Management Response

: Bangladesh
: 2022 - 2023 , Bangladesh (CO)
: Thematic Evaluation of Humanitarian Response Programme
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: Bangladesh
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The thematic evaluation assessed the Humanitarian Portfolio of UN Women Bangladesh in Cox’s Bazar implemented by both UN Women Cox’s Bazar sub-office team and its Responsible Parties from October 2019 to December 2022, with a focus especially on the Means to Lead project. Bangladesh office welcomes the findings and recommendations of the evaluation and is in general agreement with the fourteen recommendations. The evaluation affirmed that UN Women’s presence in the humanitarian space in Cox’s Bazar since 2017, has been significant in enabling stakeholders to advocate gender issues in a coordinated way and addressed gender needs which were not reflected in the 2017 joint response plan. The evaluation recommendations include, among others, clarifying the theory of change of our programmes and better communicating it externally, strengthening engagement of women led organizations, strengthening our analysis of marginalized groups of women to more effectively reach them in our programmes. The Bangladesh Office will implement the actions outlined below to strengthen effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of its programmatic and coordination work in the upcoming days.
: Approved
Recommendation: In coordination with the country office and in consultation with relevant stakeholders, building on UN Women’s triple mandate, redesign UN Women’s work in Cox’s Bazar to ensure a clear focus on a nexus approach, ensuring investment in national and local capacity development to stay and deliver as well as opportunities for joint/joined up programmes. On par, ensure the sub-office is staffing is equipped to support the localization agenda and related needs and demands, also leveraging UN Women expertise and resources at country level to strengthen ‘nexus’ programming, building more systemic linkages with UN Women’s work at the country level in relevant thematic areas.
Management Response: This recommendation is accepted. The Sub-Office will redesign the work in Cox’s Bazar focusing on a nexus approach as part of the Biannual Work Plan 2024 – 2025.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Develop a Sustainability Strategy for UN Women’s work in the Rohingya refugee response/Cox’s Bazar. Head of Sub Office 2024/03 Completed Sustainability strategy for UN Women’s work in the Rohingya refugee response/Cox’s Bazar is developed.
2. Redesign the BWP with a clear focus on investment in national and local capacity development to stay and deliver and on triple mandate. Head of Sub Office 2024/09 Completed The redesigned BWP has been done. This has been reflected in proposals submitted to donors (Sida, Japan) as well as in Calls for Proposals for new Responsible Parties (RPs) advertised since Q4 2023.
3. Proactively pursue possibilities for Joint Programmes/Programming with sister agencies using MOUs/Letters of Collaboration Senior Management at Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar 2024/12 Completed A Joint Programme has been signed in October 2024 with SDC where IOM, UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP are the PUNOs and UN Women is Lead.
Recommendation: Ensure continuation of multi-year planning based on a nexus approach to allow for greater coherence, effectiveness, and a higher likelihood of sustainability, especially given the long-term process of normative and behavioral changes.
Management Response: This recommendation is partially accepted as the Government of Bangladesh is currently still pursuing annual Joint Response Plans for the Rohingya Response, and have not indicated if the next UNSDCF 2027-2031 will include the Rohingya Response. UN Women will incorporate the first stages of this transition in the BWP 2024-2025 in line with agreements with development partners that have been approved by Economic Relations Division (ERD), based on guidance from Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in connection with the Rohingya Response, and the medium-term plans will be reflected in the next Strategic Note 2027 – 2031
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Capacity development, National ownership, Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability, Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Preparation of project proposals focusing on nexus approach Cox’s Bazar Programme Team 2024/09 Completed With the financial support of Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), a nexus approach joint programme including other UN agencies has been developed, set to be started in October 2024.
Recommendation: Leveraging UN Women’s technical expertise and its coordination mandate through GiHA WG, and in collaboration with the GBV sub-sector, map out GEWE interventions in sectors and thematic areas of common interest in the camps and host communities, to promote common standards, adaptive approaches, and joint risk-informed gender-sensitive analyses in support of joined-up humanitarian and development planning and programming. Work with the Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) to ensure that all sectors address IASC commitments to gender equality - including engaging with women leaders and local WLOs and WROs - and that gender specific programming is mutually reinforcing and adheres to international standards.
