ECOSOC High-Level Event: Gender Equality: Leadership, Decision-Making, and Participation of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Settings
Geneva
Watch the recording of the full event here: ECOSOC High-Level Event: Gender Equality: Leadership, Decision-Making, and Participation of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Settings
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This event presents an opportunity to showcase emerging good practices, examples of working with refugee women and girls, and impacts of their engagement in humanitarian decision making, and goodpractices of leadership of women’s rights and women led organisations in humanitarian action.
This event spotlights that women and girls are negatively and disproportionately impacted by disasters and conflict. These crises affect their life expectancy, education, maternal health, livelihoods, nutrition, and the levels of violence they experience. The leadership of women and girls is an integral element of effective humanitarian action. It focuses on the importance of galvanizing collective responsibility tostrengthen women’s meaningful participation and leadership in humanitarian decision-making.