Management Response

: Rwanda
: 2019 - 2023 , Rwanda (CO)
: Midterm evaluation of the Joint Programme “Leveraging the full potential of gender equality and women's empowerment to achieve Rwanda's transformation”
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This management response was prepared by UN Women Rwanda and the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (co-leads for the JP on Gender), ONE UN (UN Women (lead), and approved by the members of Steering committee, including the National Gender Machinery institutions (the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion, the National Women’s council, Rwanda Women Parliamentarians Forum and the Gender Monitoring Office), the Participating UN Agencies, (UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM, OHCHR) during the steering committee meeting of March 2023. Through the aforementioned Steering Committee meeting, all the recommendations were adopted and fully accepted. However, some were based on technical errors which have been corrected immediately after their initial realization; and others were linked to a new possible phase of the programme and couldn’t be implemented. Some of them were implemented in the remained period and others have been reflected in the ongoing implementation of the AWP 2024.
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Recommendation: Consider including annual targets in the programming of the next JP and strengthen the reporting system.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Alignment with strategy
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM, Organizational efficiency
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
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Include annual targets and strengthen the reporting system. UN Women 2024/01 No Longer Applicable To be initiated in the future, depending on future priorities
Recommendation: Strengthen the reporting system and respect the reporting requirements.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Oversight/governance
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
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Respect the reporting requirements by all IPs One UN (with UN WOMEN as lead agency) and the Government of Rwanda, through the National Gender Machinery (NGM) institutions. 2022/01 Completed It was a technical error, which has been corrected at the initial realization of it. The JP on Gender IPs didn’t wait for a consultant to correct this.
Recommendation: Revise the Steering Committee Meetings' calendar to make it realistic
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Oversight/governance
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
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Revise the Steering Committee Meetings’ calendar to twice a year One UN and NGM institutions 2023/03 Completed The steering committee meetings are planned to happen twice a year and this was respected during 2023.
Recommendation: Continue awareness and advocacy to address negative social norms and advance mindset change involving different key players
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Global norms and standards (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Youth engagement, Engaging men and boys
UNEG Criteria: Impact
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Conduct awareness raising campaigns on the impact of social norms on GEWE. One UN and NGM institutions 2019/01 Completed Conduct awareness raising campaigns on the impact of social norms on GEWE. They are as well reflected in the AWP 2023-2024 for continuity, as follows: •Conduct Gender Accountability Days and different community dialogues •Organize series of workshops/trainings/mentorship programme in transformational leadership for women wing leaders, young women and girls fresh graduate, youth. •Conduct awareness campaigns on GEWE, GBV…in refugee settings, for teen mothers, for women cross boarder traders.
Recommendation: Promote men engage at all ages: starting at family and school levels upward. The recently developed men engage strategy should be widely disseminated, and existing structures in the community reinforced.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Engaging men and boys
UNEG Criteria: Impact, Gender equality
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Disseminate the National MenEngage Transformative Strategy for Gender Equality One UN and NGM institutions 2024/06 Initiated The dissemination is planned to be conducted between Jan-June 2024.
Recommendation: Strengthen the full operationalization of National Gender and Family Cluster (NGFC)
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Gender equality
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Operationalize the National Gender and Family Cluster (NGFC) One UN and NGM institutions 2024/06 Initiated It was realized that although NGFC and its sub-clusters were established, the NGFC is not fully functioning mostly because of financial shortage. The subclusters are fully functioning. As an influential and coordinating organ, NGFC needs to be strengthened in financial and human resources because its success would contribute to the success of JP. The Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion is organizing the NGFC meeting for early quarter one of 2024.
Recommendation: There is need to continue to conduct RBM, GRB and GEPMI trainings to IPs. There is also need to continue to assess the impact of the GRB and GEPMI training in the district development plans.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Impact
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Conduct GRB and GEPMI Trainings and assess the impact of the GRB and GEPMI training in the districts development (DDP). One UN and NGM institutions 2024/06 Initiated The training on GEPMI is planned under a TBM budget. The assessment of its impact in the DDP is planned and will be done through the final evaluation of the JP on Gender which is ongoing. Furthermore, Gender is mainstreamed in the accountability mechanism “Imihigo”, a performance contract for districts based on their annual work plans. The districts will report against, and be rated on their progress in terms of gender equality.
Recommendation: Strengthen accountability and oversight mechanisms on GEWE across sectors (Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) accountability clinics, Gender Accountability Days (GAD), conferences and capacity building of the media, upgrade of Gender Management Information System (GMIS), and Gender Profiles developed, document and scale up strategies and practices that have shown success during the implementation of the JP.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
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Strengthen existing accountability mechanisms (SGBV accountability clinics, GAD, conference and media engagement, upgrade of GMIS, and gender profiles developed) One UN and NGM institutions 2024/06 Initiated Achievements were reported on in 2022-2023: GAD and SGBV clinics were conducted; we provided support to GMIS and the mechanisms are considered in the AWP 2023-2024. The oversight mechanisms will continue to be strengthened (Gender Accountability days (GAD), Gender Management Information System, Media engagement, Gender profiles developed for districts. ‘The State of Gender Equality in Rwanda developed; Annual conference on promoting the gender equality agenda to enhance women journalist voices is planned for 2023-2024.
Recommendation: The living conditions of women and men are changing positively through attitudes toward women’s capacity in leadership, awareness of Gender Equality and women’s right to equal participation in decision making, participation and benefit from democratic and development process, capacity and skills to prevent and respond to and report SGBV; and women ‘s entrepreneurial skills were enhanced; their access to finance and markets to leverage business opportunities increased. Scale up of the above interventions and engage local government and other key actors to sustain achieved results.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Ending violence against women (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Impact
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Mobilize women and girls (from grass root level and fresh graduate from universities), to compete for leadership positions in the 2024 parliamentarians' elections and to inspire them to take up leadership roles at local level.. One UN and NGM institutions 2024/06 Initiated The interventions are being implemented.
Strengthen RWLN/AWLN as an influential network of Government and Women's organizations. One UN and NGM institutions 2024/03 Overdue-Not Initiated The activity is planned for this quarter.
Build the capacity of vulnerable women and girls through trainings on entrepreneurship and business skills; cooperative management/leadership and financial literacy. One UN and NGM 2024/06 Initiated The 2 actions are currently being implemented through the JP on Gender
Provide seed capital to Women and men with viable business plans One UN and NGM 2024/06 Initiated
Recommendation: Mobilize more financial resources for the remaining time of the programme’s life and be realistic.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Resource mobilization
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
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Negotiate the last tranche from the donor to be earmarked GENDER and mobilize more resources from UN Agencies One UN and NGM institutions 2024/06 Initiated •The last tranche from SIDA was earmarked GENDER •IOM and UNHCR went beyond their initial planned budget. •UN Women mobilized funds from Germany, Global Affairs Canada for MenEngage and Bill and Melinda for the Women Economic Empowerment.