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Why Contribute to the Gender Thematic Trust Fund (GTTF)?
The GTTF is an easy funding instrument with standardized trust fund
procedures, providing for both earmarked and non-earmarked
financial contributions that address gender equality gaps. Funding
requests, channelled through UNDP country offices, are received as
short-format proposals and acted upon on a fast-track basis.
The GTTF has become one of the main vehicles within UNDP for financing
innovative gender equality initiatives. The fund leverages UNDP's work on
gender equality and women's empowerment across 166 countries,
particularly at the policy level, bringing dedicated resources and services
to address gender dimensions in each of the focus areas.
As the manager of the Resident Coordinator system, reputation among
governments as a "reliable partner" and within civil society as a "honest
broker," UNDP is uniquely positioned to address a wide range of critical
issues of concern to women through strategic partnerships - at local,
national, regional or global levels.
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Kyrgyzstan
"The project became a vivid example for other donor organizations confronting the current unemployment crisis in Kok-Jangak due to the closing of the coal mining factory, bringing women's unemployment to the fore as one of the burning issues in our village."
-- Mr. Aitakhunov, Head of Village Municipality, discusses the GTTF project supporting sewing shops in Kyrgyzstan.
In an effort to reduce the gender gaps in access to productive assets and financial services, the project led to promoting entrepreneurship knowledge and skills of 2,580 rural women informal workers.
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