Advocacy
Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy recognizes that supporting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is the best way to build a more peaceful, more inclusive, and more prosperous world. To do this, it supports targeted investments, partnerships, innovation, and advocacy efforts with the greatest potential to close gender gaps and improve everyone’s chance for success. It also works across other action areas that reflect the multi-dimensional nature of poverty, in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Working in this way leads to better development results and benefits everyone, including men and boys.
World Accord contributes to advancing the following pillars of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy:
-Action area 1 (core) : Gender Equality and the empowerment of Women and Girls
-Action Area 3: Growth that works for everyone
-Action Area 4: Environment and climate action
-Action Area 5: Inclusive governance
-Action Area 6: Peace and security
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030)
New Consensus with Small-Scale Food Producers
The New Consensus with Small-Scale Food Producers is a collaboratively developed call to action which highlights the critical role small-scale food producers play in global food systems identifies their most pressing challenges and calls on policymakers to ensure that small-scale food producers are prioritized and involved in the process of developing agricultural policies and programs.
In the current context of the compounding crises of conflict, COVID-19, climate change, and economic downturns, the consensus recognizes the unique potential of small-scale food producers to ensure local and regional food and nutrition security. Small-scale food producers help diversify food production and diets, protect agrobiodiversity, maintain and improve soil health, and sustain local markets. Their relative size and proximity put them in a unique position to exponentially increase the impact of agricultural development, building resilience and improving income and health outcomes for people and the planet.
World Accord joins over 50 farmers’ organizations, civil society groups, UN agencies, national and international NGOs, think tanks, and research institutions that will be crucial to influencing global, regional, and national policies by signing the Consensus. If your organization is interested, sign the Consensus here.
The Global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
The Global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence against women is an international campaign originating from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991. “The Global 16 Days Campaign,” as it has become known, was launched and continues to be coordinated by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership.
The dates for the campaign were chosen to link violence against women and human rights and emphasize that gender-based violence against women is a violation of human rights: since 1991, the campaign has been active between November 25, the International Day Against Violence Against Women, and December 10, International Human Rights Day.
The Global 16 Days Campaign is an organizing strategy for individuals and groups around the world to call for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence against women and to:
-raise awareness about gender-based violence against women as a human rights issue at the local, national, regional, and international levels
-strengthen local work around gender-based violence against women
-establish a clear link between local and international work to end gender-based violence against women
-provide a forum in which organizers can develop and share new and effective strategies
-demonstrate the solidarity of women around the world organizing against gender-based violence against women
-create tools to pressure governments to implement commitments to eliminate gender-based violence against women
-World Accord joins over 6000+ organizations in approximately 187 countries in participating in the Global 16 Days Campaign.
