UN Women China

We work with key partners so that all women are able to fully and equally participate in decision-making, and women and girls can benefit from gender-responsive laws, policies, budgets, services, and accountable institutions. Our work in this thematic impact area is channeled through the China Gender Fund for Research and Advocacy (CGF), a rolling trust fund modality that awards periodic grants through an open and competitive process.

We work to advance the economic empowerment of women so that they have income security, decent work, and economic autonomy. To achieve this, we partner with a range of allies, from UN agencies to government ministries, to regional bodies and international financial institutions, to women’s entrepreneurship organizations. Together, we work to transform the care economy by pushing for women to be recognized and paid for their work. We also advocate for equal pay, support women as leaders and entrepreneurs, and work to close the digital divide to ensure women and girls have equal access to opportunities, including through capacity building and reskilling in the context of rural revitalization in China.

We promote integrated approaches to ensure that all women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence. UN Women China has been working with other UN agencies to promote social norm change for domestic violence prevention and response by providing input to national legislation and policies and capacity development of antidomestic violence service providers in close collaboration with national and local government counterparts and civil society organizations.

Our programmes in these impact areas are further supported and catalyzed through our work on (iv) Communications and advocacy as well as (v) Strategic partnerships and resource mobilization.

As a core element of UN Women’s activities in China, the office’s communications and advocacy is focused on two key objectives: (i) advocating for women’s empowerment and gender equality; (ii) increasing UN Women’s visibility in China in support of UN Women’s mandate and promotion of gender equality. The office has been continuously making great efforts in establishing and enhancing UN Women’s brand value and strengthened advocacy through active media outreach, flagship campaigns and events, strong partnership visibility support, and documenting powerful human success stories from UN Women programmes.

UN Women works with partners on strategic, high-value, and innovative partnerships that increase investment in advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) and enhance our programmatic impact in China.