UN Women at Women Deliver 2023: Promoting data, action, and accountability for gender equality

H.E. Marci Ien, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, Canada, and Maryangel García-Ramos Guadiana, Director of Women Enabled, energized the audience by emphasizing the urgency of galvanizing progress and pushing forward against the pushback on gender equality.

The Impact Fest created a platform to share how innovative multi-stakeholder, intergenerational models can counter anti-rights movements through collective action. Representatives of the Action Coalition, the United States of America, Rwanda, Ford Foundation, and Adolescent Girl Investment Plan shared how Action Coalitions can influence norms and stereotypes and how collective commitments are being used as vehicles to amplify voices from across stakeholder groups.

Concluding the session, the UN Women Executive Director and the Minister for Gender for Tanzania, Hon. Dorothy Gwajima, called for strengthened global commitment and collective action across the six Generation Equality Action Coalitions and Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPS-HA) Compact, and increased investments to deliver game-changing results that improve the lives of women and girls.

“We owe every woman and girl, boy and man, to every person, to devote our unreserved energies to the cause of equality today and now”, said Ms. Bahous. “And we owe our planet a gender-equal future.”

A high-level session on accountability unveiled the continued commitment towards Generation Equality, showcased through the doubled response rate to an annual commitments reporting survey, and allowed for an insightful conversation about the importance of feminist accountability mechanisms and the opportunities it provides to make a meaningful difference in the implementation of commitments and in achieving the results set forth in the Global Acceleration Plan.

A TED talk-style interactive event to raise awareness on the Generation Equality journey and how to join the initiative was also held at the Women Deliver Conference, gathering the Generation Equality community: members states, civil society organizations, UN agencies, and the philanthropy and private sector.