Transversal axes

UNOPS is committed to gender equality between men and women, respect for diversity, and the promotion of social inclusion as tools for sustainable and resilient human development. By implementing gender-sensitive projects, we promote operations with more efficient results and greater outreach, so that women and girls have equal access to project results and decent living conditions.

We carry out projects where infrastructure is an element of transformation of inequalities between men and women and that it responds to the needs, uses, and differentiated requirements of women and girls, from an intersectoral analysis. We develop acquisitions as a tool for equality and social inclusion, promoting human rights as an essential criterion in our relationship with companies and suppliers.

UNOPS has developed a strategic and operational framework to prevent one of the most serious human rights violations: gender-based violence against women and girls. To this end, one of the priorities of our project is the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH), making available channels for complaints and attention to these cases for teams and the communities, and raising awareness against sexual street harassment in infrastructure projects.

In addition to the design of hospitals, UNOPS has adopted the BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology for the design and construction of the hospitals of the INFRAIGSS Program.
BIM is a collaborative working methodology for creating and managing a construction project.
This methodology is based on a 3-dimensional digital model that allows:

Work is being done to develop a “BIM maturity” within the organization and the partner, creating the reference frameworks for its further development.

This is a process that can take 3 or 4 years, and with the first “pilot project” in Zacapa, progress has been made in a remarkable way, already creating lessons learned that can be extrapolated to other offices of the organization.