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Final Narrative Report Support to Antidiscrimination and Gender 2020 FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT Programme „Support to Antidiscrimination and Gender Equality Policies“ Implemented by UNDP in partnership with Department for Gender Equality, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and with financial support of EUROPEAN UNION Support to Antidiscrimination and Gender Equality Policies FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT 1 ANNEX VI FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT 1. Description 1.1. Name of beneficiary of grant contract: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 1.2. Name and title of the Contact person: Kaca Djurickovic, UNDP Gender Programme Manager 1.3. Name of partners in the Action: Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, Department for Gender Equality 1.4. Title of the Action: Support to the anti-discrimination and gender equality policies 1.5. Contract number: ID: IPA 2015 / 372-002 1.6. Start date and end date of the reporting period: 11th January 2016 – 31st December 2016 1st January 2017 – 31st December 2017 1st January 2018-31st December 2018 1st January 2019 -11th January 2020 1.7. Target country(ies) or region(s): Montenegro 1.8. Final beneficiaries &/or target groups1 (if different) (including numbers of women and men): Target Groups: Ministry of Human and Minority Rights - Department for Gender Equality; Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Ministry of Health, Police Directorate, Local government, Parliamentary political parties, Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality, NGOs, Ministry of Finance, Investment Fund, Directorate for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Social Welfare Centres, the Police, the Judiciary Final Beneficiaries: Victims of family violence; women in politics, political parties; Female entrepreneurs; staff of the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights 1.9. Country(ies) in which the activities take place (if different from 1.7): 1 “Target groups” are the groups/entities who will be directly positively affected by the project at the Project Purpose level, and “final beneficiaries” are those who will benefit from the project in the long term at the level of the society or sector at large. 2 2. Assessment of implementation of Action activities 2.1. Executive summary of the Action The Action “Support to the anti-discrimination and gender equality policies” will contribute to the protection, promotion and enforcement of human rights and equal opportunities in Montenegro. The Action addresses the need for a stronger implementation of the anti-discrimination and gender equality policies and standards and also aims at enhancing the system of protection of human rights of persons deprived of liberty. It is expected from this Action that the Anti-discrimination framework is known, understood, and implemented especially towards Roma, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex, Persons with disability, Women and Minorities. In addition, an efficient and effective system for accomplishment of gender equality and women’s empowerment standards will be established. Finally, the Action will enhance the system of protection of human rights of persons deprived of liberty. Support to the anti-discrimination and gender equality policies is a comprehensive and innovative approach to address anti-discrimination and in particular gender inequality. It includes a unified engagement point for development partners and a multi-donor financing2 facility to provide resources for human rights protection capacity development from national to local levels with special focus on specialized bodies. Support to the anti-discrimination and gender equality policies is anchored in the government’s national, strategic frameworks, EU integration frameworks and action plans as well as EU progress reports findings and last but not least, with recommendations of UN human rights treaties. In addition, in the area of gender equality the Action will take into account results, achievements and lessons learned from Gender Programme IPA 2010. Our vision of Montenegro’s future is that society is progressively free of social exclusion and enjoys a quality of life that allows people of Montenegro equitable development of full potentials of both women and men. This Action will contribute to fostering of a democratic society that fully respects, protects and fulfils human rights through rule of law, government transparency and accountability. Action will be introducing following key drivers of change, which will respectively ensure a catalytic effect on improvement of social and institutional responsiveness towards promotion, protection and enforcement of human rights and equal opportunities, specifically focusing on the implementation of the anti-discrimination and gender equality policies through: a) A broad, utilized holistic approach to gender equality linked to SDGs in Montenegro utilized by all partners for transformative change in society perceptions; b) Partnering organizations/ institutions / parties / groups – held accountable for human rights and gender equality generating political will and commitment to human rights and gender equality goals; c) Leadership engagement in promoting enforcement of social inclusion and reduced inequalities; d) Non-traditional solutions for active management of female talents as drivers of transformational change in role modelling and mentoring; e) Tailored trainings to ensure impact-oriented capacity development prioritized and focused on the needs of women in targeted fields of work. The overall Action will contribute to the achievement of two specific results while operationally, it will be implemented through 5 following programmatic components: 1) Anti-discrimination 2) Capacity development support 3) Violence in family 4) Political empowerment of women and 5) Women’s entrepreneurship support. An effective anti-discrimination response, which has been defined as first expected result of the Action, requires strong and vibrant institutional mandates and engagements based on knowledge, evidence-based policy-making, participatory and inclusive approaches, as well as accountability and transparency on results. Better understanding and awareness of population will be reached through 2 The Action is designed as a multi-donor undertaking. This Action will be implemented in direct management, through parallel co-financing modality (UNDP and Council of Europe - CoE). Total value of the Action is EUR 1 728 000 while EU contribution is EUR 1 435 000 (EUR 700.000 CoE and EUR 735 000 UNDP). The co-financing from Montenegro will be parallel co-financing of EUR 293 000 (EUR 73 000 UNDP; EUR 70 000 CoE; EUR 150 000 national co-financing of Montenegro) and is separate from the EU contribution. 3 awareness raising work, while professionals will be provided with tailored capacity development support. For its second expected result this Action has defined establishment of an efficient and effective system for accomplishment of gender equality and women’s empowerment standards. This is been embedded in the National Action Plan for Gender Equality developed under the scope of Beijing Action Plan and guided with EU Gender Equality frameworks. Gender Programme IPA 2010 has built the solid grounds for further developments in the areas of violence in family, political empowerment of women and women’s entrepreneurship. All activities will have awareness raising work as strong cross-cutting component enabling that specific fields of intervention do not target broad audience, but have focused interventions on attitudes and behavioural changes of professionals, decision makers and role models, ensuring that their work has been promoted, communicated and explained to population of Montenegro. The Action will apply UNDP principles of the results based management, human rights based approach, gender mainstreaming, capacity development and environment friendly interventions bringing added values and awareness of partners. The Action will remain closely aligned with the national institutions in charge of human rights and gender equality policies implementation, maintaining their commitment and ownership over the process. Management structure: 1) Steering Committee is the main decision-making body of the Programme. It is chaired by the Minister for Human and Minority Rights and gathers representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integrations, Delegation of European Union in Montenegro, Parliamentarian Committee for Gender Equality and UNDP. SC meets at least twice per year but also as per the needs of programme dynamics. 2) Three Advisory Boards (for the components of violence against women, economic empowerment and political participation) gather all the relevant stakeholders in the particular area of concern and have advisory role in the Programme, serving as a formula for inclusive, participatory approach for dialogue around ongoing activities and information sharing. Advisory Boards are flexible and open structures for all interested parties to engage during the whole period of Programme implementation. ABs meet quarterly and/or as per the needs of programme dynamics. The ToR for the Advisory Boards, as well as the lists of members are provided in the (ANNEX 1 Advisory Boards). 3) The implementation of the Project is supervised by the Programme Manager while Programme Assistant/Coordinator is responsible for full programmatic and administrative support in process maintenance and regular project activities flow, within daily responsibilities related to service providing, coordination with partners and overall Programme implementation.
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