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🗣️This morning, Commissioner-Designate Zaharieva faced MEPs for her hearing. #GenderEquality was featured in her opening statement: she noted that women outnumber men at graduate levels yet hold 1 in 4 academic positions - something that is not due to lack of talent but structural barriers. 🧍♀️To ensure women’s participation, Zaharieva committed to ensuring 50% women’s participation in all Horizon boards, advisory committees and expert groups as well as to enhancing Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, a scheme that succeeds in attracting women researchers. 💬When asked by the FEMM Chair Lina Gálvez about the continuation of #GEPs as an eligibility criterion, Zaharieva responded positively with a yes, and went on to stress maintaining gender balance in project evaluation. Currently, gender balance is a ranking factor for ex-aequo proposals, and GEPs are an eligibility criterion. While we GENDERACTIONplus welcome this commitment, we need more: 🔥A clear commitment to continuing gender equality plans as an eligibility criterion, with the recommended thematic areas becoming mandatory and proper monitoring of GEP adoption and implementation 🔥Attention to intersectional inequality and other forms of discrimination 🔥Gender dimension in research and innovation as an award criterion 🔥Addressing gender-based violence by implementing the Zero Tolerance Code of Conduct If you agree, join our effort and sign the open letter 👉 https://lnkd.in/ezUCRkby

2 important pieces in this recommendation: * Design measures to increase funding of programmes and projects that are dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and those that integrate gender equality objectives across sectors. * Increase financing for local women’s rights organisations, feminist movements and women’s funds, and government partners to promote gender equality. This is particularly important given recent reporting that indicates a decline in this funding. New, robust, significant investments are required -- to support SDG implementation, counter the rising anti-rights/anti-gender movement, and deliver on commitments made almost 30 years ago at the Beijing Conference.

Members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) - including Australia - recently adopted a new Recommendation on gender equality and women and girls' empowerment in development. It's a pretty big deal - it means that major donor countries have collectively committed to do what was know works to advance gender equality through ODA, including designing gender-targeted programs informed by gender analyses, increasing funding for women's rights orgs and feminist movements, and building capability within our own institutions. This joint global commitment is critical given global pushback on gender equality and the recent drops we've seen in ODA funding for gender equality. https://lnkd.in/ghTdVbxz

💜 Endurance in Advocacy: Ongoing Struggle for Gender Equality 💜 Sita Aripurnami, Executive Director of the Women Research Institute in Indonesia, shares insights from her decades-long journey advocating for gender equality and the challenges faced along the way. Key Highlights: 💪 Endurance in Advocacy: Despite ongoing efforts since 1984, the challenge remains to combat disrespect and violence against women and girls. 📊 Evidence-Based Advocacy: Using data and evidence to support gender equality initiatives and gain broader support. 🌍 Beijing Declaration Review: Progress in education and political participation, but challenges remain in rural education, workforce disparities, and violence against women. 📈 Future Focus: Strengthening gender mainstreaming policies, improving data collection and follow-up actions, and increasing women's representation in decision-making roles. 🗣 Message to New Generations: Stay open-minded, sincere, and learn from diverse experiences to advance gender equality and address intersectional issues. Read the full article from UN Women here: https://rb.gy/72uk8d #GenderEquality #WomenInLeadership #Advocacy #BeijingPlus30 #Countherin #Winningtogether

Gender parity in parliaments may not be reached before 2063. The report stresses the high cost of not investing in women’s rights and calls attention to proven solutions that benefit women, girls, and entire societies. It champions radical action to shift the current trajectory and dramatically accelerate progress on gender equality and women’s right

The Commission on the Status of Women's 68th Session (CSW68) will meet from March 11 to 22, 2024. The session's primary topic is "accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls." The 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) will focus on accelerating gender equality, empowering women and girls, developing policies, advocating for change, and monitoring progress. These objectives seek to improve the status of women and girls across the globe by promoting their rights and opportunities in a variety of areas.    The 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) is anticipated to adopt agreed-upon proposals to accelerate gender equality and empower women and girls, Member states have increased their knowledge and commitment to addressing difficulties and impediments to gender equality, partnerships between governments, civil society, and other stakeholders have been strengthened to achieve the objective of gender equality, as well as the intersectional nature of gender disparity and the need for inclusive policies and programs. At the national and international levels, accountability is promoted, and progress toward gender equality targets is monitored. These outcomes aim to help advance gender equality and empower women and girls across the world. As a graduate student in women's children's and nature rights in environmental governance, my main focus is on integrating gender into environmental governance and that can best happen if gender equality and mainstreaming of women and girls can be achieved. I look forward to the report and the ongoing updates of the CSW68. #csw68 #csw2024 #commissiononthestatusofwomen UN Women Pan-African Climate Education Network (PACE) #CSW68 #CSW2024 #CSW #FON #WILDatCSW #GAGGAatCSW68 IPPF Africa Region Gallianne Palayret Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - WILPF

