WHO’s Progress on UN-SWAP

In 2012, the United Nations agreed on the landmark UN System-wide Action Plan (UN-SWAP) on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (GEEW). The Action Plan implements the 2006 United Nations System-wide Policy on GEEW of its highest executive body, the UN Chief Executives Board (CEB), chaired by the UN Secretary-General. The UN-SWAP provides an accountability framework for monitoring the performance of UN entities on gender mainstreaming, with detailed criteria against which progress can be measured. Implemented from 2012 to 2017, the first phase of UN-SWAP consisted of 15 performance indicators based on intergovernmental mandates. Currently 72 UN entities provide data annually on the 17 indicators included in the expanded UN-SWAP 2.0 framework, with UN Women leading the data collection and compilation process and publishing an annual report based on a rigorous verification process, documentary evidence and deliberations.

WHO has been reporting on the UN-SWAP indicators since 2018, as evidenced in the score dashboard. The annual reports (provided in the links below) provide further detail on WHO’s progress against each indicator.