Management Response

: Mozambique
: 2016 - 2016 , Mozambique (CO)
: Mid Term Evaluation of the WEE BE Funded Project in Gaza Province
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: Mozambique
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The project implemented interventions for building capacity for resilience in agriculture and animal husbandry, linking women to crucial legal and financial services, promoting self-confidence and self-esteem and reducing the gap between men and women. The project demonstrates that contributing to rural women’s capacity to perform productive economic activities, including those that are traditionally considered masculine, is an empowering approach per se, because this does not only directly build capacity for women, but also impacts attitudes and perception of women in the world of work. Main lessons learned: (i) Use of local language to deliver capacity building packages enhances participation, comprehension and application of lessons learnt by most vulnerable women with low literacy levels; (ii) Supporting women to access civil registration rights is a pre- requisite for their empowerment, as it opens the doors for their eligibility to access crucial services for their empowerment, such as financial services as loans, services for social protection, inheritance and even voting rights; (Iii) Targeting men on Gender Equality and WEE activities is a high potential intervention to enhance socio-cultural transformation of men from being obstacles into being supportive agents that accept and advocate for innovation of social practices, norms and belief for gender equality. The MTE revealed that men are the main obstacle to women’s full realization in their families and communities;

: Approved
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 1: EFECTIVENESS
Management Response: UN Women do recognize the recommendation above. To maximize the actions already started in the next few months (6 months), the CO will intensify the actions already launched in order to complete the interventions initiated. However, considering the need to diversify the interventions to achieve different interests and priorities, gradually introduce other actions in the same place while strengthening those already initiated. Expansion to other districts will not be done primarily for more complex and investment-intensive actions.
Description: Due to the delay in project implementation, and considering the time left in the next project cycle, it is recommended for the project to complete interventions that are on standby (the Poultry and Business interventions), and to concentrate on the interventions already launched, consolidating their implementation in the next cycle of the project, rather than launching new interventions or grow into new districts or areas;
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Organizational efficiency
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Develop the capacity of women farmers on Commercial Swine Farming in in Chinhacanine and Chimbembe:  Technical assistance/transfer of know-how to 20 women farmers;  Provision of startup kits made of : 50 animals/breed/pigs, medicines and ration for pigs during 6 months IIAM Chobela 2019/01 Completed BETWEEN DECEMBER 2018 – FEBRUARY 2019. ALL ANIMALS WERE ALLOCATED IN CHINHACANINE AND CHIMBEMBE. UN women and IIAM received an exception from animal health authorities to move the animals during the ban of movement period.
 Technical assistance/transfer of know-how to 100 women farmers on commercial Goat Farmining;  Provision of medicines and;  Provision of 315 animals/breed in Mabomo, Hoyo Hoyo and Chivongoene; IIAM Chobela 2019/01 Completed IIAM Chobela is the Implementing Partner specializing on livestock research, transfer of know-how and community outreach. All animals allocated in December 2018.
Provision of 3,000 native/indigenous chickens (naked neck, frizzled and venda) for meat and egg production  Accompaniment and technical assistance in managing production cycle for native chicken and broilers.  Facilitate the construction of 3 aviaries for young women from the Community Based Vocational School - EFR Chinhacanine (best performing girl students mentorship in agribusiness) as part of the synergies with the Belgium Fund for Food Security (BFFS) implementing partners (DISOP);  Provision of 900 chicks (broiler breed) for 3 recently graduated young women entrepreneurs from EFR - Chinhacanine;  Provide medicines, ration and inputs for broilers chickens; IIAM Chobela 2019/01 Completed
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 2: EFFECTIVENESS
Management Response: To improve the economic capacity of women and contribute to the sustainability and continuity of the actions after the end, continuing to support women after the end of the project is not feasible mainly because of administrative constraints. Being an important action, the CO will focus on intensifying its support so that they can better manage their businesses and ensuring better follow-up from the project team. UN Women has started discussions with sister agencies such as FAO to integrate beneficiaries into the farmer field schools. Additionally, through continued work with the District Department of Agriculture (SDAEs) since the onset of the activities including equipping them with motorbikes, women farmers will benefit from continued extension services.
