Proyectos de cooperación

O.E.3.1. Fortalecer las capacidades de las administraciones locales para incorporar la transversalización de la equidad de género en sus políticas municipales. Plan Director de Cooperación para la Justícia Global del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona 2018-2021

Gaps in the area of GBV prevention and response in Libya can be identified in the lack of specialized and comprehensive service provision across many social sectors, including the health, protection, and judiciary sectors. This occurs in a context of high risk of exposure to sexual and gender-based violence, due to the ongoing and intensifying clan-based conflicts, in a country where the administrative structures are fragmented and the community has highly conservative gender dynamics. With the renewed outbreak of conflict, women have been amongst the most vulnerable displaced populations (representing 51% of the displaced) and the first victims of the conflict, with a very high number of female headed households in Libya and reports of women (both Libyan and migrant women) fearing harassment when fleeing the conflict areas seeking shelter. The existing governmental and NGO protection and health services for GBV in Libya are either weak or not adapted to survivors needs. At the same time due to fragile banking system and the lack of financial resources, technical expertise, and institutional capacity, the existing GBV programmes are at a very small-scale and provide only limited package of services that usually don?t include sexual and reproductive health and mental health components. The lack of safe spaces where women and girls can safely access information about GBV prevention and response services, sexual and reproductive health and mental health services increases the risk of harm to their physical, psychological and social well-being. The proposed activities are in line with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee?s (IASC) GBV Guidelines, the Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) strategy, and the signed country programme document between UNFPA and the Government of National Accord in Libya. The project addresses barriers in GBV services in the humanitarian and fragile context of Libya and will strengthen the capacity of local municipal services to provide immediate lifesaving GBV prevention, treatment and referral services. On another hand, the implementation of gender equality commitments at the local level requires a concerted effort by national and local governments, civil society, development partners and donor agencies. However, local governments face constraints to deliver on their commitments, including: limited capacity to implement gender-responsive planning and budgeting; weak accountability mechanisms; and limited capacity to deliver gender-responsive services. Gender responsive local governance is critical to the Libyan context, with much potential for expansion, potential and improvement. For women and girls, the impacts of the current conflict are compounded by pre-existing gender inequalities and discrimination. The crisis is rendering women and girls less likely to have access to their right to health care, education, food, shelter and freedom of movement. The Baladiyah (municipality) is the second-level administration subdivision of Libya after the governorates (mantiqa, currently absent). Each baladiyah has a local council. As of 2019, around 120 municipal councils have been created. Municipal councils are composed of either 7 or 9 members depending on the population size. Each municipal council elects its president internally and shall have at least one female councilor. During the years 2013/2014/2015, 92 out the 100 municipalities were elected for a 4- year term. Lately, in 2018 and 2019, 25 other municipal councils were elected. Many municipalities are currently functioning despite the termination of their term. Most of the municipal councils have one female councilor (as imposed by law). However, none has a woman elected as mayor. Outcome: Vulnerable women and girls have improved access to gender-sensitive assistance and protection services through gender-sensitive local governance structures in Libya. Through this intervention, UNFPA, in partnership with and UN-WOMEN and other local implementing partners, will enhance the participation of local community and promote their resilience by building capacities of women counsellors as municipal council members on GBV service provision and governance. The interventions are guided by cultural sensitivities in Libya, and the activities are gender-responsive. A holistic human rights-based approach will be applied through implementation of survivor centered response mechanism. This will involve the application of particular values and attitudes to all response activities. These will be guided by principles for working with survivors of GBV to maintain respect, confidentiality, safety, security, and nondiscrimination in all the actions and activities in Libya. This project will also facilitate south-south collaboration and partnership involving some municipalities in the Mediterranean space and Libyan municipalities with support of the Generalitat of Catalunya and Barcelona Municipality. This project will be implemented by UNFPA and benefit from partnership with both local and international organizations for the implementation of relevant components. Local partners will be actively involved by UNFPA to implement the component on GBV awareness raising and community mobilization, while the capacity building component on women?s participation and leadership at municipal level will be implemented in partnership with UN Women.