She noted that the EITI process could add value to other existing reporting mechanisms by informing investment decisions in the extractive sector, ensuring that women’s realities are considered.Recognising that natural resource governance needs to be more gender-inclusive, the EITI Board recently agreed to changes to the Key stakeholders not only stated their support in implementing the gender requirements in the EITI Standard, but also pledged to take additional measures to achieve gender equality.The upcoming months will be key to sustaining momentum. redirect The new Olympic Channel brings you news, highlights, exclusive behind the scenes, live events and original programming, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.Sport is one of the most powerful platforms for promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls. France: EITI Board member Geneviève de Rossum underlined efforts made by France, which holds the G7 presidency in 2019, to make gender equality a global cause, including through working on the economic empowerment of women in Africa and promoting training for women throughout their lives. Join The Global Movement Millions of people around the world are now part of the United Nations global solidarity movement for gender equality. With an emphasis on taking action, the aim of the Project is to provide a solutions-based approach to achieving gender equality on and off the field of play, sooner, rather than later.In 2017, the IOC launched a comprehensive review of the current state of gender equality in the Olympic Movement, with a mandate to produce action-oriented recommendations for change. However, there are still many challenges to be addressed. This section offers a historical timeline of women’s participation in Olympic sport and leadership.One of the IOC’s priorities, through the Women in Sport Commission, is to actively advocate equality between men and women. It has several Prevention of Harassment and Abuse in Sport (PHAS) initiatives in place, including clear measures for the Olympic and Youth Olympics Games. Get inspired by their stories and take action. how women and men are presented and described). A Global Movement for Gender Equality March 08, 2019 Women around the globe are taking to the streets today, International Women’s Day (IWD), to protest on a range of issues from pay gaps, to gender-based violence, to forced marriages, and to rally for abortion rights. The result is the IOC Gender Equality Review Project (2018) with 25 recommendations covering areas such as participation, funding, governance and portrayal, which are focused on achieving tangible results to strengthen gender equality across the entire Olympic Movement.Sports coverage is very influential in shaping norms and stereotypes of women/girls and men/boys.

This diversity of perspective was demonstrated by the session participants from Latin America, Central Africa, Central Asia and OECD countries.Exclusion begets bad governance; diversity can only strengthen natural resource governance for all citizens in resource-rich countries. The EITI Board is developing guidance on integrating gender considerations in EITI implementation, drawing on the expertise of civil society organisations such as A one-size-fits-all approach will not work. Updated tier classification, based on changes made by the Inter‐agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG‐SDGs) following its 3rd (March 2016), 4th (Nov. 2016) and 5th (March 2017) meetings. That is why provisions to enhance women’s participation in decision-making around the management, development and use of natural resources are now included in the recently revised Representatives from governments, companies, civil society organisations and partners came together at the Panellists Olga Bielkova, Mark Pearson, Yvonne Mbala and Maritza Esther Ruiz Escoto, as well as over a hundred participants, expressed their support and made it clear that Helen is not alone.Drawing from her own experience as a longstanding member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Olga Bielkova advocated strongly for seeing women represented at all levels of policy-making in the extractive industries, including through establishing quotas.Her statements were echoed by Yvonne Mbala, the Deputy CEO of the DRC’s largest oil producer PERENCO RDC.

Olympic Agenda 2020, the strategic roadmap for the Olympic Movement, reaffirmed the commitment and priority of gender balance, and the IOC Gender Equality Review Project with its 25 recommendations launched in March 2018 is a tangible outcome of this commitment. In 2017, the IOC launched a comprehensive review of the current state of gender equality in the Olympic Movement, with a mandate to produce action-oriented recommendations for change. SDG5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; Targets Indicators Tiera a Tier classification for Global SDG indicators (20 April 2017). Pushing for progress on gender equality and diversity means looking into the diverse realities of many marginalised groups. In 2018, the IOC developed a set of Guidelines to raise awareness for gender balanced portrayal (i.e. Ai-jen Poo outlines the new ways women are demanding gender equality in the post-Weinstein, #MeToo era on International Women's Day. This section gives an overview of the IOC support activities for gender equality.The IOC firmly believes harassment and abuse have no place in sport, nor in society, and advocates for safe sports. The EITI conference showed that this movement is emerging and ambitious.Indra supports the Policy team, acting as secretary of the Implementation Committee and helping coordinate the EITI's policy work.The global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources.Unless otherwise noted, you may republish our content for free. Please give credit to our source (for web, with direct link, for print with EITI International Secretariat, eiti.org). It means acknowledging that experiences differ not only based on gender, but also on location, class, ethnicity, indigeneity, religion and age. She lamented that women remained under-represented in decision-making bodies in the sector and did not benefit from the same economic opportunities as men, noting that there were less than 25 women in her company’s entire workforce of approximately 1400.Maritza Esther Ruiz Escoto, a researcher at the Dominican Republic Observatory for Public Policies, highlighted the importance of further academic research in this field. They provide examples and good practice within the sporting context – notably in the areas of print, digital.The IOC has been actively promoting the advancement of gender equality and women and girls’ in, and through, sport and across the Olympic Movement and beyond since the 1900s. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page displayJavascript must be enabled for the correct page display