Examples of gender-related results statements from the UN system
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Under UN-SWAP requirement, an entity should include at least one high-level entity result statement in the main strategic planning document to approach the Performance Indicator 1: Strategic Planning Gender-related SDG results
Introduction Description
The requirement -
"At least one high-level result on gender equality and the empowerment of women that is directly linked to SDG achievement is included in its main strategic planning document or equivalent"
This page collects sample results statement from reporting entities.
The overall requirement
To approach requirements, an entity should include at least one high-level entity result statement in the main strategic planning document. This result should reflect the main work of the entity on GEEW. For programmatic entities, the result should be directly linked to SDG achievement. For nonprogrammatic entities, the result can be indirectly linked to SDG achievement.
While the specific format of the main strategic planning document differs, most UN entities have a central strategic plan that governs their overall work (e.g., Programme Budget for Secretariat Entities, Strategic Plans for Funds and Programmes, etc.). Entities with multiple strategic planning documents should opt to use the most relevant for UN-SWAP reporting purposes.
A high-level result statement on GEEW is an impact or outcome-level result or equivalent that guides the strategic orientation of the entity that is included in the main strategic planning document. It states what the entity expects to contribute to or achieve related to GEEW - what it commits to be accountable for achieving. Neither a high-level result included in a gender policy or equivalent or sub-outcomes, outputs or equivalent within main strategic planning documents would not satisfy the requirement of this indicator. Similarly, results statements that only include lists of “vulnerable” groups, including women, or which group women with others such as “women and children”, do not meet the requirement because the focus is not GEEW.
ECA Proposed programme budget for 2025: Subprogramme 6: Gender equality and women’s empowerment Result 1: members of ECA integrate a gender perspective into their sectoral policies Result 2: members of ECA measure, monitor and report on implementation of global and regional commitments on gender equality Result 3: members of ECA integrate a gender perspective into fiscal policy
Proposed programme budget for 2025: Subprogramme 5 - Gender equality and women’s autonomy Result 1: enhanced public policies related to the legal framework for care in the countries of the region Result 2: increased use of new technologies and digital tools to design, implement and monitor care policies Result 3: advances in the production of gender statistics on time use and unpaid care work Proposed programme plan for 2025
UNCCD Strategic Framework 2018-2030: “Local people, especially women and youth, are empowered and participate in decision-making processes in combating DLDD”
UNHCR Global Results Framework 2022-2026: Impact Area 3 – Empowering communities and achieving gender equality (EMPOWER) Outcome Area 4: Gender Based Violence Outcome Area 7: Community engagement and Women's Empowerment
UNESCO 2022-2029 Medium-Term Strategy: one of the two global priorities: Gender Equality (the other is Africa). It is then embedded in the four thematic strategic objectives through concrete gender related outcomes, outputs and performance indicators
WHO Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019-2023: Outcome 1: Strengthened health systems in support of universal health coverage without financial hardship, including equity of access based on gender, age, income, and disability
Technical focus
WMO Strategic Plan 2024-2027: Objective 5.3 Advance equal, effective and inclusive participation in governance, scientific cooperation and decision-making. Organizations that respect diversity and value gender equality demonstrate better governance, improved performance and higher levels of creativity Focus in 2024–2027: A. Balanced geographical, gender and expertise representation and enhanced representation of developing Members
Research and training institute
UNITAR 2022-2023 Revised Programme Budgetincludes six result areas (5 in the previous biennium) aimed directly at improving gender equality and empowering women (GEEW): •Increased capacity of women to contribute meaningfully to the sustaining peace agenda on all levels. •Strengthened knowledge of individual FemWiseAfrica members on key aspects of mediation/good offices missions in support of women's leadership for peace. •Strengthened capacities of Libya police forces – with a specific focus on women and community policing. •Increased capacity to further promote Tsunami based DRR for women in the Pacific SIDS. •Increased knowledge and skills for women working in Cyber. •Enhanced knowledge and skills to mainstream gender equality and women's empowerment into government policy. Five additional result areas make reference to gender balance, gender-sensitive ways or gender-responsiveness.
High-level, transformative results statement
Secretariat entities
ESCAP Proposed programme plan for 2026** Subprogramme 2. Trade, investment and innovation Result 3: investment promotion agencies pledge commitment to advance gender equality through foreign direct investment\ Subprogramme 7 Statistics Result 1: national statistical systems advance the mainstreaming of a gender perspective
UNODC Strategy (2021-2025): “Outcome 3. Violence against women is prevented, and increased access to gender-responsive justice for women and girl victims of violence or in vulnerable situations; Outcome 5. Comprehensive and gender-responsive penal and prison reforms implemented to reduce the overuse of imprisonment, prison overcrowding and other prison challenges, including radicalization and violent extremism in prisons”
OHCHR Organizational Management Plan (OMP)2024 – 2027: Non-discrimination Result 3 States advance gender equality and combat gender-based discrimination and stereotypes against all women and girls Accountability result 3 Accountability processes adopt a victim-centred approach and respond more effectively to gender-based violence.