Management Response: These recommendations are accepted, subject to fund availability. UN Women will pursue a sequenced approach to carrying these forward: engaging with the GiHA WG in which the GBV-SS is also represented, to identify key gender interventions across sectors, related indicators and standards; mapping these on a pilot basis in camps where UN Women has Gender Field Officers. UN Women will continue to promote engagement with women leaders as standard, lobbying for their representation and leadership in camp management and in the GiHA WG.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Alignment with strategy, Advocacy, National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Relevance
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Conduct a comprehensive Gender Assessment mapping out GEWE interventions to identify gaps, constraints, and emergent needs. GiHA Coordinator 2024/09 Completed The following steps have been completed: • Analysis in 2024 of JRP indicators and objectives to assess the extent to which GEWE interventions are prioritized as part of, and tracked. • Mapping led by the GiHA WG with UN Women support of challenges and needs identified by (308) Rohingya women and girls across 20 camps in Q1 2025. • Gender Brief developed summarizing 2024 ISNA key findings and findings drawing on sector-specific data on the situation of women and girls in the Rohingya refugee camps and host community. • Next steps include mapping GiHA initiatives implemented across camps to identify available support, gaps and constraints in the response, undertaking FGDs on emergent needs with support from UN Women Gender Field Officers (Q2 2025).
2. Lobby for standing membership of WLOs/WROs in the GiHA WG and reflect this in the GiHA Working Group TOR. Senior Management 2024/12 Completed Consultation Workshop with WLOs/WROs for membership in GiHA WG has been conducted and reflected on the ToR
3. The GiHA Coordinator will provide technical support to the GBV-SWG on GiHA standards/indicator specific to women’s leadership/WLOs/WROs to be incorporated in the JRP M&E Framework to be developed in 2024 GiHA Coordinator 2024/06 Completed GiHA Coordinator based at ISCG and coordinating the support
Recommendation: In coordination with the GiHA WG conduct a comprehensive analysis across camps to understand the contextual difficulties with which boys and men are faced and their implications on gender equality and gender relation interventions. Support design of activities according to their most pressing needs in social, educational, and economic spheres, and increase opportunities for them to interact with male champions and agents of change in collaboration with other UN agencies and organizations that work in those spaces with boys and men.
Management Response: UN Women partially accepts this recommendation. The GBV-SS sub-group on prevention has a key focus on engaging men and boys; the Protection SWG has a Technical Working Group for Gender Diverse People (TWG GDP). Internally, UN Women will review the activities of male Gender Volunteers (Rohingya) to identify an approach to behavior change to be piloted.
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Capacity development, Advocacy, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Relevance, Sustainability, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Impact
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1.Carry out a study on men and boys and gender diverse persons, with a focus on safety, security, and gender norms, and share findings with the Protection and the Technical Working Group for Gender Diverse People (TWG GDP) Programme Team 2024/09 No Longer Applicable Funding yet to be identified. Related questions included in the Gender and Security survey conducted among Rohingya women and men in December 2025 (the survey did not have a focus on gender diverse persons, which would require a specific survey methodology working with a CBO representing gender diverse persons, to ensure sensitivity and effectiveness of the approach. The Gender and Security survey findings have been shared with the Protection Sector. BCO is unable to undertake a specific survey among gender diverse for the time being.
2. Conduct two workshops on positive masculinities to identify a programmatic approach to engage male gender volunteers and other stakeholders in the camps. Programme Team 2024/03 Completed Two workshops on "positive masculinities to identify a programmatic approach to engage male gender volunteers and other stakeholder in the camps" have been completed.
3. Develop and pilot a standardized behavior change programme focused on positive masculinities Programme Team 2024/09 Completed A new partner (a local WLO, Nari Maitree) has been selected to implement the "Engaging Men through Accountable Practice" (EMAP), a standardized behavior change programme. This project will start in April 2025.
