Ecuador
🏛️ Representation
Alison Vasconez Rodriguez
UN Women Ecuador a.i. Country Representative (2025)
Mirian Bandes Zablah
UN Women Ecuador Country Representative (2026–2030)
✉️ Contact
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📍 Physical address
UN Women Ecuador
Vía Nayón s/n y Simón Bolívar
Complejo Corporativo EkoPark
Torre 4, piso 2. CP 170503
Quito, Ecuador
📑 Strategic note
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💙 Priority areas of work
UN Women’s interventions are implemented through a programmatic approach that integrates its triple mandate, connects diverse partners, and addresses interrelated issues, generating transformative change in the following four areas:
Women’s leadership and participation in decision-making:
According to the approved strategic note, UN Women in Ecuador focuses on two main programmatic lines: economic empowerment and the elimination of violence against women, which include different focus areas as detailed below.
Economic empowerment:
This programmatic line promotes the reduction of socioeconomic inequalities and sustainable productive transformation with added value, the generation of livelihoods and decent work, ensuring equal rights and opportunities and access to resources for women and men. This line includes: sustainable consumption and production, the care economy, and a data and statistics analysis component.
Elimination of violence:
Through this programmatic line, improvements in public governance and increased protection and guarantee of rights, gender equality, and social cohesion are promoted, while reducing threats to human security and fostering the eradication of all forms of violence. This line includes specific focus areas on political participation and new masculinities.
Humanitarian action:
Through this cross-cutting line, institutional and community conditions have been promoted to provide minimum standards of well-being and security for women in human mobility who transit through or settle in Ecuadorian territory.
Gender, environment, and climate justice:
As a cross-cutting axis in building more equal, economically and environmentally sustainable societies, we have promoted the incorporation of adaptation perspectives and risk reduction related to climate change.