UN Women
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Headquarters Location: New York, NY
Founded: 2010
Mission: The main roles of UN Women are: To support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms. To help Member States to implement these standards, standing ready to provide suitable technical and financial support to those countries that request it, and to forge effective partnerships with civil society. To hold the UN system accountable for its own commitments on gender equality, including regular monitoring of system-wide progress.
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violence against women, gender inequality, advocacy, partnerships, data collection, legal frameworks, grassroots support, policy, standards and norms, monitoring, trust fund
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Leadership
Michelle Bachelet.
Ms. Michelle Bachelet is the first Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, which was established on 2 July 2010 by the United Nations General Assembly. Under Ms. Bachelet’s leadership, UN Women will lead, support and coordinate the work on gender equality and the empowerment of women at global, regional and country levels. Ms. Bachelet most recently served as President…
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Contact Info
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304 East 45th Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10017, USA
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Story:
UN Women works on several fronts towards ending violence against women and girls. This includes tackling its main root: gender inequality. Efforts are multiplied through advocacy campaigns and partnerships with governments, civil society and the UN system. Initiatives range from working to establish legal frameworks and specific national actions, to supporting prevention at the grassroots level, including in conflict and post-conflict situations. UN Women has also supported data collection on violence against women, facilitating new learning on the issue.
UN Women plays an active role in supporting the UN Secretary-General’s multi-year UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, launched in 2008. As a designated coordinator, UN Women works together with the UN system and other partners on the campaign’s regional components in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean, expected to be launched in 2009.
Expert Reviews of UN Women
Evidence of Impact Summary:
UN Women combines agencies within the UN as a collective body working to ensure that the UN and its affiliated countries combat gender-based violence and inequity. Through their granting program, they fund women's organizations working towards those same goals. They encourage organizations to take up the cause and also help to bring successful programs to scale. UN Women also houses a rich resource library for program design in the field.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Experts agree that a strength of UN Women is its great leadership. Also there is strength in the fact that the organization is backed by the UN. One expert pointed out that UN Women is able help facilitate country-level advocacy by placing the violence against women agenda directly on countries radars.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
UN Women could improve it is relationships with other nonprofits in the space. Expert pointed out that UN Women should work on improving communications among nonprofits in its network. For example, there is a need to connect with one another beyond sharing best practices. Another suggested that the organization pay close attention to some other the smaller nonprofits that are doing meaningful work. They may also want to consider ways to rise to the level of legitimacy that other UN agencies enjoy.See expert comments.
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The UN Women's trust fund has supported many organizations all over the world to take up violence against women as a central cause and also helps these organizations to achieve scale. | ||
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They are able to place the violence against women agenda on government radars and that is important as it facilitates the country level advocacy most effectively. | ||
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Both via the UNTF and its global advocacy work, UN Women is an effective UN agency. Their movement toward evidence-based approaches via Safe Cities is also a step in the right direction. While they face the usual challenges of a UN bureaucracy, their technical staff in the area of GBV/VAW are top-notch, direct, diplomatic and well-informed. | ||
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UN Women has moved into the much-needed role of leveraging its access to multilateral bodies such as the Arab League, OAS, and the African Union to press governments more heavily for implementation of CEDAW and UN Security Council Resolution 1325. | ||
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They are new and still finding their feet but have a solid commitment to engaging partners in consultative processes. | ||
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It needs to create more platforms for sharing of work besides the list serves and sharing of best practices. It needs to pay attention on smaller organizations that are doing high impact work. | ||
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To do more, perhaps UN Women could link with UNICEF to protect girls from violence, early marriage, and discriminatory laws. Also it could increase its work, presence, and representation in and from the Arab region. The Executive Board of UN Women launched in 2011 with quotas dividing up its 41 seats on the following basis: 10 from Africa, 10 from Asia, 4 from Eastern Europe, 6 from Latin America and the Caribbean, 5 from Western Europe and 6 from contributing countries. That meant no representative countries from the Arab states (or Pacific island states) unless by a donor country; to the frustration of many Arab women's rights activists, the only 2 Arab states that ended up with seats on the inaugural board of UN Women were Saudi Arabia and Libya, which have some of the worst records on women's rights in the region. It would be great to see representation open up to Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, or Jordan, for example. | ||
Leadership
Michelle Bachelet
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
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