CONTEXT

CSW66 takes place amid the continuing COVID-19 crisis, with large parts of the world still reeling from the impact of the pandemic and experiencing exacerbated inequalities, discrimination, and violence. In this context, and guided by this year’s priority theme ‘Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes’, Generation Equality (GE) and its Global Acceleration Plan for Gender Equality offer a concrete opportunity to address the intertwined root causes of climate and environmental crises, gender inequalities, and advance girls’ and women’s rights to realize gender equality.

This 24-hour Generation Equality event will serve as an important opportunity for UN Women to update partners on progress and to outline the path ahead for Generation Equality and the Action Coalitions and the Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPS-HA) Compact. It will be the first tentpole moment of the year and will highlight how UN Women will convene Generation Equality for the next five years and leverage the opportunities ahead. To aggregate the sessions related to Generation Equality and the Action Coalitions and the WPS-HA Compact that would otherwise be dispersed across the totality of CSW, the proposal is for all side event sessions to take place during a 24-hour agenda on 16 March 2022.

Concept note with more information can be found HERE