Partnerships

PRIVATE SECTOR

Internationally, UN Women has partnered with the UN Global Compact, a corporate sustainability initiative that enlists the private sector in aligning enterprise and business with the SDGs.

Together, they have formulated the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), perhaps the most important component of the business sector’s response to gender equality dimensions of Agenda 2030.

In 2021, as part of the Spotlight Initiative, UN Women began implementation of the WEPs in Guyana, holding a series of advisory discussions with leaders and key stakeholders. These included the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) and the nascent Women’s Chamber of Commerce.

SOUTH-SOUTH AND TRIANGULAR PARTNERSHIPS

In 2021 the UN’s work in Guyana was supported through the joint India-Guyana-UN Development Partnership Fund (UNDPF) which aims to reduce adolescent pregnancy rates in Guyana.

The UNDPF supports a wide range of interventions designed to strengthen the provision of sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents, and increase the uptake of these services.

Many of the sexual and reproductive health results presented in this report have been achieved thanks to India’s support to the Ministry of Health, UNFPA, and the Guyana Responsible Parent Association.

RESOURCE MOBILISATION

Agencies, Funds and Programmes typically fund projects with a combination of ‘core’ funds mobilized by their respective headquarters, and locally-mobilized resources.

The five UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes that executed the greatest programmatic resources in the period 2017-2021 are UNDP, FAO, UNICEF, UNHCR, and WFP. For 2021, the largest single sources of funding were: Norway (Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund), UNICEF regular resources, The Global Partnership for Education, The Global Environment Facility, The European Union (for the Spotlight Initiative).