The Gender Action Plan III. Learning the lessons and kicking off implementation in dialogue with Civil Society

The year 2020 should have been a celebratory year for accelerating gender equality globally. Instead, Covid-19 dramatically reversed the progress made over recent decades. We witnessed rising inequalities, poverty and gender-based violence, and women and girls were the first to be impacted. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the European Commission presented the Gender Action Plan III (GAPIII). GAPIII puts forward ambitious plans to promote gender equality and women's empowerment through all external action of the European Union. It provides the EU with a policy framework with five pillars of action for accelerating progress towards a world in which all countries can, and do, fulfil human rights commitments.

The new Gender Action Plan takes especially important steps forward in terms of tackling the root causes of gender inequalities, with a stronger emphasis on economic and social rights. The key for GAPIII to become a success however lies in its implementation. To address this, CONCORD and the European Commission are jointly organising this digital event to explore the opportunities and challenges related to GAPIII implementation. This will be done in a dialogue with a wide range of civil society stakeholders working on gender equality in the context of the EUs external action.

Background documents

• The EU Gender Action Plan III
• Evaluation of the EU's external action support in the area of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment (2010-2018)
• CONCORD analysis of GAPIII

The conference is also available on Facebook livestreaming at the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/EUnear/

Speakers

Director of CONCORD Europe

Tanya Cox

Particip, Independent evaluator

Tino Smail

INTPA G1- Gender Equality,Human Rights and Democratic Governance

Brigitte Luggin

Deputy to the Director – Head of Unit “Gender Equality, Human Rights and Democratic Governance”, DG INTPA

Chiara Adamo

Director for Strategy and Turkey, European Commission, DG NEAR

Myriam Ferran

Vice President of Camões, Portuguese Development Agency

Cristina Moniz

Executive Director of FEMNET

Memory Kachambwa

CARE International, Vice President of CONCORD Europe’s Board

moderated by Céline Mias

Venue

Webex Meetings

Infopoint Virtual Conference via Webex Meetings