UN Women in Egypt
UN Women Egypt Country Office’s work is carried out in support of the Arab Republic of Egypt’s Vision 2030 and the National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women (2030), and is grounded in the principles and targets contained in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Beijing Platform for Action.
Under the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework in Egypt (UNSDCF 2023-2027), UN Women ECO implements its triple mandate of supporting normative standard-setting to advance gender equality and women's empowerment, implementing national and grassroots programmes grounded in international norms and best practices in partnership with national stakeholders, and strengthening UN system coordination.Operational in Egypt for over three decades, the ECO has consolidated its expertise, partnerships, and investments into the key signature portfolios:
- Women’s Economic Empowerment through supporting rural women’s digital financial inclusion, advancing more women in management and leadership positions, women’s entrepreneurship and employability, evidence-based advocacy for investing in care sector, supporting private sector’s further uptake and implementation of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPS), and supporting gender lens investing approaches. Under this portfolio, UN Women also supports women refugee and asylum seekers’ in accessing sustainable livelihoods.
- Eliminating all forms of Violence Against Women and Girls through strengthening survivor-centered, multisectoral essential services with a particular focus on improved access to psycho-social and mental health support, legal aid, safe shelter, and enhanced public safe spaces; advancing community and national level awareness and understanding of the root causes of violence against women and girls; and partnering in the support of legislative and policy reform.
- Women's leadership and system-wide support to advancing gender equality through promoting women’s full and equal engagement in decision-making and leadership in public life and tackling the overarching bottlenecks to women’s empowerment and gender equality.
In all of UN Women’s work in Egypt, we partner with the Government of Egypt, and work with civil society and private sector in advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Our strategies in all areas include the engagement of national stakeholders in regional and global normative forums; contributing evidenced-based, nationally-led legislative reform and the development of national knowledge products and tools on the gains and challenges to gender equality and women’s empowerment; supporting women’s access to skills, networks, and services and fostering platforms for their enhanced voice and leadership; supporting the development of innovative financing mechanisms and tools – including gender responsive budgeting – to advance gender equality commitments; and advancing nationally and community owned change around attitudes and behaviors which are at the root of gender-based inequalities, with priority being given to the engagement of men and boys as champions.
UN Women’s work in Egypt is made possible through the generous partnership and support of our Development Partners, including Canada/Global Affairs, the European Union, France, Italy/AICS, Japan, the Netherlands, Proctor & Gamble, South Korea/KOICA, Spain/AECID, Sweden/Sida, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the UN Joint SDG Fund, and the UN Trust Fund for Human Security.