Brief - UN Women East and Southern Africa Knowledge Management Strategy

This brief emerges from the UN Women East and Southern Africa Knowledge Management Strategy 2022-2025. In the period of the Strategic Note (2018-2021), East and Southern Africa Regional Office leveraged its knowledge management (KM) strategy (2018-2021) and developed KM tools and systems and ensured a systematic approach to KM implementation across the region with platforms such as thematic reference groups, communities of practice, knowledge hub, dissemination strategies of knowledge products among others. The region focused itself on demand driven quality knowledge products which have departed from the supply driven approach that reduced opportunities for use on policy and programming. ESARO also established a quality assurance process for knowledge products with guidance for centralizing editorial and design functions of all knowledge products at the knowledge management function. Further, all the 13 country offices either developed or commenced development of their country gender equality profiles coordinated by ESARO which shall be used for policy advocacy and programming at country level. The profiles also inform the common country analysis and the development of the UN Sustainable Development Corporation Framework.