Management Response

: Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division
: 2024 - 2024 , Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division (HQ)
: Mid-term review of the Strategic Partnership Framework 2022-2025 between UN Women, Sida and Norad (SPFIII)
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Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division

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Strategic Partnership Framework 2022-2025 (SPFIII) has been informed by the final evaluation of the phase I conducted in 2016; mid-term review of the phase II conducted in 2019; and relevant corporate thematic evaluations. The objective of the mid-term review conducted in 2024 is to assess criteria agreed with Sida and Norad, that of coherence, internal and external, sustainability and impact, to inform future orientation and implementation of the programme. UN-Women welcomes the findings and recommendations of the MTR and is in general agreement with the eight recommendations. The Management Response focuses on key actions for implementing the MTR recommendations in the last year of phase III. The MTR findings and recommendations will also inform the design of proposed phase IV of the partnership.

: Approved
Recommendation: Extend the impact of knowledge products and learning processes on coherence across UN Women ensuring linkages to policy work in various spaces including the UN Security Council (UNSC) or IASC Principals and Deputies meetings, through: increasing data and evidence generation and updating knowledge products where these remain useful for priority programming approaches; improving accessibility and increasing visibility of priority knowledge products to give these wider traction and applicability to non-specialist staff across UN Women, as well as positioning UN Women with its partners.
Management Response: UN Women accepted recommendation 1. UN Women agrees with this recommendation for extending the impact of knowledge products and learning processes on coherence across UN Women ensuring linkages to policy work in relevant spaces. On WPP, UN Women will continue supporting the successful staffing structure model of regional policy specialists matrixed to the global advisor, as it maintains coherence and extends the impact of collaboratively agreed and tested knowledge products, and country tailored technical advice. Supported by HQ based Knowledge Management Specialist and Statistician, UN Women will continue generating knowledge and tools for country implementation; and advancing international measurement standards on women’s representation while positioning itself as a UN and global thought leader on WPP. In parallel, UN Women continues to contribute to technical guidance to the National Statistical Offices on the use of electoral data in the context of the Praia City Group on Governance Statistics, as co-supporting agency (with UNDP) of the Task Team on Participation in Political and Public Affairs. Furthermore, UN Women will continue investing in knowledge products outlining the gender impact of conflicts and humanitarian crises through an intersectional lens and increasing visibility and dissemination through the new knowledge portal and a thematic webpage for data on women and girls in conflicts and crises under the flagship Women Count initiative. Advancing a gender data revolution on WPS will also be one of the focus areas of the 2025 Secretary-General’s annual report on WPS and a priority for UN Women in preparation for the 25th anniversary of 1325.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Leadership and political participation (SPs before 2018), Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and participation in governance systems (SP 2018-2021)
Operating Principles: Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Coherence
Key Actions
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Increase global data production on WPP and access to broader audiences. SPF Team WPP 2025/12 Completed [UN Women will continue generating global data and disseminate through knowledge platforms (incl. Local Government Website and UN Gender Quota Portal); and expand comparable VAWP prevalence data through country surveys. On SDG monitoring, UN Women will continue leading data compilation and reporting on SDG indicator 5.5.1b on local government, women in the executive, and women Heads of State. The 2025 edition of the Women in Politics Map, developed in collaboration with IPU will be launched at CSW69.] The 2025 edition of the Women in Politics Map, and the Poster Women Political Leaders were produced and published. The Team Local Government Website and UN Gender Quota Portal have been updated. AWP surveys in Argentina, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Mexico and Uruguay are finalized. SDG data on 5.5.1b was collected and reported under the Secretary General’s report on SGDs.
Continue producing cutting edge knowledge products and tools for country implementation to support WPP programming. SPF Team WPP 2025/12 Completed [Finalize and roll out guidance notes on i) data for Electoral Management Bodies (incl. related to electoral registers and data systems on voter registration, voter turnout, candidates and elected candidates); ii) developing prevalence surveys on VAWP ensuring consistency with existing international statistical guidelines to build a global repository of statistically reliable and comparable data. With these new tools UN Women aims to provide technical and practical guidance to key external partners across regions to strengthen data production and the data utilization including on SDG indicator 5.5.1b, key administrative data produced by EMBs (e.g. data on registered voters, voter turnout, candidates and elected candidates’ data); and expand comparative prevalence data on VAWP. A new Guidance Note on National Gender Observatories will inform technical assistance to UN Women Country Offices other UN agencies, and development partners to collect data, monitor trends on women’s political participation and track progress on governments commitments on women’s equal representation in decision making. UN Women intends to update and strengthen its knowledge offer as part of efforts to mark the 25th anniversary of resolution 1325. These initiatives will help centralize and make existing and new knowledge and data more accessible. The main initiatives are the establishment of a new knowledge portal for this purpose, a dashboard on WPS and Humanitarian Action under Women Count, and greater production and dissemination of knowledge products dedicated to gender analysis and needs assessments in crisis contexts.] (i) Two knowledge products guiding National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in collecting and using data on participation in political and public affairs – developed by UN Women in partnership with UNDP and Statistics Norway, in the context of the Praia City Group on Governance Statistics – were finalized in 2025 and endorsed by the 2026 UN Statistical Commission. These include (*) the Guidance on Utilizing Electoral Administrative Data to Produce Statistics on Political Participation; and (**) the questionnaire and implementation guidance for a post-election Survey on Participation in Political and Public Affairs. These guidance documents are setting first-ever global statistical standards in this domain, and are a key element in ensuring that official statistics on political participation and regularly made available by NSOs and are globally comparable. A gender and intersectional perspective was integrated in both documents, to enable data disaggregation that can show what population categories and groups of women are excluded from electoral and political participation processes. (ii) A guide for Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) on strengthening data on women’s electoral participation was completed by UN Women in 2025 and will be reviewed in 2026 by national and global stakeholders before publication. (iii) The drafting of a Guidance Note on implementing VAWP surveys is ongoing and will be reviewed internally and completed in 2026.
