UNIFEMANNUAL REPORT 2002/2003

“Working for women’s

empowerment and

gender equality”

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UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 97 Mission and Mandate

UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the . It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that promote women’s human rights, political participation and economic security. Within the UN system, UNIFEM promotes gender equality and links women’s issues and concerns to national, regional and global agendas by fostering collaboration and providing technical expertise on gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment strategies. UNIFEM was created by a UN General Assembly resolution in 1976, following a call from women’s organizations attending the 1975 UN First World Conference on Women in City. UNIFEM’s mandate is to: • Support innovative and experimental activities benefiting women in line with national and regional priorities; • Serve as a catalyst, with the goal of ensuring the appropriate involvement of women in mainstream development activities, as often as possible at the pre- investment stage; • Play an innovative and catalytic role in relation to the United Nations overall system of development cooperation. (GA resolution 39/125) COVER: RICARDO FUNARI—BRAZILPHOTOS. LEFT: CORBIS. HUMAN RIGHTS Advancing Women’s AgendainAfghanistan Bringing Women tothePeace Table Promoting Political Participation SECURITY PEACEAND GOVERNANCE, Connecting forBusiness Providing Data toChangePublic Policies Making Laws Work for Women ECONOMIC SECURITY AND RIGHTS A Focus onAction andAccountability Programmes andPriorities Message by Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM Message by Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, UNDP A Worldwide Network of Support UNIFEM at Work Around the World Financial Statements Project Highlights Forging AlliancesAgainstHIV/AIDS Working fora World Free of Violence Implementing Contents omtet oWomen’s Commitments to Rights 32 30 28 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 MESSAGE BY MARK MALLOCH BROWN • ADMINISTRATOR, UNDP

A Key Player for the Millennium Development Goals

n 2002 UNIFEM demon- where reliable statistics exist, the strated once again how its gender differences become obvious – Iimpact across the world reaches as do the policy responses. In the far beyond simple resources. In fight against HIV/AIDS, for Afghanistan and many other example, the great majority of those countries where gender issues have newly infected are young women, long been neglected, UNIFEM’s and our response to tackling the persistence and leadership in disease needs to be built around promoting women’s rights has been that fact. indispensable. And it has also, as Last but not least, UNIFEM has recognized by the Security Council, a proven role as a catalyst in played a very important role in developing and sharing best directing attention to the needs of practices on how to improve the women affected by armed conflict as daily lives of women all over the well as to their role in bringing world. This knowledge and gender issues to bear in finding to land and water, to education and experience on gender issues are a solutions. other social services. And too often vast resource for UNDP and all its More broadly, UNIFEM is women are excluded from decision- development partners to draw on playing a key part in seeking to help making, not only in governmental through our expanding development achieve the eight Millennium processes at the national, regional knowledge networks in the months Development Goals (MDGs) that and local levels, but even within and years to come, as we work arose out of the historic Millennium their own families. UNIFEM’s together to make the MDGs a Declaration in 2000. Not only is longstanding experience and reality. the promotion of gender equality advocacy around these issues is a and empowerment of women critical dimension of the broader entrenched as the third of these global campaign for the MDGs. goals, but the issue cuts across all As this report shows, UNIFEM the others, from reducing maternal also has an important technical and and child mortality, to halving operational role in the development hunger and putting all children in and analysis of gender-sensitive school by the deadline of 2015. statistics. Globally, the availability of Wherever we work around the gender-disaggregated data, a crucial world, we see that women are nearly tool to monitor development always the poorest of the poor. progress and target policies, is Mark Malloch Brown They disproportionately lack access terribly inadequate. In those areas Administrator, UNDP

2 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 MESSAGE BY NOELEEN HEYZER • EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UNIFEM

AVision for HumanSecurity

he year 2002 brought the and values that inspired the vision of issues of peace and security the Millennium Summit in September Tto the forefront of the world’s 2000 and the agreement by the conscience. It is in this context that world’s nations on a set of eight the role of the UN Security Council – development priorities, known as the including its historic resolution 1325 Millennium Development Goals. The on women, peace and security – is common values and ethics that we reaffirmed. develop to guide our interactions with Addressing the Security Council in each other – whether as States or July 2002, I called on the Member communities, organizations or States to ensure that women, peace individuals – are also the best, and and security become a regular item on maybe the only, guarantors of human the political agenda and wherever security. UNIFEM worked to deliver security issues are discussed. on this vision not only through its Experience shows that one sure way to work on peace and security, but also achieve the consensus and Caucasus in this respect, but through our efforts to foster women’s compromise needed to create and UNIFEM’s efforts cover many other economic security, to secure their sustain peace is to involve women countries. We were involved in peace- human rights and to fight the spread throughout the peace-building related activities in 25 countries in of HIV/AIDS. This Annual Report process. Women more readily embrace 2002, including Kosovo and Timor- provides a snapshot of our work the collaborative perspective needed to Leste. What we have learned in these around the world in 2002 and cut through ethnic, religious, tribal countries is that we must demand a presents the voices of women whom and political barriers. They need new definition of global security, one we supported. And it shows the support, however, to translate their that focuses on economic and social results of UNIFEM’s interventions, pragmatic expertise into participation justice which makes development whether it be laws that protect and in formal peace negotiations, in peace- possible. In many countries, the empower women, improved statistics building and reconstruction, and concept of local, national and global that help guide policy decisions, or eventually in national governments. security has become virtually new skills that open better economic Decisions that exclude half the synonymous with weapon-based opportunities for women. population from political processes security. Women, however, insist on a At UNIFEM, we will continue to offer little hope of achieving a secure broader vision, one that puts human actively support this vision for human and peaceful future free from violence development and human rights at the security – in 2003 and beyond. and discrimination. forefront; one that includes lives free UNIFEM continues to stimulate from violence and HIV/AIDS. and support initiatives of women who Over the last decade, at a series of are committed to peace. This Annual UN conferences, all countries Report highlights our work in committed themselves to a core set of Noeleen Heyzer

LEFT: SHAMSUZ ZAMAN—UNDP. RIGHT:UNIFEM. Afghanistan and the Southern norms and values. It is these norms Executive Director, UNIFEM

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Programmes & Priorities

NIFEM has programmes and regional initiatives in strengthened in 2000 during the more than 100 countries. The organization works in global five-year review of progress U close partnership with governments, women’s organiza- organized by the UN. tions and the UN system to assist countries implement their UN Security Council resolution commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment. 1325 on women, peace and security recognized that war impacts women differently, and reaffirmed the need to increase their role in decision- UNIFEM FOCUSES ON THREE AREAS OF making with regard to conflict IMMEDIATE CONCERN: prevention and resolution. Finally, 1. Strengthening women’s economic security and rights and the Millennium Declaration and empowering women to enjoy secure livelihoods. 2. Supporting women’s leadership in governance, peace-building and Millennium Development Goals the decision-making processes that shape their lives. (MDGs) outline a set of time- 3. Promoting women’s human rights and eliminating all forms of bound and measurable goals and discrimination against women; this includes initiatives to fight targets to promote gender equality and enhancing the understanding of the gender and human rights dimensions of HIV/AIDS. and to combat poverty, hunger, These thematic areas are addressed in relation to regional disease, illiteracy and environmental realities in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the degradation by 2015. Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth Through its extensive experience of Independent States (CEE/CIS). in advocacy, building partnerships, capacity-building, piloting CARRYING OUT ITS WORK, innovative approaches and UNIFEM APPLIES FIVE CORE STRATEGIES: increasing knowledge about 1. Strengthening the capacity and leadership of women’s women’s human rights, UNIFEM organizations and networks. 2. Leveraging political and financial support for women from a wide supports positive change in women’s range of stakeholders. lives. UNIFEM strengthens women’s 3. Forging new partnerships among women’s organizations, capacity to bring their experience governments, the UN system and the private sector. and solutions to influence policy 4. Undertaking pilot projects to test innovative approaches to and practice; it convenes meetings women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming. 5. Building a knowledge base on effective strategies for engendering of different partners to collaborate mainstream development. and advance the development and human rights agenda. In the context of the Secretary-General’s UN reform agenda, UNIFEM Four documents, agreed to by UN UNIFEM programmes. One supports the UN system to Member States, are central guides hundred and seventy three countries incorporate gender equality for UNIFEM efforts: The are parties to the Convention. The commitments into the policies and Convention on the Elimination of Beijing Platform for Action (PFA), activities of UN organizations, All Forms of Discrimination against adopted by governments at the governments and civil society Women (CEDAW), the ‘women’s 1995 Fourth World Conference on partners, especially at the regional bill of rights’, is a cornerstone of all Women, was reaffirmed and and country levels.

