strategy, a few impact news from past projects, and two grantee partners’ op-eds.

Supporting Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality in Fragile States: Guinea, Lebanon and Sudan — Research Series Summary

Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016

This brief summarizes the Fund for Gender Equality's three-country research series which focuses on grantee case studies in Guinea, Lebanon and Sudan. It offers cross-cutting highlights from the three full-length research briefs which comprise the series, including area-based findings, good practices and lessons learned. It also offers key conclusions and recommendations that aim to help women realize greater empowerment, equality and inclusive development.

Supporting Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality in Fragile States: Research Brief — Guinea

Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Focusing on grantee case studies in Guinea, this research series offers a more nuanced look at the opportunities and barriers to women’s economic empowerment in three fragile contexts. Through area-based research, good practices and lessons learned, it outlines the local gender dimensions of fragility and offers a set of context-based recommendations to scale interventions that help women realize greater empowerment, equality and inclusive development.

Supporting Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality in Fragile States: Research Brief — Lebanon

Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Focusing on grantee case studies in Lebanon, this research series offers a more nuanced look at the opportunities and barriers to women’s economic empowerment in fragile contexts. Through area-based research, good practices and lessons learned, it outlines the local gender dimensions of fragility and offers a set of context-based recommendations to scale interventions that help women realize greater empowerment, equality and inclusive development.

Supporting Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality in Fragile States: Research Brief — Sudan

Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Focusing on grantee case studies in Sudan, this research series offers a more nuanced look at the opportunities and barriers to women’s economic empowerment in three fragile contexts. Through area-based research, good practices and lessons learned, it outlines the local gender dimensions of fragility and offers a set of context-based recommendations to scale interventions that help women realize greater empowerment, equality and inclusive development.

Civil Society Advisory Groups (CSAG) Strategy

Date: Friday, January 1, 2016

The Civil Society Advisory Groups (CSAG) Strategy is a key guide for UN Women country and regional offices to set up and renew CSAGs, clarify functions and expectations, and optimize their work. It is also a key document for the public to understand the functioning and goals of the CSAGs.

Towards Planet 50-50 by 2030: UN Women Global Civil Society Dialogue: Galvanizing action for accountability and impact

Date: Friday, January 1, 2016

This report summarizes the discussions and outcomes of the Global Civil Society Dialogue that took place in New York on 23–24 November 2015. The Dialogue brought together Civil Society Advisory Group members as well as other civil society, social justice, and gender equality stakeholders from each region of the world, to discuss prioritized actions with the aim of eliciting concrete and innovative recommendations for the accelerated achievement of the gender equality agenda by 2030.