Prioritize investment in advancing a “gender data revolution on WPS that reaches the general public in real time”. *Due date 12/2026 (PROGRAMME COST EXTENSION) UN Women intends to update and strengthen its knowledge offer as part of efforts to mark the 25th anniversary of resolution 1325. These initiatives will help centralize and make existing and new knowledge and data more accessible. The main initiatives are the establishment of a new knowledge portal for this purpose, a dashboard on WPS and Humanitarian Action under Women Count, and greater production and dissemination of knowledge products dedicated to gender analysis and needs assessments in crisis contexts SPF Team WPS & HA 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated [UN Women intends to update and strengthen its knowledge offer as part of efforts to mark the 25th anniversary of resolution 1325. These initiatives will help centralize and make existing and new knowledge and data more accessible. The main initiatives are the establishment of a new knowledge portal for this purpose, a dashboard on WPS and Humanitarian Action under Women Count, and greater production and dissemination of knowledge products dedicated to gender analysis and needs assessments in crisis contexts.] The annual SG’s report on WPS, drafted by the WPS team, included an extended section on a gender data revolution on WPS, and its findings were covered in more than 100 media outlets across the world. Among others, data on women’s participation in peace processes as mediators, negotiators, and signatories was collected for all processes (not just the handful led by the UN) for the years 2020-2024) and published in the SG’s reports in 2024 and 2025. UN Women intends to collect this data annually, if funding continues. In addition, WPS, HA, and Research and Data teams teams collaborated on a funding proposal for CRAF’D on gender data for crisis settings that was successful, is being piloted in several countries ( including CAR, Sudan, Lebanon, Palestine, Myanmar and Haiti), and the data hub will go live later in 2026, with sub-pages on different crisis-affected countries and global snapshots of different sub-themes. Furthermore, WPS team is preparing its contribution to the new UN Women Knowledge Portal and HA is finalizing the new toolkit for gender analysis in conflict and crisis settings.
Continue to leverage the Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) knowledge hub, including tools like the WRD experts register and policy tracker, to extend knowledge impact and improve accessibility for non-specialist staff. SPF Team WPS/DRR 2025/12 Completed [Work already underway aims to enhance data, evidence generation and programming guidance by updating knowledge products on gender dimensions of early warning systems (with a WPS lens) and sea-level rise, aligned with the Sendai Framework Gender Action Plan and working with existing partners and country and regional offices, as well as by updating the WRD policy tracker through analyzing country progress in gender-responsive and inclusive legal, policy, strategic and planning frameworks. Findings will inform discussions in high-level policy forums and be showcased at key global events such as the Global Platform for DRR, World Oceans Conference, CSW69, and COP30.] The WRD Policy Tracker has been updated and a Policy Brief reflecting the results of the review has been completed and uploaded to the WRD Knowledge Hub. In addition, a publication “Building Women’s Resilience to Disasters: Lessons from Practice, Evidence from the Pacific” was also completed and uploaded to the Knowledge Hub in July 2025, distilling evidence and lessons learned from the WRD Programme's local and grassroots initiatives, demonstrating how empowering women and supporting their leadership contributes to more inclusive and effective disaster resilience. A Policy Brief on these good practices was developed and uploaded to the WRD Knowledge Hub in October 2025.
Strengthen utilization of data and knowledge produced at the country and regional levels to inform the global policy work at the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) and other humanitarian coordination mechanisms and highlight the added values of UN Women’s knowledge products. *Due date 12/2026 (PROGRAMME COST EXTENSION) SPF Team HA 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated [The initiative is to monitor the pipeline of knowledge products produced in regions and countries and is leveraged for UN Women and partner engagement in the global, regional and country level coordination bodies and normative processes. This initiative has since expanded to strengthen humanitarian knowledge management, research and peer learning across the organization through the launch of key humanitarian knowledge products, and the creation of forums for peer exchange and learning. It has also expanded to include greater investment in the quality of data collection and analysis at CO level through a pilot initiative.] [March 2026] UN Women continues to pilot new humanitarian knowledge management products with the support of an HQ-based Research and Knowledge Management Specialist including: (1) Humanitarian Situation Updates (externally facing products that make visible UN Women’s country-level humanitarian response and contribute to great coordination and accountability); (2) Humanitarian Bulletins (providing updates on UN Women’s work on HA across HQ, Regional and Country contexts, including both internal and adapted external versions for select donors); (3) Humanitarian Dialogues Web Series – that covers priority humanitarian topics and provides a forum for peer exchange, where UN Women Country and Regional Offices can showcase their humanitarian work and learn from each other. (4) UN Women Core Commitments Self-Assessment Checklist Report (the checklist is a self-assessment tool designed for Country Offices and the resulting reports will provide a snapshot of UN Women’s progress on meeting the CCs, inform planning and identify institutional support needs). In addition, the HA team is enhancing the quality and standardization of humanitarian research and knowledge products produced by COs in crisis contexts, (e.g. introducing SOPs for review and quality control; developing standardized KM templates, research tools, and guidance notes; providing technical support and training to staff and partners on research and data). The HA team is also investing in publishing strategic humanitarian data and analysis including through publishing timely research (e.g. impact of funding cuts on WLOs); and working in close collaboration with WPS and M&D teams to develop a global web platform on data for women and girls in crisis and context settings as part of Women Count. The HA team has updated its internal knowledge management hub interface for easier navigation, and is revamping its knowledge product pipeline to generate greater internal peer exchange and learning. As part of the humanitarian reset and the focus on democratizing data collection and ownership, UN Women plans to engage in relevant inter-agency processes to ensure gender data and analysis remains visible and central to the broader humanitarian response, and that WLOs and WROs are capacitated to participate in the broader data ecosystem.
Recommendation: Engage UN Women leadership across country, regional and global levels to ensure understanding, buy-in and coordination with the conceptual, strategic and programmatic work enabled by SPF. This could include briefings to leadership as well as establishing stronger communication and coordination with relevant thematic advisory roles to share learning on specific approaches or opportunities for synergies between advisory and leadership roles, including how advisory capacity can best support political and policy engagement at different levels and how leadership decision can facilitate the responses to opportunities identified by SPF-funded advisors.
