A: Please submit your annual report to natalie.raaber@un.org, briana.yerbury@un.org, lesira.gerdes@un.org, david.svab@un.org, and maria.iturralde@un.org, with heran.ayele@un.org and michelle.unda@un.org in copy.

A: All information on reporting at Spotlight Initiative – including previously published reports, results based reporting tips and resources, and reporting templates – can be found in the Initiative's Virtual Library here. The reporting guidance pack offers a snapshot of key reporting information, including roles and responsibilities and reporting deadlines. We hope the guidance is helpful! We also host reporting webinars annually and send out the invites to all Spotlight programmes in November of the reporting year - we encourage all those involved in reporting to join!

A: Yes, all Spotlight programmes are responsible for saving evidence of your reported results (both indicator and narrative) for posterity. Please make sure to follow your Agency-specific rules and regulations on filing. Anything that needs to be shared with the Spotlight Secretariat can be shared with us through the Initiative's Virtual Library. Note that the Virtual Library Is public. Knowledge Management colleagues in the Secretariat can support further. Please kindly contact samu.ngwenya-tshuma@un.org, should you have questions.

A: It’s up to each Spotlight programme team, but generally the process looks like this: The Spotlight Coordinator “launches” reporting season by sharing the annual report outline with all RUNOs (linked in the Guidance Pack below), along with the reporting timeline and key deadlines. RUNOs then draft the sections of the main narrative and annexes they’ve been assigned. The Coordinator and team may also draft certain sections themselves. Finally, the Coordinator reviews the full report to ensure quality, coherence, and completeness. We've outlined these roles in the Spotlight Initiative Narrative Reporting Guidance Pack and have further discussed them in our annual reporting webinars. 

A: Yes! We’ve tried to strike a balance with the suggested word limits – providing enough space for meaningful detail while keeping the report at a reasonable length. As a general guide, please aim to keep the report to about 50 pages (using Arial 12-point font), while ensuring each section is fully addressed. You can do this by avoiding unnecessary repetition across sections. But if more space is needed to report on your progress and results, that's OK too!

A: It is up to you and the team to determine how to approach the results section of your report. But it's important to try to focus on the results achieved (the changes to which your programme activities and interventions contributed). Moreover, it's critical that results are not shared RUNO by RUNO but rather framed collectively, as the results achieved through the collaborative engagement of all RUNOs working to deliver the Spotlight Initiative programme.

Please note that for Spotlight Initiative Programmes with Multiple Donors and Non-Commingled Funds you will be expected to report the outcome results/impact by the respective donor investments. Please refer to the respective narrative report templates for more detailed information.

The person responsible (usually the Programme Coordinator) for quality assurance should feel empowered to recommend cuts/edits to ensure clarity and succinctness, and reframe language where needed to ensure the use of change language and agency-neutral phrasing.

A: Single spacing is fine. 

Please find the template for the annual work plan and budget here. Kindly noted that you will be asked to share with the Secretariat your current reporting year AWP as well as your subsequent year AWP. For example, if you are submitting your 2025 annual report, please share the 2025 AWP and the 2026 AWP.   
Note: No AWP will be required for final reporting.

A: Please share your latest 2025 Annual Work Plan and your 2026 Annual Work Plan, that reflects the full extended period approved for your programme. Please also indicate the status of approval of these AWPs by your Steering Committee (approved/to be approved). If already approved by your Steering Committee, please include the relevant signed minutes. No other details are required. Please find the template for the annual work plan and budget here.

Note: No AWP will be required for final reporting.

A: We ask that programme teams design their annual reports. We've provided teams with a standard design template in Spanish, French and English — with graphics and color scheme — to use for their narrative reports, which can be found here. Please make sure to update the date range on the cover page and throughout the template where necessary (the templates were developed a couple years back).

Importantly, please ensure the cover page of your designed report matches the template, to ensure consistency across programme reports. Thank you in advance!

A:  It is up to you, but we recommend that MPTFO shares the report first with your Donor(s) prior to others (by the deadline of 31 May). This way, your Donor(s) — a key partner— will have a chance to review and comment, and you can edit further (if needed) prior to sharing with other key stakeholders.

A: The cost for a professional designer may not be included in the budget already, but including funding for this activity should not represent a significant revision. If the cost is under $2,500, then the process of adding a budget line to reflect this can be very straightforward.

A: Yes! A few things have changed but the templates and requirements have largely stayed the same. 

