Management Response

: Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (Turkey)
: 2015 - 2018 , Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (Turkey) (RO)
: Serbia's National Action Plan on GE
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: Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (Turkey)
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The final Evaluation of the National Action Plan for the Implementation of the National Strategy for Improving the Position of Women and Promoting Gender Equality in the Republic of Serbia provided a good assessment of the progress made by the Government of Serbia and its key partners in the National Action Plan implementation. Evaluation produced a number of recommendations for the government and various stakeholders, with specific recommendations relevant to UN Women. Recommendations to UN Women are focused on the key aspects of future strategic orientation of UN Women in Serbia that are linked to type and scope of support provided by programme presence office. Programme presence office provide support to country on the basis of national request and UN Women capacities and target interventions in the selected impact areas. UN Women management response provides information of applicability of the recommendations and key actions UN Women undertakes to implement applicable recommendations. Few recommendations fell beyond the scope of the UN Women Serbia focus in light of the limited presence in the country linked to specific programmes of the programme presence office.

: Approved
Recommendation: UN Women provides support to the Coordination Body for Gender Equality for effective implementation of its mandate is selected areas.
Management Response: Accepted UN Women has signed Memorandum of Understanding with Coordination Body for Gender Equality aiming to provide support to the national gender machinery to effectively execute its mandate. The Draft Law on Gender Equality includes specific provisions on the constitution and functionality of institutional mechanisms for gender equality across government levels. The Law stipulates that the establishment of the Office for Gender Equality in the executive branch of government. This new mechanism for gender equality will need human, technical and financial support to effectively exercise their mandates.
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Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
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Provide technical assistance to the Coordination Body for Gender Equality on gender mainstreaming and development of gender sensitive policies. UN Women, Coordination Body for Gender Equality 2017/06 Completed Technical assistance provided in gender responsive budgeting; monitoring and implementation of the NAP on Gender Equality; legal expertise for the preparation of the Gender Equality Law and technical expertise in gender mainstreaming of development assistance funds.
Organise capacity development for the Coordination Body for Gender Equality on gender responsive policy development. UN Women, Coordination Body for Gender Equality 2017/12 Completed Training on gender responsive budgeting; Training on the role of women MPs in local parliaments; Capacity development on the rights of women and girls with disabilities; Training on gender mainstreaming in IPA assistance.
Recommendation: UN Women provides support to Gender Equality Mechanism of AP Vojvodina and local gender equality mechanisms in the areas of gender responsive budgeting and gender based violence and violence against.
Management Response: Accepted UN Women can play a big role in supporting gender equality mechanism in selected areas. In case of support to Gender Equality Mechanism of AP Vojvodina, support should focus on selected priority areas: gender responsive budgeting and gender based violence and violence against women. The support should also take form of providing technical support to the experts analyses (evidence base for policies, impact analyses) and by providing support to development of mechanisms for implementation, monitoring and reporting within the overall strategic national framework.
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Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
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Consultancy support to the Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment and Gender Equality in GRB. UN Women, Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment and Gender Equality 2017/12 Completed Support in launching sectoral gender analysis; Preparation of gender sensitive budget instructions; Preparation of the annual GRB plan; Trainings and direct consultations with budget users in info sessions.
Technical assistance to the Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment and Gender Equality for GBV and VaW. UN Women, Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment and Gender Equality 2017/12 Completed Support development of training programmes for women victims of specific forms of violence and women victims of violence from marginalized groups.
Provide support to horizontal exchange of knowledge and experience among local mechanisms and vertical coordination with national strategic framework and their responsibilities in implementation and reporting to national GE mechanism. UN Women, Coordination Body for Gender Equality, LSG 2017/06 Completed Support meetings and exchange of experience between the national and local gender equality mechanisms through; Support joint actions of the women from national and provincial women’s parliamentary networks and women from local councilors networks.
Recommendation: UN Women engages in capacity development of the key ministries, secretariats and local governments and parliaments
Management Response: Partially accepted UN Women will engage in capacity development of the key ministries, secretariats, local governments and parliaments to understand significance of mainstreaming gender into policies, mechanisms, programmes. UN Women will further support the Ministry of Finance and selected line ministries in introducing gender responsive budgeting in their programme budgets. In addition, UN Women will work on improving coordination and cooperation capacities and strengthening links between national and sub-national levels. UN women can cover only limited number of stakeholders and sector wide capacity development and mainstreaming cannot be done with the existing capacities.
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Thematic Area: Not applicable
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Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
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Providing technical assistance to Ministry of Finance and other line ministries and secretariats on GRB PSEEGE, UN Women, all budget users at national, provincial and local level 2017/12 Completed Support in preparing GRB instructions; Support in preparing GRB Annual Plan; Prepare GRB Calendar; Support to info sessions with budgets users; Support to preparing Annual GRB report.
Provide technical assistance to local women councilors from the South of Serbia to unite in networks and strengthen their skills to monitor and oversee government policies and spending from gender perspective UN Women, LSG in South Serbia 2017/06 Completed Specialized and tailored mentoring support and trainings for increasing knowledge on gender issues to women counsellors in establishing the Women’s Parliamentary Networks.
Provide best practices of gender responsive budgeting at the local level. UN Women, LSG 2017/06 Completed Capacity development of selected local GEMs and LSGs in GRB implementation, monitoring and reporting. Developed Manual for GRB Introduction at national, provincial and local level.
Recommendation: Support to strengthening capacities and networking of Civil Society Organisations.
Management Response: Partially accepted UN Women support should be delivered to civil society but only for strategic, piloting initiatives that can act as a catalyst of change. In order to achieve more effective impact, CSOs should be supported in complementary manner. UN Women can provide competent evidence base for policies, by conducting research, impact analysis, reporting on their experience from the field, to raise debates around important issues, participate in consultations and to create stronger influence on policies in priority areas and to conduct campaigns around important issues, increasing awareness of citizens in priority areas and contributing to the change of perception, practices and relations among citizens.
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Thematic Area: Not applicable
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Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
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Mapping of existing services for support of victims of sexual violence and of good international practices and laying the foundations for setting up rape crisis center in line with Article 25 of CAHVIO. UN Women, line ministries (MoI, MoH, MoLEVSA), Coordination Body for Gender Equality 2016/09 Completed A study on the Availability and accessibility of support services to women victims of violence is conducted.
Provide support CSOs to conduct research, to raise debates around important issues, especially in the area of women human rights and violence against women. UN Women, CSOs 2018/12 Completed 1) the advocacy initiative for the Femicide Review; 2) the Constitutional Dialogue; 3) Recommendations for combating violence against women with disabilities in the residential institutions; 4) Inclusion of Rural Women Perspectives; 5) Participatory Budgeting; 6) Initiative for gender sensitive media reporting; 7) Improving women's land rights; 8) Enhancing access to resources and services for rural women; 9) Increasing the availability of gender statistics; 10) Advocacy initiative of Local Gender Equality Mechanism; 11) Recommendations by the local Women Councilors Networks.
3. Support CSOs to conduct campaigns around important issues and increasing awareness of in priority areas. UN Women, CSOs 2017/12 Completed Campaign on the rights of women and girls with disabilities in line CRPD recommendations. Campaign on the rights of women refugees and migrants. Campaign on the IWD and during 16 Days of Activism.
Recommendation: Support to Civil Society Organisations in monitoring and advocating for more gender responsible media.
Management Response: Not accepted The area of media is not among strategic areas of UN Women in Serbia. Although support to support civil society organizations in monitoring and advocating for more gender responsible media, as well as to use new media in promoting gender equality is very important, UN Women does not have resources to engage in this area.
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Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
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