ORIENTATION BRIEFING ON UN-WOMEN Briefing on UN Women – New York 17 January 2013

Mandate and Functions Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January Consolidation and transfer of existing mandates and functions to DAW, OSAGI, UNIFEM and INSTRAW =  Normative  Operational +  System-wide interagency

 The General Assembly, ECOSOC and the Executive Board constitutes the multi-tiered intergovernmental governance structure for the operational activities and provides operational policy guidance to UN-Women  The General Assembly, ECOSOC and the CSW constitutes the multi-tiered intergovernmental governance structure for the normative support functions and provides normative policy guidance to UN-Women 3 Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January 2013 Governance

Structure Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January  Executive Director/Under-Secretary-General  Two Deputy Executive Directors/Assistant Secretary- Generals  Field presence centered around five regional centres  Staff and personnel in about 80 programme countries

Five thematic areas  Women’s political leadership and participation  Economic empowerment  National planning and budgeting  Ending violence against women  Women, peace and security Strategy and Priorities 5 Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January 2013

Results – sample for global level Orientation Briefing on UN-Women - 17 January  Gender dimensions in intergovernmental processes and outcomes o UN high-level decision-making bodies pay increased attention to gender dimensions in their input to intergovernmental meetings (i.e. CEB statement on Rio+20, LDC conference) o Gender equality and women’s empowerment included as a stand-alone section in the Rio+20 outcome document and mainstreamed in other thematic areas o Support to the QCPR process including through providing inputs into the SG report o Intensely engaged in deliberations on the post-2015 development agenda

Results – sample for country-level Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January o In 2011 and 2012 eight countries increased the number of women elected to office at the local and national levels o National planning documents incorporated priorities and allocated budgets for gender equality in 18 countries o Worked with 57 countries in 2011 to build capacity on advancing policy and legal reforms, developing new national action plans and improving serving delivery to end violence against women o Provided capacity development assistance in 21 countries in 2011 to promote women’s participation, access to justice and contributions to post-conflict and peacebuilding processes

Results – global and country level Orientation Briefing on UN-Women – New York 17 January  Coordination and accountability for gender equality strengthened: o Chairing or co-chairing gender theme groups in 45 countries o Contributed to the development of United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks in some 20 countries o Offices in all eight “Delivering as one” pilot countries o Expanded and strengthened partnerships with UN entities – UNFPA, UNESCO and UN-Habitat o A system-wide action plan on GEWE endorsed by CEB