The reporting template places an (even) deeper focus on the following elements:

• Impact of implementing a comprehensive model to EVAWG

• Sustainability strategies (including fundraising/resourcing efforts)

• How has your programme implemented the principle of “leaving no one behind”, and aligned with the principles of UN Reform?

In addition, please make sure to pay close attention to the timeline, as outlined in the Spotlight Initiative Narrative Reporting Guidance Pack, to ensure a timely submission of the report. 

Lastly, the Secretariat will be quality assuring all narrative reports! Programmes are encouraged to use the QA checklist to review their reports ahead of the submission, and to reach out with any questions along the way.  

A: The Spotlight Initiative Programme Coordinator or anyone from the team can submit the report as long as there is an internal endorsement process where the RC endorses the report.

A: Yes, the 2-page summaries can be submitted in English, French, or Spanish. Templates are available in all three languages. The summary should be prepared for the entire programme and, as with the annual report, reflect the collective contributions of the Initiative rather than RUNO specific inputs.

A: The 2-page summary captures additional (and in some cases different) information than the Executive Summary. You can refer to the 2-page summary you submitted last year and update it with your information from this year. However, you can also use the generic template in case you’d like to start fresh.

A:  If you are able to complete a copyedit of the report before sharing with us, that would be great, but it is not necessary, and that step should not delay your submission. It is also not necessary for the report to be designed for the 1 March submission to us. What is most important is that the report is copyedited before submission to MPTFO on 15 May. 

A: The annual reporting period is the calendar year from 1 January to 31 December. Your annual report should describe the activities that were implemented during this period. For the first year only, the annual narrative report will cover the period from the official programme start date through 31 December of that same year.

If your programme began implementation later in the year or experienced delays, please report on the work that was actually implemented and briefly explain any gaps, the reasons for them, and measures taken to address them. If you have any questions about your reporting period, please contact the Spotlight Initiative Secretariat.

A: Between trying to accelerate programme implementation, assessments and evaluations and the reporting exercise, we completely understand and appreciate the difficulties of managing all of this work. It is hard to have such high priorities all at the same time. We try to take all of this into account. We will, as such, conduct only one round of quality assurance review, and hope that the comments we provide are helpful, and make the reporting process easier (and an opportunity for learning). Let us know If you have any challenges submitting your report to us by 1 March, and we can work together to find a way forward. 

We will be holding informal reporting webinars in November/December of the reporting year. These will be optional, but we encourage colleagues to join these informal webinars and discussions to jointly talk about how reporting is going and answer any questions that may have come up. We will send out the invitations to these calls around November/December of every year. Please find here the reporting webinars. 

Thanks for the question! If your Spotlight Initiative programme is funded by several donors (with non-commingled funds) that have different end dates, you may need to produce a separate report for each funding stream. In practice, this means that, for example, if Donor X’s funding continues through 2027, you will submit the standard annual report for 2026. However, if Donor Y’s funding ends in 2026, you may also need to submit a final cumulative report for Donor Y as part of the 2026 reporting cycle.

In these cases, the Spotlight Initiative Global Team will work with you and the relevant donors to agree on the most appropriate and streamlined reporting approach. Please contact the team directly for further guidance and support.

A: Yes, you can submit a report in Spanish, French or English. 

A: Yes, the Secretariat will review/quality assure annual reports! Having said that, we encourage programmes to use the resources available, including the QA checklist, ahead of submitting the report. If you have questions on your report along the way, please feel free to ask!

A: The Spotlight Initiative Programme Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the overall quality, coherence, accuracy and comprehensiveness of the report, and that it is written as “agency neutral”, reflecting the work of all RUNOs under the Initiative for the reporting period. The Coordinator is responsible for coordinating among the RUNOs to ensure that their inputs meet Spotlight Initative and Donor(s) quality criteria, and is also responsible for the final quality assurance/review of the report, prior to sharing with the Resident Coordinator (who is responsible for endorsing and sharing the final version of the report to the MPFTO by 15 May). The Spotlight Initiative Programme Coordination Unit/Team should (also) ensure the technical coherence and soundness of the report overall. 

A: Please clearly flag any sensitive information, as your report will be made public and published on the MPTFO Gateway It's important to be transparent and constructive about challenges (as well as mitigating measures), keeping in mind that some challenges may be best addressed outside of reporting processes. It's at the discretion of the Resident Coordinator to consider adjustments to the content or level of detail of the report for presentation to the Steering Committee. 

