Project profile — Women's Empowerment and Resilient Inclusive Communities in Rakhine State

• Myanmar (100.00%)

• Budget planning:
Budget planning (15117) (5.00%)
Democratic participation and civil society (15150) (60.00%)
Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (25.00%)
• Conflict Prevention And Resolution, Peace And Security: Civilian peace-building, conflict prevention and resolution (15220) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (significant objective)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to promote community cohesion in Rakhine State in Myanmar, with a specific emphasis on gender equality and women’s empowerment. The project, undertaken by UNDP in collaboration with UN Women, is designed to promote participatory and inclusive local planning processes and strengthen capacity of non-government stakeholders on human rights, gender equality and access to justice, building skills in communities for peaceful resolution of conflict. It will benefit 188,900 women and men in project locations, including 27 village tracts with 88 villages. Project activities include: (1) building capacity of communities for social cohesion through training of trainers, access to financial and technical support for community initiatives, trust-building and peace building activities; (2) support communities to address access to justice issues and generate solutions; and (3) support and training for women’s civil society groups on advocacy, leadership and life skills.

The expected results for this project include: (1) community priorities and needs are better met through inclusive and responsive service delivery, improved access to justice, and increased local development opportunities that promote social cohesion for men and women in Rakhine State; (2) women are empowered to engage in, contribute to, and benefit from community resilience, and inclusive growth and development in Rakhine State.

Results achieved as of December 2022 include: (1) 6,624 people (11% women and 23% minority religious populations) benefited from agriculture and fishery-related livelihood assets, including 7,155 committee and user members through livelihood machinery provisions; (2) 9,998 women benefited from climate-smart agriculture support and livelihood skills training; (3) 11,832 people (6,161 women) benefited from improved quality of and access to a more inclusive and gender-aware justice system, through legal awareness raising, counselling and consultations and hotline and representation in courts; (4) 98% of the members of Livelihood Recovery Forums indicated their communities collaborated effectively with other communities from different ethnicities and religions on joint initiatives; and (5) 95% of participants in awareness-raising trainings and advocacy outreach indicated an increased understanding of the rule of law, sexual and gender-based violence, gender equality and women’s rights, and barriers to women’s access to justice.

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