The Generation Equality Forum (GEF) will be hosted in Paris between 30 June – 2 July.
The Generation Equality Forum presents a great opportunity for the various multi-stakeholders to
reignite the Beijing agenda and to embrace this global movement, bring the change needed and
make concrete and strategic commitments to build back better and contribute to deliver the promises
of the 2030 Agenda. And to ensure that gender equality is an aspiration for the present generation
and a reality for future generations to come.
What is GEF and What are the Action Coalitions
The Generation Equality Forum is a civil society–centred, global gathering for gender equality,
convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France. The Forum
kicked off in Mexico City, Mexico, on 29–31 March 2021, and will culminate in Paris, France, on 30
June – 2 July 2021, with the aim of securing a set of concrete, ambitious, and transformative
commitments – based on the blueprints – to achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards
gender equality; bringing together governments, CSOs, corporations and foundations to define and
announce ambitious investments and policies in different Action Coalitions.
The Generation Equality Action Coalitions are innovative, multi-stakeholder partnerships focused on
the most intractable barriers to equality. Their aim is to deliver concrete and transformative
change for women and girls around the world in the coming five years that, if implemented and
fully funded, can lead to lasting and transformative change and help to ensure that women, girls, and
gender diverse people everywhere can fully enjoy their human rights. They will focus on six themes
that are critical for achieving gender equality: gender-based violence, economic justice and rights,
bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights, feminist action for climate
justice, technology and innovation for gender equality, and feminist movements and
leadership.
Adolescent girls and young women will be at the heart of each Action Coalition’s work.
Each Action Coalition is led by a group of partners, IPPF together with a group of CSOs,
Governments, Private Sector and Foundations, is one of the co-leads of the Action Coalition on
Bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
We agreed the commitments IPPF will make as Action Coalition leader in advance of the Paris Generation Equality Forum meeting. The organisation of the process has been very challenging and there is still no agreed accountability framework, but we still see it as an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.
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