Global Annual Results Report 2023: Gender Equality
Delivering on a bold vision of transformative change for adolescent girls and women everywhere
Highlights
UNICEF prioritizes gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as crucial for protecting the rights of all children. The UNICEF Gender Action Plan 2022-2025 articulates a series of time-bound programmatic and institutional targets to achieve more transformative, lasting change. In 2023, the midpoint of the Gender Action Plan, there were notable gains in many areas, with UNICEF either surpassing or almost meeting its milestones.
Institutionally, UNICEF also met key benchmarks in priority areas, including more gender analyses, more intentional integration of gender considerations in programmes, and improved accountability for gender results. UNICEF has achieved gender parity in its staffing globally and continues to refine its policies to make the organization a more inclusive and transformative workplace.
Headline result:
- 78 countries with UNICEF-led interventions had at scale programmes addressing gender discriminatory roles and practices among children.
