United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN)
1. Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, has the governing body of your organization taken (or will it take) any decisions or new strategies to guide the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs? If any, please provide a brief summary below, including the overarching vision of your organization.
The overall orientation of UN-Women is to achieve the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women and the realization of equality between women and men as partners in and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. As regards the 2030 Agenda, UN-Women supports in particular the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 5, on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls, as well as of the gender dimensions of all the other Goals, through gender mainstreaming, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, recognizing that gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls are essential to the achievement of sustainable development in all its dimensions. (See SF 2018-2019, A/71/6/Rev.1.)
In August 2017, the Executive Board of UN-Women endorsed the new Strategic Plan 2018-2021. The Strategic Plan contributes to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and spells out how UN-Women's operational response and coordination role support the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda, which galvanizes results across all SDGs.
The decision 2017/5 endorsing the Strategic Plan calls upon UN Women to continue to play a central role in promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in supporting Member States, upon their request, in the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
In line with the 2016 quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system (QCPR), the Strategic Plan contains a Common Chapter which spells out how UN Women, UNICEF, UNFPA and UNDP will work together with stronger coherence and collaboration in supporting the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.
http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2017/8/un-women-strategic-plan-2018-2021
2.1 SDG-specific strategies, plans or work programmes
UN-Women's Annual Report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director on the implementation of the Strategic Plan 2014-2017 for the year 2016 for the first time reported how implementation of the SP contributed to the implementation of the SDGs. http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/executive%20board/2017/annual%20session%202017/unw-2017-2-annual%20report%20of%20the%20executive%20director-en.pdf?la=en&vs=4637.
The tracking, monitoring and reporting of this support will be further enhanced in the context of the implementation of the 2018-2021 SP, and its IRRF.
Through the implementation of its Strategic Plan 2018-2021, UN-Women provides the following support to Member States, at their request: integrated normative support; integrated policy advice; comprehensive and disaggregated data; capacity development; advocacy and social mobilization; direct support and service delivery; support functions; and UN system coordination. Given the overall orientation of the Strategic Plan 2018-2021, UN-Women's support consistently includes support for the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda and achievement of the SDGs. Examples of recent and ongoing work are reflected in question 3.
2.2 Aligning the structure of the organization with the transformative features of the 2030 Agenda, including any challenges and lessons learned in doing so
The achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women is central to the mandate of UN-Women and is addressed across all its priority areas of work. Building on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action as the foundation, UN-Women helped galvanize a strong start for the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda. UN-Women advocated for strengthening global norms and standards in response to the commitments of the 2030 Agenda. UN-Women provided normative support to the Commission on the Status of Women at its sixtieth session in March 2016, when the Commission adopted a road map for the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in its agreed conclusions on "Women's empowerment and the link to sustainable development".
UN-Women's Strategic Plan 2018-2021 contributes to the achievement of the SDGs, synergistically targeting several goals and targets. The focus of the 2030 Agenda on leaving no one behind is integral to UN-Women's programming. The Entity is aligning the UN System-Wide Action Plan for gender equality and women's empowerment (UN-SWAP) and the country-level gender scorecard with the SDGs.
2.3 Readjusting or updating results-based budgeting and management, including performance indicators:
UN-Women's Integrated Results and Resources Framework (IRRF) of the Strategic Plan 2018-2021 is aligned with relevant intergovernmental frameworks on gender equality and the empowerment of women. It highlights UN-Women's contribution to support the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The IRRF articulates expected results during UN-Women's Strategic Plan cycle of 2018-2021 and defines the metrics (indicators, baselines, milestones and targets) that will be used to measure progress and assess the effectiveness and impact of the plan. The IRRF also outlines estimated resources necessary for the achievement of each outcome. The IRRF is a key instrument for UN-Women to measure its performance, promote learning and programming adjustments, and inform decision-making to optimize the implementation of the Strategic Plan. This integrated framework brings together development results and organizational effectiveness and efficiency results. In addition, the framework links outcomes to financial resources on the basis of a specific methodology. The integrated nature of the framework emphasizes the interconnection between UN-Women's internal capacity, institutional enablers and necessary inputs, including financial resources, with the changes the Entity seeks to contribute to towards achieving gender equality and women's empowerment. In order to ensure strong alignment with other relevant existing frameworks, the IRRF includes relevant indicators from the global framework to monitor Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as agreed by the UN Statistical Commission; the monitoring framework of the 2016 quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the UN system (QCPR) coordinated by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs; as well as shared indicators with UNDP, UNFPA and UNICEF.
