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Institutional Information
Member State Egypt
Institution Name Sohag governorate
Institution Type Public Agency
Administrative Level Local
Name of initiative Promoting gender responsive public sirvices to achieve the SDGs
Projects Operational Years 3
Website of Institution http://www.sohag.gov.eg/default.aspx

Question 1: About the Initiative
Is this a public sector initiative? Yes

Question 2: Categories
Is the initiative relevant to one of the UNPSA categories? Promoting gender responsive public services to achieve the SDGs
UNPSACriteria
2017.3.2 Provides increased access to sustainable, high quality and affordable public services for women; Includes innovations in service delivery mechanisms that cater to the specific needs of women, including the poorest and most vulnerable, in particular responding to the specific discrimination faced by women, their care burden, mobility and access issues and security risks faced by women.
2017.3.4 Creates mechanisms to increase the ability of women to contribute to government decision-making and processes, including participatory budgeting and planning processes, and mechanisms allowing people to give feedback on issues related to public services
2017.3.5 Enhances responsiveness of government to the demands and needs of women, in particular the poorest and most vulnerable; Implements new processes and institutional mechanisms to channel the demands and views of people and enables governments – policy makers and public officials – to better interact with the public, particularly individual people, and allows people, for instance, to better express their needs, participate in and influence policy-making; comment on policy implementation; provide feedback on government services (on and off-line services); and file complaints.
2017.3.6 Introduces incentives and changes in employment policies, including recruitment, promotion, training, compensation and career management policies, to increase the number of women in the public sector at all levels, including those in the front line and at decision making levels.
2017.3.7 Involves transformation of the way a public institution works, rather than incremental improvements, to promote women’s rights and respond to needs of women. These may include innovative ways to deliver public services, including through e-government; a change in organizational culture, administrative reforms, or the overhaul of government procedures for gender responsive service delivery.

Question 3: Sustainable Development Goals
Is the initiative relevant to any of the 17 SDG(s)? Yes
If you answered yes above, please specify which SDG is the most relevant to the initiative. (hold Ctrl to select multiple)
Goal 5: Gender Equality
Which target(s) within the SDGs specified above is the initiative relevant to? (hold Ctrl to select multiple)
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5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Question 4: Implementation Date
Has the initiative been implemented for two or more years Yes
Please provide date of implemenation (dd/MM/yyyy)

Question 5: Partners
Has the United Nations or any UN agencies been involved in this initiative? No
Which UN agency was involved? (hold Ctrl to select multiple)
The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
Please provide details

Question 6: Supporting documentation
Will you be able to provide supporting documentation for your initiative? Yes

Question 7: UNPSA Awards
Has the initiative already won a UNPS Award? No

Question 8: Other Awards
Has the initiative won other Public Service Awards? No

Question 9: How did you learn about UNPSA?
How did you learn about UNPSA? by following the UN website and its efforts to implement gender equality, we read about the initiative an found ourselves deserve to hold the UN Public Services Award.

Question 10: Validation Consent
I give consent to contact relevant persons and entities to inquire about the initiative for validation purpose. No

Question 1: About the Initiative
Is this a public sector initiative? Yes

Question 2: Categories
Is the initiative relevant to one of the UNPSA categories? Promoting gender responsive public services to achieve the SDGs
UNPSACriteria
2017.3.2 Provides increased access to sustainable, high quality and affordable public services for women; Includes innovations in service delivery mechanisms that cater to the specific needs of women, including the poorest and most vulnerable, in particular responding to the specific discrimination faced by women, their care burden, mobility and access issues and security risks faced by women.
2017.3.4 Creates mechanisms to increase the ability of women to contribute to government decision-making and processes, including participatory budgeting and planning processes, and mechanisms allowing people to give feedback on issues related to public services
2017.3.5 Enhances responsiveness of government to the demands and needs of women, in particular the poorest and most vulnerable; Implements new processes and institutional mechanisms to channel the demands and views of people and enables governments – policy makers and public officials – to better interact with the public, particularly individual people, and allows people, for instance, to better express their needs, participate in and influence policy-making; comment on policy implementation; provide feedback on government services (on and off-line services); and file complaints.
2017.3.6 Introduces incentives and changes in employment policies, including recruitment, promotion, training, compensation and career management policies, to increase the number of women in the public sector at all levels, including those in the front line and at decision making levels.
2017.3.7 Involves transformation of the way a public institution works, rather than incremental improvements, to promote women’s rights and respond to needs of women. These may include innovative ways to deliver public services, including through e-government; a change in organizational culture, administrative reforms, or the overhaul of government procedures for gender responsive service delivery.

