SIDS Gender Equality Forum (GEF)

The international community will gather to review SIDS’ sustainable development progress and propose a new decade of partnerships and solutions to supercharge their path to resilient prosperity in Antigua and Barbuda for a 2-day forum. Full details ▼

Event type:

Start date: 25 May 2024 | Start time: 00:00 UTC +00:00

End date: 26 May 2024 | End time: 23:59 UTC +00:00

Location: Antigua, and Barbuda

Event description

Date: 25-26 May 2024 | 08:30 AM-05:00 PM (GMT/UTC -4)
Location: Nelson’s Dockyard, St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda
Organizers: UN Women MCOs - Caribbean and Fiji, and the Caribbean Development Bank

Why the Gender Equality Forum (GEF)

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face unique vulnerabilities that significantly challenge the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Despite notable progress towards gender equality, SIDS faces distinctive challenges that hinder gender equality and women’s empowerment.

What is needed is a strategic, gender-responsive, human-rights and SIDS-appropriate approach that overcomes innate obstacles and transforms vulnerabilities into tools of resilience, innovation, and equality. In May 2024, the international community will gather at the SIDS4 to review SIDS’ sustainable development progress and propose a new decade of partnerships and solutions to supercharge their path to resilient prosperity, and gender equality needs to be at the centre of this.

Concept note and agenda

Agenda (25-26 May 2024)

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#SIDS4GenderEquality | #SIDSGEForum | #Equality4SIDSProsperity

How will participants engage at the GEF?

The SIDS Gender Equality Forum is being held just prior to the SIDS4 Conference to provide a dedicated space for persons from across all SIDS regions, various stakeholder groups and multiple sectors to look at gender equality and SIDS- through:

MOVING the SIDS story forward from SIDS3 in Samoa to SIDS4 in Antigua and Barbuda by putting gender equality in the centre of the next ten-year action plan and the many processes taking place in that time.
EXPLORING key gender equality and SIDS themes, aligned with the SIDS4 priority areas, with thought leaders and participants via a series of structured ‘Tours’.
ENGAGING participants to better get to know SIDS stakeholders and their roles in driving gender equality through an innovative ‘Island Hopping’ experience.
EXPOSING participants to important channels for gender equality and empowerment of women in SIDS through the Equality Village – Entrepreneurial Marketplace.
CLOSING the Forum with a high-level convening and impactful outcome statement.