Gender
equality
What’s the issue?
Despite important progress over the past decades, gender inequalities persist.
The violation of women’s and girls’ rights is one of the biggest causes of poverty and marginalisation worldwide.
Over the past years, the EU has stepped up its support to gender equality in its external action.
However, although improvements have been made, the EU is still far from being able to demonstrate real positive impact in the lives of women and girls in partner countries.
Change we want to see
GENDER LENS APPLIED
Gender is mainstreamed in all external action and policies of the EU.
FUNDING guaranteed
Adequate funding is allocated for gender equality.
women included
Women’s and girls’ rights and feminist organisations are the EU’s partners.
What we want to the EU to do
In order to make European development cooperation strategic and effective, we need to address discriminatory social and gendered norms with a view to changing our patriarchal society and the unbalanced concentration of power and influence.
The EU’s gender equality approach must better focus on all aspects of EU external action and this at all stages, including implementation and reporting.
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
Bursting the ODA inflation bubble and more: CONCORD Newsletter October 2023
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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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