Question 3: Sustainable Development Goals
Is the initiative relevant to any of the 17 SDG(s)? Yes
If you answered yes above, please specify which SDG is the most relevant to the initiative. (hold Ctrl to select multiple)
Goal 5: Gender Equality
Which target(s) within the SDGs specified above is the initiative relevant to? (hold Ctrl to select multiple)
.
5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Question 4: Implementation Date
Has the initiative been implemented for two or more years Yes
Please provide date of implemenation (dd/MM/yyyy)

Question 5: Partners
Has the United Nations or any UN agencies been involved in this initiative? No
Which UN agency was involved? (hold Ctrl to select multiple)
The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
Please provide details

Question 6: Supporting documentation
Will you be able to provide supporting documentation for your initiative? Yes

Question 7: UNPSA Awards
Has the initiative already won a UNPS Award? No

Question 8: Other Awards
Has the initiative won other Public Service Awards? No

Question 9: How did you learn about UNPSA?
How did you learn about UNPSA? by following the UN website and its efforts to implement gender equality, we read about the initiative an found ourselves deserve to hold the UN Public Services Award.

Question 10: Validation Consent
I give consent to contact relevant persons and entities to inquire about the initiative for validation purpose. No

Question 1: About the Initiative

Is this a public sector initiative? Yes

Question 2: Categories
Is the initiative relevant to one of the UNPSA categories? Promoting gender responsive public services to achieve the SDGs
UNPSACriteria
2017.3.2 Provides increased access to sustainable, high quality and affordable public services for women; Includes innovations in service delivery mechanisms that cater to the specific needs of women, including the poorest and most vulnerable, in particular responding to the specific discrimination faced by women, their care burden, mobility and access issues and security risks faced by women.
2017.3.4 Creates mechanisms to increase the ability of women to contribute to government decision-making and processes, including participatory budgeting and planning processes, and mechanisms allowing people to give feedback on issues related to public services
2017.3.5 Enhances responsiveness of government to the demands and needs of women, in particular the poorest and most vulnerable; Implements new processes and institutional mechanisms to channel the demands and views of people and enables governments – policy makers and public officials – to better interact with the public, particularly individual people, and allows people, for instance, to better express their needs, participate in and influence policy-making; comment on policy implementation; provide feedback on government services (on and off-line services); and file complaints.
2017.3.6 Introduces incentives and changes in employment policies, including recruitment, promotion, training, compensation and career management policies, to increase the number of women in the public sector at all levels, including those in the front line and at decision making levels.
2017.3.7 Involves transformation of the way a public institution works, rather than incremental improvements, to promote women’s rights and respond to needs of women. These may include innovative ways to deliver public services, including through e-government; a change in organizational culture, administrative reforms, or the overhaul of government procedures for gender responsive service delivery.

Question 3: Implementation Date

Has the initiative been implemented for two or more years Yes
Please provide date of implemenation (dd/MM/yyyy)

Question 4: Partners/Stakeholders

Has the United Nations or any UN agencies been involved in this initiative? No
Which UN agency was involved? (hold Ctrl to select multiple)
The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
Please provide details

Question 5: Required Supplemental Documents

Will you be able to provide supporting documentation for your initiative? Yes

Question 6: UNPSA Awards

Has the initiative already won a UNPS Award? No

Question 7: Other Awards

Has the initiative won other Public Service Awards? No

Question 8: Sustainable Development Goals
Is the initiative relevant to any of the 17 SDG(s)? Yes
If you answered yes above, please specify which SDG is the most relevant to the initiative. (hold Ctrl to select multiple)
Goal 5: Gender Equality
Which target(s) within the SDGs specified above is the initiative relevant to? (hold Ctrl to select multiple)
.
5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Question 9: Validation Consent

Do you have any objections to us inquiring about the initiative for validation purposes? No

How did you know about UNPSA?

How did you know about UNPSA? by following the UN website and its efforts to implement gender equality, we read about the initiative an found ourselves deserve to hold the UN Public Services Award.

Nomination form

Questions/Answers

Question 1

Please provide a brief summary of the initiative including the problems/challenges it addressed and the solutions that the initiative introduced (300 words maximum)
The initaitive is about the gender equality and How to support women role in society,as its known that women is the backbone of the existence of mankind, the main problem was that in upper Egypt woman face many problems to express their opinions, diffiiculties in education ,participate in the political process and healthcare because of habbits in upper Egypt that prevent woman to enjoy its whole rights as a human being in most times. so this initiative played an important role to enhance the women role in society by seeking to support women to express their opinion and participate in the political process and decision making, as a result Sohag governorate witnessed a remarkable development in the woman participation in the social life
a. What are the overall objectives of the initiative?
Please describe the overall objectives of the initiative (200 words maximum)
1 - Introduces a distinctively new approach to promote the participation of citizens, specially poor women, in policy making this may be through the application af a new knowledge management technique,in unique policy, or implementation design in the context of a given country or region. 2 - provides access to high quality, affordable services for women 3 - promotes participation of women in decision making and delivery of public services to women 4- promotes responsiveness to the needs of women 5 - promotes gender parity in public service
b. How does the initiative fit within the selected category?
Please describe how the initiative is linked to the criteria of the category (200 words maximum)
according to society in upper Egypt as we noticed in the problem that women face many problems to enjoy its whole rights , so this initiative is linked with the main purpose that the governorate seek to achieve, by enhancing the women situation in the society.

