How sexual and reproductive health and rights can be reflected in the Generation Equality Forum

March 24, 2021

The Countdown 2030 Europe Consortium welcomes the efforts of the government of the French Republic, the government of Mexico and UN Women to convene a high-level conference to advance the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – the Generation Equality Forum (GEF).

Following the commitments made at the Nairobi Summit on ICPD+25, the GEF Action Coalitions come at a time when concrete actions are needed to secure progress on SRHR and prevent a downfall due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

To this end, Countdown puts forward a number of specific recommendations on the main challenges facing gender equality and SRHR. More than that, if GEF is to achieve its objective to build a new momentum to advance gender equality worldwide, Action Coalitions must avoid silos and must instead explore the synergies between them, complement one another and focus on gender-transformative interventions. This series of factsheets done by Countdown 2030 Europe and IPPF EN aims at building bridges between Action Coalitions to bring about real change in the lives of women and girls worldwide and to show how access to SRHR is gender-transformative and is essential to achieve gender equality.