This publication presents the results achieved by the Municipalities supported by UN Women in effective implementation of gender responsive budgeting in North Macedonia.

UN Women Serbia teamed up with Belgrade Center for Human Rights, to improve online media reporting, through Guidelines and Recommendations for ethical and non-discriminatory reporting about violence against women and girls in online sphere. It analyses online reports on femicide, sexual harassment in Serbian #metoo movement, cases of obstetric violence as well as reactions and comments of the audience of online media, and includes recommendations for ethical and non-discriminatory media reporting.

This study focuses on a specific part of economic journalism, namely that of covering public budgetary processes and the role of journalism in raising public awareness about budgeting, with special focus on gender responsive budgeting, and covers the period from November 2021 - January 2022 based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including content analysis, journalist survey and semistructured interviews with experts in this field.

The objective of the gender-responsive crisis management guidebook is to develop practical and functional guidelines for private sector to address crisis in a gender responsive way. It is highly likely that future crises, whether it is another pandemic, natural disaster, mass migration, security or technology issue, will have their unique impact on gender equality. The lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic should allow businesses to prepare better for the next crises.

Annual Regional Innovation report by UN Women Europe and Central Asia, gives an insight into the key innovation initiatives and approaches adopted by the Innovation Facility from 2020 to 2021.

Unstereotype Alliance Turkey Marketing Communications Playbook is a tool aimed at providing practical advice on how brands and companies can combat stereotypes in their communications by showcasing "best in class" cases of Turkey National Chapter members, and catalyse the movement toward realistic and progressive portrayals of all people.

The document examines good practices and defines models of cooperation between media and multisectoral teams on domestic violence.

Research on media reporting on gender-based violence against women in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2020 aims to show the characteristics of media reporting on this topic.

The Compendium covers the work of the UN Women Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past five years in working with the media, assessing their needs and capacities, and strengthening their role in preventing violence against women and girls and domestic violence.

“The practical guide to gender analysis of legislation and draft regulations” offers a single approach to gender analysis, based on the relevant international standards and leading foreign and national cases in ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men. It aims to provide effective tools and practical advice that may be useful at every stage of the gender legal analysis.

This publication explores barriers to political participation of women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, outlines the activities of key contextual enablers, assesses to which extent political parties can be considered as gate keepers for participation of women in politics, explores the entry points for promoting participation of women in political and public life, and provides a deeper analysis of media and the presentation of women in politics.

UN Women in the Europe and Central Asia region officially launched the Innovation Facility in 2019 to create region-wide innovative leadership and learning within UN Women and amongst its partners. This publication gives an insight into the key innovation principles and approaches adopted and innovation projects being developed in the region as part of the new Ideas Campaign to "re-think challenges" and "improve solutions" for gender equality.

‘Invisible Battalion 2.0’: Women Veterans Returning to Peaceful Life” is a participatory and evidence-based study that summarizes the legal and normative frameworks guaranteeing women veterans’ peaceful reintegration into civil life in Ukraine. It illustrates how women veterans are using the services offered by the Government of Ukraine to enable their reintegration, and the challenges thereof, and proposes a roadmap to strengthen women veterans’ access to services for quality post-military lives, and how they can be better served based on these insights.

This report examines the impact of NGO networking on advocacy efforts to promote the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) in the Western Balkans and Turkey.

The factsheet ‘Leaving No One Behind in HIV response: data from Eastern Europe and Central Asia’ is an infographic project that aims to provide an overview of the main and most recent HIV-related issues and trends in the region. Based on the extensive analysis of UNAIDS data and statistics, the factsheet identifies the status and needs of the most affected and vulnerable groups.

An analysis of the data from the 2017 UN Mainstreaming, Acceleration, and Policy Support (MAPS) mission in the Republic of Moldova demonstrates the influence gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) has to accelerate development progress towards not only gender-specific targets and goals, but towards targets and goals beyond Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, Gender Equality and Empowerment of All Women and Girls.

This series of reports investigate and analyze the role of women in preventing and countering violent extremism, and the effect of violent extremism on women in Central Asia and the Western Balkans.

This report is a baseline study on the socio-economic obstacles faced by sexual violence survivors during conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina in their everyday lives. It has been initiated jointly by three UN agencies (UNFPA, UNDP and UN Women) and the IOM in BiH, aimed at addressing the needs and improving the services for wartime sexual violence survivors.

From 2010-2015, UN Women worked with local partner organizations, the TASO Foundation and the Women’s Information Center, to promote the social mobilization of internally-displaced, conflict-affected and ethnic minority women and girls in Georgia.

The report aims to show that the fiscal prioritization of Early Childhood Care and Preschool Education expansion, and hence the building of a social infrastructure of care, over, for instance, investments in physical infrastructure/construction or cash transfers, presents an enormous potential for decent job creation, particularly in the femaledominated occupations and sectors.