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.
Implementing the EU Gender Action Plan III: Turning ambition into impact?
2023 marks the mid-term point of the implementation of the EU’s Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in External Action 2021–2025 (GAP III).
GAP III is an ambitious policy, and it is important to monitor the actual impact it is having on the lives of women and girls in all their diversity in the EU’s partner countries, and to readjust the course of its implementation to better respond to their intersectional needs and rights.
Our report reviews GAP III implementation in three carefully chosen local contexts: Morocco, the Philippines, and Kenya, and focuses on how the new and potentially transformative elements of GAP III – a gender-transformative and intersectional approach – have been applied in practice.
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
Intersectional Feminist Policy-Making for EU External Action: 10 principles
Civil society, EU external action, Inequalities, Sustainability, 2030 Agenda
Who holds the lion’s share? Pushing for transparency and diversity in the allocation of NDICI-GE funding for CSOs: CONCORD Newsletter February 2024
Civil society power, Digitalisation, Financing / funding for sustainable development, Gender equality, Global citizenship education, Inequalities & sustainable economy, Policy coherence for sustainable development
Standing strong in the face of shrinking civic space: CONCORD Newsletter December 2023
Civic engagement, Civil society
Civil society power, Digitalisation, Financing / funding for sustainable development, Gender equality, Global citizenship education, Inequalities & sustainable economy, Policy coherence for sustainable development, 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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