The UNDP Guinea-Bissau Gender Strategy for the period 2022-2025 sets out priorities for promoting gender equality based on the aforementioned Global Strategy 2022-2025, as well as the Country Program Document 2022-2026 – CPD, and develops strategic guidelines, methodologies, and objectives to refine UNDP GB's response in support of national organizations in consolidating gender equality and women's empowerment, in accordance with the targets set out in Sustainable Development Goal 5 1 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. It confirms the commitment of the UNDP Guinea-Bissau Country Office to continue to optimally integrate gender mainstreaming by capitalizing on achievements and strengthening existing institutional mechanisms in order to accelerate progress towards gender equality and women's empowerment, both at the office level and at the national level in close partnership with the Guinea-Bissau’s government.

Our work focuses in:

• Integration of gender throughout the programme cycle (design, planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation)

• Strengthening staff capacities in the area of gender with a view to promoting a more gender-sensitive institutional culture

• Revitalizing internal gender structures 4. Priority objective

• Strengthening partnerships to maximize the impact on gender priorities.

• Strengthening women's participation and leadership

• Prevention and responses to GBV gender-based violence in Guinea-Bissau

• Response to climate change and resilience