The gendered impacts of power, intersectionality, social, legal, and commercial determinants on health are foregrounded in public forums and can no longer be ignored.
UN agencies have a key leadership role in working with partners to bring evidence-based solutions together and to promote healthy living and wellbeing for all as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
To reinforce and sustain the institutional capacity to deliver gender equality by increasing gender expertise in health, especially at senior levels.
Obtaining sex-disaggregated data from programmes and member states for priority health indicators.
Leverage the expertise and capacity of feminist civil society to support design, implementation, and monitoring of health policies, programmes and community-centred solutions.
Tackle gender and intersecting inequalities by joining forces with other social justice movements -like the movement for vaccine equity- by calling for immediate sharing of knowledge, transfer of technological know-how, scale-up of manufacturing, and the waiver of intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, as well as responding to gender-related barriers during vaccine deployment.