Management Response: UN-Women partially accepted recommendation 2. UN Women believes there is a strong internal coordination and coherence in the way the programme is designed and implemented. The unique nature and set-up of the SPF is reliant on the existing organizational structures and processes where SPF-supported interventions aim to address gaps in country and regional Strategic Notes, and SPF-funded staff and technical experts are reporting directly to leadership of country and regional offices and HQs departments, while simultaneously working closely with the thematic leads at HQs. The Internal Programme Board (IPB) responsible for the overall performance and high-level implementation issues, ensures that the programme delivers its strategic outcomes and realizes its benefits in a coherent, effective, and efficient way. The IPB comprises of Director, Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division, representative Regional Director, Chiefs of thematic sections, and Chief, Public Partnership Section, bringing in critical coherence between technical teams and leadership. Furthermore, critical reports (i.e., annual reports and briefs, evaluation reports, etc.) are shared regularly with relevant HQs teams (i.e., highlighting major milestones in the PPID newsletter) and country and regional offices through the regional staff supported by the programme. UN Women sees the benefit of increased communication and clear directives to ensure better visibility for the programme at all levels and will focus on the following, in addition to the ongoing efforts:
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Leadership and political participation (SPs before 2018), Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and participation in governance systems (SP 2018-2021)
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Coherence
Key Actions
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Increase investment in communications on the gender impact and UN Women’s programmatic approach in crisis settings drawing on initiatives (including SPFIII-supported work) in Lebanon, oPt, Sudan, Afghanistan, Colombia, CAR and other country contexts. SPF Team WPS and HA 2025/12 Completed [Through a partnership between WPS-HA and Global Communications team, UN Women will scale up communications and increase the visibility of gender issues and UN Women’s programming and role in crisis prevention and response. Media releases, articles and human-interest stories will support communications work across the different levels of organizations facilitating visibility of UN Women’s partnership with Norway and Sweden under SPFIII. ] 2025 featured lots of UN Women’s communications efforts on several major crises, with special attention to Ukraine, Myanmar, Gaza, and Sudan. The recruitment of a communications specialist has been completed, and increased communications/media engagement is expected on the gender impacts of crises and UN Women’s programming. UN Women now holds several press briefings a year in Geneva and gets lots of media attention from these as well as the Executive Director’s briefings to the Security Council in New York (five per year on average) and the publication of gender alerts and reports on crisis countries. The WPSHA Community of Practice continues to host interactive discussions and webinar for staff working on WPS and HA on how to communicate our knowledge and impact.
Conduct periodic debriefings on SPF to HQ, regional and country leaderships including through capacity building workshops/training. SPF Team 2025/12 Completed Check-ins with SPF-funded deployments have been focused on clarifying reporting updates for the annual donor report and expectations for new deployments. Ongoing technical and advisory support to COs and ROs receiving deployments/HR surge capacity through SPFIII focuses on strengthening reporting as per the program standards and requirements, also in alignment with SP indicators. This is an ongoing support process throughout the implementation of SPFIII but the system is already put in place.
Continue sharing annual reports, briefs, evaluation reports and highlighting programme’s results with regional and country offices and relevant HQs departments including through thematic communities of practice. SPF Team 2025/12 Completed Annual reports and annual briefs shared widely. Regional Director sits on the Internal Board bringing in country and regional perspectives. For example, in the recent Annual Meeting (October 2025), Regional Offices were represented by the ECA Regional Director reflecting on the SPF contribution to the WPP, WEE and WPS agenda.
Recommendation: Draw on and scale-up corporate coordination and dialogue using existing coordination mechanisms to address complementarity between WPP, WPS-HA and DRR agendas, including building on emerging synergies at field level to inform UN Women’s corporate Strategic Notes and Annual Work Plans. Depending on the country typology and context, this could include clarifying how different technical approaches can be delivered concurrently or be better aligned and sequenced for countries emerging or at risk of from conflict or crisis. Mechanisms such as the crisis response situation room and task teams have been mobilized to respond to political situation, conflict and humanitarian situations in countries like Haiti, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Bangladesh, looking at the needs and priorities of women and girls affected by crises, including IDPs, refugees and those in host communities. This can address linkages between political work, IASC advocacy, UNSC related discussions, investment in gender analysis and data, funding for local WRO’s and networks, partnerships with national governments and other actors on policy, humanitarian planning and legal processes/aspects, investigations in HR and IHL violations, operational response through the WPHF and UN Women’s country level programming on WPS and HA.
Management Response: UN-Women accepted recommendation 3. UN-Women agrees with this recommendation and the need to scale-up corporate coordination and dialogue mechanisms to address complementarity between WPP, WPS-HA and DRR agendas, including building on emerging synergies at country level to inform corporate planning. Existing interagency coordination mechanisms (e.g. The Interagency Task Force on TSMs) as well as UN Women internal task teams on specific countries (e.g. Bangladesh) provide spaces for continued building on emerging synergies at country level on WPP, HA/Refugee Response and WPS. The new CEDAW General Recommendation No 40, focused on parity between women and men in decision making systems – presents an opportunity to inform policy-oriented advocacy, UN programming at regional and country levels on the three thematic areas funded through SPF, support donor outreach and UN coordination.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Leadership and political participation (SPs before 2018), Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and participation in governance systems (SP 2018-2021)
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Coherence
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Continue providing coordinated and timely technical support to COs including in political crisis and transitions. SPF Team 2025/12 Completed [Bolster UN-Women’s country programming on WPP and the link to the WPS and HA agenda continuing with the provision of direct support to country programming, integrated policy advice and technical assistance at global, regional, and country levels, including through internal cross thematic task teams on specific countries replicating examples such as the Task Team on Bangladesh. This remains a key driver for results and enables UN-Women to leverage comparative advantage in advancing effective programming and UN coordination at country level. We will expand geographic coverage, adding to Europe and Central Asia, and East and Southern Africa with additional deployments in Fiji MCO and DRC CO.] This has now become a routine and institutional practice at UN Women, which continued organizing cross-thematic crisis task teams throughout 2025 (e.g. Nepal amid the political crisis, on OPT, Ukraine, DRC, etc.). It enabled UN Women to channel support across HQ teams to country offices, from fast action (e.g. evacuations, progamme criticality exercises, reallocation of flexible funding) to development of new funding proposals.