4 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 A Focus on Action and Accountability

he commitments that increased its budget for gender governments have made in equality initiatives by 15 times Tthe last 25 years to after undertaking a gender achieving gender equality and analysis of the municipal budget promoting and protecting women’s (see pgs. 8/9). rights are significant. The Beijing Platform for Action, CEDAW and • Without better statistics and the Millennium Declaration and indicators on gender equality and Millennium Development Goals women’s rights – and the skills to (MDGs) represent nearly universal analyse and apply them to improve agreement that gender equality and policies – countries lack the women’s empowerment are not only necessary base to assess priorities priority goals in their own right, but and track progress. UNIFEM has also central to achieving all other been working with its UN partners development priorities.1 in all regions to invest in building the capacity of producers and users FROM COMMITMENT of data to generate statistics that TO ACCOUNTABILITY the recommendations that the inform programming (see pgs. 8/9). AND ACTION CEDAW Committee makes to At the global level, UNIFEM Securing these visionary countries (see pgs. 18/19). A key produced the second edition of its commitments to women was strategy is to strengthen sub- biennial publication, Progress of the achieved through creative and regional networks amongst and World’s Women 2002, which tracks sustained advocacy and between governments and NGOs. progress according to the by growing numbers of women’s For instance, as a result of support Millennium Development Goals networks and gender equality to a programme to train judges on and which has encouraged spin-off advocates and activists worldwide. CEDAW in South Asia, the publications in South Asia, the Arab UNIFEM is strengthening its focus Supreme Court of Nepal rendered a States, Brazil and Mongolia. The on supporting implementation and judgment upholding marital rape as latest edition provides a good accountability – the two main a criminal offense. illustration that there is a long way priorities for the future – for to go, with only seven countries in promises to women. • In 20 countries, UNIFEM is the North and three in the South supporting gender analyses of having achieved high levels of • In South-East Asia, South Asia, national, municipal and sectoral gender equality and women’s the Arab States, the Caribbean, the budgets to build understanding of empowerment on all selected targets Pacific, Anglophone West Africa and investments needed to support and indicators for MDG Goal 3: Central and Eastern Europe, commitments made to women. Denmark, Finland, Germany, UNIFEM has developed regional Even in the early stages of the Iceland, the , Norway, programmes focused on building programme, results are evident: The Sweden; Argentina, Costa Rica and capacity to implement CEDAW and municipality of Cuenca, Ecuador, South Africa.

1.SEE (HTTP://WWW.UN.ORG/MILLENNIUMGOALS/INDEX.HTML) FOR A FULL LIST OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.

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Making Laws Work for Women

nduced by globalization, labour hierarchy as domestic workers or one country of destination in the migration has increased ‘entertainers’, usually a euphemism region, UNIFEM’s initiative resulted Idramatically. In search of a for sex workers. Often without legal in the formulation of a minimum better future for themselves and their status, these women lack rights standard contract for migrant women families, millions of people leave granted to citizens and frequently that stipulates their rights, such as their homes every year to seek suffer gross abuse. the right to medical care, rest days employment abroad. A large number UNIFEM works in Asia and the and timely payment of wages. It will of them are women, many of whom Arab States, in countries of both be used by the Ministry of Labour to end up at the lower end of the job origin and destination. In Jordan, monitor working conditions. The

6 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 urity & Rights

➤ LEFT: In Kyrgyzstan, traditional customs often prevent women from claiming their equal right UNIFEM's work on to land, an issue that UNIFEM addressed in 2002. strengthening women's contract is the first of its kind in the economic security and rights Arab region to be agreed upon by all parties concerned and endorsed by the is designed to respond to the government. UNIFEM also supported challenges of economic the drafting of a new law to regulate globalization. UNIFEM’s work the work of the agencies recruiting in this arena is central to migrant workers; these agencies were previously unlicensed. The new law will taking action on the allow the Jordanian authorities to act Millennium Development Goal against violations of the rights of of halving extreme poverty by migrant workers. 2015. The effects of In 2002 UNIFEM supported a number of initiatives around the world globalization remain uneven. to make laws work to increase women’s Opportunities have been ABOVE: peel garlic to make economic options: In Kyrgyzstan, a generated mainly for those a living. UNIFEM works to network of activists, lawyers and trainers with higher levels of improve social protection of has been established to increase local home-based workers … government capacity in managing the education, ownership of legal, administrative and fiscal measures resources and access to capital. For many poor women, related to ensuring women’s land rights however, existing inequalities have been intensified. in the context of privatization. In this UNIFEM works to: Central Asian country, traditional customs often prevent • Support institutions, laws and policies LEFT: BRIAN GODDARD—PANOS. RIGHT TOP: ROMEO GACAD—AFP. BOTTOM: NUR—AFP. women from claiming that promote women’s equal ownership of their equal right to land and access to land, finance, assets and that is granted by new opportunities; official law. In Indonesia and • Build capacity of countries to manage the Philippines, globalization and economic transition from UNIFEM supported the perspective of poor women, including HomeNet, a network support in developing and using gender- of home-based workers, to undertake mapping sensitive statistics and gender-responsive surveys on the numbers budget initiatives; of home-based workers • Strengthen women’s economic capacity in different regions and and rights as entrepreneurs, producers sectors and develop draft legislation to ABOVE: …and of migrant workers, like and home-based workers, including the these Indonesian women who are demon- strengthen their social strating for better working conditions. capacity to access high-value markets. protection.

