EU GENDER ACTION PLAN III - Olga Martin Gonzalez
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EU GENDER
ACTION PLAN III
(2021-2025) An ambitious agenda
for gender equality and
women’s empowerment in
EU external action
Olga Martin Gonzalez
Gender equality coordinator, DG NEAR
International
Cooperation and
Development
Building Gender Action Plan III
ALIGNING ECHOING recent global
development
Alignment with EU priorities,
strategies and policies Beijing + 25 review -
© European Union
GAP III - Joint (Gender equality strategy 2020- Security Council Resolution 1325 on
Communication, 2025, WPS action plan 2019-2024) WPS +20 - Generation equality
accompanied by
a Joint staff
working CONSULTING LEARNING
Targeted consultation of Lessons learnt from GAP II
stakeholders - Webinars with EU implementation -
Delegations, Member States, UN Findings of the Gender evaluation
agencies – Events online with civil (2010-2018) - COVID 19 impact/
society organisations recoveryGAP III Joint Staff Working Document
• What: gender mainstreaming
, strategic engagement at country, SWD Part I SWD PART II • What: objectives and ‘key thematic
regional and multilateral and outcome indicators’ integrated in the
international, level Objectives and corporate monitoring system, used for
EU institutional
EU leads by example Country Level Implementation Plans
and strategic indicators for
• When: Reporting on an annual basis objectives and • When: 2023 and 2025.
GAP III
• Who: responsibility for • Who: EC and the EEAS
indicators thematic areas
implementation falls on EC and the • EU MS are invited to use them and
of engagement report to strengthen joint efforts.
EEAS, EUDs
• EU MS invited to use them and report
to strengthen joint efforts.GAP III five PILLARS
1 2 3 4 5
Joint
Engagement Six key EU Leads by
strategic EU
for gender areas of example: Accountability
engagement (former Inst
equality and at engagement
cultural shift) Simpler
women’s multilateral,
Freedom from
Gender reporting of
empowerment regional and responsive results, more
violence/ SRHR /
more effective country levels Economic and and gender communication
Gender Coordination social rights / balance and
Participation and
mainstreaming and leadership / WPS / leadership, transparency
Target: 85% cooperation Green and Digital capacity
(G1-G2) buildingPillar 1: Effectiveness of EU engagement for
GEWE
Intersectionality,
multiples Rights-based
Gender transformative
Key principles characteristic of approach that builds
approach to shift gender
to tackling individuals: race, on the human rights
power relations
root causes age, religion, framework
disability
Three-pronged Gender
Political dialogue Mainstreaming, Targeted actions
strategic approach
including blending
operations, GRB
Criteria for Robust reasoning why
Gender analysis Gender-sensitive and sex-
assessing progress at country and sector level disaggregated indicators
an action would not contribute
to gender equality
Key targets At least one
of performance 85% G1 + G2 by 2025 G2 gender transformative action
increase funding and one high level dialoguePILLAR 2: Strategic EU engagement at country, regional
and multilateral levels
GAP III Country Level Shared strategic approach of the EU
Implementation Plans and MS, building on the experience of
with MS, country partners, IFIs the Team Europe approach / initiatives
Based on sound gender analysis, dialogue
with national government and consultations
with women’s organisations, identifying the
main areas of work for the next five years
Dialogue and partnership with regional
and objectives to be reached.
stakeholders by supporting gender equality
.
strategies run by international and regional
Boost EU leadership role to advancing organisations
the gender equality and women’s rights
agenda in international forums, building
on EU’s convening powerPillar 3: key thematic areas of engagement
Ensuring freedom Strengthening
from all forms of Promoting sexual economic social
gender-based and reproductive rights
violence health and rights &empowering
girls and women
Integrating the Challenges and
Advancing equal
women, peace opportunities of
participation and
and security green transition
leadership
agenda and digitalization1.Ensuring freedom from all forms of GBV
GAP III objectives
Overall thematic objective (impact): Women, men, girls and boys are free from
all forms of GBV in the public and private spheres, in the work place and online.
