Generation Equality

Generation Equality is the world’s leading initiative to boost investment and implementation of gender equality. It brings together organizations from all corners of society to catalyze progress, push for change and take bold actions together.  

Launched in 2021 at the Generation Equality Forum  hosted in Mexico City and Paris, the Forum set in motion a five-year agenda under a Global Acceleration Plan for gender equality that defines the most critical actions needed to accelerate progress. The Forum also launched six Action Coalitions and a Global Compact on Women, Peace & Security and Humanitarian Action, each of which is spear-heading a critical part of the Generation Equality agenda.

Tracking the impact of Generation Equality

+3,500

commitments driving high-impact actions towards gender equality.

94%

of commitment makers recommend scaling up Generation Equality beyond 2026, as an accelerator for the 2030 Agenda.

+$50B

pledged, endorsing the multi-stakeholder model.

Why Generation Equality?

Thirty years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, not a single country has achieved gender equality.

Born out of Beijing+25 and by uniting advocates across generations, Generation Equality is an unprecedented global effort to accelerate investment and implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – and to deliver real results.

Evidence and data demonstrates that Generation Equality strengthens advocacy (such as in The Gambia, where a recent vote upholding the country’s ban on FGM reflects the value of GE’s grassroots political engagement); builds consensus on gender-transformative frameworks through collective thought leadership (including placing gender perspectives at the heart of internationally agreed conclusions, like the Global Digital Compact); and increases accessibility to critical intergovernmental processes (as at the recent launch of the High-Level Inter-Ministerial and Chiefs of Police Network on Gender Responsive Policing – a significant step towards enhancing global law enforcement practices.)  

Facts and figures: Generation Equality

$50.3 billion pledged towards gender equality
Commitments: $22 billion by governments; $12.4 billion by the private sector; $11.8 billion by multilateral organizations; $3.5 billion by philanthropic organizations
$400 million pledged by Civil Society Organizations; $7.4 million pledged by youth-led organizations
593 commitments have a policy component; 200 commitments come from Governments
5,739 new or scaled-up advocacy initiatives across the Action Coalitions
WPS-HA Compact has 225 signatories – spending nearly $1 billion annually on financing commitments and securing women’s participation in peace processes.

Action Coalitions: Six critical issues for gender equality

The Compact: Women, Peace & Security and Humanitarian Action

The Compact is working to realize a world for women and girls in conflict and crisis in which financing, participation in peace processes, economic security, leadership and agency, and protection of their human rights are all possible.

Beijing+30 and Generation Equality

Born out of Beijing+25 and by uniting advocates across generations, Generation Equality galvanizes global attention towards greater accountability and resource allocation, making it an integral part of Beijing+30’s efforts to generate concrete actions. As part of this ongoing work, Generation Equality – through its multistakeholder approach – strengthens national, regional and global reviews, empowers civil society and youth, and advances thought leadership for a just and equal world.

“(We aim to) continue to centre the realities and experiences of young women and girls in all their different diversities into the (Generation Equality) process,” Joanita Babirye.

Support Generation Equality

By taking bold actions together, Generation Equality has made a tangible impact in over 80 countries, across every part of society. But there is more work to do. Join us in our mission to keep disrupting inequalities, tackling current and future challenges, and leaving no one behind. Support Generation Equality and be part of the change.