Description: The women beneficiaries recommended that after training and support with start-up kit for economic empowerment, the project should consider continued support to the beneficiaries for at least one year, to guarantee strengthened capacity for self-reliance and sustainability of the project. This implies supporting the cost of the project for at least one year until the first phase when the created businesses start to make profits;
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Provide training on business management to rural women in the target areas Un Women 2019/01 Completed
2. Assist rural women in designing their business plan and follow up its implementation UN Women 2019/01 Completed 70% of women reached. 30% were not reached due to project closure process.
3. Liaise with FAO on the integration of women farmers from the project into farmer field schools Un Women 2019/12 Completed This includes regular transfer of know-how, business plan design and follow up implementation process. Part of these discussions are integrated in the post-project programming such as, the Flagship Programme on Climate Smart Agriculture.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 3: Effectiveness
Management Response: The starter kit is meant to allow that the beneficiaries have initial conditions to set out their business, and the business plan is an important element in the process.
Description: For enhanced project effectiveness, it is important that the beneficiaries are provided with a starter kit only after they develop and present their business plan. Their participation improves their ownership and commitment to the project. It also facilitates monitoring and technical support by the project, contributing to greater chances to achieve self-reliance.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Assess the feasibility of the current project run by the beneficiaries and formulate mitigation measures to improve, where it is necessary UN Women 2019/01 Completed
2. Help in elaboration of business plans for project beneficiaries that have received a starter kit UN Women 2019/01 No Longer Applicable Not all women were covered due to project closure. 70% attained
3. Introduce a topic for elaboration of a business plan in the upcoming trainings IIAM Chobela 2019/01 Completed One important challenge encountered with preparation of business plans is the fact that the majority of the beneficiaries are less literate.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 4: Effectiveness
Management Response: GRPB training is part of the technical support the CO provides to its government partners through CeCAGe, involving not only the central level but the district technicians who are directly involved in the planning process. In this sense the Co will coordinate with the districts covered by the mod project that may be covered in the next training, however this action does not depend only on UN Women since it requires the availability of the partner. Regarding business management skills action 3 mentioned below will address the issue.
Description: The MTE suggests implementing refresher training of government stakeholders on application of the GRPB model within their work, within the technical support from Eduardo Mondlane’s CeCAGe, and strengthen monitoring of the stakeholders for continued orientation and technical support and training of CAHWs on business management and administration to guarantee achievement of project results, and for the women to achieve self-reliance and a training of CAHWs on business management and administration to guarantee achievement of project results, and for the women to achieve self-reliance.
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Capacity development
Organizational Priorities: Partnership
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Undertake refresher training to government planners at district level on GRB UEM/CeCAGE 2019/01 Completed
2. Continue partnership with the academy (CeCAGE) to organize regular trainings and on-job accompaniment of government planners on GRB UN Women 2019/01 Completed GRB is an integral part of un women Mozambique programming. it will continue to be support in the upcoming years.
3. Introduce a topic for elaboration of a business plan in the upcoming trainings IIAM Chobela 2019/01 Completed One important challenge encountered with preparation of business plans is the fact that the majority of the beneficiaries are less literate.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 5: Effectiveness
Management Response: Gaps in data gender are recognized as one of the limitation faced by government institution to address the needs of specific groups (women, men, boys and girls). However, since the partner institutions of the government, with the planning processes are centrally determined and oriented, it would be unsustainable to focus only on the institutions where this specific project is being implemented, especially to focus on the creation of tools that may not be useful to the end of the project. As a strategy the CO will continue to support the MGCAS and INE central level in the production and use of disaggregated data.
