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The United Nations Development Fund for Women [UNIFEM] was established to promote women's
empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all
levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN
system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical
issues on the national, regional and global agendas. UNIFEM focuses it work at the
country level within the context of the United Nations Resident Coordinator System.
Playing a strong advocacy role, UNIFEM concentrates on fostering a multilateral policy
dialogue on women's empowerment.