Management Response

: Brazil
: 2012 - 2013 , Brazil (CO)
: Final Evaluation of Inter-Agency Programme for the Promotion of Gender and Ethnic-Racial Equality (MDG-F)
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: Brazil
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: Approved
Recommendation: Programme Design - International cooperation programmes' planning and programming should be aligned with Brazil's planning cycles in order to increase national ownership and alignment with national priorities.
Management Response: Agreed. To be incorporated in future planning and programming activities.
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Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Internal coordination and communication, Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: UN Coordination, Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency
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Guarantee that changes in the government's planning and programming are reflected in UN Women planning and programming. Management Team 2013/12 Completed In the case of the Inter-Agency Programme, the national counterparts were invited to present their new strategic planning in a specific event to guarantee national ownership and alignment with national priorities. UN Women actual planning cycle is bi-annual (2012-2013). The actual main planning document from the government PPA (Plano Plurianual) covers the period (2012-2015). UN Women is now under a new planning cycle and the consultation with national counterparts, including government and civil society, was included in the process.
Recommendation: Programme Design - Programme's outcomes should be feasible and time bound to facilitate monitoring and effectiveness of results.
Management Response: Agreed. To be incorporated in future programming.
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Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
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Conduct RBM training to produce outcome statements more feasible and adequate. Management Team 2013/12 Completed Oversized outcomes is a problem present in most of organizations working with RBM principles. This is a medium to long term change that demands technical knowledge and changes in organizational culture. RBM and HRBA training was provided as part of the new planning cycle of UN Women.
Recommendation: Programme Design - CSOs and local governmental actors should be more involved in the planning and implementation of programmatic activities.
Management Response: Agreed. To be incorporated in future programming.
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Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
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Increase partnerships with civil society institutions and local governments. Management and Programme Team 2013/12 Completed UN Women Brazil created a Civil Society Advisory Group in 2012. Generally speaking, the need to territorialize programmatic activities in Brazil towards local governments is well known and is reflected in the AWP and UNDAF. Civil society organizations will be consulted for the new UN Women planning cycle and the country has now a Civil Society Advisory Group in place.
Recommendation: Programme Design - Programmes with focus on the promotion of ethnic-racial and gender equality should focus on educational activities in order to maximize their potential multiplier effect of the promotion of gender and ethnic-racial equality.
Management Response: Partially agreed. In fact, based on the Inter-Agency Programme experience, initiatives must be designed to promote cultural change being the implementation of educational activities one way to achieve that. Another way, that appear to be more effective and was used by other MDG-F programmes at Latin America, is to focus on educative communication activities that promote awareness and cultural change.
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Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support, Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
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Incraese the number of educative activities focusing on promoting social and cultural change. Programme Team 2013/12 Completed UN Women Brazil is already working with educative communications and other methodologies aiming at promote social and cultural changes. Since the end of the Inter-Agency Programme educative communication activities have been implemented as a core part of UN Women communications area.
Recommendation: Programme Design - CSOs should increase their participation in the management of programmes.
Management Response: Agreed. To be incorporated in future programming.
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Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
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Design programatic activities where there is participation of CSOs in their management. Management and Programme Team 2013/12 Completed Several funding proposals recently developed incorporate the participation of CSOs in the programme's management. There is now a Civil Society Advisory Group in place to support UN Women's decision making in strategic planning and in the implementation of activities. This recommendation will be taken in account in the case of the design of new inter-agency programmes.
Recommendation: Programme Design - Strategies of Horizontal Cooperation and Technological Transfer of lessons learned, best and smart parctices should be stimulated.
Management Response: Agreed. To be incorporated in future programming.
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Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM, Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Efficiency
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Increased promotion of South-South Cooperation activities. Management and Programme Team 2013/12 Completed The Inter-Agency Programme innovatively conducted a Knowledge Transfer Agreement with the Colombian Gender Window MDG-F Programme. UN Women Brazil last AWP and the UNCT UNDAF have specific focus on South-South Cooperation. UN Women is part of Brazil's UNCT's Thematic Group on South-South Cooperation. In the past year negotiations to implement South-South Cooperation activities took place with Mozambique, Egypt and India. There is also a signed LoA to support the gender mainstreaming process in the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) activities. Although these activities have not yet been implemented these negotiations evidence that UN Women increased its efforts to implement programmatic activities in this area.
Recommendation: Programme Management - Strategies to guarantee the sustainability of results should be stimulated.
Management Response: Agreed. To be incorporated in future programming.
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Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Knowledge management, Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable, Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
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Develop, during formulation and implementation, sustainability strategies Programme Team 2013/12 Completed Although instrumental, it is important to detach that the sustainability of results depends on national counterparts' decision. In the case of the Inter-Agency Programme there are already evidence that strategic results will be maintained by counterparts' work. After the end of the Inter-Agency Programme several project proposals had incorporated sustainability strategies ion their conception.
Recommendation: Programme Management - Programmes focusing ethnic-racial issues should incorporate institutional representation of this demographic cohorts.
Management Response: Agreed. To be incorporated in future programming.
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Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities, Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality, Human Rights
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Include ethnic based institutions participation into progrmmatic activities. Management and Programme Team 2013/12 Completed The Inter-Agency Programme resulted in the signing of a Letter of Intentions that among other things transformed the Gender and Race Thematic Group in A Gender, Race and Ethnicity Thematic Group. UN Women has been discussing programmatic activities with this focus as part of the new strategic planning cycle.
Recommendation: Programme Management - The use of an intersectionality approach should be stimulated.
Management Response: Agreed. However, this is a recommendation already incoporated in UN Women Brazil programmatic activities.
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Management Response Category:
Thematic Area: Governance and planning (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities, Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Human Rights, Gender equality
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Reinforce the use of intersectionality approach. Programme Team 2013/12 Completed UN Women Brazil already has accumulative expertise in this issue. The intersectionality approach is fully incorporated in UN Women programmatic activities as a tool to promote more effective and sustainable development interventions.