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Providing Data to Change Public Policies

n Cuba, women spend less time much higher. Women’s free time was sponsored by the Italian in formal employment than found to increase with education. Government, was conducted by the Imen – yet they work Men, however, had in general more National Statistics Office with significantly more. A time-use survey leisure time at their disposal than support from UNIFEM in five in 2002 discovered that women were women, regardless of their level of Cuban municipalities. It will be busy with unpaid work, especially in education. The survey, which is part replicated nationwide. rural areas, and that total working of UNDP’s Local Human Sex-disaggregated data is critical hours, both paid and unpaid, were Development Programme and to address the feminization of

8 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 ➤ LEFT: In Ecuador, a gender budget analysis in Cuenca led to a significant increase of the municipality’s allocations “In 2002, soon after I was elected to become the first female to promote gender equality. Vice Mayor of the municipality of Cuenca in Ecuador, we entered into a partnership with UNIFEM to undertake a gender poverty and takes on new significance in the context of the Millennium analysis of the municipality’s budget. The exercise was an eye- Development Goals. It informs policy opener and an entry point for broader change. It became makers about the situation of women, obvious that there was a need to integrate gender aspects in all a pre-condition for designing effective national strategies that increase their areas of Cuenca’s public policy, so we brought together economic options. In Kazakhstan, thematic roundtables, comprised of representatives of civil gender indicators for measuring society as well as the government, and developed an Equal progress towards achieving the Opportunities Plan. The plan includes provisions to strengthen Millennium Development Goals were developed by UNIFEM and its UN the system of social, legal and health services for women, and system partners in 2002. The it commits the local authorities to undertake measures aimed at indicators aim at providing gender- eradicating violence. Today, Cuenca has policies, laws and sensitive data on factors such as school drop-out rates, single-headed institutional mechanisms that give full support to women’s households, receipt of credit or length empowerment and to the realization of their rights and of unemployment and have been aspirations. By doing so, the municipality is building a more tested by the National Statistical democratic society which can serve as an example for other Agency of Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan and the Ukraine are likely to apply regions in Ecuador. We factored these aspirations into the city’s the approach as well. budget. For 2003, the allocations to promote gender equality UNIFEM also continued to are 15 times higher than they were in 2001.” promote gender analyses of budgets to ensure responsiveness to gender DORIS SOLIS CARRION WAS THE VICE MAYOR OF CUENCA IN ECUADOR. equality and poverty eradication SHE IS NOW THE MINISTER OF TOURISM. goals. Gender analysis of budgets examines the allocation of public LEFT: JEAN-LEO DUGAST—PANOS. RIGHT: UNICEF/HQ95-0454/DAVID BARBOUR resources among women and men and reflects how women’s contributions through unpaid care work and tax payment can be accounted for. From Morocco to Mozambique, from Senegal to Sri Lanka, assistance in preparing gender-responsive budgets was rendered to 20 countries in 2002. In Mexico, an analysis focusing on the budget of the Ministry of Health provided guidelines on how to increase gender equality in allocating resources.

RIGHT: In Cuba, a survey found that total working hours for women, both paid and unpaid, are significantly higher than for men.

UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 9 ECONOMIC SECURITY AND RIGHTS Connecting for Business

n a continent with 54 countries, Africa houses less Ithan one per cent of the world's Internet users, compared to more than 24 per cent in the USA. The so-called digital divide, however, does not only run between rich and poor countries; it also separates men from women. Low levels of literacy, as well as limited know-how and access to technology, prevent many women from benefiting from Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). To increase African women’s access to ICTs, UNIFEM turned to successful entrepreneurs living in the diaspora in 2002 to enlist their support in tackling the challenges of feminized poverty. UNIFEM’s Digital Diaspora initiative is aimed at harnessing their technical know- how and business expertise as well as financial resources. Links with women’s organizations and business associations in Africa are being forged to empower women economically through training in the use of ICTs, the creation of business partnerships and access to finance. In other regions, and with support from UNIFEM, women are already taking advantage of the opportunities that come with ICTs.

➤ LEFT: To help bridge the digital divide that affects African women, UNIFEM enlisted the support of successful IT entrepreneurs in the Diaspora.

10 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 In Jordan, UNIFEM’s partnership with CISCO systems helped shape a gender-sensitive training programme for CISCO’s ten Networking Academies, and close to 65 per cent of the students enrolled are women. The initiative, which aims at increasing women’s access to high-quality jobs, will be replicated in Egypt and discussions are under way to expand it to other countries in the region. UNIFEM assistance in connecting women for business is not limited to ICTs. In Nigeria, for example, UNIFEM supported a national Forum for Women Entrepreneurs. At the Forum the entrepreneurs established a fund that will be used to increase the ABOVE: The hand-woven baskets produced by the AVEGA widows’ association in access of businesswomen to are now being marketed internationally. finance, markets, technology and training opportunities. Peace, an association of US Baskets’ on the Web and through In Rwanda, UNIFEM facilitated business women: Eziba, a member direct sales. The entire first order a partnership between the AVEGA of the Business Council and a of 150 baskets, a main source of widows’ association and the retailer of artisan handicrafts, is income for the widows, was sold in Women’s Business Council for marketing the widows’ ‘Peace one day.

“I can still remember the afternoon in Nairobi: conference. We developed a set of With only three weeks to go before the first recommendations for gender-equality in ICTs and regional Prep-Com for the World Summit on the also a plan for expanding the formation group of Information Society (WSIS), we were a small the Caucus to include organizations from around group of women who brainstormed for a couple of the world. As the first anniversary approaches, hours. We sent out a message inviting the Caucus runs a public list with over 100 organizations to work with UNIFEM to form a subscribers, has established a Steering Caucus that would improve the effectiveness of Committee and serves as the gender focal point women's participation and lobby for women's on the WSIS Civil Society and NGO Bureau.”

rights at the upcoming WSIS. The response to GILLIAN MARCELLE, A MEMBER OF THE UN ICT TASKFORCE,

that e-mail was more than encouraging. A group WORKED WITH UNIFEM AND OTHER PARTNERS TO ESTABLISH A

of women and men, we worked day and night, GENDER CAUCUS FOR THE WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION

largely outside the remit of the official SOCIETY. SEE www.wougnet.org/WSIS/wsisgc.html LEFT: LIBA TAYLOR—CORBIS. RIGHT: WILLA SHALIT.

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Promoting Political Participation

ell ahead of the written to encourage greater innovative approach, supported by communal elections in participation and representation of UNIFEM, proved successful. W Cambodia, voters were women. Broadcast from cassette During the ballot in April 2002, 933 in tune with women’s leadership: To players that were mounted on women were elected. reach out to people in areas with bicycles, the message was pedalled Throughout 2002, positive low levels of literacy, songs had been from village to village. This results of UNIFEM’s assistance to

12 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 ace & Security

➤ LEFT: In Bolivia, the new Constitution recognizes the contribution made by women performing domestic work. UNIFEM promotes women’s leadership to ensure that they have an equal voice in shaping the policies that affect their women as candidates and voters were lives. Women remain vastly under-represented in national or noted in all regions. In Morocco, UNIFEM support to women local assemblies, accounting for a worldwide average of less advocating for the adoption of a than 15 per cent of seats in national parliaments. quota, the first in the Arab World, In conflict situations, women’s exclusion from decision- contributed to 35 women reaching parliament, compared to only two making is even more pronounced. When it comes to women representatives in the negotiating peace and facilitating the reconstruction of previous legislature. In , societies after war, women are rarely at the table – despite advocacy facilitated by UNIFEM has the fact that they are particularly affected. resulted in women occupying 20 per cent of decision-making positions in UNIFEM’s work to promote women’s leadership in the national assembly and the senate. governance and peace-building centres on: UNIFEM also supported the • Gender justice launch of a Regional Women’s Parliamentary Caucus in the 14 by supporting countries of the Southern African women as Development Community (SADC). candidates and The Caucus aims at transforming voters, national parliaments and dismantling structural barriers and institutional strengthening practices that make it difficult for the capacity of women parliamentarians to become women judges effective legislators, like the lack of information on gender-related issues and lawyers and in parliament libraries. engendering LEFT: GONZALO ESPINOZA—AFP. RIGHT: STEPHEN SHAVER—AFP. When countries revise or create legal frame- new constitutions, it is essential to works and provide gender expertise and take institutional ABOVE: A voter registers in Cambodia, where advantage of opportunities to UNIFEM worked to encourage greater strengthen gender equality mechanisms; representation by women. provisions. In Bolivia, women’s • Peace and networks secured support from UNIFEM to advocate for major security by advocating for increased assistance to women proposals that found their way into in conflict situations and supporting their participation the new Constitution. The in peace processes. UNIFEM’s work in this area is guided proposals pertained to equal legal by Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and rights and gender-specific rights, such as recognition of the contribution security. made by women performing domestic work.

