| Reporting Organization: | UN Women |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 10,000,000 |
| Timeframe: | March 30, 2012 - December 31, 2013 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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| Sub-Saharan Africa - $ 4,400,000.00 (44.00%) | |
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| South America - $ 1,040,000.00 (10.40%) | |
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| Southeast Asia - $ 1,000,000.00 (10.00%) | |
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| South Asia - $ 820,000.00 (8.20%) | |
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| East Asia - $ 730,000.00 (7.30%) | |
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| North Africa - $ 600,000.00 (6.00%) | |
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| Europe - $ 500,000.00 (5.00%) | |
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| Central America - $ 460,000.00 (4.60%) | |
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| Central Asia - $ 450,000.00 (4.50%) | |
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| Human Rights, Advocacy & Public Engagement (42 %) | |
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| Gender Equality (40 %) | |
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| Law, Governance & Public Policy (18 %) | |
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This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). UN Women uses these funds, along with those of other donors, to support its core mandate and functions. UN Women’s mandate is focused on the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace and security interventions. UN Women works to support global standards for gender equality and helps countries meet these standards by providing expertise and financial support. Canada’s support helps to promote equality between women and men and tackle discrimination against women and girls globally.
| Gender and age: | Unspecified |
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| Total Direct Population: | Unspecified |
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Return to topThe expected intermediate outcomes for this project include the adoption and implementation of legislation, policies and strategies to strengthen women’s economic empowerment and access to resources, especially in the informal sector.
Results achieved by UN-Women with the support of the Government of Canada and other international donors in 2013 include: 154 women provincial council candidates trained out of 306 women running for elections in Afghanistan; the adoption of a Gender Equality Act, which includes commitments to 40-60% quotas for women in the public service, in Malawi; the adoption of a new electoral commission, including a 30% quota for women in its administration, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; 3,000 local leaders (women and men) were trained on women’s equal value and rights and the role of men in upholding them in Rwanda; 40 anti-trafficking community vigilance committees were established in six states vulnerable to trafficking in India; a Family Protection law was passed criminalizing domestic violence for the first time in Papua New Guinea’s history; the Oasis Center, a safe space for women to gather and develop skills to earn income, was established in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan; and 20 gender related questions, which will generate Sudan’s first national statistics on gender, were included in its National Household Survey.