Question 2

The initiative should improve people’s lives, notably by enhancing the contribution of public services to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the realization of the SDGs
a. Please explain how the initiative improves the delivery of public services (200 words maximum)
Under the supervision of Sohag Governorate The national council for woman launch an initiative tittled as" your identity card is your rights " that the governorate published 35000 card for free in the duration from 2015-2017, Based on this initiative, the Directorate of Youth in Sohag Governorate has carried out some activities during the past three years for the benefit of women as follow 1- Educational seminars for Egyptian girls 2- Participation in the exhibition (Made in Sohag) _ Handicrafts and art 3- Holding seminars for women's safety from harassment 4-Holding seminars on motherhood and childhood

Question 3

The initiative must impact positively a group or groups of the population (i.e. children, women, elderly, people with disability, etc) and address a significant issue of public service delivery within the context of a given country or region.
a. Please explain how the initiative has addressed a significant issue related to the delivery of public services (200 words maximum)
under the supervision of Sohag Governorate The project development authority,By introducing facilities in direct loans that provides the ability to establish projects which led to provide job opportunities in urban areas and countryside in all areas of the Governorte
b. Please explain how the initiative has impacted positively a group or groups of the population within the context of your country or region (200 words maximum)
The publish of 35000 identity card led to the woman right to recieve health, educational and social services in an easy way by the assistance of the national council for woman. in the Sohag Governorate there is a big percentage of women that are employee and have many responsibilities such as the director of local development branch in the Governorate which reflects the Governorate confidence in the woman role to participate in the decision making process

Question 4

The initiative must present an innovative idea, a distinctively new approach, or a unique policy or approach implemented in order to realize the SDGs in the context of a given country or region.
a. Please explain in which way the initiative is innovative in the context of your country or region (200 words maximum)
the main methodology that the Governorate apply is to make a link between the government and the civil society as it is the main base of democracy to support the woman role in the society and make it recieve her all righrs

Question 4b

b. Please describe if the innovation is original or if it is an adaptation from other contexts (If it is known)? (200 words maximum)
the innovation is original that the Governorate for the first time seek to recieve an Award in the field of gender equality and it will be the pioneer of promoting gender equality in upper Egypt

Question 4c

c. What resources (i.e. financial, human , material or other resources, etc) were used to implement the initiative? (200 words maximum)
financial resources: the financial aids in the form of direct loans that was introduced by the project development authority. Human resources: Where the energies of youth and women are used in the development of projects. The projects were aimed at providing job opportunities, which in some projects reached 11907 jobs

Question 5

The initiative should be adaptable to other contexts (e.g. other cities, countries or regions). There may already be evidence that it has inspired similar innovations in other public-sector institutions within a given country, region or at the global level.
a. Has the initiative been transferred to other contexts?
No
undoubtedly the initiative is adaptable to other contexts that including the following elements: 1- promotes responsiveness to the needs of women 2- promotes gender parity in public services 3- promotes participation of women in decision-making and delivery of public services to women 4- linkage between the government and civil society to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Question 6

The initiative should be able to be sustained over a significant period of time.
a. Please describe whether and how the initiative is sustainable (covering the social, economic and environmental aspects) (300 words maximum)
undoubtedly the initiative aims to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Egypt through the guarantee of the permanence of promoting gender responsive public services and the guarantee of the permanence of the woman role in decision and police makiwasng
b. Please describe whether and how the initiative is sustainable in terms of durability in time (300 words maximum)
undoubtedly the initiative aims to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Egypt 2030 and the initiative twas implemented in 2 levels 1st level: the initiative was established through 3 years ago 2nd level: the permanence of the initiative to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 2030

Question 7

The initiative should have gone through a formal evaluation, showing some evidence of impact on improving people’s lives.
a. Has the initiative been formally evaluated?
No

Question 8

The initiative must demonstrate that it has engaged various actors such as from other institutions, civil society, or the private sector, when possible.
a. The 2030 Development Agenda puts emphasis on collaboration, engagement, coordination, partnerships, and inclusion. Please describe what stakeholders were engaged in designing, implementing and evaluating the initiative. Please also highlight their roles and contributions (300 words maximum)
as we said before that the initiative was among a linkage between the government and the civil society as follow: 1-the participation of different public sectors to implement the Sustainable Development Goals such as ( the development project authority, Ministry of youth,The Ministry of Social Solidarity,Ministry of Housing and Utilities, and Ministry of Endowments) 2- the participation of civil society to implement the Sustainable Development Goals such as ( the national council for women,

Question 9

a. Please describe the key lessons learned, and any view you have on how to further improve the initiative (200 words maximum)
the lessons learned Through this initiative and attention to women, it became clear to us that the society needs to raise awareness and knowledge of the challenges and obstacles facing women in societies, and that women within the province need to know their rights In order to continue this initiative and achieve its objectives and what it seeks, we find that women in society must be able to prove themselves and seek to participate in society and have an effective and influential role, women can not affect the community without involvement and participation in it, Holding several conferences and events to sensitize women in coordination with various bodies that seek to pay attention to the role of women in it

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