UNCDF: Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025

In line with the corporate Strategic Framework, UNCDF’s Gender Equality Strategy (2022–2025) focuses on a transformative approach to promoting women’s economic empowerment and gender equality. The Strategy highlights the centrality of addressing structural and discriminatory practices, and creating a conducive policy and institutional framework as an important foundation on which to build a financing agenda that targets equitable economic development and gender-responsive transformation. In the context of the negative impacts from COVID-19 and emerging climate-related vulnerabilities, especially in LDCs, where the most vulnerable populations, including women and girls, are affected, the Strategy also emphasizes building sustainable financing solutions to address gender inequality.

This Strategy builds on the milestones and lessons of the previous Gender Equality Strategy (2018–2021) and evaluation reports from UNCDF-led gender programs.