Strengthen linkages between DRR, WPS, HA and WEE to ensure integrated approaches to DRR, climate security and climate change, and women’s economic empowerment through clarifying complementarities, particularly leveraging the WPHF to channel funding for local women’s rights organizations (WROs) working on DRR as well as the WPS Focal Points network to advance discussions with government partners. SPF Team 2025/12 Completed WPS is working with WEE and HA on the global guidance on care in conflict and crises following on an Expert Group meeting bringing together practitioners and experts across several organizations and regions/countries (June 2025). The new guidance was launched in December 2025. A new policy brief on gender and climate, peace and security was published in October 2025. UN Women has recently participated in climate risk assessments in CAR and Niger and is designing a standard methodology for integrating gender.
In coordination with Regional Offices, establish a mechanism for focused discussion on selected fragile countries to identify integrated technical support needs. PPID Directorate with SPF Team 2025/12 Completed Quarterly meeting of the PPID Directorate with each Regional Director is regularly scheduled and discussions on shifts in the political landscape, risks, actions taken by regional offices and coordinated support required from HQ for the fragile countries are taking place. The quarterly meetings also follow up on Situation Room decisions and have ensured actions taken for Afghanistan, OPT, Ukraine, Sudan.
Distinctly define UN Women’s approach to the HDP nexus by leveraging the opportunity of the new Global Strategic Plan development, and drawing on lessons learnt in relation ongoing programming in crisis contexts under SN/AWP. SPF Team HA 2025/12 Completed In October 2025, programmatic guidance and technical support have been provided by the HA section for the development of Strategic Notes in countries like Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia complementing capacities under SPFIII. The main objective is to guide the implementation of UN Women’s approach across the HDP continuum. Similarly, there has been provision of technical support for all regional Strategic Notes to ensure visibility of UN Women’s approaches across the HDP continuum, guiding strategic partnerships with local actors and UN agencies and resource mobilization for the achievement of strategic GEEWG priorities in crises. The objective is also to ensure alignment with the new Global Strategic Plan 2026-2029.
Recommendation: Invest further in long-term programme development processes - drawing on UN Women Gender Equality Accelerators - to ensure that UN Women remains relevant in the changing context, particularly in innovative programming areas that utilise thematic synergies. This includes the intersection of WPS, HA and DRR (with links between reconstruction and WEE as well as resilience, protection, human rights and local leadership related interventions). This should enable UN Women to be more adaptable in a changing funding landscape.
Management Response: UN-Women accepted recommendation 4.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and participation in governance systems (SP 2018-2021)
Operating Principles: Alignment with strategy
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Continue supporting Country Offices’ programme design and resource mobilization efforts using the GEAs as the model through remote technical assistance and SPF seed funding. SPF Team 2025/12 Completed This recommendation has become regular practice across SPF teams. To name some recent examples, Bangladesh Haiti, Malawi COs were supported on project design on WPP with resource mobilisation results. In addition, in a two and half month period, near 2MIL US$ has been allocated to 19 COs and 2 ROs to support staffing capacities, filling programming funding gaps and provide seed funding with the aim of catalytic results on longer term programming. Annual reports were submitted by all COs at the end of December and the overview of activities supported and results achieve will be annexed to SPF 2025 report. Furthermore, SPF-funded regional advisors continue to shape country-based programming and fundraising using the GEAs on WPS and HA, and HQs teams complement through reviews of the strategic notes and targeted webinars in the WPS and HA Communities of Practice, including on how to translate the new SP and indicators into WPS programming while demonstrating the complementarity and linkages with the HA and DRR agenda and contribution to global Strategic Plan outcomes and priorities
Collate and showcase good practices of gender mainstreaming in UN programming and long-term fundraising efforts, through regional and global CoPs and peer to peer exchanges. SPF Team 2025/12 Completed [Conduct dedicated thematic webinars to facilitate peer-to-peer learning on good practices of gender mainstreaming in UN programming and long-term fundraising efforts through active engagement of the global and regional CoPs on WPP, WPS, HA and DRR.] These dedicated webinars have been undertaken through our communities of practice (and will continue). For example, recent sessions of the WPSHA Community of Practice included a multi-part webinar series on designing impactful NAPs on WPS that can mobilize resources for national and local implementation. The WPP CoP continued distributing newsletters and held a Webinar to introduce the online training modules on violence against women in politics and elections (VAWP/E), produced with SPF resources. Part of this work has included a collaboration between the global team and ESARO to develop training modules targeted to different electoral stakeholders - EMBs, security sector, justice sector, observers, political parties, UN staff and CSOs. The training presents global research and data, programming, and policy experiences related to VAWP/E prevention, monitoring, mitigation, and response. The webinar provided cross-learning among colleagues through sharing lessons from COs and regions that have piloted the modules and engage in peer exchange and provide feedback through discussion. The Humanitarian Dialogues Webinar Series – designed as a forum for peer learning and sharing – continued through a webinar on Partnerships in Humanitarian Settings (November 2025). UN Women COs from Cox's Bazar, Afghanistan, Palestine, Sudan, and Latin America shared their experiences with 60 participants from across the organization.