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Bringing Women to the Peace Table

n Armenia, a school principal building in gender, human rights and million people to flee their homes. has included a course on peace conflict resolution provided through UNIFEM has facilitated a range of Iin her students’ curriculum. In a UNIFEM initiative for the initiatives that seek to build peace Georgia, a local prosecutor Southern Caucasus – a region neither from the ground up – with success. has set up a hotline for young at war, nor at peace. In all three countries, women have delinquents to inform them about Internal strife and cross border established peace clubs to make the rule of law and human rights. conflicts in Armenia, Azerbaijan and women’s voices heard in advocating Both benefited from capacity- Georgia have forced more than 1.2 for an end to conflict. And across the

14 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 ➤ LEFT: In Armenia, women established peace clubs to advocate for an end to conflict. “ We heard accounts of rape camps, gang rapes and mutilations, of murder and sexual slavery. Yet time and again, we met region, 93,000 children from 7,000 women who had survived trauma and … were struggling to schools put their ideas forward in an essay contest titled: ‘If I were an rebuild their communities and remake their lives." Elisabeth Envoy of Peace’. Rehn and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, two independent experts A representative from the UN appointed by UNIFEM in Fund for International Partnerships response to Security (UNFIP) observed that UNIFEM’s initiative "has brought more visibility Council resolution 1325 to the UN than any other project in on women, peace and the region". security, found In 2002 UNIFEM was engaged in peace and security initiatives in 25 compelling evidence that countries. In Colombia, UNIFEM’s while women are support to the National Mobilization effective agents of peace, of Women Against War assisted the they still have little major women’s networks to develop a ABOVE: Women, War, Peace: A UNIFEM unified voice against war. Over 20,000 influence on decisions to commissioned report describes how women are caught in the crossfire between women took to the streets to proclaim wage war or rebuild their warring factions. a resounding "No!" to the conflict. countries. Their report, The signing of the Global and Inclusive Peace Agreement for the Women, War, Peace, describes how women and caught in Democratic Republic of Congo in the crossfire between warring factions are increasingly at risk December 2002 provides new of sexual violence, torture and HIV-infection. The experts opportunities for women’s advocacy. conclude that violence against women in conflict situations is To keep up the momentum, UNIFEM provided assistance to the pervasive and systematic, but that the perpetrators almost Women’s Peace Forum that always go unpunished. LEFT: GABRIEL BOUYS—AFP. RIGHT TOP: MUSA AL-SHAER—AFP, BOTTOM: ISSOUF SANOGO—AFP. brought together 200 Mechanisms to women in the final phase of the Inter-Congolese investigate, report, Dialogue to ensure women’s prosecute and remedy participation in the violence against women ongoing peace process. in war zones must be In Sierra Leone, UNIFEM has provided strengthened, the experts gender-based human rights say: “Otherwise, the training for the Truth and historic refusal to Reconciliation Commission, focusing on such sensitive ABOVE: Women demonstrating for peace in the Democratic acknowledge and punish Republic of Congo. UNIFEM supported women’s issues as the handling of participation in the peace process. crimes against women female victims’ testimonies will continue.” and building the necessary skills to deal with witnesses and perpetrators in www.unifem.org/www/resources/assessment/index.html the spirit of reconciliation.

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Advancing Women’s Agenda in Afghanistan

NIFEM established its different regions to articulate a process of reconstruction and programme in Afghanistan common vision for the nation-building in order to improve U in early 2002 following an reconstruction of their country. women’s status and ensure adherence Afghan women’s roundtable co- The consultation enabled the newly to CEDAW and other relevant hosted with the Government of established Ministry of Women’s international frameworks. Belgium in December 2001. Affairs to strengthen its agenda for Much of UNIFEM’s work in Assistance to an Afghan National women’s development, rights and 2002 focused on supporting the Women’s Consultation in March security. It also helped UNIFEM Ministry of Women’s Affairs to brought together women from shape its programme to support the build its staff capacity and

16 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 ➤ LEFT: Medical students in Afghanistan. Women’s centres are being set up to provide psychosocial and health services.

programme to advance women’s rights. Reaching out more widely, UNIFEM is assisting the Ministry in establishing women’s centres in five provinces. The centres are to provide legal, psychosocial and health services for women, as well as literacy and skills training. Women’s community networks in

the surrounding rural areas will be ABOVE: Delegates to the Loya Jirga. UNIFEM supports the country’s process of nation- formed to meet the needs of building in order to improve women’s status. displaced and returnee women. To open up new economic opportunities for women, UNIFEM has forged links with “Barely a year ago, we began to confront the formidable businesswomen with the aim of challenge of bringing women and their perspectives back establishing an Afghan Women’s into the mainstream of national reconstruction with nothing Business Council to support policy and enterprise development as well except optimism and commitment. We had no office and no as the marketing of women’s clear idea of how to find the resources that we needed to products. proceed. Another key area of UNIFEM’s UNIFEM was among the first international organizations to efforts has been to help ensure that women’s concerns are reflected in help us, setting no limits and boundaries to its scope of the ongoing legal reform process assistance, from office equipment and supplies, to deploying and the drafting of Afghanistan’s technical staff and brokering donor assistance. During the LEFT: ABBAS—MAGNUM PHOTOS. RIGHT: SERGEI GRITS—AP/WIDE WORLD. new Constitution. To that end, formulation of the current Afghanistan National Development UNIFEM has supported the establishment of a working group Budget, UNIFEM coordinated a process that helped clarify on gender and law comprising, our vision, mission, roles, functions and strategies, enabling amongst others, participants from us to analyse the gender dimensions of the National the Constitution Commission, the Development Framework and to propose projects to address Judicial Commission and the Supreme Court. In addition, the gaps. Last year, UNIFEM also demonstrated how to UNIFEM reached out to civil galvanize sections of society when it helped organize society organizations, providing seed numerous public events to highlight women’s issues. funding for women’s judges and I profoundly appreciate UNIFEM’s very valuable support to lawyers associations. The objective is to foster participation in the the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the women of political process and to provide a Afghanistan.”

better understanding of women’s HABIBA SARABI IS THE MINISTER OF WOMEN’S AFFAIRS IN rights, and also to strengthen the AFGHANISTAN provision of legal services to women.

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Implementing Commitments to Women’s Rights

t times, progress in decision to start the process of Often referred to as the advancing women’s rights ratification in 2002. The study, international bill of rights for women, A comes through taking a step which examined the norms of CEDAW defines what constitutes back – and having a closer look. In CEDAW, Syrian legislation and discrimination against women and Syria, a study on the Convention on Shariah law, concluded that the outlines an agenda for national action the Elimination of All Forms of Convention is compatible with core to end it. As such, it is a powerful Discrimination against Women values in Arab societies and capable tool to realize women’s human rights. (CEDAW), supported by UNIFEM, of addressing the needs of Syrian One hundred and seventy three was instrumental in the Government’s women in their own cultural context. countries are parties to the

18 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 ➤ LEFT: Parliamentarians in Syria, where a study on CEDAW found that the Convention is capable of addressing the needs of Syrian women in their own cultural context.

