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Key partners of the Coalition for the UN We Need, and the Global Governance Innovation Network gathered yesterday to discuss the path forward and the crucial next steps over the next 12 months.
The Keynote speaker was Ms. Michelle Griffin. Stakeholders suggested concrete steps to be taken over the next year to ensure the Pact delivers on its promise to include modalities for implementing the Pact’s commitments, ensuring coherence and accountability across all sectors, and accelerating reforms in key areas such as the UN Security Council and General Assembly revitalization with clear timelines, ensuring the next UN Secretary-General is a woman, with an open and transparent selection process that involves civil society, leveraging on major global gatherings to advance the goals of the Pact, particularly in financing for development, social inclusion, and peacebuilding.
Financing for Development
The meeting called for swift action to reform the international financial architecture, address debt, and implement robust taxation mechanisms to ensure sustainable development financing. They called for increased multi-stakeholder partnerships, financial commitments, and a recommitment to multilateralism through the United Nations.
“We are the last generations who can address these challenges and the first to seize new opportunities for impactful change.”
Translating Gender Equality Commitments into Action: The Pact for the Future,
While exploring how the commitments made at the UN Summit of the Future can bring about real, lasting reforms that improve the lives of women and girls, particularly in vulnerable communities, global leaders reflected on the most recent Gender Snapshot Report, highlighting both progress and the alarming pace of change. According to the report, despite some advancements, the world remains far behind on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5).
Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of Belgium, says “Systemic barriers persist across economic opportunities, representation, and healthcare, with only two out of 18 indicators close to being achieved. More than 340 million women and girls are projected to live in extreme poverty by 2030. This is simply unacceptable.”
Florence Syevuo, the Co-Chair of the Coalition for the UN We Need, called on global leaders to ensure that commitments are backed by action, financing, and accountability. “We cannot afford for the Summit of the Future to be just another gathering. The lives of women and girls depend on our ability to implement and finance the commitments we’ve made,” said Syevuo “When we meet again, I hope we will no longer need to discuss these alarming statistics because we will have made real progress.”