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Why women’s leadership?
Women have the right to participate fully and exercise their leadership in all spheres of life, including the economic, social, political, technological and cultural spheres. Greater diversity in decision-making and leadership has also been shown to positively impact productivity, innovation, legitimacy and responsiveness.
The 2030 Agenda has created opportunities for the effective empowerment of girls and women, however there are many objectives that still need to be met. Women’s full participation in decision-making is a prerequisite for overcoming inequalities and finding more equal and inclusive responses.
Initiatives
This call seeks to recognize, highlight and amplify public policies as well as initiatives from the private sector and civil society that promote an increase in the number of women in leadership positions and/or strengthen their empowerment and advocacy capacity in decision-making. The ultimate aim is to contribute to closing gaps and inequalities from a rights perspective, valuing the ability to innovate, generate significant impacts, combine synergies, strategic alliances and, above all, consider leadership from a comprehensive, rights-based intersectional perspective, so that no woman is left behind.
Women are fighting the pandemic on the front lines: They are the majority of doctors, nurses, and care workers as well as among cleaners in public and private sectors, at home through the care of children, the elderly, and the sick. Women are also leading critical efforts as part of regional and local response; private and social initiatives.
Featured Events
Diálogo sobre liderazgo de las mujeres en el mundo empresarial
Santiago, Chile, 30 de enero de 2020
Con este evento, el Task Force busca promover que tanto las administraciones públicas como las empresas privadas se comprometan con medidas concretas dirigidas a incrementar el número de mujeres que participan en los puestos directivos del sector público y privado.
Global Summit: “Her Power: Women's Voices, Global Impact”
Washington DC., 15 de octubre de 2019
La Cumbre, titulada “Her Power: Women's Voices, Global Impact”, reunió a más de 250 representantes del gobierno, la comunidad diplomática, el sector privado, grupos de expertas y ONGs, junto con la academia y los medios de comunicación.
Diálogo con Misiones Permanentes ante la OEA
Washington DC., 1 de octubre de 2019
Fue una oportunidad para dialogar sobre cómo los Estados Miembros pueden participar activamente en las iniciativas que están impulsando las instituciones que integran el Task Force y, asimismo, explorar las buenas prácticas de los países que pueden servir como ...
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Who We Are
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The Task Force
The Inter-American Task Force on Women's Leadership is composed of key inter-American and international institutions with recognized experience and programming in areas related to women's leadership: the Organization of American States, through the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), ParlAmericas, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UN Women, the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), IDEA International, together with two civil society organizations: the Caribbean Institute for Women in Leadership (CIWiL) and the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights (CLADEM).
Pursuant to OAS General Assembly Resolution AG/RES. 2928 (XLVIII-O/18), the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) serves as Technical Secretariat of the Task Force.
Who We Are
Our history
During the VIII Summit of the Americas (Peru, April 2018), the leaders of the Americas created the Inter-American Task Force on Women's Leadership, charged with promoting gender equity and equality and the empowerment of women through greater cooperation and synergies between international and inter-American institutions.
Since its creation, the Task Force partners have held dialogues with governments and other stakeholders, seeking to define a road map that aligns and harmonizes efforts, through multi-sectoral alliances, to promote women’s leadership in various sectors and at multiple levels in the Americas.
Goals
Main objective
The main objective of the Inter-American Task Force on Women’s Leadership is to position the Americas as the leading region in achieving SDG 5.5. We aim to contribute to accelerated commitment and actions across all sectors and advance women's leadership in power and decision-making.
Target 5.5: Ensure women's full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.
Goals
Specific goals
- Improve the coordination and coherence of initiatives in pursuit of women´s leadership undertaken by international, intergovernmental, and inter-American institutions and other regional stakeholders.
- Scale-up existing initiatives led by Task Force members and leverage opportunities to make them more accessible to historically excluded groups.
- Create opportunities for women leaders to acquire knowledge, skills, and networks to support their continuous personal and professional growth.
Goals
Mission and Vision
Our Mission: Enhance the commitment of key actors and harmonize our efforts to promote and support women’s leadership in decision-making throughout the Americas.
Our Vision: Women leading decision-making on strengthening democracy and sustainable development in the Americas.
What We Do
Areas of engagement
To achieve our goals, the Task Force will work in three specific areas of engagement:
- Multi-stakeholder engagement
Effectively advancing women’s empowerment and leadership is only possible through multi-sectoral partnerships with stakeholders in the region, with whom we will seek to combine synergies to contribute to the empowerment and leadership of women. - Analysis of evidence for a better understanding to close gaps
We want to shed light on existing data on women’s participation in decision-making, as well as on the barriers to their empowerment and the initiatives to secure their right to participate in spaces of power, deepening these analyses and learning from evidence for more effective policy and decision-making. - Tools to support women leaders
We aim to support actions that promote and strengthen women's leadership, providing them with practical resources to improve their leadership skills in order to increase their empowerment in the areas in which they participate.
What We Do
How we work
- Knowledge sharing:
- Generating, disseminating and using knowledge on women’s leadership in different sectors to facilitate the identification of gaps and optimal strategies to address them.
- Reporting on our collective learning on the state of women’s leadership in the region.
- Coordinating our actions
- Implementing joint initiatives and disseminating the results of our work.
- Advocacy
- Advocating for greater prominence of women’s leadership as a policy topic within international and regional meeting agendas, declarations and at the individual leader level.
- Building alliances and partnerships across a wide range of actors to generate awareness and sustained change.
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