A: Yes, your report should be shared with Steering Committee for their review, feedback, and endorsement / approval. But we recommend that it be shared with them only after the MPTFO shares the report to the donor(s). In the case of many programmes, that's after May 31.

Ahead of this though, and to encourage a participatory reporting process, we would suggest that you share draft versions of your report (as you're writing it) with relevant stakeholders for feedback, including civil society (the CSRG), government counterparts, donors, or others. 

A: By asking you to capture the relationship “beyond the traditional donor - partner role” in the report, we’d ask that you kindly reflect on how the Donor(s) is an active programme partner, providing a valuable advisory role, including programmatically, better connecting programmes with other stakeholders, strengthening the sustainability of the programme's contributions, and/or offering programmes the opportunity to leverage the collective resources and expertise of both the UN and the Donor(s) more effectively. Please try to note these (or other examples) in the report, as well as why this partnership is strategic, more broadly, including the extent to which it has helped the programme more effectively deliver and achieve results.

A: The Spotlight reporting platform will be open by the end of January, but you can organize and get your data ready well before then (so that when the platform opens you're ready to input your data). The Secretariat will be holding webinars on Annex A reporting. Please expect and email with details on this.

A: To the extent possible, try to use the same methodology that you used in the development of your program document. If you are using a different methodology, please note this in the narrative report, as well as any challenges or limitations that you're facing more generally in capturing beneficiaries.

A: Yes, please do.  If you reference a document or publication in the narrative report itself, please hyperlink to it (or provide a citation as a footnote).  In Annex D, we’ve asked you to include the links to knowledge products. 

A: The reporting template asks programmes to share results at two levels: overarching results that go above and beyond a specific outcome results. The former can be captured in the section “Overarching Narrative: Capturing Broader Transformation”, and examples of these can be found in results-based reporting tips. We ask programmes to share the impact of implementing a comprehensive approach to end violence against women and girls in this section too—how working comprehensively allows progress made under one outcome to support results in others (we've provided prompts in the reporting template toward this end). Outcome-specific results should be detailed in the section on “Capturing Change at Outcome Level”.

A: The focus of the report should be on results—e.g. the changes your programme has contributed to or is expected to contribute to overtime at output or outcome level. Please ensure results are disaggregated to the extent possible by group in the narrative report (as well as in SMART reporting) as what has changed (i.e. the result of Spotlight’s contribution) may be different for different groups. For example, your programme may have contributed to improved access to quality services for some groups but for other communities — perhaps those in rural areas, or those living with disabilities, or LGBTQI+ youth — barriers persist. We hope your report can capture this level of disaggregation. Additional examples can be found in the results-based reporting tips.

A: On the cover page of the report (i.e. page 3/4 in the template), please put total budget figures in USD to align with the approved CPD. Beyond this section of the report, there should not be any financial figures in the narrative.

A: We generally discourage programmes from doing this. However, if you feel it really adds value to the narrative and is really important to feature, please feel free to include. Importantly, though, if you feel there could be a discrepancy with the AWP/financial reporting, please refrain from including budget figures and please keep in mind that we discourage programmes from including financial figures for most activities in the narrative.

A: As noted, we encourage you not to mention any financial figures in the narrative annual report as those may not be final and may contradict the final financial report. If you have a low implementation rate, you can refer to it in more general terms (without figures). Please present the challenges and reasons for the delay and, most importantly, the measures taken to overcome bottlenecks and accelerate delivery. You can also note the fact that while delivery rates may be low (at present), important progress has been made, and then highlight some examples.

A: Yes! The Secretariat shared the following definition of a lesson learned. Please feel free to use the definition below as you fill in the “Lessons Learned and New Opportunities” section of your annual report. 

"A Lesson Learned is the knowledge, experience or understanding generated from implementation of the Spotlight Initiative that can be used to inform and improve future efforts. It can cover all aspects of the programme such as quality programming in the Initiative, ways of working in the UN (particularly in terms of interagency coordination, in the spirit of UN reform), or other areas within the field of EVAWG more broadly. It is often drawn from the actions taken to address a challenge encountered during implementation, which has been properly examined with a critical lens to identify insights and solutions. Capturing lessons learned should be an ongoing process throughout all phases of the Initiative to have a continuous feedback loop."