Description: Beneficiary local government institutions do not have systematic tools and frameworks to register, monitor and analyze disaggregated data on their own work. To contribute to the achievement of output 2.2, the MTE recommends identifying the gaps in data collection, elaboration, dissemination and usage, and to design and implement a strategy for compilation of data in a systematic way (also listed in Monitoring and KM recommendations).
Management Response Category: Rejected
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Evidence, Data and statistics
Organizational Priorities: Culture of results/RBM
UNEG Criteria: Effectiveness
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. The CO will continue to support the MGCAS and INE central level in the production and use of disaggregated data. Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Action (MGCAS) and the National Institute of Statistics (INE) 2017/05 Completed UN Women supported the Mozambican Government in developing a compilation of gender statistics. Robust evidence is a critical way in which UN Women leads the way in building knowledge on gender equality and women’s empowerment, support systematic monitoring and reporting on progress and influence planning authorities and promote national policy debates, to help set the agenda and mobilize partners to take action to advance gender equality. By developing knowledge and harnessing evidence the project supports women’s movements and governments to develop/reform laws, policies and strategies, and strengthen their capacity to make gender equality and climate resilience a lived reality.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 6: Relevance
Management Response: The project sites were initially selected in a participatory manner giving priorities to sites near a water stream and foreseen water installations from Government and other agencies for synergies. Water provision was not an investment for which allocations where made. However, the protracted drought resulted in rivers and water dams completely drying. On the other hand coordination challenges made it difficult to ensure water access from the system as initially planned. UN Women recognizes that water provision in irregular rainfall region of Gaza will improve the capacity for women engaged in livestock farming and foster their transition to market-oriented and commercial livestock farming (goat and swine), thus increasing women’s access to and control over productive assets and strengthening women’s role in and benefit from the meat value-chain.
Description: Considering the huge need for water caused by the extreme dry conditions in Gaza province and the targeted districts, it is crucial that the project coordinates and builds strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders to improve water supply and sanitation coverage in the targeted rural areas. This will allow beneficiary women to travel shorter distances to fetch water and to have more time to engage in productive activities and participation in the public space (such as consultative and decision-making processes). The project beneficiaries in both Guijá and Mabalane referred to water supply as one of the main need for the success of their projects on animal husbandry;
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Climate change
UNEG Criteria: Relevance
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Build synergies with stakeholders working on water provision (plan A) UN Women 2018/08 No Longer Applicable Protracted drought in the area has hampered sustainable production and hindered productivity in the women’s farms. The initiative has been covering the key factors hampering production and productivity in the sector, namely, breeds, feed, housing, diseases, financial literacy and business skills. Water was lacking among the key factors, as the project was relying on synergies and coordination from the District Government whose initial commitment was to provide water to agricultural initiatives. Budget limitations have made the Government unable to fulfil that commitment on time. This is in turn jeopardizing successful implementation of the project. Attempts made, though it was not successful. Only in chinhacanine it worked. As a mitigation strategy un women with the approval from the Belgium cooperation had to directly contract water piping entities and implement water provision to rural women farmers in Chinhacanine and Chimbembe
2. Provide water for irrigation of the fodder bank (garden for growing nutritious grass and plants used for animal feeding) as part of the capacity development of rural women in agribusiness. UN Women and a hired contractor 2018/08 No Longer Applicable Two irrigation systems where initially considered for the fodder bank in the district of Guijá, namely: drip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation. (1) In drip irrigation, also called trickle irrigation, the water is led to the field through a pipe system. On the field, next to the row of plants or trees, a tube is installed. At regular intervals, near the plants or trees, a hole is made in the tube and equipped with an emitter. The water is supplied slowly, drop by drop, to the plants through these emitters. (2) With sprinkler irrigation, artificial rainfall is created. The water is led to the field through a pipe system in which the water is under pressure. The spraying is accomplished by using several rotating sprinkler heads or spray nozzles or a single gun type sprinkler. Due to budget constraints UN Women will limit its intervention at plumbing water from the source (the nearest water tank in each locality) to the units and the two systems considered behind will be left for a different resource mobilization opportunity. For this particular intervention focus will be on bringing water to the nearest point of the farming unit. The irrigation system will be the simplest one which consists of bringing water from the source of supply, such as a well, to each plant with a bucket or a water-can. The action was not taken as planned, due to high cost and project closure extensive irrigation for the fodder bank was discontinued
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 7: RELEVANCE
Management Response: UN Women is very interested in narrowing the gap in the access to key civil registration and information about NUIT (tax payer card), INSS card (for social security), DUAT (for land deeds), education, health, and financial and telecommunication services for women and girls in Guijá.