2.4 Action to enhance support to the principle of "leaving no one behind" and to integrated policy approaches:
All impact indicators and most outcome indicators are aligned with international frameworks, including Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, in line with the Strategic Plan guiding principle of leaving no one behind, included in the 2030 Agenda, UN-Women will strive to provide data disaggregated by relevant categories. The extent and level of disaggregation largely depends on factors that are sometimes beyond UN-Women's control, such as availability of disaggregated data at the national level.
To enhance availability of gender statistics, UN Women's flagship programme initiative, 'Making Every Woman and Girl Count', over 5 years, responds to data gaps and challenges by aiming to improve the institutional environment to support effective monitoring of all gender-related SDGs; increase the production of gender-sensitive data; and ensure that these data are used to inform policies and promote accountability. It incorporates implementation arrangements and activities at national, regional and global levels.
2.5 Others:
Through its field presence, UN-Women supports Member States in translating global norms and standards into transformative change for women and girls, including through leveraging the capacity of UN Country Teams and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Flagship Programming Initiatives (FPIs) brought greater programmatic focus, provided a common framework for collaboration at national level, and supported resource mobilization efforts.
3.1 Mainstreaming the SDGs in development plans and policies or through national sustainable development plans/strategies:
UN Women supports Member States in the development of national development strategies and national gender equality action plans. In 2016, UN Women supported 82 countries to strengthen gender equality priorities in their national, sectorial and local development plans and budgets. As a result, 28 countries reported increases in budget allocations for gender equality and women's empowerment. In addition, with the support from UN Women, from 2013 to 2016, a total of 45 countries developed transparent tracking systems for gender equality allocations.
UN Women supports Member States so that more national and local plans, strategies, policies and budgets are gender-responsive. UN-Women contributes to developing capacities of institutions to promote gender-responsive governance; provides technical assistance to finance and sector ministries to integrate gender perspectives into policies, plans and budgets; provides capacity development to national women's machineries and women's organizations; and contributes knowledge on key drivers for gender-responsive governance. For example, the Entity is finalizing two policy-focused papers, on Gender and Taxation, and on Gender-Responsive Fiscal Decentralization. The knowledge and policy recommendations generated by these papers will enhance UN Women country offices' provision of capacity development activities to governments.
UN Women offers a gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) training course aimed at building capacity to apply GRB within different sectors through practical exercises and first-hand experiences from GRB practitioners. A Practitioner's Toolkit on Women's Access to Justice Programming (Toolkit) has been jointly developed by UN Women, OHCHR, UNDP and UNODC to improve justice delivery and outcomes for women in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
3.2 Mainstreaming the SDGs in sectoral strategies, including specific SDG/target strategies:
UN Women supports the integration of gender perspectives in national efforts related to SDG 3, on health, with a specific focus on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health efforts, as well as HIV/AIDS. This includes technical support to national partners in designing and implementing gender-responsive HIV strategies, and reproductive and maternal health plans/investment cases towards insuring they are responsive to the impact of gender norms on meeting maternal health targets. The Entity offers support to ensure women's organizations are engaging as key stakeholders in the efforts at national and sub-national level. UN Women particularly partners with networks of women living with HIV, in all their diversities, to ensure they are key players in the HIV response. In 2016, UN Women collaborated with the International Community of Women Living with HIV in 10 countries in the organization of workshops that trained over 200 women living with HIV on how to advocate the inclusion of their perspectives in policy-making to localize the 2030 Agenda. A Guide to the SDGs for the Network of Women Living with HIV was developed and disseminated; it outlines key strategies to ensure SDGs implementation works for women living with HIV.
