EQUALS: The Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age
Description
- The partnership will provide a platform allowing for exchanges of experience and expertise to catalyse initiatives and activities. The partnership will be evidence-based and data-driven.
- EQUALS co-founders of are: ITU, UN Women, ITC, UNU and GSMA. <br />
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- Principals Meeting/ Steering Committee<br />
Closed group of 20-30 organizations represented at executive level Chief Executives of the Co-founding<br />
1. Main decision making and agenda setting body <br />
2. Providing strategic leadership and coordination<br />
3. Lead coalition work on a rotating/periodic basis<br />
4. Support outreach to raise funding and mobilize adequate resources to achieve coalitions targets <br />
5. Represent the Global Partnership as advocate/ambassadors on a national/ regional/ international level<br />
6. Agree to meet on an annual basis<br />
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- General Members:<br />
1. After becoming a general member, a further affiliation to a coalition/coalitions can be done. <br />
2. The affiliation to the partnership as a general member requires to advocate for the cause and share success stories by using the partnership hashtag. <br />
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- Coalition Members:<br />
1. Coordination of the coalition Partners inputs <br />
2. Chair Coalition meetings<br />
3. Develop and agree on an annual work plan of activities to be implemented and monitored <br />
4. Report globally on the progress <br />
SDGS & Targets
Goal 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
5.1
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.1.1
Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex
5.2
5.2.1
Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age
5.2.2
Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence
5.3
5.3.1
Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
5.3.2
Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
5.4
Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.4.1
Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location
5.5
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
5.5.1
Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments
5.5.2
Proportion of women in managerial positions
5.6
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
5.6.1
Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
5.6.2
Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education
5.a
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
5.a.1
(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
5.a.2
Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
5.b
5.b.1
Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex
5.c
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
5.c.1
Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
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Deliverables & Timeline
Resources mobilized
Partnership Progress
| Title | Progress Status | Submitted |
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| Partnership Progress 2018-06-28 | On track | |
| Partnership Progress 2018-04-30 | On track |
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Doreen Bogdan Martin, Chief