UN Women ECARO welcomes the findings and recommendations of the regional evaluation of UN Women’s Capacity Development work, which aimed at (a) understanding UN Women’s support for capacity development of partners in ECA Region to respond to the needs of women and girls with the aim to achieve gender equality at regional and national levels; (b) evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of UN Women in providing support for capacity development of partners to respond to the needs of women and girls at the regional and national levels; (c) identifying examples of good practices from key interventions that include support for capacity development of partners, including corporate tools that Country Offices can leverage for capacity development initiatives; and (d) developing lessons learned and recommendations to strengthen UN Women’s national and regional capacity development support strategies to partners to respond to the needs of women and girls. The regional evaluation looked at support for capacity development provided by ECA region to partners from 2018 to 2022) at the national and regional levels. As defined in its founding resolution A/RES/64/289, UN Women is committed to providing normative support and operational activities, guidance and technical support to all Member States on gender equality, the empowerment and rights of women and gender mainstreaming with the additional role of leading, coordinating and promoting the accountability of the UN system in its work on gender equality and the empowerment of women. Capacity development/strengthening is a key strategy for UN Women across all its mandate areas and essential for UN Women to deliver on its commitments in the Strategic Plan, regardless of impact area. The management responses refer to the entire evaluation and notes that some recommendations will have resource implications."
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