Strategic Plan) aims to guide UN-Women for the next four years – with an eye toward the 2030 deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the following sections, we review global progress and persistent challenges in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment, and spell out UN-Women’s ambitious
The United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-SWAP) is the first United Nations system-wide accountability mechanism for gender equality and women’s empowerment. The UN-SWAP framework 2.0 launched in 2018, includes 17 performance indicators aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...
In a united show of leadership, senior UN (United Nations) officials from across the Pacific convened to reaffirm their collective commitment to advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. The high-level breakfast Talanoa was held to have focused discussion on the Pillars of the Gender Equality Acceleration Plan (GEAP), and to ensure that Heads of Agencies have a fuller ...
The WGC and the WEPs. The World Gold Council is proud to announce its support of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), having recently become a signatory of this important initiative to promote gender equality and empower women in the workplace, community, marketplace, and wider society. The WEPs are a set of guiding principles developed through a collaboration between the UN Global ...
staff capacity on gender equality and empowerment of women conducted in 2015. UNECE Policy follows the performance and reporting standards for UN entities developed in the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-SWAP)2 and the Guidance Note3 to ensure its alignment with the UN-SWAP.
Thirty years ago, world leaders made a promise at the Fourth World Conference on Women – equal rights, opportunities, power, and safety for women and girls everywhere. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action enshrines that promise. The world cannot wait another 30 years to fulfill gender equality. Today we stand stronger, more united, more diverse, and determined to become the first ...
Organization,” our global Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Strategy, designed to improve our programs and internal governance to challenge discriminatory gender norms and advance equality across gender identities. This strategy builds from our Women’s Initiative launched in 2015, expanding that work to guide our internal operations
women’s economic empowerment; and contribute to UN Women’s Strategic Plan outcomes. The strategy specifically contributes to several SDG targets on reducing time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, women’s land rights, financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment, women’s employment and social protection.
This approach is reflected in UN Women's Strategic Plan 2018-2021, its Flagship Programming Initiatives which were launched as multi-stakeholder programmatic platforms to support increased impact across the SDGs; the system-wide action plan for gender equality and the empowerment of women (UN-SWAP), its work in the context of the UNCTs, to name ...
Development. It was also about a year after the launch of the Philippines’ Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) Plan 2019-2025 during which event, government agencies committed to the plan’s implementation. However, the COVID-19 pandemic stalled mostly everything and threatens to roll back the
Since its creation 70 years ago, the UN has achieved important results in advancing gender equality, from the establishment of the Commission on the Status of Women - the main global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women - through the adoption of various landmark agreements such as the Convention on the Elimination of All ...
It is the third time-slice framework plan that government has formulated in support of the long-term perspective plan, the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (PPGD) 1995-2025. The GEWE Plan 2019-2025 covers four years of the Updated Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022 and the remaining years of the PPGD 1995-2025.
2 UN-SWAP is theUnited Nations System Wide Action Plan for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women. It implementation tool of a policy on gender equality and the empowerment of women adopted by the Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) in 2006 (CEB/2006/2). It establishes a common understanding of, and minimum requirements and
