What we do

In Palestine, UN Women works with the Palestinian Government, as well as women’s machineries and civil society advocates, to support their efforts in promoting Palestinian women’s human rights, improving access and delivery of quality services to the most vulnerable women and girls, and empowering Palestinian women and girls as rights-holders.

Leadership and political participation
UN Women works on enhancing Palestinian women’s transformative leadership to participate in decision-making processes in all walks of life.
Economic empowerment
UN Women’s approach to Palestinian women’s economic empowerment is to secure livelihoods as a means both to participate in and benefit from economic development.
Ending Violence against Women
UN Women helps strengthen institutional policies and mechanisms to prevent and combat violence against women and girls, and bring perpetrators to justice.
Peace, security and humanitarian response
UN Women acts to bring gender equality dimensions into humanitarian programming, response and assistance, and to increase women’s involvement in peace and state-building processes.
National planning and budgeting
UN Women supports the efforts of the Palestinian Government to mainstream gender so that men and women benefit more equally from national public policies, domestic resources and international aid.
Intergovernmental support
In intergovernmental forums at the United Nations, Member States come together to debate and seek agreement on global gender equality norms and standards.
UN system coordination
When different parts of the multilateral system act together, they can deliver greater results—and maximize the use of scarce resources. Within the UN system, UN Women is mandated to lead, promote and coordinate efforts to advance the full realization of women’s rights and opportunities.
Programme implementation
The UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States (ROAS) implements programmes (and their component projects) at country, multi-country, and regional levels through implementing partners, which include government entities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UN agencies, non-UN intergovernmental organizations, and UN Women (direct implementation).