Continue prioritizing investment and support to long-term programme development that rely on thematic synergies. *Due date 12/2026 (PROGRAMME COST EXTENSION) SPF Team 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated [Conduct dedicated thematic webinars to facilitate peer-to-peer learning on good practices of gender mainstreaming in UN programming and long-term fundraising efforts through active engagement of the global and regional CoPs on WPP, WPS, HA and DRR. There are various ways in which thematic synergies are being strengthened to support countries with long-term integrated programme development. Programme development and fundraising has been one of the most impactful deliverables of long-term SPF deployments, and these programmes typically cut across different thematic pillars. To prepare for a potential fourth phase of SPF, special emphasis will be placed on strengthening linkages between our work on conflict and crises and women’s economic empowerment. Examples include Peacebuilding Fund programming in conflict-affected countries that is often focused on women’s economic empowerment, often formulated by SPF-funded deployments. In that regard, a study and expert group meeting on the economy of care in conflict-affected countries and humanitarian crises (including displacement and refugee response settings) is being advanced by WPS, HA, WEE teams. The WPS team has also collaborated with the WEE team on another new study (in development) on the role of women in economic recovery and reconstruction. Climate security is another area where WPS, DRR and WEE teams collaborate, and a study on financing for gender in climate and security is expected to be finalized soon to support advocacy. Similarly, UN Women works closely with the World Bank as part of the UN-World Bank Steering Committee on Fragile and Conflict-Affected States, to help inform the World Bank’s country allocations, and to advocate for greater engagement of women in reconstruction planning and stronger gender analysis of such long-term plans, whether in IFIs or in several countries where reconstruction plans are being developed. Furthermore, UN Women is consolidating inputs to become a member of the Santiago Network to support, at a country’s request, loss and damage assessments – which involved WEE and IGS inputs and builds on DRR work in gender-responsive Post-Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNAs), which also build on the rapid gender analyses carried out as part of our humanitarian response. PDNAs are also increasingly being used to assess conflict-related damage and inform recovery and reconstruction while also mostly having been carried out in Fragile, Conflict and Violence-affected settings.] While several of these initiatives have been either completed or are underway further strengthening of cross-thematic synergies, including on climate security, women’s role in reconstruction, or care in conflicts and crises (the guidance note was finished, but its translation into policy and programming is still in progress) is viable. As an example of upcoming products that have involved multiple teams, UN Women has reviewed and updated the PDNA gender guide in collaboration with UNDP and EU, leveraging the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery. The revised guide is expected to strengthen the integration of gender analysis into recovery planning and implementation (forthcoming, June 2026).
Recommendation: Develop a coordinated approach to respond to the wider donor landscape and funding trends for GEWE. Funding constraints are an ongoing concern, despite SPF successes in leveraging funds, both due to systemic weaknesses (such as dwindling funds to support WPP in between election cycles) and due to the current downturn in overall funds for GEWE. UN Women should draw on the SPF funded capacity across the system to identify internal and external actions in response to current and predicted shortfalls, including: external advocacy to enable access to increased, predictable and long term funding including in relation to conflict and crisis contexts; forging of new partnerships; framing how UN Women’s work can be integrated into wider programming; and research into innovative funding mechanisms for the future in countries with declining donor funding.
Management Response: UN Women accepted recommendation 5.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and participation in governance systems (SP 2018-2021)
Operating Principles: Resource mobilization
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Formulate a strong proposal for SPFIV that can be shared with other prospective donors that want to join the Strategic Partnership Framework. SPF Team, PPID Directorate, SPD 2025/06 Overdue-Initiated [The SPFIV proposal and donor outreach will be based on an analysis and forecast of funding trends and a strategy for resource mobilization tailored to this programme and this context. Outreach to donor countries will include targeted knowledge products that communicate long-term results of SPF-funded work.] UN Women’s new Strategic Plan was developed and approved and will form the basis of the proposal for the fourth phase. In the meantime, the team has worked with the donors to adjust the 2026 AWP to align the latest strategic direction and mission by senior management to engage with donors on the future of the partnership is planned for April & May 2026.
Continue to leverage current donor partners, Norway and Sweden, for advocacy purposes showcasing the SPF results and benefits of the funding modality. SPF Team, PPID Directorate, SPD 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated [This includes highlighting SPF in ExB statements. It can also include sharing the value and impact of SPF with other likeminded partners, as part of our engagement with WPS leads in the Security Council (including co-chair of the Informal Expert Group) or a joint event with Sida to showcase the programme’s results to other donors.] Both Norway and Sweden have been receiving extensive monthly summaries and analysis of WPS developments in the Security Council since our last annual meeting. Their advocacy [MK1.1][MK1.2]was crucial for a strong statement by the Nordic countries in the Open Debate and a strong statement of the Group of Friends on 1325. SPF is continuously highlighted as a model programme in our interactions with donors and UN Women’s visits to both Sweden and Norway, but we are still looking for the right timing and modality for a higher visibility effort for other donors.
Formalize partnership with the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative as part of ongoing collaboration with WMO and engagement with the Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative. SPF Team DRR 2025/12 Completed The UN-to-UN agreement between WMO and UN Women to formalize partnership with CREWS was signed and implemented under ESARO.
Mobilize the HDP nexus funding for crisis settings through the wider programming, leveraging the synergies and complementarities of thematic areas UN Women engage. Partner and engage in joint programming with other UN agencies to mobilize resources for joint action/collaboration and programming in crisis settings, for example with IOM, UNHCR, and WFP is another corporate priority. *Due date 12/2026 (PROGRAMME COST EXTENSION) SPF Team HA 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated [UN Women recently signed the MoU with IOM on response to displacement and is discussing development of the country-level coordination model with WFP on livelihoods and food security related interventions. These partnerships provide opportunities for UN Women to advocate for agendas such as gender and displacement, food insecurity, and livelihood, and further mobilize resources/political and institutional support jointly with big humanitarian partners. A donor roundtable on advancing gender equality and women’s rights in crises is planned in Q1 of 2025 in Geneva.] A donor roundtable with the title ‘Inclusive humanitarian action-Gender equality as enabler for efficient responses’ with focus on UN Women’s crisis response/humanitarian portfolio held in Geneva, in May 2025 was co-organized with the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations. The focus was on UN Women’s humanitarian portfolio and partnerships with local women’s organizations and other UN agencies (WFP, UNHCR and IOM) in oPt, Sudan and Afghanistan. Discussions with IOM and UNHCR are ongoing also in view of the upcoming Global Refugee Forum Progress review scheduled in December 2025 on joint events, messaging on gender equality in crises. [Update March 2026] Discussions are ongoing with IOM and other UN agencies in relation to joint resource mobilization in support of gender statistics, coordination and operational work also drawing on lessons learnt from joint programs in contexts like Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazar. Similar discussions are ongoing in regions such as West and Central Africa to identify entry points for joint programming with WFP, IOM, UNHCR and others around protection and gender equality objectives drawing on global and regional discussions and MOUs. A systematic mapping of ongoing partnerships is ongoing. Similarly, UN Women is developing a programmatic brief on synergies between HA-DRR agendas drawing on lessons learnt from the Pacific, Lebanon, Moldova and other settings.