UNCTAD Proposed Programme Plan and Budget for 2024: Subprogramme 4 Technology and logistics Result 1: women digital entrepreneurs empowered to build a more inclusive digital economy Programme performance in 2022 and target for 2024
Funds and Programmes
UNFPA Strategic Plan 2022-2025: “Outcome 3: Gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls, and reproductive rights are advanced in development and humanitarian settings.”
IFAD Strategic Framework 2016-2025: one of the four principles of engagement: Gender Equality. Guided by its Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment,23 IFAD will consolidate its position as a leading agency on innovative measures to promote rural women’s empowerment. The Fund will promote economic empowerment that enables rural women and men to have an equal opportunity to participate in, and benefit from, the activities that it finances.
UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-25: Signature solution 6: Gender Equality: Confronting the structural obstacles to gender equality and strengthening women’s economic empowerment and leadership
UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025: Goal Area 1 - Result area 7: Adolescent girls and women benefit from gender-responsive diets, services and practices for the prevention of anaemia and poor nutrition, in development and humanitarian contexts
Specialized entities
FAO Updated Result framework 2022-25: Principle “Better Life: Promote inclusive economic growth by reducing inequalities (urban/rural areas, rich/poor countries, men/women) - Better Life 1: Gender Equality and Rural Women’s Empowerment – Outcome: Women’s equal rights, access to and control over resources, services, technologies, institutions, economic opportunities and decision-making ensured, and discriminatory laws and practice es eliminated, through gender-responsive policies, strategies, programmes and legal frameworks.
ILO Programme and budget for 2024-25: Policy Outcome 5: 5: Gender equality and equality of treatment and opportunities for all Output 5.1. Increased capacity of Member States to design and implement a transformative agenda on gender equality, non-discrimination and inclusion Output 5.2. Increased capacity of constituents to promote investments and decent work in the care economy Output 5.3. Increased capacity of constituents to prevent and address discrimination-based violence and harassment at work
Result 1. Policies and strategies for ISID and the SDGs - The Organization will in 2024–2025 redouble its efforts to advance gender-responsive industrialization policies and the provision of sex-disaggregated statistics to further pursue thought leadership and research work. Result 3. Innovative, inclusive and sustainable businesses - UNIDO will continue to address gender inequalities in industry to harnesses women’s full potential as economic agents of change and leaders to help transform economies and generate inclusive growth. Result 4. Effective strategic management for results - 53% of the overall number of UNIDO programme/projects to have Gender Marker 2a or 2b. Result 5. Excellence of corporate services and operations - UNIDO will further enhance gender parity among personnel, including senior staff, and continue to advance family-friendly policies and standards of conduct for a discrimination-free and supportive workplace for all. In addition, efforts will be further intensified to improve the accountability of staff for reflecting gender considerations in their work through the staff performance management framework.
Research and training institute
UNIDIR Strategic Framework 2022-2025: one of the five core research programmes: Gender and Disarmamentwith below results: - Member States and stakeholders collaboratively pursue policy options and advocacy to further integrate gender considerations into specific disarmament processes. - At national and regional levels, governmental actors and relevant stakeholders identify and exchange national and/or regional best practices for improving women’s participation and gender diversity in arms control and disarmament. - Gender expertise in national delegations in Geneva and New York increases, as delegates can articulate and address the nexus between arms control, disarmament, and broader multilateral agendas related to gender equality and sustainable development.
UNRISD Strategy for 2021-2025: one of the five core programs: Gender Justice and Development The programme focuses on understanding, analysing, and engaging with processes of policy change around the following types of questions: - How is the phenomenon of gender backlash or anti-genderism seen in different parts of the global South? Where, why, and how is it playing out in different places and for different categories of people? - How will ongoing innovation and technological shifts affect women’s work? Which occupations will become “feminized” or “defeminized”? What can be done to counter the strong gender biases embedded in new technologies, and what are their consequences for employment, social services, and the delivery of social protection? - What would a feminist environmental policy look like? How could it be designed and implemented? How can gender research and feminist perspectives support the coalitions and collaborations working to deliver social, economic, and environmental justice for communities across the globe?
