UNDP Syria

UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM Arab States Regional Office focuses during the next two years on the following main areas:

• Women’s economic security and rights particularly building on our previous experience on Women Migrant Workers, Sabaya and enhancing of women’s information technology skills programs.
• Governance, peace and security through supporting women national machineries, working towards social inclusion of women and increase women’s political participation particularly at local level
• Violence Against Women (VAW) by lobby and advocacy for legal reforms and running vigorous campaigns to fight VAW as well as ensuring the protective services standards for survivors of violence.

UNIFEM Arab states regional office started its activities in Syria in cooperation with the Syrian General Women's Union (GWU) in the mid 1990s during the preparation for the fourth world conference on women that was conducted in Beijing in 1995. This was followed by developing and implementing projects in conjunction with other Ministries, the State Planning Commission, the Syrian commission for Family Affairs, the Governorates and NGOs that aimed at achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment as well as to facilitating women’s effective participation in the development process.