UN Women supports the achievement of SDG target 5.5, 'Ensure women's full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life'. The Entity works with the Inter-Parliamentary Union in supporting the elimination of discriminatory laws on women's political participation and provides technical support to parliamentarians, parliamentary gender equality committees and women's caucuses to institutionalize gender-sensitive procedures and practices. Together with partner agencies such as UNDP, UN Women prepared guidelines promoting gender equality in electoral processes and preventing violence against women participating in political and electoral processes. In 2018, UN Women will develop and implement training tools targeting women leaders, aspiring candidates and elected women at all levels.
3.3 Data and statistical capacity building:
UN Women is contributing to data and statistical capacity building for monitoring progress in the achievement of SDGs.
- UN Women, the World Bank Group and the OECD SIGI have developed a methodology for SDG indicator 5.1.1 'Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex' (currently a tier III indicator). The proposed methodology has been successfully pilot tested. The proposed methodology covers four areas of law and 45 questions drawn from the international legal and policy framework on equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex, in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Beijing Platform for Action. The three agencies plan to present the proposal to the IAEG-SDGs in the spring 2018 with a request for upgrade to tier II. Indicator 5.1.1 will be crucial in accelerating progress by tracking the removal of discriminatory laws and adoption of legal frameworks that promote, enforce and monitor gender equality.
- In 2017, UN Women finalized the methodology of SDG Indicator 5.5.1b, 'proportion of seats held by women in local government'. In the process, UN Women collaborated closely with the UN regional commissions and engaged with national stakeholders, including National Statistical Offices, Electoral Management Bodies and national gender equality mechanisms (Ministries) in different countries and regions, to ensure that their unique perspectives and needs are accounted for in the methodological design of SDG indicator 5.5.1b and in the planning of future capacity building activities. Collaboration with the Regional Commissions will also be pursued in the future data compilation for SDG monitoring.
- UN Women, together with the OECD and UNDP refined the methodology of SDG Indicator 5.c.1, 'proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women's empowerment'. This collaboration will continue for the data collection process. The methodology refinement entailed consultations with stakeholders including ministries of finance, national gender equality mechanisms, civil society organizations, international financial institutions and academia. Going forward, UN-Women will support ministries of finance to report on this SDG indicator. In this context, UN-Women will strengthen capacity of national statistical offices, national gender equality mechanisms (Ministries), sectoral ministries, and civil society organizations to validate the data through the provision of on-demand technical support.
- UN Women contributes to work for the development of content and monitoring frameworks for indicators pertaining to peace and security, particularly of SDG 16. The Entity is an active member of a working group on governance statistics of the UN Statistical Commission, where it provides technical advice for the development of methodological guidelines for the calculation of statistics on peace and governance related indicators.
3.5 Multi-stakeholder partnerships:
Among the lessons learned in regard to data and statistical capacity building is the importance of supporting partnerships between the different national stakeholders within a country as a key in accelerating the implementation of the SDGs. Collaboration ensures the quality of the technical and statistical products developed and prevents unnecessary work duplication or inconstancies in data disseminated at country, regional and global levels. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation monitoring framework provides a useful platform and mechanism for country-level monitoring of effective development cooperation (SDG 17.16.1).
3.7 Leveraging interlinkages across SDG goals and targets:
In 2017, UN Women organized a Expert Group Meeting, in cooperation with DESA, to address the interlinkages between SDG 5 and the other SDGs under review at the HLPF. See also answers to question 4.
4.1 Supporting the intergovernmental body of your organization in contributing to the thematic review of the HLPF:
As the substantive secretariat of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN-Women continued to support the Commission in its role as the principal global policy-making body that sets global standards and formulates policies for the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women and women's rights everywhere. UN Women annually supports the Commission in providing its inputs to the HLPF.
