Action plan The UCLG Standing Committee on Gender Equality has agreed on the following focus areas:
PARTNERSHIPS Develop a collaboration agreement with UN Women: Mission to New York, February. Develop a work plan with grassroots international women’s associations.
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Political advocacy PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN DECISION MAKING Building on the European Observatory for Equality, gathering data on local elected women through the Global Observatory for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life.
Thematic action through programme development in two key areas: WOMEN’S ACCESS TO SERVICES
UCLG’s involvement in gender equality is built on longstanding work developed by our founding organizations on the advancement of the participation of women in decision making. UCLG is the inheritor of the Worldwide Declaration of Women in Local Decision Making which states the need to increase political participation of women in all levels of decision making. In 2004 and 2005, the World Organization implemented a programme for the creation of elected women’s networks in the different continents and within UCLG Sections. This work has resolted in the
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existence and renewal of networks in African and Latin America. UCLG has also gathered information on the participation of women at local level throughout the world and has supported the development of the Charter for Gender Equality of its European Section CEMR. UCLG has promoted the collaboration between grassroots women’s associations and elected women’s groups.
UCLG has an agreement with UN-Women and is part of the Gender Advisory Panel of UN-Habitat.
Throughout the process of the Millennium Development Goals Summit, UCLG and its members highlighted the importance of women in decision making for the eradication of poverty and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
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