A: Kindly note that you’re not required to include all of the same practices as last year. If there is not much to report on a practice from a past year (i.e. if it has not evolved much), then it doesn’t need to be included this year. However, if it has evolved and there are updates you’d like to share, please feel free to include it and highlight how it has continued/evolved since that year (please also note that this is a practice that was mentioned in a previous report). It would be great to see how the practices evolved, especially if there are significant and/or interesting advancements and results that you’d like to share. It would also be helpful to see if a practice has advanced from "innovative" to "promising" or "promising" to "good", as outlined by the definitional criteria in Annex D. New practices are encouraged as well.

A: The annual report should reflect results achieved with Spotlight Initiative funding only. The report is a contractual obligation to the Donor(s), and the Initiative is accountable for how Spotlight funds have been used. Please therefore report on results achieved through your Spotlight Initiative programme using Donor(s) funds.

At the same time, ending violence against women and girls depends on contributions from many actors. You are welcome to reference complementary work by other partners, movements, or programmes in your context when this helps illustrate how Spotlight’s efforts are reinforced or informed by broader initiatives. This type of information fits best in sections such as partnerships, sustainability, or next steps.

If you choose to mention complementary initiatives, please make sure to describe the connection to Spotlight’s work. For example, you may explain how related initiatives strengthen systems, evidence, coordination, or policy environments that your Spotlight programme also engages in. These should not be reported as Spotlight results, but rather as contextual elements that show complementarity and collaboration with other actors working to eliminate VAWG.

If you have questions about how to frame complementary initiatives in your report, please contact the Spotlight Initiative Secretariat.

A: It is up to you to decide the best way to reflect this in your report, but please feel free to capture any/all innovative, promising, and/or good practices (in line with the definition provided in Annex D) linked to the programme as a whole. If there are any practices that have emerged through joint collaboration or the collective work of several RUNOs, that’s great to reflect.  You can name the specific agencies working together, but try to ensure that the practice is framed collectively as a good (or promising or innovative) practice emerging from Spotlight.  It is also fine to include practices across pillars or multiple practices under one pillar. Remember, though, to stick to the definition we provide in the  Annex D template so the reader can understand why a particular practice is “innovative”, “promising” or “good”.

A: We've asked programmes to report on rights holders reached in both SMART and in the narrative report. The SMART asks for a specific level of disaggregation, so we ask that you reflect that level if possible. You may not have data disaggregated at that level, and that’s okay, but we ask that you leave a comment on this in the comment box (why disaggregated data doesn't currently exist, and what the team is doing to try to collect disaggregated data moving forward). If you have a level of disaggregation that SMART doesn't ask for, you can leave a comment with this additional information, and reflect it in the narrative report (under results or in the "beneficiaries" table). We know that reporting on rights holders/beneficiaries is difficult, and doesn’t always reflect the progress of the programme, but we do ask (in the narrative report) that programmes include the number of men, women, girls, and boys they've reached. Please find here some tips on capturing Rights Holders / Beneficiaries.

A: Try not to attribute a result to a particular agency but rather to the collective efforts of RUNOs under the Initiative as a whole (please try to be as “agency-neutral” as possible).

A: Thanks for this question! Please consider Annex B more of a planning/mitigation tool (to be updated/monitored regularly).  As such, please list the potential risks your programme may face, building off of and updating, as needed, the risk matrix you produced for your the programme document, and the likelihood of it occurring in your context. How likely is the particular risk (in theory) in your context/and what would be its impact?  If there are new risks to add since the start of your programme, feel free to add them. In the “addressing the risk” column, you may add information either on how the programme would respond to the risk, or is actually responding to it (i.e. actual actions taken should it have occurred). Please note which though. We hope this approach makes sense, and helps teams continuously think through potential risks the programme may face, and accompanying mitigation measures.

A: Indicator reporting will be done in the online reporting platform. Programmes will be responsible for completing indicator reporting and submitting this to the Secretariat by 1 March. Indicator reporting will be Annex A of your annual report - and should be attached to your report accordingly.  For more information on indicator reporting, please reach out to Michelle at michelle.unda@un.org.

A: We’ll be launching the reporting forms early each year. You can gather your data now so that it's ready to submit when we open the forms. Please enter your information and submit your reporting data by 1 March. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to  michelle.unda@un.org anytime.

A: Please reach out to Michelle (michelle.unda@un.org) should you need to to download the data (or adjust it in any way).

A: For programmes where baseline studies could not be conducted in time. For programmes that are still collecting baseline data, please enter as much data as possible into the online reporting platform (noting that some baselines are set at zero). If you don’t have any baseline data, please leave the fields blank and share the reason why you were not able to provide baseline information in the comment box of the form. As soon as you have your baselines set, please reach out to us. 

