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
3 years of the global goals: act today, for a gender just tomorrow
Today is the global day of action to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (and Agenda 2030). This last year in Europe has really made us think, are we doing enough and are we doing it soon enough? We are seen the coal industry trying to destroy the last bit of the Hambacher forest in Germany; the sweating summer heat and the wildfires that came with it. Then there is Merkel pushing back against higher EU climate change targets; Poland trying to ban abortions and silence environmental defenders; Hungary banning funding for gender studies, [...]
Are we on the right road to COP24? A reflection on the Bangkok intersessional climate change conference
The additional intersession of the climate negotiations this year resumed in Bangkok this week, 4-9th September. The extra high level meeting was scheduled to further further the preparations needed by negotiatiors before they come to take decisions at COP24 in Katowice Poland later this year. In spite of this extra session, our message is clear: we are nowhere close to what we need to achieve for the future of our planet! We need a clear and transparent Paris Agreement working programme – and [...]
From Bangkok to Katowice: In whose interests are the climate negotiations?
Photo: protest at the Bankgok UNFCCC negotiations in 2009 (copyright: Souparna Lahiri) Written by Souparna Lahiri (Global Forest Coalition), 3rd September 2018 This week the negotiations over the Paris Rulebook and Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP) recommence in Bangkok. It reminds me of the 2009 Bangkok intersessional, in the run up to the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties (COP), where there was much expectation in the air and great mobilisations on the streets. Back then, the US and big developing countries including China and [...]
Together for sustainable sanitation and water security worldwide!
Stockholm, 26-31 Aug 2018: WECF participated in the World Water Week 2018 to further support the worldwide implementation of SDG 6 United we can tackle the SDG 6 (water and sanitation for all) – the World Water Week (WWW) made an important contribution to this by expanding and strengthening networks and sharing knowledge and experiences. This year, WECF was again among the nearly 3,500 participants from about 135 countries. The WWW was themed "Water, Ecosystems and Human Development". It included numerous varied and exciting sessions [...]
HLPF2018: national reviews or holiday commercials?!
"While HLPF is a great space for feminist solidarity, networking, awareness raising and knowledge sharing of best practices, you cannot really shake the feeling of: are we really doing enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?" As you walked the corridors of the United Nations headquarters during HLPF, you could feel the tension of distress from various actors. At the end of the first week, for example, several countries broke the silence on the Ministerial Declaration. The outcome document of the conference, which [...]
Localising the sustainable development goals in Nigeria
On the 1st of August 2018, the first national conference on Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) was held at Grand Ibro Hotel Annex, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja. The Women Environmental Programme(WEP) in alliance with her Women 2030 partners and the Civil Society Advance Forum on Sustainable Development(CAS2030) facilitated the success of this event. This one day conference was themed: "Localising the SDGs in Nigeria: The Role of Civil Society Organizations(CSOs) and other Key Actors." It afforded a networking avenue for civil society organizations, private sector, [...]