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Gender

8WAMM

Our Goal

To strengthen the capacity of governments and civil society to achieve women’s rights and gender equality in political, legal, social and economic policy and programme implementation.

Our Vision

We work towards a world in which women and men are valued as equal and able partners in establishing social justice, equity, democracy and respect for human rights.

Our Objectives

  • Integrating gender into all policies, programmes and practices of member governments and the Commonwealth Secretariat in order to achieve sustainable development, human rights, peace, political participation and alleviation of poverty for women and men.
  • Influencing policies and processes that can ensure a better distribution of benefits and resources for women and men in all social, economic and political spheres.
  • Ensuring that women benefit from development and have equal access to training, education, information, health and employment opportunities. 
  • Developing and implementing innovative pilot projects, ‘how to’ manuals and tools to support gender mainstreaming.
  • Acting as a knowledge-based network for the sharing of ideas, best practices and experiences among member states.

HOW WE ASSIST COMMONWEALTH CITIZENS

The Gender Section is responsible for developing and implementing the Secretariat’s gender equality programme. More...

Critical Areas for Commonwealth Action

Poverty Eradication

Gender, Poverty Eradication and Economic Empowerment...

Gender and Human Rights

The Commonwealth recognises the rights of women and the protection of the girl-child as human rights.

Gender and HIV/AIDS

The Commonwealth Secretariat seeks to contribute towards raising awareness about gender and HIV/AIDS.

Gender, democracy, peace and conflict

Commonwealth believes that women and men must work together to build a better world.

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