should also be noted that the monitoring of indicators depends on data available at the level of partner institutions, in particular state institutions (IHSI, MAST, MPCE, MARNDR, etc.). For several indicators, the data are not available because these partners have not yet produced them.
Finding 25. The UNDP country programme complies with the fundamental principles of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Some projects specifically target the empowerment of vulnerable women. The country programme, however, lacks a transformative results-based approach to gender equality. Moreover, UNDP has achieved little in the way of integrating women into political spheres or promoting the gender agenda at the state level.
UNDP also lacks a strategy for using M&E to support learning and programme strengthening. This hinders critical thinking about the programme as a whole and limits opportunities to generate knowledge to inform national policy processes and to support advocacy for resource mobilization from diverse sources, including by strengthening the link between communication strategy and M&E. From a programmatic and strategic point of view, UNDP would gain by strengthening its support to data production institutions such as IHSI, CNSA and the National Centre for Geography and Spatial Information, particularly in its areas of intervention.
Haiti is ranked 152nd out of 162 countries in 2019 according to the Gender Inequality Index.139 This situation requires from UNDP a strategic response to support Haiti in terms of gender equality and the empowerment of women. This must be based on theories of change in the design of projects, showing the type of efforts necessary for Haitian women to benefit from the interventions. Gender equality is considered across the board in UNDP interventions. The UNDP programme has focused on interventions that are intended to contribute significantly to gender equality and the empowerment of women (GEN2 in the UNDP Gender Marker classification represents 53 percent of total expenditure). Interventions with gender equality as the main objective (GEN3) remain few in the current programme with 2.7 percent of total expenditure. There are few GEN2 and GEN3 projects in the field of resilience, although women remain the most vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters.
UNDP interventions are rich in experiences that deserve to be gathered and analysed to be shared within the office, but also with other partners and national and international actors, and to inform political dialogue. This capitalization of experiences in a process of lessons learned and promotion of good practices would allow the consolidation of pilot projects into real public policies for inclusive governance and sustainable development.
FIGURE 6. Distribution of gender markers by outcomes and expenditures, 2017-2020 (million US$) GEN0
Democratic governance
$8.3
Poverty reduction Resilience and vulnerability $0.3
$19.7
GEN2
GEN3
$0.1
$15.8
$8.4
GEN1
$24.0
$2.7
$8.4
Source: Atlas Project data, Power Bi, September 2020
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UNDP (2020). Human Development Report 2020 – The next frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene. Country Briefing Note for the Human Development Report 2020 Haiti, http://hdr.undp.org/sites/all/themes/hdr_theme/country-notes/fr/HTI.pdf
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