«Abstract - During the European Year on Development, international conferences in Addis Ababa, New York and Paris will be committed to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, their financing, and an international agreement to tackle climate change. This context offers important opportunities to anchor gender equality and women’s and girls' empowerment firmly in the post 2015 agenda. In this regard, the main objective of the Policy Hub has been to inform about the relevant role of gender-sensitive financing for the full implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and equal access of men and women to resources and decision-making at all levels».
«EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - This summary of the Policy Hub on "Transformative financing and goals for gender equality and women's and girls' empowerment - Addis Ababa and New York 2015", which was held on 17th of June 2015 in the European Parliament in Brussels, aims at informing Members and staff of the European Parliament about the relevance of sustainable financing of gender equality in the post 2015 development cooperation framework. Experts from UNWomen, the European Commission, the European External Action Services, the academia, and civil society organisations set out the need for overcoming the underinvestment in gender equality and women's and girls' empowerment. The Third International Conference for Financing for Development in Addis Ababa in July 2015 has been perceived as a unique opportunity to create a new international framework where resources for gender equality will be present in every policy area, internally and externally. Such financing will contribute to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in a way that enhances gender equality and, as such, to achieving the aims of the post- 2015 development cooperation framework in a better way. However, important preconditions are an agreement on a funding level of 0,7% of GNI available for development cooperation and coherence in the activities of the different actors at international, European and partner country level. Besides, the European institutions will need to create a sense of responsibility at all levels for the implementation of gender equality as a priority goal and ensure transparency in spending as well as monitoring and accountability mechanism».
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