A: For the indicator under Outcome B, you can absolutely include awareness-raising campaigns that were done through more traditional means, for example, through spreading leaflets in rural communities. As you'll see, the online reporting system asks for a specific level of disaggregation, and we encourage this high level of disaggregation by gender, age, and other categories, but we understand it may not be possible (yet). Please include what you have now, and consider how, next year, you could include this level of disaggregation (in your monitoring tools for example).

You can use any source of data, you simply need to indicate the data source (a report, a participant list, a survey, minutes, etc.), but the programme is responsible for maintaining this evidence (e.g. your own internal repository where you keep all the evidence backing up reporting).

A: Yes! Each year, provide walk-through and training on the reporting system in early January, including how to “Export” the data as an excel or CSV file. Please email us if you have any questions.

A: The Spotlight Initiative indicators were developed with a view to adapting to each country’s context and also aggregated globally (so that the Initiative can report to the Donors at a global level on our aggregate contributions). You can reflect your emergency response work in your narrative annual report fully. In your indicator reporting, however, it may also be possible to interpret the indicators you are reporting against in a way that captures the work you’ve done on emergency response, and/or share any reflections on your data in the “comments” box (a space at the bottom of the page, under each indicator).

Please reach out to Natalie (natalie.raaber@un.org) and Michelle (michelle.unda@un.org) for further help with this.

A: At the moment, our online platform only captures baseline data, milestones and targets, and annual reporting data. It is not set up as a regular monitoring tool. Please keep in mind that programmes have developed their own monitoring tools (at programme level), and you should feel free to develop a system that works best for your context. Our approach to ActivityInfo was necessary to meet our contractual reporting obligations - though we know you are often asked to report the same information across multiple platforms (and to your agencies separately), and apologize for the duplicate efforts. We have this on our radar and are working to streamline reporting efforts across the UN development system.

A: In order to aggregate results across all programmes, and produce a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Initiative globally,  country programmes are asked to work across all outcome areas, selecting specific indicators (from a pre-determined list) relevant to the programme's context. Regional programmes are slightly different, and do not have to work across all pillars.

Some country and regional programmes have developed additional indicators unique to their context to track as well - this is fine! However, programmes will not be asked to report in ActivityInfo on those unique indicators (i.e, those indicators will not be included in the aggregate global analysis). Programmes are encourage to report on these in the narrative report though.

A: Yes, you can make changes to your indicators, but all changes need to be run by your donors and approved by your Steering Committee.  After receiving approval, please let the Spotlight Initiative Secretariat know of the change so we can update our results reporting database to reflect the changes. Please email michelle.unda@un.org.

A: Great question! Reporting on indicators in the online reporting platform follows the structure of the Results Framework (not the workplan or the budget); you'll see indicators organized by the logic of the results framework. However, for narrative reporting, feel free to report results under the appropriate pillar or outcome. For your question, you could include the result of the CSO grant under Outcome B (as the work contributed to progress under Outcome B). You can also include this in the "Overarching" results section of your narrative report (which aims to capture how work/interventions under one pillar can contribute to results in another).

A: Yes. Please reach out to michelle.unda@un.org to request access.

A: Guidance on Annex C for reporting can be found here. We kindly ask that you share your preliminary/draft narrative report by 1 March (to allow enough time for quality assurance).

A: Yes! Thanks for asking! Annex C will be submitted through the online reporting platform. This online form was developed to simplify reporting for Annex C. Programmes are asked to report on the cumulative data on CSO funding from the start of the programme. The question on vulnerable/marginalised groups is now a multiple-choice question.

A: When you have finished entering all of your data Please inform Radia (radia.bakkouch@un.org). Kindly copy Natalie (natalie.raaber@un.org) and David (david.svab@un.org). If you need support with the repoting platform please contact Michelle (michelle.unda@un.org)

A: Please note it should only include the communities reached through the programme's work with CSOs (regardless of how much it has cost or not, or which type of contract modality you used to partner with the CSO). So do not include communities reached through direct programming by the UN, or partnership with the government, etc.

A: In the online reporting platform, you can edit the first form to include the CRSG budget. 

Please include the total budget amount. It is not necessary to include a separate, disaggregated award for the CSNRG in your draft Annex C, which is only intended to capture awards to specific civil society organizations. 

However, if as part of the reference group's workplan, your programme is giving money to a CSO (for example, to carry out a survey), then please include a line for that specific award. We don't expect this to be relevant for most programmes, though. 

