'Last week, a report by Equal Measures showed that not a single country is on track to achieve gender equality by 2030.'
I am enormously grateful to Madeleine Albright, Melanne Verveer and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security for their partnership in today’s event, and to you all for being here. Madeleine and Melanne have long been teachers of mine, and I am delighted to share some of the lessons they, and others, taught me.
That’s bad enough. To compound the problem, the world is looking the other way. The research we are publishing today with the think tank Voice shows that at the moment only 0.12% of humanitarian funding goes to funding of Gender Based Violence programs, and two-thirds of GBV funding requests embedded in UN Humanitarian Response Plans from 2016 to 2018 went unmet.
Then the organization broadened its focus from GBV to Women’s Protection and Empowerment. We wanted to prevent violence against women and girls as much as treat it. And we came to understand through our programs that when economic empowerment of women was added to specific social programs targeted at them, there was a double dividend. We’ve developed our economic interventions, for example targeting business development opportunities at women, for that reason.
The purpose of this speech, however, is not to ask you to congratulate us. It is to say that that we cannot content ourselves with just carrying on as we are. We have concluded that we need a deeper level of organizational change, and sectoral change, to deliver the fundamental shift in life chances that we seek for the women and girls who are our clients.
We are spurred in this approach by some governments which have vaulted over our efforts and committed themselves to a feminist foreign policy and a feminist aid policy. Sweden, which pioneered the first feminist foreign policy in 2014, redoubled the country’s commitment to expanding the rights of women around the world, the representation of women in the Swedish Foreign Service, and the resources available to advance gender equality.
In our sector we need to institutionalize a pro-active approach to tackling inequalities faced by women and girls. For example:
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