WD2023 After-Action Review

An infographic on the importance and benefits of investing in women-focused civil society organizations (CSOs) in humanitarian settings.

Infographic on how to invest in modern contraception and safe abortion to drive gender equality and girls’ and women’s health and rights.

Women Deliver contributed to the culminating report from a Wilton Park event co-hosted by WHO, UNFPA, and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, which highlights key actions the global community must take to make humanitarian action work for adolescent girls. Our biggest takeaway: adolescent girls and the local organizations that support them are resilient change-makers in humanitarian settings, and must be financed and engaged to unlock their full power and potential.

Women are powerful agents of change, and the far-reaching benefits of diversity and gender parity in leadership and decision-making are increasingly recognized in all spheres of society. Still, women continue to be vastly underrepresented in decision-making in politics, businesses, and communities. This policy brief explores the benefits, challenges, and opportunities to accelerate women’s leadership. It outlines recommendations to drive progress in women’s leadership and decision-making by 2030.

Infographic on women in leadership.

Educating girls and women is a powerful investment that benefits both individuals and society by unlocking the potential to improve health, nutrition, social justice, democracy, human rights, gender equality, social cohesion, and economic prosperity for current and future generations. This policy brief examines the cross-sectoral interventions that promote gender equality in and through education and support girls to access and complete school.

The Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation, in partnership with Women Deliver and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), has developed guidance to help auditors to understand gender equality and its place in the 2030 Agenda, and to plan either an audit focused on SDG 5—gender equality and women’s empowerment—or an audit that examines gender equality within other SDGs, such as poverty, hunger, health, or education.

A practical toolkit for young people to advocate for improved adolescent health and well-being.

Women are an essential part of global value chains. As raw material producers, small-business owners, executives, retail workers, and consumers, women help businesses succeed and grow. Yet women continue to face barriers to achieve their full potential at work, in the marketplace, and in many other aspects of life. This not only holds women back, it impairs the growth of businesses, economies, and communities. This report aims to help unlock business opportunities that advance the health, rights, and wellbeing of women in global value chains.

Under the sustainable development agenda, development actors from across the spectrum have an opportunity to abandon traditionally siloed approaches and work together to positively impact girls’ and women’s lives through financial investment and strengthened multi-sector partnerships that deliver on an integrated agenda. This policy brief identifies interventions that can propel sustainable progress.