In March 2015, prior to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the Commission affirmed that it also will contribute to the follow-up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development so as to accelerate the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
In 2016, at its sixtieth session, the Commission prepared a road map for the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda with the adoption of its agreed conclusions on 'women's empowerment and the link to sustainable development'. The Commission identified key strategies for governments and other stakeholders to implement so as to ensure such a gender-responsive implementation, namely: strengthening normative, legal and policy frameworks; fostering enabling environments for financing gender equality; strengthening women's leadership and participation in decision-making in all areas of sustainable development; strengthening gender-responsive data collection; and enhancing national institutional arrangements.
In 2017, the Commission considered as its priority theme 'women's empowerment in the changing world of work', which contributed to the HLPF. In 2018, the Commission will consider 'Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls', which will also contribute to HLPF.
Also in 2017, UN-Women collaborated with UNODC and UNCTAD in the organization of a side events with the Chairs of five functional commissions, on gender mainstreaming in their work, on the eve of the HLPF, and in an effort to showcase the gender-responsive work of the Commissions in support of 2030 Agenda implementation.
4.2 Contributing to policy/background briefs for the HLPF:
In 2017, UN Women supported the in-depth review of SDG 5 by co-authoring an inter-agency background note and contributed to background notes on other SDGs under review: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/14383SDG5format-revOD.pdf. UN Women developed knowledge products, including an issue brief on women with disabilities; and a thematic spotlight on SDG 5 which showcased where women and girls stand in regards to select SDG targets: http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/multimedia/2017/7/infographic-spotlight-on-sdg-5.
UN Women is a member of the Inter-Agency Task Force and contributes to the reports prepared by the Task Force for the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development (FfD). The Entity engaged with the 2016 and 2017 FfD follow-up, and provided technical inputs from a gender perspective regarding the FfD's negotiated outcome document which is a key input to the HLPF. This support contributed to the strong reflection of gender perspectives in the outcome document that underlined the importance of transformative financing for gender equality and women's empowerment in the achievement of the SDGs.
4.3 Helping organize SDG-specific events in the preparatory process:
UN Women has organized expert group meetings, briefings for Member States, and side events. Senior officials have also participated as speakers and panelists at HLPF and related preparatory activities. UN Women organized an expert group meeting on strategies to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls through the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/17068Report_of_the_EGM_on_SDG_5_2017.pdf. The key recommendations from the expert group meeting were presented to the HLPF as input for the discussion and the HLPF's Ministerial Declaration. In January 2018, UN-Women contributed to an expert meeting organized by DESA in preparation for the HLPF in 2018.
4.5 Supporting VNR process:
UN-Women annually organizes briefings for countries making voluntary national reviews on mainstreaming a gender perspective in their national preparations and their reviews, and provides technical support upon request.
5. How has your organization cooperated with other UN system organizations to achieve coherence and synergies in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs? In this regard, has your organization launched or intend to launch any joint programmes or projects in collaboration with other UN entities? Are there any results or lessons you would like to highlight that might help improve the design and impact of such efforts? Has your organization participated in any of the following coordination systemwide mechanisms or any other relevant platform - CEB, UNDG, EC-ESA Plus, RCMs, UN-Energy, UN-Water, UN-Ocean, IAEG, IATT? Please specify which and indicate any suggestions you may have about improving collaborations within and across these mechanisms/platforms:
