UNFPA Ukraine: social norms change and gender stereotypes elimination 2020-2024 UNFPA Ukraine: social norms change and gender stereotypes elimination 2020-2024 UNFPA has applied to Sida for funding of 15 400 000 SEK to carry out the "Equality springboard: social norms change and gender stereotypes elimination" Project in Ukraine during the period 2020-2023. 

The intervention aims at boosting the process of social norms change and withdrawal from gender stereotypes in education, at work and at home, as well as in the community life. This goal will be achieved by 1) enhancing capacities of the education system to integrate gender sensitive approach; 2) supporting men and boys’ engagement into advancing gender equality at the community level through applying equal distribution of duties in family life and participation in fathers' programs; 3) engaging corporate sector to introduce family friendly gender sensitive approaches, including domestic and gender-based violence prevention practices.  

The intervention’s total budget is 15 900 000 SEK, out of which the organization’s own funding is approximately 494 000 SEK (54 000 USD). UNFPA har ansökt Sida om 15 400 000 SEK för att genomföra projektet "Equality springboard: social norms change and gender stereotypes elimination" i Ukraina under perioden 2020-2023. 

Insatsen syftar till att främja förändringen av sociala normer, samt att eliminera genderstereotyper inom utbildningaq, i arbetslivet, i hemmet och i samhällslivet. Målet kommer att uppnås genom 1) att öka kapaciteten inom utbildningssystemet att kunna integrera ett jämställdhet; 2) att stödja mäns och pojkars engagemang i att bidra till jämställdhet i samhället genom en jämställd arbetsfördelning i hemmet och deltagande i program för pappor; 3) att engagera näringslivet att införa arbetssätt som främjar jämställdhet, inklusive förebyggande av könsbaserat våld och våld i hemmet. 

Insatsens totala budget är 15 900 000 SEK, av vilka organisationens egna medel är cirka 494 000 SEK (54 000 USD). The overall goal of the project is to boost the process of social norms change and withdrawal from gender stereotypes in education, at work and at home and in the community life and create supportive environment and growing public demand for advancing equal rights and opportunities for women and men in Ukraine. 
The objectives of the Project are as follows: 
Objective 1. To enhance capacities of the education system to integrate gender sensitive and non-discriminative content and approach in the school curriculum, textbooks and education materials and teaching practices and to support educational practitioners to promote stereotype-free gender norms among young Ukrainian men and women;
Objective 2.  To support men and boys’ engagement into advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment at the community level through applying equal distribution of duties in family life, including care of their children and participation in fathers programmes;
Objective 3. To engage corporate sector and provide it with guidelines and tools to introduce family friendly gender sensitive approaches in their corporate policies and programmes for staff and corporate social responsibility programmes, including domestic and gender-based violence prevention practices.
Key strategies: 
Empower change agents networks: educators to support young women and men to grow and develop free-from-stereotypes and benefit from the equal rights and opportunities;   male community leaders to demonstrate benefits and opportunities of egalitarian gender roles, equal distribution of family duties, equality in childcare and responsible fatherhood; corporate sector champions to pilot and demonstrate economic benefits of ‘family friendly’ gender sensitive corporate policies and programmes for employees.
Boost grow of public demand for changing social norms and overcoming gender stereotypes through effective targeted communication and advocacy.
Impact
The overarching long-term impact level objective is that women, men and girls, boys are able to realize their full potential and rights free from stereotypes and violence at school, at work, at home and at the community level. This is due to more equitable gender norms and comprehensive gender-responsive family policies that are championed by private sector and government.
The impact of this project will contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as national development plans such as: Sustainable Development Strategy for Ukraine by 2030 and the National Action Plan on the Strategy Implementation by 2020.
The project will contribute to the following longer-term outcomes:
Outcome 1. Adolescents and young men and women in Ukraine benefit form modernized education system free from discrimination and gender stereotypes and promoting equal opportunities in education and career choices.
Outcome 2. An increasingly supportive enabling environment created for boosting gender equality and gender-responsive family practices through public campaigns and engagement of local communities.
Outcome 3. The corporate sector has improved understanding of the value of gender-responsive family policies, the link to gender equality and business outcomes.
The project design assumes that these changes will continue beyond the project period as champion companies will make public, high level commitments to continue work to ensure workplaces are family friendly and companies will institutionalize these commitments through corporate policy change which will have a domino-effect on other companies. This will be complemented by work at the national level, whereby local authorities will commit to support for family friendly initiatives at the community level.
The intervention will work towards the following six outputs:
Output 1.1. Enhanced capacities of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MoES) to integrate non-discriminative gender-sensitive approach into sectorial policies and action plans in line with international commitments on gender equality and human rights-based approach
Output 1.2. Network(s) of educators as change agents strengthened, capacitated and equipped with modern tools and methods to deliver free-from-discrimination and gender stereotypes education and promote equal choices and opportunities among young people
Output 2.1. Partner municipalities supported to develop and implement local crisis rooms for GBV survivors and men-engage programs and solutions to support fathers to exercise their roles at home and in childcare
Output 2.2. Public campaign to unveil gender stereotypes, promote change of social norms based on gender equality and gender-responsive family developed and implemented
Output 3.1 Corporate sector is sensitized on benefits of gender equality and zero tolerance to GBV
Output 3.2. Corporate sector is supported in introducing and sustaining gender sensitive practices and family-responsive policies to advance gender equality and achieve a better health/life balance for women and men at work.
Together, these outputs are indispensable elements of the project puzzle as they secure the impact from three different yet critical angles.