Partnerships

Partnerships are central to UN Women’s work. Collaborating with a wide range of partners increases global commitments to upholding women’s human rights. Partnerships facilitate concrete actions to accelerate progress towards gender equality – catalyzing change more quickly than any of us could when working on our own.

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Government Partners
As we advance global progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, placing women and girls at its heart, we count on our government partners to invest in UN Women to make gender inequality history by 2030.
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National Women’s Machineries
UN Women works to strengthen gender machineries, both nationally and regionally (through mechanisms such as ASEAN and the Gender in Humanitarian Working Group (GiHA)), to further support and fortify their networks, capacities, advocacy efforts and provide linkages with other stakeholders.
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Civil Society
Civil society is one of UN Women’s most important constituencies. It is a dynamic source of ideas and policy perspectives, partnerships, and support.
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Businesses
UN Women is committed to working with the private sector on common agendas leveraging collective strengths. Our multi-faceted partnerships are integrated into public affairs, philanthropy, marketing and communications strategies.
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Foundations
UN Women believes in the ability of foundations to play an active and central role in transforming our world to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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National Committees
National Committees are active in 12 countries globally. They are independent, non-governmental organizations that support the mission of UN Women.
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Goodwill Ambassadors
Goodwill Ambassadors are prominent personalities from the world of art, business, music, the media, film, sport and literature promoting UN Women’s agenda. Goodwill Ambassadors volunteer their time, services, and use their influence and platforms to advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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International Financial Institutions
UN Women collaborates with International Financial Institutions (IFI) in the area of financing for gender equality. This includes joint analytical work and research, collaborative gender statistics data collection and curation, technical and financial cooperation, capacity development and training, and convening.
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30 for 2030
Today, the world is home to 1.8 billion young people, the largest generation of youth in history. Youth in the Asia-Pacific Region make up 60 per cent of the world’s youth population, or 750 million young persons aged 15 to 24 years.
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Media Compact
The outlets implement the Media Compact by scaling up the focus on women’s rights and gender equality issues through high-quality coverage, complemented by gender-sensitive corporate practices.