Regular Resources Report 2019: How UN Women Used Core Funding to Advance Generation Equality

# What this report covers

Women mobilized its core (regular) contributions during 2019 to deliver on its three-part mandate: normative work, coordination across the UN system, and operational programmes on the ground. The report compiles outcomes, case studies, and allocation information to show how unrestricted funding supported gender equality results.

# Funding and contributors

# How funds were used

UN Women classes its work in three categories: normative, coordination, and operational. The report presents examples and case studies across global, regional, and country levels demonstrating how regular resources were allocated and produced results. Because regular resources are largely unrestricted, they underpinned activities that require continuity, such as policy support, system-wide coordination, and country-level programme delivery.

# Concrete country- and system-level results

• Beijing+25 reporting: With support enabled by regular resources, UN Women helped 102 countries prepare reports assessing 25 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Each report was tailored to national context and covered trends, achievements, gaps, and challenges, providing a basis for accelerating implementation of the Beijing Platform and the Sustainable Development Goals.

• CEDAW reporting support: Regular resources enabled UN Women to back 94% of UN country team reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), strengthening the UN system's inputs to treaty body processes.

# What the case studies show

The report includes narrative case studies at different levels to illustrate how flexible funding translates into programmatic and policy outputs. These examples are used to demonstrate effects in areas such as economic empowerment, ending violence against women and girls, governance and political participation, peace and security, and partnerships. The case studies are intended to show how regular resources catalyze progress across UN Women's mandate.

# Publication details and related reports

# Bottom line

The 2019 regular resources report positions core funding as essential for UN Women's sustained contribution to gender equality work: it funded policy and coordination roles that are difficult to support with restricted project financing, and it translated into country-level outputs such as Beijing+25 and CEDAW reporting support.