Recommendation: Prioritize the contribution of SPF to sustaining gains for gender equality, women’s leadership and empowerment in the longer term through building local and national capacities within member states and within civil society, including their ability to finance activities outside of UN Women’s financial support. Prioritize long-term capacity building for national ownership of change processes to support GEWE goals. This should include a strong focus on external engagement across national, regional and global levels to embed gender equality within public financial management capacities as well as increasing direct support for WRO’s.
Management Response: UN-Women accepted recommendation 6. Overall, SPF supported initiatives have generated progress in strengthening electoral frameworks and developing and sustaining a diverse cadre of women political leaders. This impact is largely due to sustained investments in technical assistance and capacity building targeting key institutions to support legal reforms and strengthening of women’s skills as office holders and leaders and increasing capacities at all stages of their path into politics. Similarly, UN Women HQ and regional and country offices are all prioritizing their engagement on the planning and implementation of UN transitions, in anticipation of reduced footprint by large UN peacekeeping or special political missions and increased demands on UN Women. This is an entire workstream with its own mechanisms and processes, and UN Women will continue to advocate for localization and effective channeling of resources and capacity-building to national and local actors in these contexts. UN Women expects to finalize its internal guidance note on this matter in 2025 and contribute to the revision of the overall UN Transitions guidance for the whole system.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and participation in governance systems (SP 2018-2021)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
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Bolster country support enabling timely deployment of technical expertise and capacity building to key national partners and Civil Society. SPF Team WPP 2025/12 Completed A four-day legislative induction training for 20 women local councilors from various regions in Zimbabwe in March 2025. This training served as a pilot for the legislative training manual currently being finalized by the WPP HQ team. Over the four days, participants engaged in a series of interactive sessions designed to strengthen their skills as effective local councilors. The training covered key aspects of legislative, representative, and oversight functions, including problem identification and solution development, gender-responsive legislation and budgeting, negotiation and communication skills, and oversight mechanisms. A legislative induction pilot training for the Members of Parliament in Guyana and in Sierra Leone was implemented in Q3 of 2025. After incorporating their feedback from the different pilots, the training manuals have been finalized and translated to Spanish and French in preparation for rolling them out in 2026. The training tool was finalized and translated to French and Spanish in 2025. Through the WYDE | Women’ Leadership programme, UN Women has awarded near $ 1 Million US$ in grants to eight women’s rights organizations across four regions to advance the goals of the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Feminist Movements and Leadership. These organizations focus on empowering young women towards increased political participation, including those from internally displaced populations, women with disabilities, Indigenous and (lesbian, bisexual and transgender) LBT women, and Dalit women, among others. The Call for Proposals in 2024 received 234 applications, demonstrating the high demand for support in advancing women’s leadership, mobilizing feminist movements, and transforming social norms. A new call for proposals has been launched in October 2025.
Concentrate efforts under the WPS work on National Action Plans and on supporting women-led and women’s rights organizations, on financing and building their capacity to access funding. SPF Team WPS & HA 2025/12 Completed This was prioritized in the development of our new strategic plan, in our global coordination work with other UN agencies, including through the Gender Equality Acceleration Plan (several of which have begun tracking and reporting on this funding), the fundraising efforts of the WPHF and our SPF-funded deployments, and specific initiatives by the WPS and HA teams that will continue. The SG’s report reiterated the 1 percent target, and this was finally echoed by many Member States at the Open Debate on WPS during the 25th anniversary. The EU, for example, announced that it has tripled its allocation in the last three years. UN Women’s surveys ringing the alarm on the financial distress that women’s organizations in conflict-affected countries are in due to the reduction in foreign aid was amplified by global media outlets and the UN at the highest levels. In countries like Afghanistan, Sudan and Syria, UN Women continues supporting the initiatives of local women led organizations through the Women’s Advisory Group as well as their participation in humanitarian decision making in crises like DRC, oPt, Lebanon. In October 2025, UN Women in its role as the co-chair of the IASC Gender Reference Group launched for the first time a Global Dashboard capturing the progress against specific indicators under the Gender Accountability Framework (including WLO access to CBPF). UN Women and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) are jointly advancing the CBPF–WLO Initiative to strengthen engagement between CountryBased Pooled Funds (CBPFs) and womenled organizations (WLOs). To date, the two organizations have developed a working paper that identifies key bottlenecks as well as good practices in strengthening WLOs’ access to CBPFs. The paper analyzed funding trends for WLOs and proposed a package of recommendations for implementation. Building on these fundings, UN Women and OCHA are currently finalizing a 2026 workplan that sets out clear objectives, governance arrangements, and priority actions. A joint UN Women–OCHA task team is being established to guide the collaboration, with a focus on three areas of work: improving operational clarity for CBPF fund managers, enhancing transparency and tracking of funding to WLOs, and supporting the meaningful participation and leadership of WLOs in CBPF governance. The initiative emphasizes practical, lighttouch approaches that build on existing systems and good practices rather than introducing new burdensome requirements. Next steps in 2026 include formal leadership endorsement of the joint workplan and the issuance of a joint communiqué to reinforce commitments, including increased support to WLOs. UN Women and OCHA will then codevelop practical guidance for CBPF fund managers, facilitate peer to peer learning, and curate accessible orientation materials for WLOs. Additional work will explore options for improved finance tracking and data transparency, in consultation with existing CBPF data systems, and clarify what “meaningful participation” of WLOs looks like in practice. Selected tools and approaches will be piloted in a small number of contexts, with progress reviewed later in the year to inform future priorities.