Description: The project should upscale one of its initiative on sharefairs for the access of services for rural women empowerment to ensure the minimum conditions for women to access key registration, market information, social protection and financial services. This should be conducted in close collaboration with local government services to ensure continuity of the intervention and full coverage of the target districts.
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Relevance
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Realization of sharefairs on the Access to Services for Women´s Economic Empowerment (taking stock of national and international Women´s Day (7 April, 8 March 2018, 31 July, etc) UN Women and Directorate of Civil Registration 2018/08 Completed Sharefairs will among other, also be used to: • To deliver key messages on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment in line with national and global commitments to decision/policy makers, specially the SDGs and the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62); • To provide counselling on legal issues, sexual and reproductive health, family law, penal code and inheritance regulations; thus, contributing to ending violence against women and women’s economic empowerment; • To encourage rural women’s greater participation in the rural and national economy and their access to key social protection services; • To provide an opportunity for rural women to undertake registration for the fulfilment of their citizenship and economic empowerment, namely, national ID cards (identity document), NUIT (tax payer card), INSS card (for social protection) and DUAT (for land tenure tittle), financial education and bank accounts, etc. • To encourage the full participation of rural women in the formal economy by promoting the reduction barriers rural female entrepreneurs face in accessing formal markets;
2. Establish (long term) strategic partnerships with the national directorate of civil registration Un Women 2019/01 No Longer Applicable This action is no longer applicable for this project. However, the CO is in negotiations with the responsible institution to replicate the initiative in other projects, namely: Rapariga biz and the recovery framework following cyclones idai and keneth in mozambique. (partnership with UNDP).
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 8: Efficiency
Management Response: Budget revision are undertaken as part of UN Women normal management processes in ATLAS. We feel there is no need to change the global approved budget package and allocation of resources. However, UN Women will take special attention in assuring that most of the investments are focusing at district level and at consolidation of Initiated businesses. UN Women will also seek to enlarge the resource base so to assure wide coverage in the field recognizing high level of demand in the Province of Gaza.
Description: It is urgent for the project to conduct a budget revision to suit a new project plan to be developed for consolidation of project interventions in the last cycle of the project (Project Implementation Plan to be developed as part of re-planning according to MTE findings to allow on consolidation of launched investment projects in the last part of the project cycle);
Management Response Category: Rejected
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Regularly review project performance matrix as part of senior management field visit to the project site UN Women 2019/01 Completed Senior management visited the project site. However, many of the recommendations could not be implemented since the project was about to close and it was underfunded. UN women senior management has adopted this practice to other ongoing projects.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 9: Efficiency
Management Response: Due to budget limitations and the need to allocate more resources to development Interventions in the field UN Women is not in agreement with this proposal. Allocating more staff to the field would consume precious resources and increase project administrative costs. Instead UN Women will extend its geographic coverage and technical assistance by signing contracts with implementing partners with presence in the field.
Description: The MTE findings urges the project management to assign more human resources to the field for wide geographic coverage and to maximize/accelerate delivery of project outputs and recovery from delays in investments as witnessed in the past. It is recommended for the project to assign a Project Assistant with driver functions in Gaza, to support the Project Officer on logistic and technical support tasks in the field.