A: As per the definition provided in Annex C, local and grassroots organisations are organisations that focus their work at the local and community level. They often have a small annual operating budget (for example, under USD $200,000), but do not always. They are often self-organised and self-led, and have a low level of formality. A budget of USD $200,000 is an example, but not a set limit. Each programme may use its own understanding of the local context to estimate if a CSO is a local or grassroots group.

A: The field “Total Award Amount” needs to reflect the amount legally committed to the CSO during the implementation period. It is independent of the amounts actually paid or if the contract will be implemented over several reporting periods. 

A: Yes, that is right! You can split the award amount across outputs to reflect the award in this way.

A: If you are referring to a partnership without any funds transferred there is no need to report this in Annex C.  

Please feel free to capture this information in the narrative report though, particularly as it relates to implementing the principle of leaving no one behind, reaching marginalized groups, or supporting grassroots/local organizations or constituency led organizations.

A: Please include both the information for the "parent organization" (the organization Spotlight Initiative is transferring funding to) and the information of the sub-grantee. More guidance on data entry in the online reporting system will be forthcoming in early 2026.  

A: Yes! There are multiple options to define the type of CSO (to better capture commitments under Outcome D). Please read the definitions in the guidance note and within the online reporting system. 

A: Yes! We strongly recommended that the Civil Society National (or Regional) Reference Group be consulted on the annual report, and is offered the opportunity to not only review/provide feedback on report, but also be consulted on the results achieved and progress made (what the report is capturing in the results chapter) or the challenges faced, etc.  Civil Society’s perspective is critical, and may be able to identify areas of promising impact, good practices and lessons learned, as well as shed light on challenges or aspects of the programme that could be (further) reinforced or improved. This does not necessarily mean sharing a draft report with the Civil Society National Reference Group, but it does mean sharing the report with the Group in a timely manner - so that they have an opportunity to provide meaningful inputs. 

A: We understand that actual disbursed amounts may vary from those initially planned due to a variety of factors. In Annex C, please adjust the amount under "award" to reflect this.

A: In Annex C, we ask that you capture funds that are transferred to civil society under any modality. The important thing is that you clearly capture the flow of money to reflect how you are supporting CSOs. We are not analyzing distinctions between sub-granting and sub-contracting at the moment. The idea is to understand what has been given to CSOs and if those funds have been further sub-granted in order to achieve results and objectives.

If there are smaller organizations that are benefitting from larger organizations' funding but there is no money transfer per se, please include it in the narrative report, under the civil society section.

A: We don’t have specific guidance on this, and leave it open to each  programme to define (in certain contexts, an academic institution could fit the definition of a CSO included in Annex C, while in others, it would not). It could also depend on the nature of the activity. If the activity is planned as a “CSO-activity” in the budget, and implemented by an academic institution (e.g. the institution was selected in the call for proposals), then the academic institution could be captured in Annex C. If you have any questions on this, please feel free to reach out to Radia (radia.bakkouch@un.org) and kindly copy Natalie (natalie.raaber@un.org) and David (david.svab@un.org) for further clarification.

A: Sure! Please feel free to include a few photos in the report, but please try to keep the template as is (we want to ensure the report does not become too lengthy, and looks "clean and simple" and similar across all programmes). If you add photos, kindly use low resolution photos so the report does not have an excessive digital size, and ensure they are in line with the Communications and Visibility Guide. Please note that the annual report includes a section for you to share photos and videos through a hyperlink to an online platform.

A: High-resolution images are always preferred (particularly as we are not able to use low res photos for printed reports). Thanks!

A: Yes, generic photos can be used, though please give credit to the photographer. If you do not have Spotlight photos of your own, please consider how you can obtain such photos moving forward. Do not hesitate to contact our communications team (koye.adeboye@un.org) for further details. 

A: Yes, you should include powerful testimonials from a range of stakeholders, including the Donor(s), Government, development partners, RUNOs, CSOs and other institutional stakeholders, as well as from rights holders/communities ("direct beneficiaries"), or other local partners. 

A: The reporting template features a dedicated section on “Communications and Visibility”, where “Stories from the Field” can be shared.  Additionally, please feel free to reflect these stories (particularly any quotes or testimonials) throughout your annual report to illustrate or “give life” to the work you’re doing, and the impact of Spotlight’s contributions on the lives of women and  girls (for example in the “Results” section, or in the “Partnerships” section).