Continue providing technical support and capacity building on the gender dimensions of disasters within DRR coordination mechanisms and normative processes, enabling entry points for alternative financial support (see previous recommendation) including for civil society, while leveraging the ongoing work and support, particularly through the WRD knowledge hub for advancing discussions on financing for gender-responsive DRR. *Due date 12/2026 (PROGRAMME COST EXTENSION) SPF Team WPS/DRR 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated Technical support on the gender dimensions of disasters continued through global DRR coordination mechanisms, including through the UN Interagency Focal Points Group on DRR and regional initiatives in the Pacific under WRD. The WRD Knowledge Hub was used to advance dialogue on financing gender-responsive DRR, showcasing approaches for funding women’s organizations. Technical support was provided for a donor roundtable in the Pacific for a second phase of the WRD programme in July 2025 and UN Women actively participated in the 2025 Global Platform for DRR in June 2025, through various speaking engagements and a Gender champions event with governments and women’s organizations - strengthening advocacy for increased, predictable gender-responsive financing and recognition of the vital role of women and women-led organizations in building resilience at the community level in line with the Sendai Gender Action Plan. [Updated March 2026] UN Women continues to play a key role in global DRR coordination, providing technical leadership on the gender dimensions of disasters through inter-agency mechanisms, including the UN Interagency Focal Points Group, and co-leading implementation of Recommendation 4 of the UN Senior Leadership Group on Disaster Risk Reduction. This work advances the integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment across DRR and climate change adaptation, while highlighting that sustainable access to finance for women-led organisations at country and regional levels remains a critical gap for implementation of the Sendai GAP. The Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub remains a key global public good, providing tools, policy resources and evidence to support gender-responsive DRR.
Continue to leverage the IASC membership to strengthen the positioning of local women’s organizations in the humanitarian coordination mechanisms and decision-making spaces. *Due date 12/2026 (PROGRAMME COST EXTENSION) SPF Team HA 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated UN Women’s policy engagement and advocacy in the context of several IASC coordination meetings from the level of the IASC Principals to the EDG, as well as the Grand Bargain Annual Meeting (October 2025) focused on localization and equitable partnerships with local women led organizations and networks in crisis contexts. In the upcoming IASC Principals session (28th October), UN Women represented by the ED will focus on the following priorities: Humanitarian Reset and the Roadmap to delivery; as well as the session on ‘where do we all fit in the new humanitarian system’ with main focus on shifting power, resources and decision making to local actors. UN Women also published a study on the impact of the funding cuts on local women led organizations in crises: At a breaking point: The impact of foreign aid cuts on women’s organizations in humanitarian crises worldwide | Publications | UN Women – Headquarters. [Updated March 2026] UN Women continued to scale up its global and country‑level policy engagement to advance the Humanitarian Reset and to support the effective implementation of the IASC Gender Policy. This work has focused on strengthening accountability, influencing system‑wide guidance, and ensuring that gender equality commitments translate into operational change across humanitarian coordination mechanisms. At the global level, UN Women played a central role in advancing accountability for gender equality through its contribution to the 2024 IASC Gender Accountability Framework (GAF) Accountability Report, helping to track progress, identify persistent gaps, and inform collective action across the IASC. In parallel, UN Women provided substantive evidence of the impact of ongoing humanitarian funding cuts and ongoing humanitarian on women led organizations and gender integration in field-level coordination through comprehensive surveys of WLOs and GIHA WGs that shaped two advocacy papers to inform the Reset deliberations. In addition, UN Women provided technical inputs and strategic feedback on a series of key guidance products shaping the Humanitarian Reset, including the Humanitarian Reset Light Scorecard, Cluster Simplification, and Area‑Based Coordination guidance. Through this engagement, UN Women consistently advocated for the integration of gender analysis, the inclusion of women‑led organizations, and the safeguarding of gender‑responsive coordination functions within simplified humanitarian architectures. At country level, UN Women strengthened inter‑agency coordination on gender in humanitarian action through its leadership and support to Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Groups (GIHA WGs) in multiple crisis contexts, including Sudan, Ukraine, and Syria, among others. This engagement helped sustain coordinated approaches to gender analysis, advocacy, and technical support to humanitarian leadership and clusters, particularly in highly complex and rapidly evolving emergencies. UN Women also leveraged global platforms to elevate gender equality as a core pillar of humanitarian reform. This included the coordination of GIHA‑related events in major global fora, such as Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW), as well as active engagement of senior leadership in IASC Principals and Deputies meetings, Emergency Directors Group (EDG) regular meetings, and annual retreats. Through these spaces, UN Women contributed to high‑level strategic dialogue, reinforced accountability for gender commitments, and helped ensure that gender equality and the priorities of women and girls remained visible and central within ongoing humanitarian reform processes. Collectively, these efforts strengthened the coherence between global policy commitments and field‑level coordination, reinforced accountability for gender equality within the humanitarian system, and positioned UN Women as a key technical and strategic partner in shaping and operationalizing the Humanitarian Reset.
Recommendation: Engage in strategic and coordinated advocacy to address the lack of political will and commitment from some governments and inter-governmental actors to advance gender equality and women's empowerment. This relates both to engagement around the politicized backlash against women’s rights in key countries and a wider de-prioritization of GEWE in some key spaces. This process can draw on the advisory capacity and established civil society relationships fostered by SPF to date.
