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THE Women Health France was established on system wide coherence, with a mandate to assist Member States system to progress more effectively and efficiently towards the goal of achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The Women Center development results framework comprises six main goals. These goals are:

to increase women's leadership and participation in all areas that affect their lives;
to increase women's access to economic empowerment and opportunities, especially for those who are most excluded;
to prevent violence against women and girls and expand access to survivor services;
to increase women's leadership in peace and security and humanitarian response;
to strengthen the responsiveness of plans and budgets to gender equalty at all levels.

The sixth goal involves support for a comprehensive set of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and women's empowerment that is dynamic, responds to new and emerging issues, challenges and opportunities and provides a firm basis for action by stakeholders at all levels.

Focus Areas

The Plan for has identified the following focus areas for development as part of the WOMEN mandate:

Expanding women's voice, leadership and participation.
Ending violence against women.
Strengthening implementation of women's peace and security agenda
Enhancing women's economic empowerment
Making gender equality priorities central to national, local and sectoral planning, budgeting and statistics
Millenium Development Goals