31 October 2019
Commitment title:
Providing Leadership to address persistent levels of Gender Inequality
Commitment description:Provide leadership to address persistent and rising levels of gender inequality, including unacceptably high levels of gender-based violence through intensified actions to address drivers, enforce protection measures and scale up multi-sectoral response systems.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionIntensifying existing policies and legislation's to address the drivers of gender based violence and enforcing protection measures and scaling up the multi-sectoral response systems
Submitted by
Southern African High and Upper Middle income Countries
Thematic area
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation
Commitment category
(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.
