For submission to the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on System-wide Coherence by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).
This paper briefly outlines the successes and failures of the current UN system in addressing gender equality and women’s rights, and puts forth several principles and characteristics that are critical to reforming the gender equality architecture in order to deliver consistent positive gender equality outcomes.
This paper was commissioned by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) and Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). It was drafted by Aruna Rao, Founder-Director, Gender at Work, and substantially revised by CWGL and WEDO.