Management Response

Recommendation:	Identify programme priority areas and funding under the umbrella of the WEE Portfolio, based on stakeholder needs assessment.
Management Response:	UN Women China accepts this recommendation. From the WEL Project evaluation, as well as lessons learned from other work relevant to WEE, the office hasrealized that separate smaller-scale projects with limited funding lack of impact.

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments Develop a WEE programme strategy for China Office which identifies the key priority areas based on situation analysis and feedback from stakeholders. WEE Programme Manager, Programme Analysts 2021/12 Completed The draft WEE Strategy of China Office has been completed by Dec. 2021. Develop a resource mobilization plan for WEE portfolio. WEE Programme Manager, Programme Analysts 2021/12 Completed The resource mobilization plan for WEE Portfolio has been developed by Dec. 2021.

Recommendation:	Strengthened partnership with UN agencies to better mobilize and utilize resources.
Management Response:	UN Women China accepts this recommendation. Collaboration with other UN agencies is important to better mobilize and utilize resources to achieve bigger impact, especially in the context of UN reform.

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments Based on UNSDCF, have various meetings with relevant UN agencies (especially ILO, UNDP, UNIDO), to explore potential collaboration opportunities. WEE Programme Manager,Programme Analysts 2021/12 Completed By December 2021, various meetings with relevant UN agencies (such as UNDP, UNICEF, ILO, UNIDO) have been organized, to explore potential collaboration opportunities, especially in the areas related to gender responsive procurement, family friendly policies, etc. Explore project synergy and have joint project/ activities with relevant UN agencies. WEE Programme Manager, Programme Analysts 2021/12 Completed UN Women and IFAD have project collaboration on empowering rural women. UN Women and ILO have started project collaboration under the WeCare, a project launched in Nov. 2020 under WEE.

Recommendation:	Improve training content, tools and the modes of support provided to enterprises, including more specific guidance for sectors, to generate gender transformative change.
Management Response:	UN Women China accepts this recommendation. Tailor designed training contents/tools/technical support targeted various groups of people will have better impact.

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments Develop or localize tailored design training contents that can meet the requirements of certain target groups. WEE Programme manager 2021/07 Completed WEE team in China has localized the series of training modules on WEPs, developed by WeEmpower Asia regional team. Each section of which targets a specific group of company representatives. Provide technical support, including specific guidance for certain sectors, to companies. WEE Programme Manager 2021/12 Completed Based on women’s empowerment principles (WEPs), the gender perspective has been integrated into the industrial level guidance in two sectors-ICT and Textile. By working with the industry organizations, consistent technical support has been provided to companies on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Recommendation:	Establish a systematic and sustainable M&E framework including data collection mechanism, for the integrated WEE Portfolio.
Management Response:	UN Women China accepts this recommendation. A systematic and sustainable M&E framework will break the limitation of impact from smaller scale projects.

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments Develop a systematic and sustainable M&E framework including data collection mechanism. WEE Programme Manager, Programme Analysts 2021/09 Completed A systematic and sustainable M&E framework has been developed. Use the newly developed data collection mechanism to collect data starting from the current WEE projects. WEE team 2021/12 Completed The WEE team has started to use the newly developed data collection mechanism to collect data.

Recommendation:	Strengthen the partnership model to build and promote women’s economic empowerment.
Management Response:	UN Women China accepts this recommendation. Will further strengthen partnership with public and private sector partners, as well as to map and outreach to new partners especially government entities.

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments Build partnership with public and private sector organizations for programme opportunities. WEE Programme Manager, Programme Analysts 2021/12 Completed The WEE team has greatly expanded its partnership with both public and private sector organizations. Map and outreach to government entities for potential collaboration opportunities, aligned with the newly developed WEE strategy. WEE Programme Manager, WEE Programme Analysts 2022/06 Completed Aligned with the WEE strategy, the WEE team has established collaboration with eleven government entities.

Recommendation:	Broaden the coverage and engage with other vulnerable or marginalized female groups in future WEE programme activities.
Management Response:	UN Women China accepts the recommendation. Projects under WEE portfolio should more target vulnerable and marginalized female groups as ultimate beneficiaries.

Key Actions Responsible Deadline Status Comments Broaden and cover more vulnerable or marginalized female groups under current WEE projects. WEE Programme Manager, Programme Analysts 2021/12 Completed Under WEA project, we consider female and male employees as the ultimate beneficiaries. The Gender and Climate Change Project mainly targets rural women. The COVID recovery project targets women owned SMEs which have been hit most by COVID. Target vulnerable or marginalized female groups when designing new projects under WEE portfolio. WEE Programme Manager, Programme Analysts 2021/12 Completed The WEE team target vulnerable or marginalized female groups when designing new projects, for example, migrant women workers, women owned MSMEs and rural women have been targeted under three newly developed projects.