Recommendation: Consider developing a harmonized monitoring framework with outcome level statements and indicators for the Means to Lead-project (and parallel donor projects), to be able to measure the contributions of the projects to results and to provide information on project’s strategic approach, in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and intervention gaps to inform decision making. Furthermore, develop a joint monitoring system with UNFPA to monitor RP coordination and identify gaps, constraints, and challenges in gender-responsive programming and to improve RP communication and collaboration and increase accountability and transparency.
Management Response: UN Women partially accepts this recommendation. UN Women will strengthen its internal monitoring; a joint monitoring system with UNFPA requires inter-agency agreement. Even if agreed upon, UN Women proposes to leverage the GiHA WG and GBV-SS for more effective, cross-sectoral monitoring of the situation, to assess gaps, constraints and challenges in gender-responsive programming.
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Alignment with strategy, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Training for all RPs to include standing item on M&E, including results-based management and reporting Planning and Monitoring Analyst 2024/06 Completed UN Women in Cox's Bazar organizes Partnership Meetings (3-6 hours) every 2-3 months, including for existing and new partners. These provide a key opportunity for training partners on RBM, ensuring systemic approaches to programming data collection and analysis
Review and redesign indicators for UN Women BWP 2024-2025 and develop a cross-cutting M&E framework for the Sub-Office, capturing all donor indicators and related methodologies. Planning and Monitoring Analyst 2024/09 Completed The cross-cutting M&E Framework has been developed which includes SN indicators as well as donors indicators
Recommendation: Actively create opportunities and continue with the empowerment interventions with the Rohingya and host community adolescent girls, to allow them to become champions of change within their communities.
Management Response: This recommendation is accepted.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Capacity development, Knowledge management, Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Assess GFO-led activities with girls’ groups to identify effectiveness and changes needed. Informed by analysis, undertake changes in activities led by (female) gender volunteers, introducing a standardized approach to promote girls as change agents. Programme Team 2024/09 Completed UN Women in Cox’s Bazar has developed a draft Women’s Leadership Strategy to guide these efforts. The new partnership to implement the EMAP programme embeds a revised approach to the activities led by (female Gender Volunteers, inclusive of a stronger and more standardized focus on enhancing the leadership capacities of women and adolescent girls to act as change agents. In March 2025, UN Women existing RP, ASK, is completing an assessment of the women’s and girls’ groups to help inform a more systematic approach moving forward.
2. Ensure continued integration of activities for adolescent girls in UN Women MPWCs Programme Team 2024/12 Completed UN Women has embedded activities focused on adolescent girls in MPWCs. These include ‘Girls Shine’ activities in 3 MPWCs in the camps; the introduction of Accelerated Adult Learning for also 18-19 year olds in the camps; and digital literacy and non-formal technical training in host community MPWCs. In addition, through collaboration with UNICEF, education in the Myanmar Curriculum is provided for adolescent girls who have dropped out of school in the MPWCs in the camps.
Recommendation: Develop a standardized model of technical support provision to local NGOs/IPs/WLOs and WROs, including capacity building strategies for scale out and institutionalization of trainings, including refresher trainings.
Management Response: UN Women accepts this recommendation
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Knowledge management, National ownership
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Review the capacity assessments of WLOs and WROs supported by UN Women to summarize strengths and weaknesses. Programme Team 2024/03 Completed UN Women hired a consultant who has drafted a report on the capacities of WLOs/WROs, summarizing strengths and weaknesses.
2. Develop standardized training package for WLOs and women-led CBOs, with a facilitator guide. Programme Team 2024/06 Completed A training package for WLOs and women-led CBOs was developed in 2024. In 2025, a TWG on Women’s Leadership is being formed under the GiHA WG and this TWG will be prioritizing with UN Women support the development of this training package for scale-out by humanitarian actors.
3. Conduct a TOT on regular/annual basis for WLOs/WROs and CSOs Programme Team 2024/06 Completed UN Women conducts TOTs for WLOs/WROs and CSOs on an ongoing basis, most recently on Accelerated Adult Learning (in collaboration with UNESCO).
