Gender Equality
What’s the issue?
Despite important progress over the past decades, gender inequality remains a persistent challenge in both the EU and globally, with women’s rights being rolled back in many regions of the world.
In this context, there is a growing risk that the EU’s own efforts to promote gender equality, both internally and through its external action, are weakening, with ambitions for progress being scaled back and commitments diluted.
As gender equality is now mainstreamed across several of CONCORD’s projects, this issue remains a key advocacy focus, ensuring the EU’s commitments in its global engagement and promoting a vision based on feminist and decolonial principles.
Key Projects
Equality and Leaving No One Behind
Fighting for equality and reaching those furthest behind are the soul of international cooperation. Against a background of growing political hostility, anti-gender reactions and the EU’s increased focus on self-interest, this project will ensure CONCORD remains active and influential in shaping the EU’s political priorities and world views.
The project calls on the EU to stick to its commitments around equality, by playing our role as watchdogs and defending a vision for international cooperation and partnerships worth fighting for.
CONCORD’s Position Paper on GAP IV
The current Gender Equality Strategy has a section on external action, essentially composed of a commitment to the Gender Action Plan III.
We recommend that the new Gender Equality Strategy adopts the same approach with a specific section on EU external action highlighting the EU commitment to continue implementing GAP III until 2027 and to adopt and implement a Gender Action Plan IV after 2027.
In this paper, CONCORD highlights its first key recommendations for GAP IV.
Latest resources
A gateway to equality? CONCORD launches research on Global Gateway and inequalities: CONCORD Newsletter June 2024
Civil society power, Digitalisation, Financing / funding for sustainable development, Gender equality, Global citizenship education, Inequalities & sustainable economy, Policy coherence for sustainable development, Private sector, Regional alliances
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Latest news
The will is there, but can the Gender Action Plan III pave the way to a gender-equal world?
2020 should have been a celebratory year for accelerating gender equality globally. But, instead of celebrations, COVID-19 is dramatically reversing the progress made over recent decades.
CONCORD analysis of EU’s Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025
In our latest analysis, we evaluate the Gender Equality Strategy with a focus on the external dimensions of the EU’s work on gender equality ahead of the Gender Action Plan III, which is expected in October 2020.
EU Gender Action Plan II: transforming lives?
Is the EU Gender Action Plan II actually transforming the lives of women and girls in the world? With this report, CONCORD aims to demonstrate how the EU Gender Action Plan 2016-2020 is being implemented. Based on in-country research in Rwanda, Vietnam and Ghana, this report provides concrete recommendations on how to bring about a more impactful implementation of the GAP II.
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