MANAGEMENT UN HUMAN RIGHTS PILOTS ITS GENDER ACCREDITATION PROGRAMME In 2019, UN Human Rights launched its Gender Accreditation Programme, a new one-year gender and diversity accreditation programme for field presences and headquarters entities. The purpose of the Programme is to translate our commitments to gender equality, diversity and inclusion into concrete actions and to build the capacity of staff on gender and diversity integration. It is a different way to promote learning and to track and reward progress. At the same time, it fosters accountability through a process that recognizes good performance and the delivery of results. This programme is grounded in the OEAP on Diversity and Gender and the Office’s other existing commitments to gender and is one of the commitments of the High Commissioner as an International Gender Champion. In 2019, the pilot phase was implemented in the field presences in Cambodia and the State of Palestine, both of which received their accreditation in an award ceremony held in Geneva, in January 2020. The award ceremony marked the successful end of the pilot stage and the full roll-out of the programme in OHCHR field presences in Ukraine and Colombia based on the assessment of the pilot phase. Pilot phase 2019: Voices from the field សិទ្ធិមនុស អ.ស.ប កម្មវធី ទទួលសា ល់ អំពីនឌ័រ ការយាល័យលបានទទួលសា ល់ “It’s been a fantastic opportunity to pause and look at how we deal with our programmatic and operational work through a gender lens. Now that we have been accredited, it will be a big tick for our donors. All of our donors are looking for an independent and concrete assessment on gender.” “We were brainstorming and coming up with lots of innovative ideas that maybe we should have been doing a long time ago. Equally important it was fun and there is a competition element to it.” Simon Walker, former Head of Field Presence, Cambodia James Heenan, Head of Field Presence, State of Palestine © OHCHR 80 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2019 © OHCHR