We advocate for stronger commitments to gender equality and women’s human rights within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); towards a gender just future. We advocate on the local, regional and international level for a bottom-up approach to the SDGs. Meaning, what is happening on the local level should dictate the dialogue on the global level: “global goals, local actions”.
Our advocacy work exists of
- Capacity-building & meaningful public participation of women
- Shadow reporting
- An online gender & SDGs monitoring tool
Processes we follow
- High Level Political Forum (HLPF)
- Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COPs)
- United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA)
- Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
- UN General Assembly (UNGA)
- Conferences of the Parties to the Basel Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)
- Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
- European Environmental and Health Process (EEHP)
Latest updates
Georgia factsheet: SDGs and gender equality
Georgia has made significant progress in terms of improving and harmonizing the legislative framework for the defense of human rights. However, there is still work to be done in terms of its implementation. According to official data, women represent only 15 % (23 members) of the parliament. Although this is about a 9-percentage point increase since 2008, the total number of women in parliament remains critically low. The situation is even worse at the local level where women hold no governorship, filling only one [...]
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Latin America report: gender assessments reveal gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions GalleryLatin America report: gender assessments reveal gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions
Advocacy, Biodiversity, Climate, Gender Assessments, Gender equality, GFC, Reports & studies, Shadow reports 2020
Latin America report: gender assessments reveal gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions
[en español] World leaders have gathered virtually for this year's edition of the UN's High-Level Political Forum. Top on the agenda is assessing how progress is being made globally to achieve gender equality, tackle climate change and protect forests, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Global Forest Coalition has just published its own assessment of this progress, "Toward Buen Vivir with Gender Equality and Environmental Justice: Gender Analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals in Five Countries in Latin America", based on [...]
Moldova
This Shadow Report is prepared by our partner organisations WiSDOM and Gender-Center in the Republic of Moldova. You can read the full report here: Shadow Report Moldova
Kyrgyzstan
Our partner Rural Women's Organisation ALGA Kyrgyzstan has prepared this shadow report. You can download the report here: Kyrgyzstan
Women’s rights and traditional knowledge are crucial for conserving biodiversity in Kyrgyzstan
[Русская версия] Last week, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) negotiations in Rome aimed to set out a global biodiversity framework for the coming decades. The sheer scale of the challenges faced by our planet is difficult to comprehend, but there is now at least recognition of the fact that ecological and social crises must be tackled together. In order to protect biodiversity and environments such as forests, the world must also protect women’s rights, traditional knowledge and sustainable livelihoods so that communities can [...]
Report on the internal mid-term evaluation of the Women2030 programme
The 54 month-programme Women2030 started in May 2016 and will be completed by November 2020. Together with the other Women2030 co-applicants and with the support of a consultant, WECF conducted an internal Mid-term Evaluation (MTE) in the first quarter of 2019. The MTE aimed to reflect on the activities and achievements so far, to learn from this and to plan for the remaining period. This report presents the findings of this MTE review. Interviews of partners and meeting in Bangkok WECF invited some [...]