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
Powerpoints of data collected for the gender assessments
Women2030’s partners are monitoring the implementation of the SDGs and collect primary data thanks to questionnaires delivered and focus group discussions organized with community groups. The documents provide an overview of the community-based data collected by our partners as part of their gender assessment Summary of the data for W2030 Kyrgystan W2030 GA données collectées Togo 28.05 W2030 GA results ALBANIA 09052018 W2030 GA results KENYA 30072018 W2030 GA results MACEDONIA 09052018 W2030 GA results Tunisia 08082018 W2030 GA results MOLDOVA W2030 GA [...]
Kyrgyzstan: gender assessment
The Kyrgyz Republic has undergone significant political and economic changes since 2000, and these changes have undoubtedly had an effect on gender equality outcomes. In 2010, Rosa Otunbayeva was appointed interim president, thereby becoming first female head of state of a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The number of women representatives in the country’s parliament has also increased. Considerable attention has been paid to the development of gender equality policy since 2010, although implementation has remained slow. Since Kyrgyzstan’s independence in [...]
#MindTheGAP demonstration: feminists calling for a robust Gender Action Plan (GAP) as an outcome of the climate negotiations (COP23)
Press Release: Women & Gender Constituency hosts an action during the climate negotiations COP 23, Bonn, Germany 07 November 2017 WHAT On Tuesday November 7, 2017, the Women and Gender Constituency of the UNFCCC hosted an interactive ACTION at COP23 to highlight the importance of the Gender Action Plan (GAP) and reinforce our demands for the negotiations. We held an aerobics class to remind COP23 to metaphorically #MindtheGap. Gender inequality is exacerbated by climate change, and addressing the two issues in tandem is of extreme importance for [...]
Tajikistan
The level of gender inequality in Tajikistan remains high, despite the minor improvements from the previous year. The country’s performance and global ranking as regards economic participation and active involvement of women in policy-making also suffered a blow. Public trade unions acknowledge the work that the Tajik government has been doing to tackle gender inequality, but stress the set of problems that are hindering the achievement of gender-related SDGs in Tajikistan. Law implementation mechanisms are weak, the strategies and programs aiming to achieve [...]
Policy roundtable in Dushanbe
This was originally posted by our local partner Youth Ecological Centre (see Russian text below) The round table “Gender assessment of environmentally related Sustainable Development Goals in the Republic of Tajikistan” was held in Dushanbe on October 31. The round table organized by the Climate Network of NGOs in Tajikistan with the support of WECF (Women of Europe for a Common Future International Organization) brought together representatives of environmental and women's public organizations for the first time to discuss the gender sensitivity of [...]
Albania: local NGOs exchanged experience on their work on health, environment, employment, education and gender in respect to the SDGs
The conference “Social and gender aspects of local development priorities linked to SDGs” was hosted on March 6th in Shkoder, Albania by CSO “Women in development Shkoder” in cooperation with WECF with the goal to achieve the objective of the WOMEN 2030 program and to help local CSOs reach the objectives in the frame of their own activities, while at the same time combining forces for a common future. About 30 people from NGOs, municipalities and students attended the meeting to exchange their working experience on issues linked to topics like health and water, environment and gender, employment or education. The conference started with an introduction from Johanna [...]