The advance of anti-rights groups and the impact of the crisis on national accounts may negatively affect the Machineries for the Advancement of Women (MAMs) in two areas: On the one hand, it may affect the institutionality of the entity, promoting a more "family" centered approach, undermining its capacity to influence the State to promote laws, public policies, and budgets focused on achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. On the other hand, it may further reduce the budget to which the MAMs have access, making it even more challenging to finance specific programs aimed at closing gaps.

Digital inclusion is a goal that must be attained urgently due to the importance acquired by the 4.0 industry. The labour market and education have undergone changes due to the incorporation of technology, especially the evolution experienced during the pandemic with the digitization of several processes that facilitate doing paperwork, work, and education, among others. Promoting the participation of women in the digital world allows them to progress in their autonomy and reduce the gender gap.

In line with international, regional, and national commitments regarding gender equality and women's empowerment, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of women in the region, supported by statistical and qualitative data. Its main objective is to examine gender inequalities in the region, taking into account the five dimensions of the 2030 Agenda: people, prosperity, planet, collective participation, and peace, also known as the "5 Ps".

Este documento presenta un estado del arte de los diferentes MAM en América Latina y el Caribe, desde su creación hasta nuestros días, haciendo también un recorrido por el marco normativo que desde la Convención sobre la Eliminación de Todas las Formas de Discriminación contra la Mujer (CEDAW por sus siglas en inglés) y sus Recomendaciones Generales, la Declaración y Plataforma de Acción de Beijing hasta los diferentes acuerdos que conforman la Agenda Regional de Género acordada en la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe, ponen de relieve la importancia de contar con estos mecanismos como condición necesaria para el avance de la igualdad de género.

UN Women Chile, through the programme Tu Oportunidad - Second Chance Education, has sought to develop a program for the economic empowerment and social and cultural integration of migrant and refugee women from Afghanistan. This multisectoral initiative was made possible through the inter-agency collaboration of UNHCR and ECLAC and the support of the Afghan-Chilean Cultural Institute Foundation and the Ascend Athletics Foundation as members of civil society.

This preliminary report summarizes the most extensive qualitative study conducted to date in Latin America and the Caribbean. It investigates 15 cases through in-depth and semi-structured interviews with women with public voices1 based in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela. All of them have faced severe online attacks due to their gender, stemming from their journalistic activities and activism. The selection of interviewees was carried out by the organizations that make up the Regional Alliance.

UN Women Chile, through the programme Tu Oportunidad - Second Chance Education, has sought to develop a program for the economic empowerment and social and cultural integration of migrant and refugee women from Afghanistan. This multisectoral initiative was made possible through the inter-agency collaboration of UNHCR and ECLAC and the support of the Afghan-Chilean Cultural Institute Foundation and the Ascend Athletics Foundation as members of civil society.

This document is a systematization of the series of dialogues "Towards people-centered Comprehensive Care Systems and Policies: Dialogues between Latin America, the Caribbean, and the European Union" which aims to serve as a guide to identify policies, regulations, initiatives and actions that put each of the priority populations at the center of comprehensive care systems: persons with disabilities, older persons, children and paid and unpaid care workers, with the objective of moving towards a care society.

The Women, Local Economy, and Territories (MELYT) program implemented by UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to promoting gender equality and women's empowerment and funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), promotes the economic empowerment of rural women for the development of strong local economies, more equitable societies, and a better quality of life. 

UN Women and BIT developed and tested behaviorally-informed messages intending to encourage men to intervene when witnessing digital violence against women. We also explored potential mechanisms.

The UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean presents the regional report to analyze the progress of indicator 5.c.1 in the region. In 2021, 10 Latin American and Caribbean States, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay and Panama, sent their responses to the voluntary questionnaire that measures progress towards indicator 5.c.1 of the SDGs. In this way, a more detailed view of the progress of indicator 5.c.1 in the region is sought, with the objective of promoting actions and policies that promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. It is important to note that the involvement and cooperation of the countries in the submission of data is fundamental to strengthen this type of report and generate a positive impact on the promotion of equality in the region.

This report aims to facilitate the strategic use of the evidence generated through the evaluation reports of UN Women in the Latin American and Caribbean region. For this, a systematic review of 9 evaluation reports completed in 2022 in the region was carried out in the key programmatic areas of UN Women to identify main findings, good practices, and potential improvements in UN Women’s work in the areas to be explored.

In this brief, the top 10 lessons from the United Nations Women's Second Chance Education (SCE) program regarding online learning are gathered. The program provides a second chance for women who have lost the opportunity to access education and training opportunities. Online learning has been one of the fundamental components of the program, which has been implemented in various contexts, including those where participants have low levels of literacy and digital knowledge.

The Country Portfolio Evaluation of UN Women Ecuador provides a systematic assessment of the organization's normative, coordination and programmatic contribution to development results related to gender equality and women’s empowerment at the country level over the 2019-2022 period.

As part of the joint program of UN Women and the ILO "Promoting Decent Employment for Women through Inclusive Growth Policies and Investments in the Care Economy", UN Women in Argentina, in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Public Policies (CIEPP), has conducted a study in the province of Chaco that estimates the fiscal effort of investing in public policies to reduce deficits in meeting care demands, and calculates the employment that would be generated as a result of this investment.

The objective of this document is to compile good practices in gender budget initiatives by mapping the main advances in regulations, instruments, and tools developed in the countries of the LAC region and, based on these lessons learned, to draw up a road map that will serve as a reference framework to guide the development of new experiences and help consolidate existing ones.

Regional Consultation prior to the Sixty-Seventh Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, whose priority theme is “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital era to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,” within the framework of the 64th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Declaration of the Ministers and High Authorities of the National Machineries for the Advancement of Women of Latin America and the Caribbean for the 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, whose priority theme is "Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital era to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls" | Special Latin American and Caribbean Regional Consultation Session in the framework of the 64th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Within the framework of the joint program of UN Women and the International Labour Organization (ILO) "Promoting decent employment for women through policies of inclusive growth and investments in care economy", UN Women in Argentina, in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Public Policies (CIEPP), has conducted a study in the province of Santa Fe estimating the fiscal effort of investing in public policies to reduce deficits in meeting care demands, and projecting the employment that would be generated as a result of this investment under three possible scenarios (minimum, medium, and maximum) depending on the coverage that the Provincial Government aims to achieve.

This document addresses the impacts of the COVID-19 health crisis on women, particularly considering they are not included equally in the financial sector. It highlights how women’s levels of financial inclusion in the region were, and continue to be, a vulnerability factor that is hindering their economic autonomy and the post-COVID-19 recovery.