A multi-stakeholder partnership committed to improving the quality and availability of girls’ education and contributing to the empowerment of girls and women through education. The UNGEI Secretariat is hosted by UNICEF in New York City.

It establishes an accountability framework for assessing the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming by the UNCT. The Scorecard is focused on the performance of the UNCT, rather than the performance of anyone United Nations organization. It intends to provide an assessment of what the United Nations as a whole contributes to gender mainstreaming and consequently to the promotion of gender equality. It is intended to complement existing accountability frameworks. The focus of the Scorecard is on strategies and processes –that is gender mainstreaming –rather than development results. Achievement of development results on gender equality and women’s empowerment must be led by national partners, with support from the UNCT.

UNICEF regional offices have identified specific goals and targets to work towards specific ‘headline results’. These results are internal measurements for critical development areas in the region. UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) headline results are: 1) Save New-borns, 2) Stop Stunting, 3) Educate All Girls and Boys, 4) End Child Marriage, 5) Stop Open Defecation and 6) End Polio.

The largest global joint programme to accelerate the abandonment of FGM/C. Initiated in 2007, the programme focuses on 17 African countries and supports regional and global initiatives.

The programme targets adolescent girls (ages 10-19) at risk of child marriage or already in union, in 12 selected countries: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia.

Violence varies by types according to sexual, psychological, physical and economic violence occurring in the family, within the general community, perpetrated or condoned by the state (UNICEF, 2000). The type of violence indicates the means used to impose discipline, or to impose the concept of who is in control. The terms "forms" and "types" of gender-based violence (or abuse) are often used as synonyms, even in the international literature. However, it has been approved in the discussion sessions on the use of the word "form" referring to the framework in which violence occurs and the word "type" to refer to the means used to impose authority. For example, if we say Ms X was beaten by her husband, physical violence will be the type of violence and domestic or marital violence would be the form.

Is the type of act, ceremony or process by which the legal relationship of husband and wife is constituted, that is, whether civil, civil religious, religious only or customary.

An official body, usually set up by states after periods of state-perpetrated violence, whose main task is to establish a record of wrongdoing as part of an overall process of catharsis and reconciliation. Such commissions are sometimes empowered to grant full or partial amnesty in exchange for full disclosure, but this practice is rare. Some commissions also address issues of reparation and rehabilitation.

These terms refer to the fact that women tend to work longer and more fragmented days than men as they are usually involved in three different gender roles - reproductive, productive and community work.

Person who prefers another gender than their birth gender and feels the need to undergo physical alterations to the body to express this feeling, such as hormone treatment and/or surgery.