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Communique
ABOUT UN WOMEN WEST AND
CENTRAL AFRICA OFFICE
Located in Dakar, Senegal, the UN Women West and
Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) coordinates
support for 10 Country offices and covers 13 Non
Resident Agency countries. As Non Resident Agency,
UN Women supports the UN system to address gender
equality in its policy, coordination and programmes
efforts towards strengthening women’s and girls’ human
rights protection, resilience and empowerment in the
region.
Serving as the interface between UN Women
headquarters and the country offices, UN Women
WCARO provides high-end policy advisory services and
technical support for the successful implementation of
the UN Women All Africa Strategy at regional level, as
well as for management oversight and quality assurance
processes to enhance the country programmes’
effectiveness.
What we do
Bridging gender knowledge gaps
As a regional center of knowledge, UN Women plays a
key role in knowledge production management, based
on accurate data and gender-responsive research and
evaluation. It promotes a culture of knowledge and
learning, cultivates knowledge partnerships, leads
institutional capacity-building to bridge the gender
knowledge gap, and fosters knowledge exchange
platforms.
To this end, WCARO has been promoting and
supporting the implementation of policy coherence on
these topics through several flagship programmes:
•
he Women Count programme on disaggregated
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gender statistics production.
•
The Climate-Smart Agriculture Value Chains
programme and the Buy from Women digital
platform.
• The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based
Violence campaign and the Spotlight Initiative
on GBV.
• The French Muskoka Fund on maternal and
children’s health.
• The Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access
and Protection in Crisis Response programme
regarding peace and security.
• The global HeForShe campaign for which UN
Women WCARO is playing a critical role in the
development of local progressive legislation and
advocacy efforts to raise awareness of gender
equality and women’s rights.
Achieve gender equality and
empower all women and girls
ONLY
15%
40 years
OF COUNTRIES HAVE LEGISLATION
THAT MANDATES SPECIALIZED
It would take another
GENER-BASED SURVEYS
office
Women accounted for
for women and men to be represented
equally in national political leadership
at the current pace
39%
of total
employment
in 2019,
but
45%
of global
employment losses
in 2020
Women’s share in national parliaments
22.4%
2015
26.2%
More than 1 in 4 women
(15+ years)
2022
have been subjected to intimate
partner violence (641 million)
at least once in their lifetime
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Proportion of
26% comprehensive
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countries with
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systems to track
decisions on sex and
59% some
of a system
gender-budget
reproductive health care
lacking minimum elements
allocations
of
such
a
system
15%
(2018-2021)
(64 countries, 2007-2021)
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THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS REPORT 2022: UNSTATS.UN.ORG/SDGS/REPORT/2022/