Management Response

: Regional Office for Americas and the Caribbean (Panama)
: 2022 - 2025 , Regional Office for Americas and the Caribbean (Panama) (RO)
: Evaluación Final del Programa: Liderazgo, Empoderamiento, Acceso y Protección de las Mujeres en Contextos de Crisis de Movilidad Humana en Centroamérica y el Caribe (LEAP-TRAYECTOS)
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The recommendations are well-aligned with the project’s and UN Women’s strategic priorities and reflect a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities in advancing gender-transformative humanitarian action. While several actions have already been initiated or completed during the project implementation, demonstrating proactive engagement by country and regional offices, UN Women acknowledges the relevance and timeliness of the recommendations, and the responses proposed here below reflect the organization’s commitment to continuous improvement, adaptive programming, and inclusive partnerships. It is important to note that the sustainability and scalability of many initiatives remain contingent on future funding availability.

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Recommendation: RECOMMENDATION 1 Institutionalize and strengthen gender-transformative practices into humanitarian responses initiatives.
Management Response: This recommendation is partially accepted. UN Women regularly incorporates gender analysis with an intersectional approach and assesses gender needs so that they are integrated from the initial phase of any programmatic area, including Women Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action. However, in some contexts, other humanitarian actors, including national and municipal institutions, still need to take measures to ensure that their response is gender-sensitive and transformative. Regional and local teams work with local actors to build the capacities that will allow for this to happen.
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Continue engaging local governments at the highest level. Efforts should focus on strengthening Municipal Women’s Offices. Special attention should be given to upcoming national elections, and probability of change on municipal authorities. UN Women COs (Costa Rica: Gabriela Mata, Honduras: Milderd García and Panama: Dayanara Salazar) 2026/12 Initiated It was completed during the project timeframe, but its continuity depends on availability of funds for future projects with a humanitarian component. Journeys key results: ES_Trayectos_Bifolio_Resultados_PRINT_17x11in.pdf
Strengthen inclusive outreach to the LGBTIQ+ population through the development of specific strategies, such as the establishment of safe spaces, partnerships with LGBTIQ+ organizations, and the integration of specific indicators into monitoring frameworks. UN Women COs (Costa Rica: Gabriela Mata, Honduras: Milderd García and Panama: Dayanara Salazar) 2026/12 Initiated Initiated during the implementation of the project, but continuity remains limited and largely dependent on potential access to funding.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATION 2 Strengthen the sustainability of knowledge on gender related issues by promoting inclusive capacity-building strategies with key stakeholders from the LAC region
Management Response: The recommendation is particularly pertinent given the dynamic and evolving nature of the context in the Latin America and Caribbean region. UN Women remains committed to ensuring that methodologies, techniques, good practices, and lessons learned at the regional level are systematically documented, disseminated, and internalized by relevant stakeholders, institutional and humanitarian actors, as well as by UN Women staff.
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Organizational efficiency
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Include training trainers in future interventions, in order to minimize knowledge and capacities gaps resulting from staff turnover. UN Women RO WPS & HA team (Alma Pérez), and UN Women COs (Costa Rica: Gabriela Mata, Honduras: Milderd García and Panama: Dayanara Salazar) 2026/11 Not Initiated Implementation is largely dependent on potential access to funding.
Develop tools and knowledge repositories to ensure training programs address diversity, including gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, etc. involving staff at all levels UN Women RO WPS &HA team (Alma Pérez) 2025/12 Initiated
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATION 3 Optimize procurement and logistical processes of UN Women for humanitarian action initiatives
Management Response: While UN Women has made important steps in integrating humanitarian action into its operations following its inclusion in the IASC, there is an opportunity at the central level to further align its administrative and financial processes with the specific demands of humanitarian programming
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Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Not applicable
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Review and adapt UN administrative tools and policies at the global level UN Women HQ 2027/12 Initiated
Disseminate UNW fast-track procedures for humanitarian action initiatives among procurement colleagues so that they are applied for all humanitarian projects. UN Women RO – Procurement and Operations teams (Lana Bozic) 2026/12 Initiated It has been done in the past but needs to be refreshed every time a new humanitarian project is being implemented.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATION 4 Promote adaptive management for continuous learning on humanitarian actions responses
Management Response: Adapting to the evolving nature of crises requires a dynamic and flexible decision-making approach. This is why UN Women adopted a flexible approach in the implementation of this project, which allow us to quickly respond to the changing context of human mobility in Central America. While the recommendation is important for humanitarian responses, UN Women’s work is recognized for its flexibility and adaptability to shifting external conditions. Hence, the recommendation is rejected as the activity was completed during the project design phase for the Journeys project, demonstrating the existing flexibility embedded in UN Women’s programming, which already allows for adaptive management.
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Management Response Category: Rejected
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Key Action not added.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATION 5 Strengthen institutional partnerships at regional and national level
Management Response: UN Women regularly engages with regional, national and local institutions. This recommendation is partially accepted because one of the major achievements of Journeys was its successful collaboration with national and local institutions (Over 1,126 frontline responders, including government officials and humanitarian actors were trained in GBV prevention and survivor-centered approaches), women-led organizations (69 WLOs were trained and supported by the project), women leaders and communities (over 2,800 women and girls were engaged in social cohesion activities). Moreover, an MoU was signed with a university in the border city of Danlí in Honduras. Journeys key results : ES_Trayectos_Bifolio_Resultados_PRINT_17x11in.pdf Project newsletters: Q1 2024: EN_Journeys_Newsletter_01.pdf Q2 2024:EN_Journeys_Newsletter_02_June2024.pdf Q3 2024: ES_Trayectos_Newsletter_03_Septiembre2024.pdf Q4 2024 & Q1, 2025): ES_Trayectos_Newsletter_04_Marzo2025_VF_14MAR2025.pdf
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Humanitarian action
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Promote localization by enhancing capacities, participation and leadership of local women’s organizations, women’s networks, and women’s organizations at the national level in relevant processes. UN Women RO (Alma Pérez) and UN Women COs (Costa Rica: Gabriela Mata, Honduras: Milderd García and Panama: Dayanara Salazar) 2025/12 Completed Project newsletter (Q1, 2025): ES_Trayectos_Newsletter_04_Marzo2025_VF_14MAR2025.pdf
Establish partnerships and/or agreements with non-traditional partners such as universities and non-formal education institutions to replicate trainings on gender-related issues and topics at the local level UN Women RO (Alma Pérez) and UN Women COs (Costa Rica: Gabriela Mata, Honduras: Milderd García and Panama: Dayanara Salazar) 2026/12 Not Initiated Depends on availability of funds for future projects with a humanitarian component ES_Trayectos_Newsletter_04_Marzo2025_VF_14MAR2025.pdf
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATION 6 Enhance multi-sectoral partnerships expanding engagement with actors in health, legal and economic sectors to provide a more holistic support system
Management Response: UN Women provides gender expertise, leadership, and support to inter-agency processes and coordination mechanisms to ensure that humanitarian actors adhere to their commitments on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in line with the 2024 IASC Gender Policy. One of the key achievements of the project was to enhance this participation by providing training to humanitarian actors, including those from the sector mentioned in the recommendation. Nonetheless, it is indeed important to ensure continuity of UN Women’s engagement in these fora. Hence, this recommendation is partially accepted. Journeys key results : ES_Trayectos_Bifolio_Resultados_PRINT_17x11in.pdf Project newsletters: Q1 2024: EN_Journeys_Newsletter_01.pdf Q2 2024:EN_Journeys_Newsletter_02_June2024.pdf Q3 2024: ES_Trayectos_Newsletter_03_Septiembre2024.pdf Q4 2024 & Q1, 2025): ES_Trayectos_Newsletter_04_Marzo2025_VF_14MAR2025.pdf
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Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Peace and security (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Promoting inclusiveness/Leaving no one behind
Organizational Priorities: Normative Support
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
Ensure continuous presence and leadership of UN Women in various multi-partner initiatives and platforms, including the UN Issue-Based Coalition on Human Mobility, the Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V), the Quito Process’ Gender and Human Mobility Focal Points Network, and the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework (MIRPS) UN Women RO (Alma Pérez) and UN Women COs (Costa Rica: Gabriela Mata, Honduras: Milderd García and Panama: Dayanara Salazar) 2026/12 Initiated At the regional level, UN Women leads the Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V) Gender Working Group. It also leads the R4V Regional Subsector of Human Trafficking & Smuggling in collaboration with IOM and UNODC. Furthermore, UN Women oversees the Gender in Humanitarian Action Group within the Regional Group on Risks, Emergencies, and Disasters (REDLAC). Moreover, UN Women supports gender mainstreaming in key regional intergovernmental consultancy bodies related to migratory public policies: CRM: Regional Migration Conference CSM: South American Migratory Conference Quito Process: Gender and Human Trafficking Working Groups Cartagena +40: Regional Review of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees MIRPS: Advisor for the Local Government Group of the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework At the national and local level, participation in these for is dependent on potential access to funding for coordination.