UN Women is a composite entity with normative support, UN system coordination and operational functions. UN Women works closely with and through the entities of the UN system in the delivery of its mandate. This approach is reflected in UN Women's Strategic Plan 2018-2021, its Flagship Programming Initiatives which were launched as multi-stakeholder programmatic platforms to support increased impact across the SDGs; the system-wide action plan for gender equality and the empowerment of women (UN-SWAP), its work in the context of the UNCTs, to name a few. UN Women has been and continues to be actively engaged in key inter-agency fora that have spearheaded enhanced UN system coherence and synergies in recent years. These include: co-leading on the development of a system wide (CEB) framework on Leave No One Behind; within the UNDG, co-leading the updating of the UNDAF guidelines that provide programming guidance to UNCTs, ensuring a strong focus on human rights and gender equality as a key programming principle under the overall umbrella of Leave No One Behind; within the UNDG co-leading the UN working group on strategic financing, including on the role of pooled financing mechanisms to foster collective action; leading and/or co-leading gender equality coordination groups within regional UNDGs to foster joint action at the regional level and support to UNCTs; working with RCs and UNCTs to strengthen gender mainstreaming at the country level, in the context of the SDGs. UN Women chairs the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, which meets once annually and virtually on a regular basis to enhance coordination and synergies. The common chapter contained in the Strategic Plans of UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA and UN Women is a concrete example of how to realize stronger substantive coherence. The common chapter identifies key areas where the four entities will leverage their collaborative advantages for increased impact. Those areas are also fully aligned with the flagship initiatives proposed by the Secretary-General through the System Wide Strategic Document (SWSD), with gender equality and the empowerment of women featuring prominently in both documents. Stronger substantive coherence of the UN system must benefit the people the UN system serves on the ground. For UN Women, strategic repositioning means strengthening the system's collective capacity to deliver better results for women and girls. To achieve this, the next generation of UNDAFs must strengthen these key aspects: 1) fostering the linkages and coherence across the development, humanitarian and peace building pillars; 2) reaffirming the centrality of international norms and standards for UNCT programming; and 3) securing a specific focus on eliminating inequalities and discrimination, including on the basis of gender. UN Women has been instrumental in securing the centrality of human rights and gender equality as programming principles for UNCTs through the UNDAF. Investing in making the UNDAF gender-responsive is an imperative for UN Women. Currently, 62 per cent of UNDAFs feature gender specific outcome results, up from 47 per cent before the Entity was established in 2010. Gender equality is also the number one area of concentration of Joint Programmes implemented by UNCTs (109 out of total 378). UN Women will continue to work towards securing strong gender equality and gender mainstreaming capacity within the UNCTs to help prepare CCAs, develop UNDAFs, convene results groups and engage in joint programmes on gender equality as a prerequisite for delivering results for women and girls. UN-Women Executive Director is a member of the Secretary-General's Executive Committee. UN-Women is a member of the CEB, UNDG, EC-ESA Plus, and of the RCMs, as well as of UN-Energy, UN-Water and the Inter-agency Taskforce on FFD. UN-Women is an observer to the IAEG on SDGs.
6. How has your organization engaged with stakeholder groups, both in supporting implementation at the country, regional and global levels, and within your own organization? If yes, please provide main highlights, including any lessons learned:
Civil society organizations, in particular women's organizations, play a vital role in promoting women's rights, gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. UN-Women closely collaborates with, and supports civil society organizations in the pursuit of common goals. Such collaboration occurs at national, regional and global level, and in the context of the full mandate of the Entity. For example, at global level UN Women regularly engages with the Women's Major Group in the context of 2030 Agenda follow-up and review, and the Women and Gender Constituency in the context of the UNFCCC. Through its global civil society advisory group, and equivalent groups at national and regional level, UN Women has in place platforms and channels of stakeholder engagement that are catalytic for 2030 Agenda implementation, monitoring and ensuring accountability for action.
UN Women is part of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, which is an initiative convened by the Governments of Brazil, Sierra Leone, and Switzerland and facilitated by New York University Center on International Cooperation. It brings together Member States, international organizations, global partnerships, civil society organizations, and the private sector, to promote the implementation of the SDG targets for peace, justice and inclusion (SDG16+). The Pathfinders will serve as a platform for generating increased commitments to peace, justice and inclusion during the 2019 HLPF and will support the attainment of demonstrated measurable progress by 2023. The Roadmap for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies was launched during the 72nd session of the General Assembly as a catalyst for scaling up political will, momentum, coherence, innovation, results, and reporting.
UN Women's work with the private sector strengthens availability of resources and expertise for SDG activities.
7. Has your organization organized any conferences, forums or events designed to facilitate exchange of experience, peer and mutual learning? If yes, please provide a brief summary below and include lessons learned and gaps identified based on the outcomes of these events. Please also include any events you plan to organize in the coming years.
UN-Women has organized a significant number of such activities, at national, regional and global level, including as part of the implementation of its Strategic Plan. In addition to events reflected in earlier parts of the survey, some examples are provided below.
UN Women has organized technical meetings for several SDG tier III Indicators to harness the expertise of international specialists to develop sound indicator methodologies. For example, UN Women convened an expert group meeting to discuss and agree on key elements for refining the methodology of SDG Indicator 5.c.1. The EGM supported a substantive analysis of methodological considerations and resulted in recommendations of the key elements for a refined methodology and corresponding survey instrument for data collection.
At regional level, UN Women has jointly organized with UN Regional Economic Commissions, workshops on women's representation and participation in local government in ESCWA and ECA regions, facilitating the exchange of experiences in data collection and use between countries, as well as exchange of perspectives between national stakeholders within the same country. The Entity intends to organize similar workshops in other regions, for example in the Pacific, in 2018.
The UN Women Training Centre has developed courses on the inclusion of the Leave No one Behind principle in training courses and tools. It also developed an introductory online self-paced course on gender equality issues in the 2030 Agenda.
8. Is there any other information you would like to share, including annual reports of your organization and any impact assessment or evaluation reports? If yes, please use the space below and attach the document(s). Please also use this space to provide any other information, comments or remarks you deem necessary:
UN Women's first flagship global monitoring report on the SDGs, Turning Promises into Action—Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, will be launched on 14 February 2018. This report is the first of its kind to monitor the SDGs in their entirety from a gender perspective. The report provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of progress, gaps and challenges in the implementation of the SDGs from a gender perspective. The report monitors global and regional trends in achieving the SDGs for women and girls based on available data, and provides practical guidance for the implementation of gender-responsive policies and accountability processes. As a source of high quality data and policy analysis, the report is a key reference and accountability tool for policymakers, the UN system, women's organizations, and other stakeholders.
This report lays the basis for robust, gender-responsive monitoring of the 2030 Agenda by:
(a) showing how gender equality is central to the achievement of all 17 SDGs and arguing for an integrated and rights-based approach to implementation
(b) explaining gender data gaps and challenges for robust monitoring and establishing starting points and trends across a range of gender-related indicators based on available data
(c) providing concrete guidance on policies to achieve two strategic targets under SDG 5 (violence and unpaid care and domestic work) and outlining how these policies are synergistic with other goals and targets
(d) setting an agenda for strengthening accountability for gender equality commitments at global, regional and national levels.
http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/sdg-report
9. In your view, what should a strategic plan for the UN system in support of the 2030 Agenda and SDGs look like? What key elements should it include and major challenges address in such a road map?
UN Women fully supports the proposals of the Secretary-General in his report 'Repositioning the United Nations development system to deliver on the 2030 Agenda: our promise for dignity, prosperity and peace on a healthy planet' (A/72/684). The report includes a United Nations system-wide strategic document, setting out concrete actions and a preliminary road map for more coherent United Nations development system support for countries in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and drawing from existing Strategic Plans. UN Women welcomes and is ready to fully engage across the flagship initiatives contained in the SWSD. These include: 1) climate change (building on CEB Strategic Approach); 2) equality and non-discrimination (building on relevant CEB Framework); 3) violence against women (Spotlight Initiative); 4) data revolution for sustainable development (building on relevant CEB Strategic Approach); 5) risk, resilience and on CEB Strategic Approach); and prevention (building on relevant CEB analytical framework). The Spotlight Initiative draws from UN Women's Flagship Programme Initiative on violence against women, representing an example of evolving from 'entity FPI' to 'system-wide FPI'. Multi stakeholder partnerships and coordination are the foundation of the FPI approach, which UN Women began to put in place already in 2015. The Entity is ready to implement the new proposed approach.