UN Women Executive Board Annual Session 2024 statement by Denmark
Madam President, Madam Executive Director, Excellences,
Firstly,
we would like to congratulate UN Women on the progress achieved the past year
and express our sincere appreciation for the work of UN Women staff and
implementing partners, who continue to deliver despite difficult circumstances.
The
Annual Report of the Executive Director, including the midterm review of the
Strategic Plan highlights the immense challenges to achieving gender equality
and the empowerment of all women and girls. This should serve to remind us of
the continued importance of UN Women’s unique triple mandate.
Denmark
continues to be committed to supporting UN Women through multi-year, flexible
funding and as an advocate for the importance of the entity – including its
centrality for the wider UN system.
VAW
and normative mandate
As we witness stagnating progress on
tackling biased gender norms and pervasive levels of violence against women, UN
Women’s normative mandate remains essential. This work is crucial to enabling systemic change
towards gender equality. We look forward to following the results of the
corporate evaluation on UN Women’s social norms work to inform an
intersectional, feminist approach across the entity as mentioned in the report.
Coordinating
mandate, humanitarian efforts
UN
Women’s strong network of women-led organisations and women’s rights
organisations groups holds immense value for its own work and for the wider UN
system, including in humanitarian and crisis settings.
We encourage
UN Women to continue its efforts to strengthen its convening power. And to
continue to leverage its membership of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee to
place gender equality
at the center of emergency response and preparedness planning.
Funding
and partnerships
We
recognize that transformative, impact level results require a long-term
perspective along with predictable and flexible funding. We were encouraged by
the growth in regular resources relative to other resources in 2023. We commend
UN Women’s efforts to diversify its funding base, including strengthening
private sector engagement, and expand its partnership base
On
this note, how is UN Women working to deepen its partnerships with
International Financial Institutions on the ground?
Conclusion:
Summit of the Future, Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action