Specific thematic objectives:
Women, men, girls and Full control over, and
Legislation and Increased access to
boys, in all their diversity decide freely on
effective enforcement essential services
agents of change sexuality and SRHR
Access to socio- Protection from SGBV in CSOs, Women's rights Collect and use quality,
economic and psycho- fragile and- humanitarian organisations, social disaggregated and
social support for crisis situations movements are globally comparable data
survivors of trafficking influential in ending GBV on GBV / HP2. Promoting sexual and reproductive health
and rights
Overall thematic objective (impact): Women and girls in all their diversity access universal health and
fully enjoy their health and sexual and reproductive rights
Specific thematic objectives:
Enabled legal, political and societal environment allowing women and
girls to access quality sexual and reproductive health care and services
and protecting their sexual and reproductive rights
Improved access for every individual to sexual and reproductive
healthcare and services, including family planning services, information
and education on sexual and reproductive rights3.Promoting economic and social rights and
empowering girls and women
Overall thematic objective (impact): Women, men, girls and boys, in
all their diversity, fully enjoy and exercise their equal economic,
labour and social rights
Specific thematic objectives:
Decent work, formal Improved policy, legal Access to financial Access to Access to managerial and
economy and coverage by framework and access to services and products, and entrepreneurship, leadership roles in social
non-discriminatory and care services enabling productive resources including alternative and economic sectors and
inclusive social protection equal division of domestic livelihoods, green and fora
systems and care work circular economy
Reduction in gender Regulatory framework for Improved access to safe Public health systems have Women, men, girls and
disparities in enrolment, equal access to universal water and sanitation sufficient and sustained boys, in all their diversity,
progression and and public quality facilities, disaggregated at financing to address the have improved nutrition
retention at all levels of preventive, curative and least by sex health needs of women levels
education and lifelong rehabilitative physical and and girls in all their
learning mental health care diversity4. Promoting equal participation and
leadership
Overall thematic objective (impact): Women, men, girls and boys, in all their diversity,
participate equally in decision-making processes, in all spheres and at all levels of political
and public life, including online, to take on leadership roles, to enjoy and exercise their
human rights and seek redress if these rights are denied.
Specific thematic objectives:
Enabling conditions for equal Improved access to justice to
participation in decision-making safeguard their civil and political
rights
Improved systems for collecting
quality, disaggregated and
globally comparable data on
women’s political participation
Women’s organisations, other Equitable social norms, attitudes and leadership
CSOs and WHRDs working for and behaviours promoting equal
GEWE and rights work more freely participation and leadership
and are better protected by law fostered at community and
individual levels5. Integrating the women, peace and security
agenda
Overall thematic objective (impact): Women, men, girls and boys are free from all forms of GBV in the
public and private spheres, in the work place and online.
Specific thematic objectives:
Participation Gender Mainstreaming Leading by example
Prevention Protection Relief and Recovery6.Addressing the challenges and harnessing the
opportunities offered by the green transition and the digital
transformation
Overall thematic objective (impact): Women in Overall thematic objective (impact):
all their diversity influence decision-making Women, men, girls and boys, in all their
processes on environmental conservation and diversity, can equally participate in shaping
climate change policies and actions the digital world of tomorrow
Specific thematic objectives: Specific thematic objectives:
Equal access to affordable and
Increased participation in Gender-responsive strategies and Equal participation and
secure broadband, technology
decision-making processes on agreements on climate mitigation, representation in policy- and
and digital tools
environment and climate change adaptation, DRR and sustainable decision-making for the digital
issues management of natural resources world,
and biodiversity
Women, men, girls and boys, in all Participation in and improved Public digital literacy Full equal participation in the
their diversity, addressing climate access to jobs, entrepreneurship digital economy
change in their daily lives and opportunities and alternative
preserving the natural livelihoods in the green and
environment are recognised and circular economy
valuedPillar 4: the EU leads by example
Improve institutional Gender responsive
Gender parity
capacities and ownership leadership
Trainings/ research/ analysis/
expertise; Mandatory trainings for 50/50 gender balance for
management incl. HoD managers
Knowledge sharing MS and IOs
GEWE integral part of
Strengthen capacity and role
of GFPs and their network appointment and
performance assessment
Gender expertise,
positioned near the highest
decision-making bodiesPILLAR 5: Accountability through monitoring, reporting
and increased communication
Launch end-of-term
evaluation of GAP III
Mid-term report on GAP III key areas of engagement End-term report on GAP III key areas of engagement
focus on results, lessons learnt, promising practices; focus on results, lessons learnt, promising practices;
extensive communication extensive communication
2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Streamlined annual reporting on GAP III: EAMR, GFP survey, WPS reports, etc…Thank you © European Union 2020 Unless otherwise noted the reuse of this presentation is authorised under the CC BY 4.0 license. For any use or reproduction of elements that are not owned by the EU, permission may need to be sought directly from the respective right holders.
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