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Regional Project in Africa: Enhancing Capacities for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment for Basic Local Service Delivery through Innovative Partnerships

Proposed Outcomes: Take the lessons learnt from the initial orientation on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment and capacity development for pro-poor PPPs in service delivery held in 2007 for 7 UNCT's, government and NGO's to another level. Specifically it aims to: develop tailor made Capacity Development tools on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment for pro poor PPP in local basic service delivery and disseminate them to targeted resource persons and institutions that would then roll them out for targeted women and businesses to implement local level initiatives in 3 selected countries; build a critical mass of resource persons who would be accessible on demand to make knowledge and capacity development responses for gender equality and women empowerment and pro-poor multi-stakeholders partnership arrangements for improved delivery of local services; support 3 UNDP Country Offices and Governments to benefit from the capacity development roll out plan and use the results achieved and knowledge gained to integrate gender equality and women's empowerment for pro-poor partnership local basic service delivery strategies into their country programmes as part of the MDG up scaling efforts.

Reported Results: The initiative is still underway to be completed in 2010. Selected Malawi, Lesotho and Mauritania as the three (3) pilot countries based on their keen interest to implement pro-poor PPP and LSD as an approach to empower women and the synergies present there with ongoing PPPSD country initiatives that have already secured funding from donors and COs. Supported the formulation of country project documents for Malawi, Lesotho and Mauritania. Already the project has leveraged additional resources at the country level and it is expected that it will lay a solid foundation for the partnership between UNDP and AfDB on women's economic empowerment through pro-poor PPP in local service delivery. In Mauritania mobilized USD 400,000 in additional resources from the US Government. If the pilot is successful, the Country Offices expect to attract new funding partners to up-scale the initiative in other localities. In Malawi mobilized USD 198,500 in additional resources from the UNDP Country Office. Forged close partnership with UN Habitat during the design and formulation phases that will be pursued at the subsequent phase through provision of day-to-day programme implementation support and oversight through their Habitat Programme Manager housed in UNDP Country Office as part of the UNDP-UN Habitat corporate agreement.