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Organizational efficiency
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Sign letters of agreement with implementing partners to accelerate the Implementation of the project and allow for wide coverage IIAM Chobela 2017/05 Completed IIAM - The Mozambican Agrarian Research Institute is an affiliated institution to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. DIC is the institution responsible to issue IDs.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 10: Efficiency
Management Response: Due to budget constraints no vehicle will be permanently allocated in Gaza. Instead, resources where used to Improve local stakeholders capacity. Extension services were equipped to enhance their capacity to reach out women’s agricultural associations and entrepreneurs in remote areas. UN Women equipped Mabalane and Guijá districts public entities responsible for agricultural extension services and transfer of know-how with means of transportation. Four off-road motorcycles were acquired for that end and it was in response to the lack of technical assistance by women involved in agricultural value chain. A closer technical support from extension services has the potential of expanding agricultural production and productivity among women farmers.
Description: It is urgent that the project attends to the transport needs for the project on Gaza to accelerate project implementation, strengthen monitoring and support the project partners. So far, there is no permanent vehicle allocated to the project (resorting in rented cars) and this is limiting the field work for the Project Officer who is based in Gaza, and is affecting project on timely implementation
Management Response Category: Rejected
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Operational activities
UNEG Criteria: Efficiency
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Hire vehicles (rent-a-car) for specific project missions in the project area using UN System long term agreement (LTA) with service providers UN Women 2019/01 Completed
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 11: Monitoring and Knowledge Management
Management Response: The CO will recruit a full time M&E Officer to assist the Project team monitoring function including reviewing existing monitoring tools. Additionally, training modules to implementing partners (IP) will be encouraged. The training will be based on the RBM training module recently developed by UN Women’s Program and Planning Guidance Unit (PPGU) which addresses the following:  Planning for results using the Theory of Change as a planning tool  The results chain (outcomes, outputs and indicators)  Monitoring results and Results reporting  Evaluations
Description: Develop and implement M&E Framework that includes field monitoring plan for the last part of the project cycle for enhanced project monitoring that guarantees support to the project stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries;
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Evidence, Data and statistics
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Recruit a dedicated M&E Officer UN Women 2019/01 Completed The co has hired a dedicated M&E officer to accelerate its monitoring and evaluation and learning agenda
2. Review the project/CO M&E framework UN Women 2019/01 No Longer Applicable Due to project closure it was not possible to reformulate the matrix on time. However, learning has been used for similar interventions and future programming
3. Organize workshop to increase understanding among IPs personnel in Mozambique on Results-Based Management (RBM). UN Women 2019/01 Completed It took place after project closure. However, this practice has been adopted by UN women for all other IPs.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 12: Monitoring and Knowledge Management
Management Response: The project consolidated the work of the cadre of provincial government planners on gender responsive budgeting and planning processes for the development of appropriate policies interventions and institutions to monitor the SDGs, gender equality and women’s empowerment progress. As a result, the new Provincial Strategic Development Plan (2017 - 2022) is paying attention to gender mainstreaming which will assist in sustaining the results of the project. UN Women will continue its work in partnership with CeCAGe and other actors in order to develop a national capacity on gender responsive monitoring, reporting and evaluations.
Description: In partnership with CeCaGe (Eduardo Mondlane University), support the project stakeholders and partners on development and adaption of gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation tools for improved data collection and reporting as a mechanism to apply the principles of GRB in the partner institutions.
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Knowledge management
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Not applicable
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Develop/adapt gender-responsive data collection tools for government planners UN Women 2019/12 No Longer Applicable The action were not implemented due to project closure.
2. Undertake trainings on building the national capacity on gender-responsive monitoring and evaluations of local governance plans (PESODs, PESOP) CeCAGE 2019/12 No Longer Applicable UN Women had planned to take stock of existing partnership with UEM/CeCAGe on GRB to extend and diversify training opportunities. Modules from UN Women training Centre will be adapted for that end. However, this action will no longer be implemented due to project closure.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 13: Sustainability
Management Response: Gender-responsive budgeting at district and provincial levels is an important sustainability measure for women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increase government accountability. During the design of the project sustainability was considered as paramount, so the team has integrated a section on Sustainability in the Project Document. Monitoring missions have also been focusing on measures for sustainability. UN Women will still be working at project site following project closure. A partnership with FAO was also considered to keep technical assistance of women farmers assisted by the project going.
