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Location: occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) with ability to travel to all districts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip 1. Background, purpose and use of the evaluation The UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women's rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors. UN Women has played an innovative and catalytic role in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) since its inception in 1997. UN Women oPt focuses its activities on one overarching goal, namely to support the implementation at the national level of existing international commitments to advance gender equality in line with national priorities. In support of this goal and thoroughly taking into consideration the specificities of the oPt context, UN Women concentrates its efforts and interventions toward the realisation of following strategic goals: Engendering governance, peace and security; Supporting women's economic security and rights; and Promoting women's rights and protection against violence. UN Women, through its work to enhance women's economic empowerment and rights has adopted the Sabaya Programme model in the oPt through addressing the interlinked protection and empowerment components of a human security approach and deals with the main areas of concern to UN Women, which are reduction of feminized poverty, governance and women's human rights. Therefore, UN Women targeted