Accelerating gender equality is an urgent imperative. The world is experiencing an unprecedented set of crises with disproportionately negative impacts on women, girls, sexual and gender minorities, and marginalized groups. Gender equality is a matter of fairness and justice, a foundation for a peaceful and prosperous world and essential for development. Yet achieving gender equality is uniquely challenging and complex. It calls for changes spanning country laws and policies, public and private sector activities, and personal lives. Growing evidence on the wide-ranging negative impacts of gender constraints, and on how to address them, can inspire and inform the way forward.
The WBG Gender Strategy 2024-30puts forward the bold ambition toaccelerate gender equality to end poverty on a livable planetin alignment with theWorld Bank Group Evolution Roadmap. The strategy responds to the global urgency, fundamentality, and complexity of achieving gender equality. Building on implementation of theWBG Gender Strategy 2016-23, the new strategy engages with greater ambition – approaching gender equality for all as essential for global development – and engages differently.
TheWBG Gender Strategy 2024-30focuses on concerted action, financing, and programs at scaleto support foundational wellbeing, economic participation and women’s leadership. This will contribute to:
- Progress in ending all forms of gender-based violence
- Stronger and more resilient human capital
- More and better jobs, including jobs of the future
- Greater ownership and use of economic assets
- Wider access to and use of enabling services
- Advances in women’s participation in decision-making
