Project profile — United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women - Institutional Support 2013

The 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.