{"id":1578,"date":"2021-07-09T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2021-07-20T18:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:35:40","slug":"the-generation-equality-forum-action-plan-to-accelerate-gender-equality-by-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/2021\/07\/the-generation-equality-forum-action-plan-to-accelerate-gender-equality-by-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u00ab Generation Equality Forum \u00bb action plan to accelerate gender equality by 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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From June 30 to July 2, 2021, UN Women organized the 2nd phase of the Generation Equality Forum, co-chaired by France and Mexico, after the first phase held from March 29 to 31, 2021. The Forum, which aims to be a Global gathering for Gender Equality, took stock of progress and launched a global action plan to accelerate gender equality by 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To achieve concrete results in terms of gender equality by 2030, the Generation Equality forum is launching a five-year program funded to the tune of 40 billion dollars.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This global acceleration plan consists of “action coalitions” between governments, organizations, feminist groups, which take into account six essential issues that underpin equality between women and men\u00a0:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Gender-based violence<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Increase the ratification by States and regional actors of conventions and the adoption of policies aimed at putting an end to gender-based violence<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Increase funding for prevention strategies<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0Strengthen support services for victims of gender-based violence<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Increase funding for women’s rights organizations and movements by 50%<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Economic justice and economic rights<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Invest 3-10% of national income and create up to 80 million decent jobs in care<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Reduce the number of working women living in poverty by 17 million by 2026.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Reduce the number of women and girls living in poverty by 85 million<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Increase delivery of comprehensive sexuality education in and out of school, reaching 50 million additional children, adolescents and young people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Improve the quality of contraceptive services and access to these services for 50 million women<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Feminist action for climate justice<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Increase the proportion of bilateral climate finance earmarked for gender equality to 88%.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Increase the use of gender- environment statistics for policy making in 20 countries<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Technology and innovation for gender equality<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Reduce by half the gender digital divide<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Increase investment in women’s technology and innovation by 50%.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Double the proportion of women working in technology and innovation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Femnist movements and leadership<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Double the rate of funding from all sectors committed to movements, organisations led by women, girls and feminists.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  From June 30 to July 2, 2021, UN Women organized the 2nd phase of the Generation Equality Forum, co-chaired by France and Mexico, after the first phase held from March 29 to 31, 2021. The Forum, which aims to be a Global gathering for Gender Equality, took stock of progress and launched a global […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africawomenexperts.com\/lng\/en\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}