Convention, which serves as the cornerstone of UNIFEM’s human rights work. In Kenya, UNIFEM continued to support the review of the country’s Constitution and advocated for the use of CEDAW as a critical reference in this process. As a consequence, the new ABOVE: International Women’s Day in Brazil. UNIFEM supported a campaign that draft Constitution clearly articulates contributed to the country’s ratification of CEDAW’s Optional Protocol. women’s human rights in relation to affirmative action, citizenship and marriage. It also makes customary law subsidiary to the Constitution. Women worldwide experience daily violations of their human In Brazil, a campaign titled rights. Available data suggests that nearly one in four women ‘Women’s Rights are Not Optional’, may experience sexual violence by an intimate partner in their which was supported by UNIFEM, contributed to the country’s lifetime. Yet violence is certainly not the only human rights ratification of CEDAW’s Optional violation women suffer. Women are frequently denied many of Protocol. In a ground-breaking their civil, political, economic and cultural rights and initiative the Brazilian Government also invited women activists to subjected to gender-based discrimination. Gender inequality is participate in the drafting of the also the root cause of the alarming rise in women infected with country’s first report on CEDAW. HIV/AIDS, as disadvantage and discrimination prevent many LEFT: BASSEM TELLAWI—AP/WIDE WORLD. RIGHT: VICTOR R. CAIVANO—AP/WIDE In 2002 UNIFEM also continued to support International Women’s women from refusing unwanted sex or negotiating safe sex. Rights Action Watch to bring Women’s human rights are central to all UNIFEM programmes. organizations from reporting countries In 2002 UNIFEM continued to concentrate on the following to the 27th CEDAW session in New York. The organizations provided areas: background information to the • Assisting in the effective implementation of the Convention CEDAW Committee, which monitors on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against progress on the Convention’s implementation, and received training Women (CEDAW); on the Convention and the reporting • Eliminating violence against women and girls by investing in process. They also developed action prevention, protection and advocacy strategies; plans on how to use the Committee’s Concluding Comments to press their • Enhancing the understanding of governments, advocates and governments to implement the UN partners about the gender and human rights dimensions Convention. Since the beginning of of HIV/AIDS. this programme in 1997, more than 80 organizations have participated.

UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 19 HUMAN RIGHTS Working for a World Free of Violence

20 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 n the city of Bourgas in Bulgaria, trafficking in women and girls, Cambodia with a local jurist to a group of 20 prisoners are focusing on prevention, protection defend the newly drafted bill on Iamong the men who regularly and prosecution. An assessment of the . In support of a come to the Male Crisis Centre to needs for psychosocial counselling of similar bill in Thailand, UNIFEM receive counselling: All of them have victims led to the creation of a pilot helped women’s networks to been violent and they get together to trauma counselling module that will articulate and integrate their learn about alternatives to physical be used to establish cadres of qualified comments into the new law. aggression. The counselling counsellors in Bangladesh, India and UNIFEM also supported research programme in Bourgas is part of a Nepal. In transit areas along cross initiatives to better understand the wider initiative to combat domestic border zones, UNIFEM has also causes and prevalence of violence. violence that is supported through a supported village anti-trafficking Through a study conducted in nine grant from UNIFEM’s Trust Fund in committees that provide information countries of the Commonwealth of Support of Actions to Eliminate and advice on safe migration and on Independent States, comparable data Violence against Women. available assistance. And collaboration on violence against women in the Fighting violence against women with the Indian National Human region has been made available for continued to be a major focus of Rights Commission resulted in the the first time. In Latin America, UNIFEM’s work in 2002, through its appointment of nodal officers to UNIFEM has rendered assistance to a Trust Fund and beyond: In South oversee efforts towards the elimination comparative analysis of public Asia, UNIFEM continued to combat of trafficking in 21 states. expenditures to put policies and laws To promote legislation against against violence into practice. ➤ LEFT: protesting violence, UNIFEM against violence. A UNIFEM grant supported provided the Ministry human rights training for police in the South Asian country. of Women’s and Veteran’s Affairs in

“When we began to brainstorm at the Centre for Women and Children Studies about human rights training for police with the main focus on violence against women, one thing was clear from the start: In order to ensure buy-in, we wanted to include the police and community representatives in the planning process. Together with different police departments and human rights groups, we developed ABOVE: Available data suggests that nearly one in four women may the idea of a training manual that would discuss experience sexual violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. different forms of gender violence as well as relevant national laws and international instruments. During representatives. We succeeded in bringing about some workshops, members of the police and NGOs raised behavioural change. Now, we receive requests from questions as to how to prevent violence, handle police headquarters to conduct the training for their sensitive cases and provide support to victims – issues various departments.” which were then incorporated into the manual. A grant PROFESSOR ISHRAT SHAMIM IS THE PRESIDENT from UNIFEM helped us to put it to the test and train OF THE CENTRE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN STUDIES IN more than 400 police officers, as well as community BANGLADESH LEFT: JEWEL SAMAD—AFP. RIGHT: ALEXANDER NEMENOV—AFP.

UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 21 HUMAN RIGHTS

Forging Alliances Against HIV/AIDS

tatistics put into stark relief UNIFEM left beaten tracks in 2002 – hospitals, training colleges, workers’ the reality that both the spread and turned to the Indian Railways. Since unions and women’s organizations in the Sand impact of the HIV/AIDS mass media messages on HIV/AIDS Vijayawada division. The training they epidemic disproportionately affects tend to reach women to a lesser extent received prior to taking up their tasks women. A UNAIDS report released than men, well-established infrastructures included issues such as the psychological in late 2002 shows that women now to spread the word on gender-sensitive aspects of HIV/AIDS, sex and sexuality make up 50 per cent of those infected HIV prevention and care efforts are as well as pregnancy and -to-child with HIV/AIDS worldwide. critical. As the world’s third largest transmission. The initiative is financed HIV/AIDS is not just eroding the employer with 1.5 million staff, the through the UN Trust Fund for Human health of women; it is eroding the Indian railroad maintains such an Security, funded by Japan, through skills and experience that keep their infrastructure. Through the collaboration which UNIFEM also receives support families and communities going. with UNIFEM, 60 peer counsellors have for its work on HIV/AIDS in Africa and To help curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, been placed in the railway’s schools, Latin America.

22 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 ➤ LEFT: A health worker in Zimbabwe visits a woman who takes care of an AIDS orphan. Parents are preparing books about their lives for the children they will leave behind.

UNIFEM strengthened existing alliances and forged new partnerships against HIV/AIDS in 2002. The first ever national women’s consultation on the ‘Positive Faces and Voices from India’ which provided a platform for HIV- positive women to draw attention to their needs, was co-organized by UNIFEM. In Barbados, UNIFEM helped establish Youth Against AIDS, a movement through which young people reach out to their peers through their own means. Prominent Caribbean artists produced a CD, and a concert on World AIDS Day attracted 9,000 young people. UNIFEM also set up a virtual network reaching out to a worldwide audience: A Web Portal on Gender and HIV/AIDS, developed in partnership with UNAIDS, provides up-to-date information on research, multimedia materials and tool kits on the gender dimensions of

LEFT: GIACOMO PIROZZI—PANOS. RIGHT: ANUPAM NATH—AP/WIDE WORLD. ABOVE: Schoolgirls prepare an AIDS campaign in India. UNIFEM co-organized the first national HIV/AIDS consultation that provided a platform for HIV-positive women in the South Asian country. (http://www.genderandaids.org).

