United Nations Development Fund for Women

The United Nations Development Fund for Women ( French Fonds de développement des Nations Unies pour la femme, UNIFEM , English United Nations Development Fund for Women ; Spanish Fondo de Desarrollo de las Naciones Unidas para la Mujer ) was a special organ of the United Nations (UN) . It was founded in 1976 with the aim of offering financial and technical support for innovation programs, the realization of human rights issues specific to women , the realization of political equality and economic equality . Within the UN, UNIFEM ensured that all projects were also evaluated from a gender perspective. In January 2011, UNIFEM was merged into the newly founded organization UN Women .

mandate

• Support innovative and experimental activities at national and regional level that improve gender equality and opportunity.
• Mediation at national and international level, so that the interests of women in all areas can be better perceived through increased participation of women in decision-making processes.
• An innovative and mediating role with regard to equal opportunities and equality for women in all development projects of the United Nations.

job

The predecessor organization Voluntary Fund for the UN Women's Decade was founded in 1976 on the initiative of Helvi Sipilä in response to the demands of women's organizations in the context of the first UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City (1975). It was present in over 100 countries.

Concrete objective

1. Practical support for women's organizations and networks
2. Offer political and financial support for projects that improve the situation of women
3. Improve collaboration between women's organizations, women's networks, governments, the United Nations and the private sector.
4. Promote and support pilot projects and innovative ideas in the areas of women's empowerment and gender mainstreaming .
5. Carry out research and research with the aim of being able to offer the knowledge of effective strategies for improving equality and equal opportunities.

Focus

Economic security and rights for women

• Budgets for gender issues
• trade
• Microeconomics / globalization

Government Participation, Peace and Security

• peace and security
• gender equality
• Women-specific human rights
• Gender-based violence against women
• HIV / AIDS

Concrete projects

• Improving the situation of women in Afghanistan
• Information-and communicationtechnologies

Priority regions

• Africa
• Asia Pacific (Bangkok)
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Eastern Europe

Web links

• Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development: UN WOMEN / UNIFEM

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UN Creates New Structure for Empowerment of Women ( Memento of the original of July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , United Nations Press Release July 2, 2010  
2. ↑ http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en