Policy

Gender equality and women’s empowerment is recognized as a cross-cutting priority across all aspects of UNEP’s work. UNEP promotes men and women’s participation in all environmental protection and sustainable development activities.

Key UN conventions and agreements which provide the global mandate for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment include:

Gender is a key component central to the vision of UNEP for the 2030 Agenda and its contribution to the decade of action

The Medium Term Strategy (MTS) outlines that UNEP will strengthen institutional capacity for gender-responsive programme delivery. In the period 2022-í2025, UNEP will leverage the opportunities provided by the Sustainable Development Goals to strengthen the institutional capacity of policymakers, UNEP staff and key partners to develop and implement gender-responsive policies and strategies. UNEP will enable access to information by stakeholders and government partners, development and implementation of gender-responsive environmental policies and strategies and strengthened strategic partnerships with key partners in order to secure commitments and elicit collective gender-transformative actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

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