“In Zimbabwe, 2,500 people are dying from HIV every week. The majority are women. I myself have lost many of my relatives and this is why I am really passionate about finding different ways to address the pandemic and help people cope with it. Through UNIFEM I have worked with women parliamentarians who are strong advocates at the political level and stress the need for drugs, for support and for increased awareness of HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective. But I have also come to know the very personal and touching work of the Zimbabwe Positive Women, a group supported by UNIFEM that helps people with AIDS to prepare books entitled ‘My Life’. Fathers and prepare these books for the children they will leave behind. Many AIDS orphans never even get to know their parents and they are always asking: What was my mother like? What kind of person was my father? Through the ‘My Life’ books these children can read the stories their parents prepared for them and keep their memory alive.”

MARGARET SIMBI IS A GENDER SPECIALIST WHO HAS SUPPORTED UNIFEM’S OUTREACH WORK ON HIV/AIDS IN ZIMBABWE

UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 23 PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS*

Region Economic Security Governance, Peace Human Rights and Rights and Security

AFRICA Regional - Africa Regional - Africa Regional - Africa $2,287,761 $1,098,261 $2,025,396 African Women’s Economic Security and Africa Peace and Security Programme HIV/AIDS, Gender and Human Rights promotes women producers’ access integrates a gender perspective in conflict Rights aims to enhance knowledge of to technology, finance and markets prevention and international peace and the gender aspects of HIV/AIDS with through training, setting up networking security efforts by conducting assessments a particular focus on the economic structures and advocating to shape macro- on the impact of conflict on women and dimensions of the pandemic and on level policies and globalization their role in peace-building; supporting women’s human rights in relation to instruments. capacity-building of regional peace prevention, treatment and care. networks; carrying out a situational analysis Ghana, Nigeria of the status of women under different legal Regional - Africa $305,000 systems; and promoting gender justice in $1,310,234 Energy for Sustainable Women’s post conflict situations. Enhancing Human Security through Livelihoods: Gender Responsive Gender Equality in the Context of Renewable Energy System Development Regional - Africa HIV/AIDS strengthens legal and and Application (GRESDA) increases $763,978 policy frameworks that promote gender women farmers’ income-generating Engendering Governance and equality and stigma reduction and opportunities through the introduction of Transformational Leadership works builds the capacity of National AIDS better technologies and by linking women through capacity-building and training of Councils. producers to external markets. women involved in local government elections, by supporting advocacy to achieve Somalia 30% representation of women in $519,492 government, and by supporting greater Integrated Approach to Actualize involvement in monitoring and Women’s Human Rights and Economic implementation of CEDAW. Security strengthens the capacity of women and their organizations by Burundi establishing multi-purpose empowerment $346,869 centres to increase access of poor women African Women for Conflict-Resolution producers to information and appropriate and Peace promotes gender mainstreaming technology and promote the exchange of in institutions working towards conflict- experiences. resolution, supports women’s peace initiatives, and develops training programmes to build women refugees’ skills in negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution.

Nigeria $175,000 Women’s Participation in Equitable Governance engenders federal and state governments, involves women in the revision and amendment of the Constitution and other laws, and trains female judges on women’s human rights issues.

Zimbabwe $56,473 Enhancing the Capacity of the Gender Forum provides a platform for coordination of activities in support of women’s empowerment, human rights and gender equality.

* This is a selection of UNIFEM projects and does not represent the entire portfolio of activities. Each listing includes a project description and the approved project implementation allocation in US dollars.The allocations are funded by UNIFEM core funds, cost-sharing and sub-trust funds, as well as contributions received from NGOs, governments, national committees and other UN agencies. Projects may have started prior to the current fiscal year and others will continue through 2003.

24 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 Region Economic Security Governance, Peace Human Rights and Rights and Security

Regional - Arab States Afghanistan Regional - Arab States ASIA/PACIFIC $251,000 $3,043,905 $171,545 AND Regional Technical Resources Network Building Women’s Leadership in CEDAW Regional Human Rights for Women’s Small Unit and Micro Afghanistan supports the process of Programme supports the implementation ARAB STATES Enterprises increases women’s access to reconstruction and nation-building to of CEDAW by providing expertise and and control of economic resources by improve women’s status by strengthening training on women’s human rights in the upgrading the technical capacity, the capacity of the Ministry of Women’s Islamic context. outreach and gender sensitivity of Affairs and of NGOs; opening economic support institutions for micro and small opportunities for women; and ensuring Regional - Asia enterprises. that women’s needs are reflected in the $ 1,174,466 ongoing political process. Enhancing Human Security through Egypt, Jordan, Syria Gender Equality in the Context of $291,403 China HIV/AIDS strengthens legal and policy Gender Equality Measured through $210,000 frameworks that promote gender equality Statistics strengthens and increases Women’s Leadership Development in and stigma reduction and builds the accountability mechanisms in the Arab Linqu, Shandong creates and capacity of National AIDS Councils. countries by mainstreaming gender issues strengthens women’s institutions, and enhancing the capacity of the networks and associations and develops a Regional - East and South-East Asia departments of statistics to produce user- Rural Women’s Needs Assessment. $489,063 friendly gender statistics. Regional Programme to Promote the Mongolia Realization of Women’s Human Rights Fiji, India, Jordan, Lao PDR $305,010 through the Elimination of Violence $712,277 Strengthening Capacity to Implement Against Women (EVAW) mobilizes Women’s Economic Empowerment in the National Programme of Action for support for innovative activities to end the Marketplace seeks to develop the Advancement of Women enhances violence against women. women’s capacity and create an enabling the economic and political empowerment policy environment to increase women’s of women through developing capacity Regional - South Asia economic opportunities and for gender analysis and the formulation $3,003,000 participation. of gender-responsive national policies. Prevention of Trafficking in Women and Children in South Asia supports regional Timor-Leste collaboration and capacity-building for the $400,000 elimination of trafficking in women and Women’s Leadership for Peace-building girls. and Gender Justice builds the capacity of women’s groups to participate in the India processes of nation-building through $395,000 training in leadership and civic Reinventing India – Action for education, and the establishment of Empowerment and Elimination of networking structures. Violence against Women provides women with information on their rights and on services available to them, and raises the awareness of men on their role in preventing gender-based violence.

Indonesia, Jordan, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka $794,133 Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia seeks to promote the protection and rights of domestic migrant workers in countries of both origin and destination.

Occupied Palestinian territories $201,390 Empowerment of Palestinian Women trains media professionals on the development of gender-sensitive programmes and produces a Media Training Manual for future use in Arab countries.