Recommendation: Scale-up the MPWC model and link these with the existing women/girls centers run by other UN agencies, especially UNFPA, across and within the camps to increase coverage and effectiveness, and tailor outreach activities to ensure better targeting of support to the most vulnerable individuals, including those with different kinds of disabilities, and consider scaling up and diversifying the type of income-generation activities to include more ‘non-traditional’ activities for women (such mechanics, equipment repair, and other activities traditionally reserved for men within the cultures of the Rohingya and host communities).
Management Response: This recommendation is accepted. UN Women Cox’s Bazar in the process of new project development where scaling up is being considered with diversification of livelihood and income generation included. With a special focus on most vulnerable individuals and person with different kinds of disabilities, women and men from both in Rohingya and host communities will be equipped with traditional and non-traditional trades such as mechanics, equipment repair etc.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Capacity development, National ownership, Knowledge management, Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Relevance, Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Standardization of the MPWC approach, ensuring clear guidance on Accountability to Affected Population (AAP) and women and girls with disabilities; recruitment of community volunteers inclusive of WWDs; and ‘offer’ trainings in non-traditional fields at MPWCs. Programme Team 2024/04 Completed Standardization of the MPWC approach is finalized with the support of a consultant.
2. New proposals will integrate the introduction of vocational and pre-vocational training, including in non-traditional areas. Programme Team 2024/03 Completed UN Women proposals in line with the JRP to Government of Japan and Sweden have incorporated some elements. New proposals to Japan and Responsible parties integrated the introduction of vocational and pre-vocational training, including in non-traditional areas, will be continued in the upcoming Sida project.
3. Pursue a Letter of Agreement with UNFPA and others on referral pathways between UNFPA-focused SRHR and GBV services and UN Women livelihoods-focused services for greater integration and coherence Head of Sub Office 2024/12 Completed UN Women has agreed on the locations of its MPWCs in collaboration with the Livelihoods & Skills Development Sector and GBV Sub-Sector (coordinated by UNFPA). These are reflected in the service mapping and inter-sector guidance is to ensure linkages across services. UNFPA has been impacted by the 2025 funding cuts and is having to withdraw from some camps, requiring UN Women to step up GBV services and support within its MPWCs and to explore alternatives for the provision of SRHR services at MPWCs. As agreed, UNFPA will provide technical guidance on SRHR, if resources are found for related services at MPWCs. As agreed with UNFPA, a priority is that of ensuring camp coverage of vital services; to ensure continued integrated service provision within MPWCs; and to ensure referrals to relevant services across camps, advocating jointly for the government to lift related movement restrictions. Post-March and at year end 2025, UN Women and UNFPA technical staff will reassess based on available information the situation and agree on any adjustments and next steps.
Recommendation: Follow-up on support to women/girls and transgenders who have completed the skills and livelihoods training sessions so that they can continue to generate income for themselves and their households and strengthen their agency.
Management Response: This recommendation is accepted. UN Women's Responsible Parties (RPs) and GFOs are engaged to support women/girls and transgenders who have completed the skills and livelihoods training sessions so that they can continue to generate income and strengthen their agency.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Alignment with strategy, Capacity development, Knowledge management, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Ensure existing RP final reports and evaluations include related analysis. Programme Team 2024/06 Completed RP final reports (Brac, DCA and Oxfam) included the analysis of the skills, livelihoods training received vs income generation and related analysis
2. Conduct an analysis of economic resilience in the refugee and host community areas to better understand opportunities and challenges to livelihoods and resilience. Programme Team 2024/12 Completed Mapping led by the GiHA WG with UN Women support of challenges and needs identified by (308) Rohingya women and girls across 20 camps completed, identifying some key issues. Gender Brief completed under auspices of GiHA WG, identifying some key issues. Three comprehensive analyses initiated, exploring economic resilience among women in the CXB refugee camps, in the host community, and on Bhasan Char. (The inception report has been completed and the final report is due by end June 2025).
3. Ensure integration of related indicator(s) in future agreements with RPs and analysis in their narrative reports Senior Management 2024/12 Completed Guidance and facilitation on integration of transgender in the livelihood continued, reporting mechanism also developed in the new programmes.
