Management Response

: Multi-Country Office for the Maghreb (Morocco)
: 2010 - 2011 , Multi-Country Office for the Maghreb (Morocco) (RO)
: Evaluation of the ACT to End Violence against Women (ACT VAW) Project
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Recommendation: 1.1 Organize a round-table meeting with national stakeholders in Iraq who participated in the implementation of the ACT Project to discuss lessons learnt and good practice that need to be taken on board in future activities aimed at combating VAW in Iraq. 1.2 Organize a round-table meeting with key national stakeholders in Iraq who participated in the implementation of the ACT Project, to discuss means of incorporating the meaning and implications of perceptions of and attitudes towards masculinity in Iraq, as part of advocacy campaigns aimed at combating VAW in Iraq.
Management Response: UNWomen Iraq programme is in agreement with the recommendations and has insured that the main stakeholders who were involved in the ACT project attended the preparation and the launching meetings of the CVAW project .UNWomen will make sure to involve ACT phase one stakeholders in the preparation of ACT phase two.
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UNWomen ASRO has insured that the main stakeholders who were involved in the ACT project attended the preparation and the launching meetings of the CVAW project. UNWomen 2010/01 Completed
UNWomen will develop a phase two of ACT project, this initiative will be built on UNWomen previous experiences on ACT one. UNWomen will make sure to involve ACT phase one stakeholders in the preparation of ACT phase two. UN Women 2012/01 Over due UNWomen will hire a consultant to draft the second phase of ACT one
Recommendation: 1.3 Invest appropriate human and financial resources in developing a database through which UNIFEM/Iraq supported activities aimed at combating VAW in Iraq can be traced and measured. 1.4 Explore innovative ways to develop such a data base given the security situation in various geographical areas of Iraq.
Management Response: UNWomen Iraq programme is in agreement with the recommendations and will develop a database on all the activities that UNWomen supported to combat VAW in Iraq .UNWomen will assign focal points at the governorate level to help in collecting the needed information.
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UNWomen will develop the NGO database. UN Women 2015/01 Over due
UNWomen will hire focal points at the governorate level to collect the needed information. UN Women 2012/01 Over due
Recommendation: 1.5 Support government counterparts to enable them enable a policy environment that ensures the capacity of service providers to be accountable as duty-bearers in supporting victims and survivors of VAW. 1.6 Support strengthening of the ?Committee of 80? in the Council of Ministers as part of supporting the rule of law in combating VAW in Iraq. 1.8 Support the NGO sector in Iraq to strategize to work with other NGOs on combating VAW in Iraq, with the aim of complementing relevant activities that contribute to improved results in terms of soliciting funding for activities on VAW, raising awareness on VAW, building the required capacities to combat VAW, reaching a wider group of beneficiaries and implementing effective advocacy campaigns.
Management Response: UNWomen Iraq programme is in agreement with the recommendations and is working closely with other partner UN-Agencies on the CVAW project to build the capacities of the 80 committee ,NGO?s and governmental partners on VAW .UNWomen will continue to conduct capacity building and raising awareness activities on VAW for different stakeholders through ACT-Phase two project
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UNWomen will make sure that the ACT-Phase two project will have a large component on building the capacities of the NGO, Governmental partners and the 80 Committee on VAW UN Women 2012/01 Over due
UNWomen will make sure that the ACT-Phase two project will have a large component on building the capacities of the NGO, Governmental partners and the 80 Committee on VAW UN Women 2012/01 Over due
Recommendation: 1.7 Ensure that the State Ministry of Women?s Affairs (SMoWA) is enabled to function effectively through the appropriate human and financial resources, allocated from the regular government budget and not dependent on donor funding.
Management Response: UNWomen Iraq programme is in agreement with the recommendations and within its on-going project will continue to provide technical support to the ministry to formulate a national strategy for the advancement of women and will continue to work jointly with other UN-Agencies to build the capacities of its staff. UNWomen is working on Gender responsive budgeting to analyse the government budget from a gender perspective. The analysis will be used by the SMOWA to advocate getting regular government budget.
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UNWomen will make sure that the ACT-Phase two project will have a large component on building the capacities the SMOWA. UNWomen 2012/01 Over due
Recommendation: 1.9 Support the development of a media strategy that encourages the mobilization of media stakeholders to report widely and objectively on VAW cases, with special stress on the cost of VAW to Iraqi society and economy. 1.10 Lobby donors to provide funding support for UNWomen/ASRO?s forward-looking approach as part of consolidating the results of the ACT Project in Iraq; to be addressed during an interim period until ACT Project II is ready for implementation, and as part of contributing to post-project sustainability.
Management Response: UNWomen Iraq programme is in agreement with the recommendations and will be working on formulating a media and resource mobilization strategies that emphasise the importance of working, reporting and raising funds on issues related to VAW.
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Formulate a Resource Mobilization Strategy UN Women 2012/01 Over due
Formulate a Resource Mobilization Strategy UN Women 2012/01 Over due
Formulate a Media strategy UN Women 2015/01 Over due
Formulate a Media strategy UN Women 2015/01 Over due