UN Women offers collaboration opportunities to Finnish companies

UN Women Asia-Pacific is looking to collaborate with Finnish companies or organisations in the areas of gender statistics, women’s economic empowerment, climate-resilient agriculture and agroforestry.

UN Women’s programme on gender statistics, Women Count, aims to improve the production, availability, and use of data related to gender equality in Asia and the Pacific. The programme is looking for innovative solutions that address challenges such as gender and the environment, unpaid care and domestic work, and technology-facilitated violence.

Traditional data collection methods can be costly and inadequate, yet technologies such as time tracking and citizen-generated data apps can enable the capturing of data on hazardous livelihoods, like garbage collection, in which many women engage in the region, and more efficiently estimate women’s time use and contributions to society.

In Timor-Leste, UN Women works with rural women across the country to increase their access to essential resources, markets, and capacity-building initiatives for sustainable agriculture and value chain development. With a climate resilience approach, UN Women promotes women-led development models and is seeking to collaborate with Finnish companies that offer solutions for mobile-based agricultural platforms, solar-powered irrigation systems, and digital tools that support crop health monitoring, resource allocation, and market linkages for women farmers and women-owned Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s).

The proposed collaboration would enable UN Women to facilitate access to e-commerce and marketing through existing women’s collectives for farmers, weavers, and market vendors, and effectively support their active participation in and upscaling of Timor-Leste’s agrifood systems transformation as well as agricultural and handicraft industries.

If your company is interested in collaborating with UN Women Asia-Pacific, please contact Huong Phan: huong.phan@finnpartnership.fi. Finnish companies can receive Business Partnership Support for piloting with an ODA-eligible international organisation, such as UN Women.

Images: UN Women/Jaime Luis and UN Women/Montira Narkvichien