Management Response

: Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (Turkey)
: 2015 - 2018 , Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (Turkey) (RO)
: Evaluation of the NAP on GE 2016-2018
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: Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (Turkey)
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The Evaluation of the National Action Plan for the Implementation of the National Strategy for Gender Equality in the Republic of Serbia provided a good assessment of the progress made by the Government of Serbia and its key partners in the National Action Plan implementation. Evaluation produced a number of recommendations for the government and various stakeholders, with the aim to provide systematic insights in the implementation process and achieved results and to provide recommendations for second phase of the implementation of the Strategy. The specific Report on UN Women contribution was developed as part of the Evaluation of the implementation of Republic of Serbia’s National Action Plan for Gender Equality 2016-2018 (henceforth NAP for GE) with the aim to assess contribution of UN Women to the implementation of NAP for GE and to provide the recommendations for further its engagement. Recommendations to UN Women are focused on the key aspects of future strategic orientation of UN Women in Serbia and for further engagement of UN Women in the second phase of the implementation of the National Strategy for Gender Equality 2016-2020. UN Women Serbia office provide support to country on the basis of national request and UN Women capacities and target interventions in the selected impact areas. UN Women management response provides information of applicability of the recommendations and key actions UN Women undertakes to implement applicable recommendations. Few recommendations fell beyond the scope of the UN Women Serbia focus in light of the limited presence in the country linked to specific programmes of the programme presence office.

: Approved
Recommendation: UN Women’s Future NAP for GE Implementation Programming-A multi programme support approach to funding NAP for GE implementation should be continued.
Management Response: A multi programme support provides establishment of greater synergy, optimization of resources and exchange of knowledge and lessons learned. In future NAP for GE, UN Women will continue to work on implementation National Strategy for Gender Equality through several programmes and projects, as well as on supporting Coordination Body for Gender equality to coordinate and monitor the implementation of new NAP for GE by providing support to development of mechanisms for implementation, monitoring and reporting within the overall strategic national framework.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: National ownership, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Relevance, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
UN Women Serbia Annual Work Plan 2019-2020 to fit with the proposed actions of the NAP for GE UN Women Serbia PPO 2020/12 Completed
Develop a Gender Equality Facility, Phase II UN Women Serbia PPO 2020/03 Completed
Provide technical assistance to the Coordination Body for Gender Equality to implement, monitor and report on the new NAP for GE. UN Women in cooperation with the Serbia Coordination Body for Gender Equality 2020/12 Completed
Recommendation: To strengthen the overall impact of its support to NAP and to ensure that the national counterparts are capacitated to prioritise the issues and/or activities under NAP. UN women should provide technical assistance to the Coordination Body for Gender Equality in designing the ToC for the Strategy for Gender Equality and for the future NAP’s.
Management Response: UN Women has signed Letter of Agreement with Coordination Body for Gender Equality aiming to provide support to the national gender machinery to effectively execute its mandate. UN women will provide technical assistance to the Coordination Body for Gender Equality in developing draft for NAP for GE for 2019-2020 with designing ToC, specific measures, activities and costing and budgeting.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: National ownership, Alignment with strategy
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Sustainability, Human Rights, Gender equality, Impact
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Provide technical assistance to the Coordination Body for Gender Equality as leading institution for developing draft for NAP for GE for 2019-2020. UN Women in cooperation with the Coordination Body for Gender Equality 2019/07 Completed
Provide support to key national institutions to prioritise the issues, measures and activities under new NAP. UN Women in cooperation withthe Serbia Coordination Body for Gender Equality 2019/06 Completed
Recommendation: Further support on capacity development should focus on operationalisation and localisation of NAP at all levels - the integration of gender into systems and processes at all levels of governance (including strategic planning processes, budgets/software and M&E). Furthermore, UN Women’s should advocate to stakeholders for need to prioritise areas in the NAP- possibly advocating for working on NAP objectives with greater accelerating potential.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Relevance, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Organise capacity development for the Coordination Body for Gender Equality and gender focal points from line ministries on gender responsive policy development. UN Women Serbia PPO in cooperation with the Coordination Body for Gender Equality, Gender Focal Points from relevant ministries 2020/12 Completed
Moderate the discussion between different stakeholders on priority areas of future NAP and on specific measures in NAP for the most vulnerable groups of people. UN Women PPO, Coordination Body for Gender Equality, Gender Focal Points from relevant ministries, CSO and technical experts 2019/06 Completed
Establish the data base of local gender equality mechanisms and contact persons to localize NAP at all level. UN Women 2019/06 Completed
Provide support CSOs to conduct research, to raise debates around important issues, especially in the area of women’s economic empowerment. UN Women 2020/12 Completed
Recommendation: UN Women should advocate for and support with technical advice creation of a comprehensive performance measurement framework which consolidates expected results, indicators, baselines, targets and data sources into one framework for the next phase of NAP for GE.
