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Advancing Resilience and Empowerment
The UN Women implemented project Advancing Resilience and Empowerment ARE is part of the annual work plan for the year 2017 of UN Women's Nepal Country Office. The project is being implemented in the course of 2017 and its total budget is 400.000 EUR. The ARE project is divided into two result areas. The first result area aims to strengthen the capacity of duty bearers (authorities and government) to integrate gender equality objectives into policies and plans. The project provides technical expertise in su pport of drafting Nepal's second NAP and key national legislation with relevance for advancing gender equality obligations enshrined in the constitution. The project also provides technical support to mainstream gender equality and social inclusion objecti ves into post-earthquake reconstruction planning. The second result area focuses on strengthening the ability of excluded women's groups for economic and social participation. The beneficiaries are provided with vocational and entrepreneurship training as well as counseling in disaster preparedness training and humanitarian crisis management. As for the first results area the activities benefit the entire country as the focus is on national level plans and policies. The second results area focuses on 1600 b eneficiaries comprised of girls and women from crisis affected or marginalized groups.The ARE project is a continuation of the Finnish-funded SIWPSAN project which supported the drafting and implementation of Nepal's first National Action Plan on UN securi ty council resolutions 1325 and 1820. The project is currently being evaluated and the results are very promising; some of the targets have even been exceeded. The Ministry for Women Children and Social Welfare and the Ministry for Peace and Reconstruction has taken up the project activities as best practices in the implementing the National Action Plans.
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About this project
The UN Women implemented project Advancing Resilience and Empowerment ARE is part of the annual work plan for the year 2017 of UN Women's Nepal Country Office. The project is being implemented in the course of 2017 and its total budget is 400.000 EUR. The ARE project is divided into two result areas. The first result area aims to strengthen the capacity of duty bearers (authorities and government) to integrate gender equality objectives into policies and plans. The project provides technical expertise in su pport of drafting Nepal's second NAP and key national legislation with relevance for advancing gender equality obligations enshrined in the constitution. The project also provides technical support to mainstream gender equality and social inclusion objecti ves into post-earthquake reconstruction planning. The second result area focuses on strengthening the ability of excluded women's groups for economic and social participation. The beneficiaries are provided with vocational and entrepreneurship training as well as counseling in disaster preparedness training and humanitarian crisis management. As for the first results area the activities benefit the entire country as the focus is on national level plans and policies. The second results area focuses on 1600 b eneficiaries comprised of girls and women from crisis affected or marginalized groups.The ARE project is a continuation of the Finnish-funded SIWPSAN project which supported the drafting and implementation of Nepal's first National Action Plan on UN securi ty council resolutions 1325 and 1820. The project is currently being evaluated and the results are very promising; some of the targets have even been exceeded. The Ministry for Women Children and Social Welfare and the Ministry for Peace and Reconstruction has taken up the project activities as best practices in the implementing the National Action Plans.
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