Recommendation: Prioritize future programmatic funding to local WLO/WROs with specialised knowledge and skills, ensuring support to their institutional capacity development, investing in learning of what works, and in promoting collective accountability across the response to women’s leadership, and catalyze the role of GFOs at the camp level, as conduits for women to bring their issues to the attention of CiCs, and to track and support camp-level progress on core gender equality commitments
Management Response: This recommendation is accepted.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Alignment with strategy, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Capacity development, Advocacy
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency, Relevance, Sustainability, Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Collaborate with UNHCR and UNFPA to revise the terms of reference for GFOs, restructuring their scope of work, camp coverage, and capacities and modalities, empowering the GFOs via a new TOR. Head of Sub Office 2024/12 Completed In collaboration with UN sister agencies, GFOs TOR has been revised. Recruitment will be procced soon.
Develop a monitoring and accountability framework led by GFOs to monitor camp-level progress on gender equality commitments. GFO Coordinator 2024/12 Completed Agreement established in 2024 within the GiHA WG coordinated by UN Women to incorporate camp-level support and monitoring efforts, reflected in the GiHA WG Workplan, and the 2 performance indicators as follows: 2.1.2 JRP planning & RRR priorities are informed by the perspectives of local WL-WROs and self-organised networks/groups of refugee women. 2.1.4 Crisis affected women's groups in the host community and self-organized refugee women's networks & groups are meaningfully engaged in the response. Responsibility for supporting related coordination, monitoring and accountability also incorporated within the revised GFO TOR in Q4 2024. GFO Coordinator in process of onboarding in Q2 2025 to oversee related work by GFOs.
Introduce as standard meetings between GFOs and local WLO/WROs at camp-level on a periodic basis. Programme Team 2024/06 Completed GFOs meeting with WLO/WORs at the camp level as standard as of 2024. Further guidance in process of development in 2025 by UN Women with the engagement of the GiHA WG, to ensure more systematic coordination with WLOs/WROs and the self-organized groups led by Rohingya women at the camp-level and to scale out this approach across the camps.
Ensure all new CFPs are focused on local WLOs/WROs, ensuring programmatic budget is included for monitoring and learning within their budgets. Programme Team 2024/12 Completed The new CfPs advertised since December 2023 has addressed this recommendation.
Strengthen GFO-led training sessions and workshops to amplify technical support to Camps-in-Charge (CiCs) and female APBn members. GFO Team 2024/12 Completed Standardized training module on gender-responsive DRR for CICs developed and implemented. This will be packaged further based on the training, and made available for use by others by the end of Q2 2025. Under the auspices of the GiHA WG, agreement established in Q1 2025 to develop a standardized training module for integration within CIC inception training (for new CICs). This will be developed by Q4 2025. Module on gender-responsive policing for female APBn developed/refined in 2024 and implemented. Further packaging to take place by Q1 2026, to standardize the training materials.
Recommendation: To increase social cohesion between the Rohingya and host communities, consider engaging a local WLO/WRO to manage support to women leaders in the camps, to foster empowerment of local women and their engagement on an equal foot in dialogues.
Management Response: This recommendation is accepted, with, however, the note that Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha (BNPS) and Research, Training and Management (RTMI), which are national NGOs, are all already supporting women leaders in the camps.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Capacity development, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Alignment with strategy, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Call for proposal for engaging local WLO/WRO to manage support to women leaders in the camp Programme Team 2024/12 Completed New partnership agreement with local WLO/WRO (Nari Maitree) approved by LPAC in March 2025. The project implemented by NM will focus on support to women leaders across 8 camps, to advance women’s leadership and related capacity development. Contributing to this work, another call for proposals is at finalization stage in March 2025 and will be issued in April 2025 to support the efforts of self-organized groups of women in the camps operation
Recommendation: Deepen engagement with the government at both the national and local levels, to ensure knowledge and lessons learned from UN Women’s support to the Rohingya refugee crisis is shared at the national level on the one hand, and on the other, to strengthen available support to local authorities beyond the camps to enhance the resilience and empowerment of women and girls in local communities.
