UN Women – United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Organization Overview 

UN Women – the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women has been created to speed up the process of meeting the needs of women and girls across the world. As a part of the UN reform agenda, it brings together resources and mandates which will subsequently have a lasting impact on the whole community. 

UN Women in Tajikistan is expanding its relations and partnership with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment, the National Committee for Women and Family Affairs under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Agency on Statistics under the President’s Office, the State Committee on Investments and State Property Management of the Republic of Tajikistan, local authorities and civil society organizations. 

UN Women, in partnership with the national and international actors, supports efforts to address stereotypes and patriarchal norms leading to women’s vulnerability and low status in society. UN Women together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ombudsperson’s office, Parliament, civil society organizations and other key partners has undertaken efforts to ensure efficient implementation and monitoring of the domestic violence legislation and effective inter-sectoral coordination of all efforts aimed at eliminating violence against women.

Currently UN Women is developing a new partnership to advance and enforce international commitments in the area of disaster risk reduction and gender equality and encourages learning and innovative approaches to ensure a fast start to recovery in the aftermath of disasters in Tajikistan. 

UN Women also leads the Extended UN Gender Theme Group, which provides a vibrant platform for national and international stakeholders to coordinate gender-specific activities in Tajikistan. As a member of the Rapid Emergency Assessment and Coordination Team (REACT), UN Women ensures that natural disaster-prone Tajikistan takes gender-responsive disaster risk reduction measures. 

The UN Women programme 2016-2020 for Tajikistan focuses on development of three impact areas: