We share a powerful vision – to end gender-based violence. We want a world where women and girls everywhere live dignified, healthy and safe.
It was a great experience to participate in the Regional Call to Action Roadmap Meeting with a vast number of female activists, experts and specialists from Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan. The meeting was designed to draw a road action plan for the 2021- 2025 strategy that calls for urgent action to advance gender equality and end all forms of gender-based violence.
Meeting was designed based on our collective responsibility as being accountable to women and girls to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; we met as local actors, and frontline responders to design solutions, provide leadership and strengthen community engagement to end GBV in emergencies. We set ambitious new targets for representation by local actors, women-led and civil society organizations.
The action plan was designed as implementation for the strategy 2021-2025- centered on the agency, capacity and dignity of survivors – and will guide collective, transformative action to scale up protection, prevention, and access to life-saving services. Under the strategy, our efforts will focus on women’s participation, localized leadership, and strengthened response capacity, adopting innovation to reinforce results.
Attendees were committed to achieving this transformational change. Partners are states and donors, international organizations, and international, national, and local nongovernmental organizations, each bringing their unique strengths and capacities to drive change. The strength of the Call to Action lies in the power of collective action and the shared commitment of diverse stakeholders to accountability for results.
The success of the Call to Action will ultimately be determined by the crisis-affected women, girls, families, and communities who are safer because GBV was effectively addressed in partnership with them from the start of the humanitarian response to the restoration of peace and development.
