When women lead and power is shared, all SDGs advance. Yet equal representation remains out of reach, and hard-won gains are at risk as funding falls, civic spaces narrow, and violence against women in politics rises. Read the Gender Snapshot for the latest data on progress towards gender equality. More
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This publication was developed to support UN Women, governments, civil society organizations, development partners, and other practitioners working across care, climate, environmental, and just transition agendas. It provides a practical framework for understanding the care-climate nexus and identifying opportunities for action across policy, programming, coordination, advocacy, and financing.
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The report presents the 2025 results of UN Women’s TransformCare Global Initiative. It highlights progress at global, regional and country levels, and features impact stories showing how transforming care systems can advance gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, and contribute to more inclusive and sustainable economies.
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This background paper examines whether urban climate adaptation is advancing gender equality and social justice. Using evidence from 910 cities and six case studies, it identifies key gaps and opportunities for gender-responsive adaptation.
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UN Women's analysis of the impact of the Middle East escalation and disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz on food security among women and girls in 28 countries.
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This policy guidance establishes a human rights-based, gender-responsive framework for UN Women’s approach to prosecution, rehabilitation, and reintegration (PRR) programming and managing the exit of individuals from armed groups, including non-state armed groups designated by the UN.
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This paper examines how broad-based coalitions, adaptive pathways to justice, and narrative change are advancing gender equality in constrained and contested contexts. It highlights concrete, impactful practices and identifies implications for governments, civil society, UN entities, and donors.
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When women lead and power is shared, all SDGs advance. Yet equal representation remains out of reach, and hard-won gains are at risk as funding falls, civic spaces narrow, and violence against women in politics rises. Read the Gender Snapshot for the latest data on progress towards gender equality.
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This publication supports UNCTs in implementing system-wide gender parity commitments under the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard Performance Indicator 4.3. It provides guidance and a template to help identify gaps, set targets, strengthen accountability, improve recruitment and retention, foster inclusive workplace cultures, including in hardship settings, and monitor progress.
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This report examines how the war in Gaza has transformed household structures, with women now heading nearly 25 per cent of them. It highlights the disproportionate impacts, including inadequate shelter, repeated displacement, financial hardship, limited access to essential supplies, and heightened safety concerns, stressing severe humanitarian challenges.
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The 2025 Regular Resources Report demonstrates how these resources advance results across global, regional, and country levels—from strengthening laws and policies to advancing coordination across the UN system, delivering tangible improvements in the lives of women and girls.
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This UN Women portrait series places the diversity of women farmers’ voices and experiences at the centre of global action on sustainable development and food systems through 12 stories of resilience, innovation, ancestral knowledge, and collective action.
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This publication captures achievements and learnings from the EJR Action Coalition small grants initiative, a strategic response to persistent challenges faced by youth-led organizations to advance commitments under the Generation Equality Forum. The initiative enabled them to undertake policy, advocacy, and programmatic activities, strengthen capacity, and increase women’s economic participation.
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The publication examines the continuing impact of humanitarian funding cuts on women-led and women’s rights organizations across 52 countries and contexts. Drawing on evidence from 855 organizations, it highlights the consequences for women and girls and identifies priorities for protecting gender-responsive, locally led humanitarian action.
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Generation Equality brings together governments, civil society, youth, philanthropy, the private sector, and the UN to advance gender equality through collective action. This report explores its first five years, highlighting achievements, challenges, and lessons on how inclusive partnerships, shared leadership, and collaboration can sustain progress for women and girls worldwide.
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This compendium synthesizes five years of implementation experience (2021–2026), showing how a feminist, intergenerational, multistakeholder model advanced gender equality through policy reform, financing, accountability, and coordination. Drawing on more than 2,500 commitments and investments, it highlights successes and challenges, including underfinancing, power imbalances, and reporting gaps globally.
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In a context of growing challenges to multilateralism and gender equality, the evaluation examines how UN Women has supported Member States through technical expertise, evidence, partnerships, and advocacy across global and regional forums. The publication highlights key findings, lessons learned, and recommendations to strengthen UN Women’s effectiveness, coherence, and impact.
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This report examines UN system efforts to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG). Drawing on contributions from 36 UN entities, it highlights coordination, joint programming, and partnerships while identifying key gaps and priorities to strengthen accountability, scale interventions, and accelerate progress toward ending VAWG by 2030.
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UN Women’s Climate and Environment Strategy sets out an integrated approach to advance gender equality and feminist climate and environmental justice through environmental policies, women’s leadership, access to finance, gender and environment data, and gender-responsive just transitions to sustainable economies for a clean, healthy planet, and realizing women’s rights.
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This report summarizes key takeaways from an expert group meeting to inform the tenth edition of “Progress of the world’s women”. Participants examined gendered climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation pathways, and climate finance, offering guidance on data, studies, and policy options. It is a practical report for gender-equality advocates.
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The G-PESTLE framework guides gender-transformative foresight at all levels, examining how power and inequality shape the present while envisioning inclusive futures for discriminated groups and identifying opportunities to advance gender equality.