Management Response: This recommendation is accepted. UN Women has already initiated knowledge and learning sharing with Department of Women Affairs (DWA) under Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MoWCA) through the national GiHA WG (chaired by DWA and co-chaired by UN Women). UN Women Cox’s Bazar Sub-Office are also engaging with the District Women Affairs Office to work more in collaboration in Cox’s Bazar.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Alignment with strategy, Oversight/governance, Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Capacity development, Evidence, Data and statistics
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness, Sustainability, Relevance
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1.Advocacy with DWA to establish a local GiHA WG Chapter of the national working group in Chattogram Division, which will work closely with the Rohingya Response GiHA WG, to ensure greater coherence. DRR Specialist as co-chair of National GiHA WG 2024/12 No Longer Applicable Four local level GiHA Chapters have been formed in different parts of country. Further discussions with DWA is ongoing on establishing a local chapter in Chattogram, which may extend some activities to host community areas in Cox’s Bazar, establishing a link with the GiHA WG under the ISCG structure. The Gender Officer, once recruited, is expected to facilitate GiHA coordination linkages between Cox's Bazar and the national level.
2.Recruit a ‘Gender Officer’ to be posted in District Women Affairs Office (DWAO) Head of Sub Office 2024/06 Completed Agreement established with DWA in March 2025 for UN Women to provide a Gender Officer to the District DWA Office. This will take place in Q2 2025.
Recommendation: Invest in harmonized M&E systems with regards to joint monitoring of GiHA commitments across the response through UN Women’s technical advice to the GiHA WG, building on IASC gender equality commitments and standards.
Management Response: This recommendation is accepted.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Alignment with strategy, Internal coordination and communication, Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Relevance
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Establishment of key indicators for all Sub-Working Groups (SWGs) through the GiHA WG, building on the work initiated by the Gender Hub in the past GiHA WG Coordinator 2024/12 Completed Draft indicators for tracking progress across all sectors and sub-sectors established in 2024, as included in the Gender Tipsheets developed under the auspices of the GiHA WG, with UN Women support. As the JRP 2025-2026 indicators are developed, the indicators will be revised further in Q2 2025.
2. Generate camp-level gender equality data relevant to IASC commitments, through GFOs and feed this into ISCG's joint protection monitoring. Programme Team 2024/09 Completed Regular updates provided to joint protection monitoring as of 2024, building on camp-level inputs and mission findings prepared by GFOs and other UN Women staff. Key performance indicators established in 2024 for tracking progress at the camp level (GiHA WG Workplan KPIs 2.1.3 and 2.1.4). Relevant cross-sectoral indicators included within the Gender Tipsheets prepared in 2024. As agreed in Q1 2025, the GiHA WG will prepare annual Gender Briefs to track progress/changes on key gender indicators. This will be led by the Gender Data & Analysis TWG under the GiHA WG.
Recommendation: Ensure that lessons and good practices learned during the humanitarian response in Cox’s Bazar feed into the organization-wide crisis response strategy, policy, tools, and procedures.
Management Response: This recommendation is accepted. Lessons and good practices learned during the humanitarian response in Cox’s Bazar feed into the organization-wide crisis response strategy, policy, tools, and procedures.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind, Capacity development, Knowledge management, Advocacy, Evidence, Data and statistics
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Ensure knowledge products on lessons learned and good practices are included in the MERP and the Cox’s Bazar ISCG Website Planning and Monitoring Analyst 2024/12 Completed The MERP has been updated to include knowledge products on lessons learned and good practices. Knowledge Products developed by the GiHA WG are updated regularly on the ISCG website.
2.Document the best practices and lessons learnt over the six years of the Rohingya Response and share through relevant fora (GiHA WG, national and regional levels) to inform UN Women programming in onset emergencies and protracted crises. Planning and Monitoring Analyst 2024/12 No Longer Applicable This is subject to fund availability. No funding is available for this activity. Meanwhile, BCO continues to monitor and evaluate its activities, in line with UN Women policies and procedures. The Sustainability Plan for the Sub-Office identifies pathways forward in the protracted crisis scenario.