UN Women Ethiopia Strategic Note 2022-2025

Examples of results from the narrative report for 2023 (UM2021/39631/ADDI-59) 1. All people in Ethiopia enjoy the rights and capabilities to realize their potential, in equality and with dignity. After the conflict in the North, Ethiopia's government initiated Transitional Justice (TJ) consultations to shape policy. UN Women, with the Ministry of Justice and MoWSA, facilitated women-only and conflictrelated sexual violence (CRSV) survivor consultations. Involving 60 women representatives and 48 CRSV survivors, these sessions gathered insights on accountability, new TJ mechanisms, and prioritizing displaced persons and survivors in reparation. UN Women also provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Justice's Technical Working Group on TJ through a seconded Gender Expert who supported the gender mainstreaming of the TJ consultations process up to the policy drafting stage. 2. All people in Ethiopia live in a cohesive, just, inclusive, and democratic society. Despite the challenges in accurately tracking and boosting women's leadership, especially in regions affected by political and social instability, in 2023 UN Women continued to contribute to the increased influence of women parliamentarians as well as the expansion of a pool of transformative women leaders in the executive at federal and regional level. UN Women continued to support the effort of the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) both at the federal and regional level in expanding the pool of women leaders through its womens leadership development interventions targeting more than 400 women that are already in leadership position and aspirants. At the federal level, womens representation in leadership remain unchanged from the previous reporting year and representation in the cabinet stood at 36% while at Regional Cabinet Level (targeted regions stand at) Amhara (12%) Oromia (30%). In Amhara region, 122 women leaders (61 mentor and 61 mentee) continued to be supported by UN Womens mentorship program in Amhara Region. Impact assessment showed the significant contribution the mentorship program had on the individual and professional lives of women leaders including on their career development, self-confidence and decision-making skill and navigating the complex and gender. As a result of tailored leadership capacity building by UN Women and partners, including with MOWSA, the HOPR and with the Network of Ethiopian Women Association (NEWA), a total 401 women leaders and politicians from Amhara, Afar and Somali regions now actively compete for higher leadership roles and advanced gender equality within their political parties, which is expected to move the need on the number of women at leadership level. 122 women leaders in Amara region also found a supportive network that fosters a sense of community and solidarity among women leaders through UN Womens Mentorship program that brought together 61 mentors and 61 mentees 3. All people in Ethiopia benefit from an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable economy. Through the support of UN Women Ethiopia the Office of the Auditor General developed the first-ever gender audit manual paving the way for improved gender equality in the country. The gender audit team was also trained and equipped with essential knowledge and skills on gender concepts and indicators and at the end of the training the team successfully piloted the use of the gender audit manual in two sectoral ministries - Health and Agriculture. The resulting audit reports presented ground-breaking findings on numerous gender gaps within these ministries which were presented to the House of Peoples Representatives, shedding light on critical institutional gender issues that urgently need to be addressed. Further, Members of Parliament from the Plan, Budget and Finance Standing Committee, the Health, Social Development, Culture and Sport Affairs Standing Committee, and the Women's Caucus are now equipped with knowledge and skills to scrutinize budget approval requests from a gender perspective. Through a comprehensive training program, 44 parliamentarians (25 female and 19 male) from these committees have significantly enhanced their knowledge of gender-responsive budgeting and committed to applying their acquired knowledge. This training led to notable knowledge increases in basic Concepts of Gender 33 members took part in a pre- and post-training assessment survey. Before the training, participants had limited knowledge and skills related to gender concepts and genderresponsive budgeting. Post-training, there was a significant improvement across all assessed areas. Initially, only 91% could express basic gender concepts, and knowledge of gender-responsive budgeting, implementation steps, and frameworks was very low (around 46%). After the training, understanding and skills in these areas increased to nearly 100% for all participants. Additionally, capabilities in evaluating budgets, inquiring about gender considerations in audits, considering gender perspectives during oversight, and assessing laws and policies from a gender perspective improveddramatically to almost complete proficiency. 4. All people in Ethiopia live in a society resilient to environmental risks and adapted to climate change. A comprehensive program development has been initiated following a rapid assessment conducted by UN Women in drought and conflict affected locations of Somali Region. As a result, intervention locations and priorities has been identified for program development that support women in climate resilience building through bottom-up consultation, needs identification and vulnerability assessment. Further, The Ministry of Planning and Development, through a training by Global Green Growth Institute in collaboration with UN Women, significantly enhanced its staff's capacity. This training focused on integrating gender equality into general responsibilities and specifically within the ministry's climate change initiatives. It also bolstered the functionality and sustainability of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Climate Change (CC) Community of Practice (CoP), a collaborative effort with the Ministry of Gender and Social Affairs.

The programmatic priorities are centred around the four following results pillars aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development 9 Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2020-2025) to address multidimensional poverty, inequalities, social exclusion, and marginalization, with a focus on youth, women, and girls : 1. All people in Ethiopia enjoy the rights and capabilities to realize their potential, in equality and with dignity. 2. All people in Ethiopia live in a cohesive, just, inclusive, and democratic society. 3. All people in Ethiopia benefit from an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable economy. 4. All people in Ethiopia live in a society resilient to environmental risks and adapted to climate change.