Account, recommit, resource: Enhancing gender parity across the UN system | Publications

The Workplace of the Focal Level for Ladies within the UN System at UN Ladies leads and coordinates a community of greater than 650 UN Gender Focal Factors (GFPs), key brokers of change who help the implementation of the UN Secretary-General’s System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity.

This publication offers a abstract of the 2024 Annual World Assembly of UN Gender Focal Factors, which passed off on 14–16 October 2024, co-hosted by UNICEF. Greater than 200 Gender Focal Factors from all around the UN system joined each just about and in individual to “account, recommit, and useful resource” to make gender parity a actuality by 2028.

The annual assembly offers a novel alternative for GFPs from throughout the UN system to speed up via reflection, to activate via peer-to-peer and inter-agency data sharing, and ultimately to advance gender parity of their respective entities.

The three-day assembly offered a chance to debate gender parity within the context of Beijing+30 framework. The assembly lined essential matters equivalent to:

• participating males to empower change,
• overcoming resistance,
• generative areas,
• intersectionality,
• advancing gender parity in regional and nation contexts, and
• good practices in implementing the Enabling Atmosphere Tips and the Area-specific Enabling Atmosphere Tips.

Moreover, GFPs engaged with govt leaders, members of the Govt Group, and resident coordinators.

GFPs proceed to play a key function to help their management and entities to advance gender parity.