UN and UNDP Women Report THE PATHS TO EQUAL: New twin indices on gender equality and women’s empowerment This report expands the measures for women and girls to exercise their potential, their opportunities and the choices available to them. The report uses data for 114 countries, including new data on the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals to fill some gaps. It introduces a new multidimensional framework to measure the status of women’s empowerment and gender equality across the world, with the Women’s Empowerment Index (WEI) and the Global Gender Parity Index (GGPI) as new twin indices. The WEI focuses solely on women, measuring their power and freedoms to make choices and seize opportunities in life. The GGPI evaluates the status of women relative to men in core dimensions of human development and exposes gaps in parity between women and men.

The latest UN Women and United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs report on gender equality highlights the urgent need for accelerated action to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Goal 5: gender equality. Despite some progress, not a single indicator under Goal 5 has been fully achieved. At the current pace, ending extreme poverty among women could take 137 more years, and gender parity in parliaments may not be realized until 2063. In Latin America and the Caribbean, progress remains uneven. Education is an area of strength, with the region having the highest rate of upper-secondary school enrollment for girls in the Global South, at 85%. However the gender employment gap remains stark, with 19.3% of women seeking employment lacking jobs, compared to 9.5% of men, underscoring persistent barriers to equal opportunity. This report calls for urgent, radical action to close these gaps and invest in women’s rights, not only for the benefit of women and girls but for the well-being of societies worldwide. Read more about the report and the path forward: https://lnkd.in/gcDaxKva #GenderEquality #SDG5 #WomenEmpowerment #GlobalGoals #LatinAmerica #Caribbean #globalsouth

New DAC Recommendation adopted today. Now is the time for implementation! The DAC took a major step forward today by adopting a Recommendation on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of All Women and Girls in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance. The current global context underlines the importance of setting a clear standard to hardwire gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls throughout the policies and systems of DAC members. We need to see a higher degree of leadership on gender equality and culture change to prioritise this across governments and beyond; more and better-quality financing efforts and policies; and better institutions that can deliver on gender equality and empowerment for all women, also as key aspect of democratic governance.   The adoption of the Recommendation demonstrates the DAC’s strong leadership and sustained commitment to gender equality, complementing and bolstering the existing DAC Guidance on the topic. The Recommendation provides a comprehensive framework to incentivise, support and guide DAC and non-DAC members in their capacity as donors, cross-government and international community stakeholders to implement more comprehensive, coherent and aligned measures, consistent with applicable international standards and taking into account national laws, to promote gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls globally. The Recommendation further marks a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to advancing gender equality and empowering women and girls globally by building upon the momentum generated by the 2023 DAC High-Level Meeting, where the importance of transformative approaches to addressing root causes of gender inequalities was underscored. The Recommendation can be accessed online in the Compendium of OECD Legal Instruments here: https://lnkd.in/eCwNeKcU   With the successful adoption, implementation will now be in focus. Some say “the status of women is the status of democracy”, and out of this process we will continue our work with the DCD Secretariat in how to further gender equality and prevent pushback against women’s rights globally through better formal and informal governance systems.    #GenderEquality #Women’sEmpowerment #DevelopmentCooperation #HumanitarianAssistance #DACRecommendation

I finished reading the British Council's new report, Next Generation: What We Know on Women and Girls, and it’s such an insightful read! The research dives into women's and girls' challenges and opportunities across seven countries, focusing on education, ending violence, and empowerment. I was struck by how gender stereotypes hinder the uptake of STEM subjects and restrict young women's economic empowerment due to financial constraints. These challenges are compounded by their responsibility to support families and a lack of effective workplace support for working mothers. The research does an incredible job of highlighting the impact of societal norms, the gap between policies and their implementation, and digital technologies' double-edged sword. If you’re passionate about gender equality and want to understand how to create meaningful change, this report by the British Council identifies key enablers and makes strong recommendations. I highly recommend checking it out! https://ow.ly/qqBx30sIaZ1