In October 2018, Felix Consulting was contracted by the UNDP to implement a Gender Review of the UNDP’s Economic Resilience and Recovery Unit portfolio Programmes including:
- Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project (YECRP),
- Enhanced Rural Resilience in Yemen (ERRY),
- Support to Social Protection for Community Resilience (SPCR).
The study toke stock of the gender mainstreaming and responsiveness under those programmes, identified opportunities and existing entry points to strengthen gender equality and women’s empowerment interventions and results, and established a baseline against which to measure future mainstreaming efforts into programmes. The study also included a a capacity assessment, and provided an implementable recommendations on concrete actions to assist the Economic Resilience and Recovery Unit and the Country Office to deliver on its mandate for gender equality and women’s empowerment and enhance gender mainstreaming.