Management Response: UN Women supports the Government’s efforts and provides technical guidance in developing National Action Plan for Gender Equality for the period 2019-2020 and to facilitate participatory consultation process. Continuous consultations were held with the Coordination Body for Gender Equality with the aim to discuss on the methodology for development of the draft National Action Plan for 2019-2020 for implementation of the second phase of the National Strategy for Gender Equality 2016-2020. Based on the developed methodology and consultation plan, consultation meetings were organized with the aim to consolidates expected results, indicators, baselines, targets and data sources involving key gender focal points from line ministries, CSO and technical experts for representing the interests of specific groups of women.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support
UNEG Criteria: Relevance, Gender equality, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Provide technical support in drafting new NAP for GE 2019-2020 with the focus on defining expected results, indicators, baseline, targets and data sources. UN Women, Coordination Body for Gender Equality, CSO and technical experts 2019/06 Completed
Conduct sector gender analysis in at least three sectors. UN Women Serbia PPO 2020/12 Completed
Recommendation: The highest priority of UN Women in terms of ensuring the long-term impact of achieved results as well as future activities aimed at enhancing gender equality in Serbia is to advocate for permanency of the coordination mechanism.
Management Response: UN Women has an important and strong role in enhancing gender equality in Serbia. UN Women constantly advocate for gender equality mechanisms (at all levels, national, provincial and local) to the highest possible level of policy making, relevant donor representatives and diplomatic core. On the other hand, UN Women provide technical support to gender equality machinery and coordination mechanism. However, UN Women can not ensure the permanency of the coordination mechanism and establishment of the permanent body for gender equality.
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support
UNEG Criteria: Relevance, Sustainability, Impact
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
UN Women constantly advocate for establishing gender equality mechanisms at all levels. UN Women Serbia PPO 2020/12 Completed
Recommendation: Whilst the focus of the NAP for the past 2 years has been on establishing GE legislative and regulatory frameworks, in the new NAP focus should be given to implementation of the gender transformative activities.
Management Response: Heaving in mind that the new NAP for GE is implementation of the adopted Strategy for Gender Equality for the period 2016-2020 with already set objectives, this can be partially accepted. New set of measures and activities will be based on the adopted Strategy and Evaluation of the NAP for GE 2016-2018, as well as in consultations with Coordination Body for Gender Equality, line ministries, relevant stakeholders and CSOs. However, gender analysis, researches, all kind of reports (Gender Equality Index Report, CEDAW Shadow reports, annual reports on the NAP implementation, etc.) will be used for background and for the creation of the activities. UN Women will provide technical support to transformative measures and activities to be implemented in the period 2019-2020, such as gender responsive budgeting.
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support
UNEG Criteria: Relevance, Impact, Sustainability, Gender equality
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Provide support to gender transformative activities to be implemented in the new NAP for GE for the period 2019-2020 through support of Gender Lab in the area of VAW, GRB for sustainable financing and gender mainstreaming of NAD (National Priorities for International Assistants) through the Gender Equality Facility Project. UN Women Serbia PPO 2020/11 Completed