Management Response: UN-Women accepted recommendation 7. UN-Women agrees with this recommendation and the need to strengthen advocacy with diverse partners in support of women’s political participation. While noting that UN-Women does already work with range of stakeholders at country and regional level, there is scope to strengthen advocacy with a broader range of partners, such as multi-party international foundations, parliamentary groups, local governments and associations, youth and disabled groups, and political parties and political party registrars, as appropriate. The Beijing+30 Action Agenda will be the main advocacy tool targeting governments and a broad range of stakeholders and advance UN Women’s universal mandate.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and participation in governance systems (SP 2018-2021)
Operating Principles: Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Impact
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Leverage Beijing+30 as a key moment for member states to renew their commitments and strengthen accountability to full, effective and accelerated implementation and resourcing of the Beijing Platform for Action as well as the Sustainable Development Goals through mobilizing support around the Beijing+30 Action Agenda. PPID, CSD, UNSCD, SPD under the leadership of DED Results 2025/09 Completed [Developed through extensive analysis and consultation, including inputs from 159 Member State reports, and building on the twelve critical areas of Beijing, the Beijing+30 Action Agenda consisting of six high-impact actions to address poverty, amplify women’s voices, and advance equality, provides a focused and actionable pathway to catalyze transformative change and accelerate progress in the run-up to 2030. The Action Agenda will be launched on International Women’s Day and at CSW69, and UNCTs have been asked to support Member States identify 1-2 Country Impact Actions, aligned with national policy priorities. Member States are expected to announce their Country Impact Actions during the high-level event during the General Assembly in September 2025 ] March 2025 saw the launch by the SG of the Clarion Call for Gender Equality, the launch of the SG’s report on Beijing plus 30 and the summary report prepared by UN Women (which generated lots of media attention), the CSW Political Declaration and the launch of the Beijing plus 30 Action Agenda, and record-breaking levels of attendance to CSW. The action agenda is being launched and advocated for at country level by our offices now, and there will be high-level events at the High-Level Political Forum in July and the General Assembly in September, followed by a meeting of heads of state/government in Beijing in October.
Develop communications and advocacy plans on WPP, focusing on the new CEDAW General Recommendation No 40 focused on parity between women and men in decision making systems - adopted in October 2024. SPF Team WPP 2025/12 Completed UN Women has prioritized the socialization and awareness-raising of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 40 (GR 40), as the latest normative development to advance women’s equal participation in decision-making, in key regional and global multilateral fora. The Tlatelolco Commitment, resulting from the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean underscores the imperative of guaranteeing women’s equal representation in decision-making through legislative, electoral, and temporary special measures, while promoting their full participation in strategic sectors, political life, and peace processes. Under the European Union-funded WYDE-Women and Youth Democratic Engagement initiative, GR 40 has been systematically advanced as a foundational principle across diverse platforms and strategic initiatives, including intergenerational dialogues on young women’s political participation in Istanbul and Fiji and integrated into UN Women and partner-led engagements during UNGA and CSW.
Prioritize combatting technology facilitated gender-based violence, with coordinated action between WPP and EVAW. SPF Team WPP 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated UN Women is formalizing the partnership with the Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. The intended collaboration under this letter includes facilitating the pilot implementation of the Social Media Self-Defense Training designed by eSafety. This training aims to equip women active in political and public life with practical knowledge and skills to safely manage their social media accounts, report online abuse, and protect their well-being. This initiative is being jointly developed by UN Women’s Leadership and Decision-Making Section and the Ending Violence Against Women Section.
Leverage opportunities for greater visibility during the 25th anniversary of resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (throughout the year and especially around October 2025). SPF Team WPS 2025/10 Completed [UN Women is already coordinating internally and across the UN and with civil society partners to make sure that all events and communication efforts are pushing the same key messages and add up to a coherent campaign and strategy. While we expect most knowledge/communications initiatives to converge in October 2025, these messages and data will also be used in key moments of UN Women’s Beijing plus 30 overall strategy. ] An early assessment of media coverage of the 25th anniversary (ahead of hundreds of side events held throughout the world, including more than 50 during WPS week in New York alone) indicated that the findings of the SG’s report were covered in more than 100 media outlets (including BBC, Al Jazeera, El Pais, and others). Efforts to increase the visibility of these findings included a press briefing, a targeted media strategy, the publication of selected digital content, and the preparation of an infographic for easier and wider dissemination of findings, aside from the usual activities and briefings. Given that Russia was presiding the annual meeting in the Security Council and moved it to the beginning of the month, which altered everyone’s plans, the measures taken to mitigate its impact on the visibility of the anniversary as a whole were effective.
Recommendation: Develop collaborative activities between UN Women, Sida and Norad to amplify messages around the successes and lessons from SPF in driving system-wide change and context specific change for women. To date the relationship between UN Women, Sida and Norad has been highly supportive, with UN Women valuing the depth of the relationship, efforts of Sida and Norad to interrogate how SPF enables change, and constructive feedback gained through regular engagements. There is appetite within UN Women to further this with collaborative activities to maximize the value of the partnership. This could focus on sharing lessons externally and facilitating discussions across the donor community to help shape wider responses to the current challenges to progress on GEWE. Utilizing key moments, such as the 1325+25 anniversary, the peacebuilding architecture review, the Global Platform for DRR 2025 and ongoing engagement in IASC could provide initial impetus for this.
Management Response: UN-Women accepted recommendation 8.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018), Leadership and participation in governance systems (SP 2018-2021)
Operating Principles: Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Impact
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UN Women, in collaboration with Sida and Norad, will identify opportunities for sharing information and analysis in real time and discuss possible entry points for joint policy work around these themes. *Due date 12/2026 (PROGRAMME COST EXTENSION) SPF Team (in collaboration with Sida and Norad) 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated While Sweden and Norway are kept closely involved in our plans, and have been key participants in many initiatives and milestone celebrations (e.g. Norway co-organized with UN Women and Japan the ministerial-level meeting during UNGA of the WPS Focal Points Network), we still hope to do more things together in 2026 to raise the visibility of this partnership and take stronger advantage of their leadership on these issues. To name only a recent example, NORAD and SIDA were invited to provide opening and closing remarks at the launch of the guidance on care in conflicts and crises –a joint knowledge product of WPS, HA and WEE teams took place in December 2025. The guidance note can be accessed below: Addressing care in times of conflict and crisis | Publications | UN Women – Headquarters. Guidance has been shared with all concerned COs and ROs on the need to increase information exchange and visibility of donor support.
UN Women will keep Sida and Norad involved in plans and opportunities for visibility and joint advocacy around milestone processes and global events. *Due date 12/2026 (PROGRAMME COST EXTENSION) SPF Team (in collaboration with Sida and Norad) 2025/12 Overdue-Initiated Security Council analysis and updates on WPS have been shared with Sweden and Norway on a monthly basis. More regular information sharing opportunities (for example every three months) will be planned for the end of 2025 and throughout 2026 (e.g. a digest of findings from recent IEG meetings, Council briefings, gender alerts, and an opportunity to debrief after the anniversary to share take-aways and plan for the future).