Women's Empowerment

The UNDP's Thematic Trust Funds are used to achieve development goals. The funds enable donors to provide additional contributions for work in the UNDP focus areas and support the implementation of programmes at country, regional and global levels.

Through the Gender Thematic Trust Fund (GTTF), UNDP is focusing on gender mainstreaming in order to meet the challenges of reaching gender equality and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The GTTF supports programme countries in their efforts to mainstream gender throughout all of their programme work. It is intended to enable institutional and cultural transformation processes, including:

In 2005, the GTTF received a contribution of US$5.5 million from the Government of the Netherlands. This contribution was in support of the Corporate Gender Strategy and Action Plan for 2005, which recognizes the need to strengthen and reinforce UNDP's internal capacity on gender mainstreaming. The funds have supported 45 Country Offices, four Regional Service Centers and five Headquarter units to follow a comprehensive set of activities for effective and systematic gender mainstreaming.

Detailed financial and activity reporting is done on an annual basis to donors and established UNDP monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are applied to Trust activities.

For more on the GTTF, click here (PDF).