25 PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

Region Economic Security Governance, Peace Human Rights and Rights and Security

CENTRAL AND Regional – Central and Eastern Europe Regional – South Eastern Europe Regional – CIS EASTERN EUROPE/ $332,875 $222,632 $663,228 Women’s Political Participation in Croatia CIS Regional Public Awareness COMMONWEALTH Gender and Economic Justice in European Accession and Integration and South Eastern Europe Women’s Legal Campaign for Women’s Right to a Life OF INDEPENDENT develops and fosters better understanding Network – SEEWLN provides skills Free of Violence supports collaboration STATES (CEE/CIS) among women’s NGOs, academia and training to women parliamentarians and between governments and women’s groups governments of the impact EU accession works to establish a regional network of for legislative and policy reform to combat will have with regard to the status of women’s organizations and concerned violence against women and girls. women. experts to address the need for gender- sensitive legislation in South Eastern Europe. Regional - CEE and CIS $282,017 Tajikistan Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia CEDAW Implementation, Monitoring $77,000 $1,450,000 and Advocacy in Central and Eastern Economic Empowerment and Land Women for Conflict Prevention and Europe and the CIS strengthens the Rights for Rural Women aims to ensure Peace -Building strengthens women’s capacity capacity for implementation of and women’s equal access to land by with respect to negotiation, management, advocacy for CEDAW through developing supporting women’s self-help initiatives leadership and diplomacy skills; fosters indicators of progress and establishing a and by engendering national institutional research and university curricula development; knowledge network. infrastructures through capacity building, and promotes regional mechanisms for advocacy and legal reform activities. dialogue. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, $738,189 Kosovo Eliminating Violence Against Women in $1,627,143 Central Asia aims at strengthening the Building Capacity for a Peaceful and capacity of civil society groups and Economically Secure Future aims at ensuring government institutions to respond to that women have the opportunities and gender-based violence and supports the capacities to play an active role in the peace- development, adoption and building and reconstruction process in implementation of legislation and policies Kosovo. to address gender-based violence.

LATIN Regional – Latin America Brazil Regional - Central America and Caribbean AMERICAN $933,849 $360,689 $330,955 AND DESafios: A Rights-Based Approach Protection and Promotion of Women’s A Life Free of Violence: It is Our Right CARIBBEAN to Women’s Economic and Social Rights to Achieve Gender Equality aims at creating a knowledge base on Rights advocates for the incorporation promotes women’s participation at all levels achievements and challenges to eliminate of a gender perspective in social and of the decision-making process, and works violence against women and to advocate for economic rights through building to improve the quality of services and the effective implementation of relevant women’s capacity to monitor the legislation for ending violence against legislation and other protective measures. women while strengthening the allocation of resources for the fulfilment institutional capacity of the State Secretariat of government commitments, Regional - Latin America of Women’s Rights. promoting their political participation $515,300 Enhancing Human Security through in economic decisions and supporting Cuba Gender Equality in the Context of women’s organizations and trade unions. $849,602 HIV/AIDS strengthens legal and policy Strategic Gender Mainstreaming into the frameworks that promote gender equality Regional – Andean Region Human Development Programme at the and stigma reduction and builds the $602,880 Local Level conducts gender training capacity of National AIDS Councils. Economic and Social Rights of workshops; increases the availability and use Andean Women advocates for the of gender-sensitive data for participatory Barbados incorporation of a gender perspective in local development planning; and improves $392,776 economic and social rights, raises women’s access to training and Youth Against AIDS (YAA): A Force to awareness about women’s economic and technological and financial resources for Reckon raises awareness on HIV/AIDS social rights and engages women in their economic empowerment. and its gender and human rights accountability processes through gender dimensions amongst youth and aims to budget analyses. Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, ensure that their needs are reflected in Nicaragua, national policies and programmes. $950,000 Strengthening Women’s Leadership in Brazil Post-Conflict Societies and Democracy- $870,805 Building strengthens the role and Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Young leadership of women in peace processes by Women promotes young women's rights supporting collaboration among women (especially those at risk) and works to peace activists, holding national eliminate all forms of violence against consultations and preparing national reports them by developing activities that prevent and situational analyses. and fight sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation.

26 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 GLOBAL PROJECTS

$1,256,550 Women into the New Network for Entrepreneurial Reinforcement (WINNER II) builds women’s capacity in the area of ICTs and business management through training on e-commerce, entrepreneurial management and international trade with the aim of improving their access to international markets.

$4,899,882 Women, Peace-Building and Gender Justice aims at integrating a gender perspective into the international peace and security framework and strengthening approaches to protect the rights of women affected by conflict.

TRUST FUND TO END VIOLENCE* AGAINSTTO WOMEN–2002 GRANTEES* TRUST FUND GRANTEES

Africa Asia/Pacific and Central and Eastern Latin America and Arab States Europe/ the Caribbean Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Commonwealth of South Africa Cambodia Independent States Colombia The African Women’s The NGO Banteay Srei raises Fundaci´on Mujer y Futuro Development and awareness of women’s human Bosnia-Herzegovina collects testimonies of women ex- Communications Network rights and advocates for the The NGO Embassy of Local combatants to facilitate inclusion (FEMNET) works to establish a passage of a Domestic Violence Democracy Barcelona-Sarajevo of their concerns into the peace Regional Men Against Gender- Bill through a series of dramas compiles data that supports process and reintegration based Violence Network to broadcast over national radio. evidence-based advocacy to programmes. promote gender equality. promote institutional mechanisms India that respond to domestic Mexico Rwanda The NGO LAYA trains adivasi violence. Comisi´on Mexicana de Defensa The NGO African Rights (tribal) women leaders to develop y Promoci´on de los Derechos documents the experiences of strategies for combating violence Bosnia-Herzegovina Humanos works with civil rape survivors living with against women and other human The NGO VESTA and its society organizations to HIV/AIDS in Burundi and rights violations and increase partners provide gender systematically gather information Rwanda to raise awareness and their participation in local sensitization training for on the extent and dimensions of promote protective laws and decision-making processes. journalists and develop a gender- the assassinations of young financial support. sensitive media code. women in the municipality of Yemen Ciudad Ju´arez. Sudan The Women Affairs Support Georgia The Badya Centre for Centre trains police officers and Women Aid International – Peru Integrated Development government officials on issues Caucasus develops an Comisi´on de Derechos Services implements community pertaining to violence against Understanding Gender Violence Humanos gathers evidence about plays performed by school women and women’s human Toolkit and provides training for the use of rape as a weapon children in the Nuba Mountains rights. law enforcement officers and during the Peruvian armed region on women’s rights with service providers. conflict with the aim of placing special attention to ‘honour the issue on the agenda of the killings’. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Since the Trust Fund’s inception in 1996, UNIFEM has supported initiatives in 85 countries through grants amounting to $7million. * 27 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Statement of Income & Expenditure for the Year ended 31 December (ALL FIGURES IN THOUSANDS OF US DOLLARS)

______2002 2001 ______INCOME ______Voluntary contributions from governments 20,113 ______20,693 ______Cost-sharing contributions 12,037 ______4,513 ______Sub-trust fund contributions 2,490 ______2,685 ______Donations and other income 40 ______41 ______Interest income 625 ______747 ______Income from reimbursable services 1,128 ______937 ______TOTAL INCOME 36,433 ______29,616 ______EXPENDITURE ______Project costs: ______General resources 19,285 ______15,043 ______Cost-sharing 6,320 ______3,504 ______Sub-trust funds 3,558______3,285 ______Sub-total 29,163 ______21,832 ______Biennial support budget: ______Technical support costs 3,245______2,644 ______Management and administrative costs 2,337 ______2,859 ______Reimbursable support services costs 788 ______337 ______Sub-total 6,370 ______5,840 ______Other expenditure 15______59 ______TOTAL EXPENDITURE 35,548 ______27,731 ______Excess of income over expenditure 885**______1,885

* * The amount of $885 thousand is already allocated to projects for 2003.

28 LEFT: DAN HERRICK—LONELY PLANET IMAGES. * Contributions fromGovernmentsandOtherDonorsin2002 ______2,306 25,919 ______288 ______1 1 1,0181,000 ______35,256 ______2,612 ______1 ______20, 1 ______11,513 ______NET CONTRIBUTIONSRECEIVED ______2 2 JAPAN 1 ______21,131 3 LESS AMOUNT PAID IN2003 ______2 ______TOTAL FROMGOVERNMENTS 5 5 ______UGANDA NEPAL ______8 BARBADOS 9 ______TUNISIA ______4 LIECHTENSTEIN 2,952 9 10 ______11 SURINAME ______QATAR EUROPEAN ECONOMICCOMMISSION 187 ______12 SAMOA ______BANGLADESH 30 2,160 ______MOROCCO ______NAECE 4 71 597 741 741 FNV UNIFEM NATIONAL COMMITTEES UN AGENCIES OTHER DONORS TE GS8 11 8 200 100 27,891 260 100 1,972 34,640 100 150 1,690 2,490 8 166 12,037 100 20,113 100 1,524 150 GRAND TOTAL TOTAL FROM OTHER DONORS OTHER NGOS 255 OTHER FOUNDATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS AGFUND FORD FOUNDATION CISCO FOUNDATION ZONTA INTERNATIONAL UNFIP GOVERNMENTS NETHERLANDS TRADE UNIONCONFEDERATION * ______OETTL20 OA 2001 2002 TOTAL TOTAL CORE 1 053 ,2 3,5 25,919 32,950 2,324 113 10,513 SHARING COST 287 314 1 3 223 294 210 13 185 30 30 55 SUB-TRUST FUNDS 153 200 (ALL FIGURESIN THOUSANDS OFUSDOLLARS) 195 202 120 166 175 540 446 661 599 30 40 56 146 16 13 12 11 15 10 11 5 4 13 9 10 9 8 2 8 4 2 2 3 5 1 1 376 140 16 47 3 2 1 29 A WORLDWIDE NETWORK OF SUPPPORT

REGIONAL PROGRAMME CENTRAL AFRICA CARIBBEAN DIRECTORS Baudouine Kamatari Sandra Edwards c/o UNDP Officer in Charge SOUTH ASIA P.O. Box 445 United Nations House Chandni Joshi Kigali, Rwanda Marine Gardens 223 Jor Bagh Tel. 250-576906/575381 Hastings New Delhi 110 003, India Fax. 250-76263 Christ Church, Barbados Tel: 91-11-2469-8297 or 2460-4351 Email: [email protected] Tel: 246-467-6000/6132 Fax: 91-11-2462-2136/7612 Fax: 246-437-6596 E-mail: [email protected] FRENCH-SPEAKING WEST AFRICA E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.unifem.org.in Micheline Ravololonarisoa Website: www.unifemcar.org Immeuble Faycal EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA 19 Rue Parchappe SOUTHERN CONE Lucita S. Lazo Dakar, Senegal Monica Munoz-Vargas United Nations Building Tel: 221-839-9082 Setor Comercial Norte Quadra 2, Bloco A 6th Rajdamnern Avenue Fax: 221-823-5002 Módulo 602 Bangkok 10200, Thailand E-mail: [email protected] Ed. Corporate Financial Center Tel: 66-2288-1934 or 66-2280-3810 70712-901 Brasilia D.F. Brazil Fax: 66-2280-6030 ENGLISH-SPEAKING WEST AFRICA Tel: 55-61-329-2161/2163 E-mail: [email protected] Florence Butegwa Fax: 55-61-329-2169 Website: www.unifem-eseasia.org 11 Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, Ikoyi E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 2075 PACIFIC Lagos, Nigeria CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Amelia Kinahoi Siamomua Tel: 234-1-269-2006 Osnat Lubrani 6 Maafu Street (off Clark St.) Fax: 234-1-269-0885 Grosslingova 35 Denison Road E-mail: [email protected] 81109 Bratislava, Slovak Republic Suva, Fiji Tel: 421-2-593-37-160 Tel: 679-330-1178-1118 SOUTHERN AFRICA Fax: 421-2-593-37-171 Fax: 679-330-1654 Nomcebo Manzini E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 7th Floor Takura House Website: www.unifempacific.com 67/69 Kwame Nkrumah Avenue COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES P.O. Box 4775 Damira Sartbaeva ARAB STATES Harare, Zimbabwe 67 Tole Bi Str. Haifa Abu Ghazaleh Tel: 263-4-795-972 Almaty, Kazakhstan 480091 18 Abdeen Street (near Tyche Hotel) Fax: 263-4-704-729 Tel: 732-72-582641/42/43 ext.604 P.O. Box 830 896 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 732-72-582645 Amman 11183, Jordan E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 962-6-567-8586/7 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, CUBA AND THE Fax: 962-6-567-8594 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC COUNTRY PROGRAMME MANAGER E-mail: [email protected] Teresa Rodriguez [email protected] Presidente Mazaryk No. 29, Piso 10 AFGHANISTAN Website: www.unifem.org.jo Colonia Polanco Parvin Paidar 11570 Mexico, D.F. Shaha Mehmood Ghazi Watt EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA Tel: 52-555-263-9808 Kabul, Afghanistan Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda Fax: 52-555-203-1894 Tel: 93-70-282495 UN Gigiri Complex E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Block Q, Rooms 100-109 Website: www.un.org.mx/unifem Nairobi, Kenya REGIONAL GENDER ADVISER Tel: 254-2-624301 or 254-2-624383/4/5/6 ANDEAN REGION Fax 254-2-624494/90/89 Ana Falu Zineb Touimi-Benjelloun E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 17-03-4731 Angle Avenue Moulay Hassan et rue Moulay Website: www.unifem_easternafrica.org Edif. Naciones Unidas 2do. Piso Ahmed Loukili Avenida Amazonas 2889 y La Granja Casier ONU Quito, Ecuador Rabat-Chellah, Morocco Tel: 593-2-2460-329/334 Tel: 212-37-703555 Fax: 593-2-2460-328 Fax: 212-37-701566 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.unifemandina.org.ec

32 UNIFEM ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / 2003 NATIONAL COMMITTEES FOR UNIFEM

UNIFEM Australia UNIFEM Iceland UNIFEM Sweden Libby Lloyd, President Rosa Erlingsdottir, President Anna Lena Henriksson, President E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] UNIFEM Austria UNIFEM Switzerland/Liechtenstein Brigitte Brenner, President UNIFEM Ireland Emma Brugnoli, President E-mail: [email protected] Mahin Sefidvash, President E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Elke Koller, Secretary General UNIFEM Canada E-mail: [email protected] Kate White, President UNIFEM Japan E-mail: [email protected] Yoko Abe, President UNIFEM E-mail: [email protected] Lois Hainsworth, President UNIFEM Denmark Sachiko Okumura, Vice President E-mail: [email protected] Mette Sundby-Brandt, President Sylvia Perry, Vice President E-mail: [email protected] UNIFEM New Zealand E-mail: [email protected] Lorna McIntosh, President UNIFEM Finland E-mail: [email protected] UNIFEM United States Sinikka Ala-Paavola, President Sheryl J. Swed, President E-mail: [email protected] UNIFEM Philippines E-mail: [email protected] Leena Schmidt, Executive Director Georgitta P. Puyat, President E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

UNIFEM Germany UNIFEM Singapore Anneliese Müller, Chairwoman Melissa Kwee, President E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

NON-GOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE OF ORGANIZATIONS IN CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH UNIFEM

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