Description: There is a huge need to consolidate the project’s sustainability approaches in a documented sustainability strategy, with a clear exit plan. Importantly, the sustainability plan should consider providing the model on which the interventions will be run after the end of the project, either as associations or cooperate business entities;
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Integrated livestock and crop production systems into the project to allow for quick response to food needs at household level, whilst farmers await for income generation from livestock selling. IIAM Chobela 2019/12 Completed
2. To assure the multiplying effects of investments and know-how support all members of cooperatives to start their own business at home to easily respond to immediate household needs for food and medical emergencies, as well as open the space to grow individual enterprises. UN Women 2019/12 Overdue-Initiated Initiated with a low coverage in Gaza. However, the CO has been testing this model including in other projects as part of its learning agenda.
3. Involve beneficiaries throughout the project investment cycle. Women are employed as apprentice mason so to grant their ownership and development of important skills to maintain the infrastructure. UN Women 2019/12 Completed
4. Work with smaller groups (cooperatives) to maximize the per capita profit and individual entrepreneurs can help unleash the entrepreneurial potential and expose role model women in business to inspire their fellows in the community and create job opportunities. IIAM Chobela 2019/12 Completed Completed and adopted as CO practice within other projects with a similar approach.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 14: Sustainability
Management Response: The country office has engaged in resource mobilization in order to promote participation of rural women in development and review of community adaptations plans to address climate risks. This activity has been integrated into the Flagship Programme on Economic Empowerment of Rural Women and Climate Resilience (under finalization). Besides meetings held with representatives of ILO, FAO and WFP with the aim of engaging sister agencies in a joint programme taking advantage of comparative advantage and the capacity of each agency. So far no resources were secured.
Description: Due to the relevance of the project to Gaza and the targeted districts, it is recommended to mobilize resources for a project extension for period of more three additional years to allow to further build the capacity of local stakeholders and project beneficiaries on the implementation of project sustainability approaches, and, respond to the recent challenges of economic deceleration of the Mozambican economy.
Management Response Category: Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Resource mobilization
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1. Negotiate an extension of the project with the current donor UN Women 2017/12 Completed Completed with no success. Due to changes at the donor’s headquarters cost extension of the project was not successful. However, the project as granted a non-cost-extension from September 2018 to December 2018.
2. Draft a proposal on gender and education to respond to the need of literacy among farmers and market vendor in the project site UN Women 2018/09 Completed Drafted and submitted to donor a proposal on “Education as catalyst for gender equality and elimination of violence against women and girls”. However, the project application was not successful. It was short listed but not awarded.
3.Draft a proposal on gender and climate resilient agriculture UN Women 2019/01 Completed Drafted a Programme document on " Flagship Programme on Gender and Climate Resilient Agriculture". However, no resources were granted so far.
Recommendation: RECOMMENDATIONS 15: Sustainability
Management Response: The Office is also setting the ground for affirmative procurement as part of the Women's Empowerment Principles. A series of meetings with the private sector (Mozal, BCI, Cotour, Maragra, etc) has aimed at influencing them to enlarge the market share of women business in their supply chain.
Description: It is important that the project conduct extensive dissemination of existing funding and financial education for women and increase women's awareness of access to credit that is appropriate to their needs; this will widen access to financial sources for the women and respond to women’s financial needs after UN Women’s project phase-out.
Management Response Category: Partially Accepted
Thematic Area: Women economic empowerment (SPs before 2018)
Operating Principles: Not applicable
Organizational Priorities: Not applicable
UNEG Criteria: Sustainability
Key Actions
Responsible Deadline Status Comments
1.Dissemination of opportunities for funding and functional literacy UN Women 2019/01 No Longer Applicable Sharefairs have been used to disseminate information about financial literacy and financial and registration services for rural women.