AGIP in Generation Equality Forum
The Generation Equality Forum (GEF), held in 2021 in Mexico and Paris, launched a 5-year journey to advance gender equality, including US $40 billion in financial commitments. AGIP identified GEF as a key global advocacy platform to ensure adolescent girls and youth leaders could shape how they wished to be engaged in the process.
Beginning in February 2020, AGIP led girl-centred consultations, co-developed and wrote an Open Letter to the Generation Equality Core Group and Action Coalition Leaders calling for an independent, girl-centred accountability mechanism. With support from CSO, youth-led, and girl-led networks, the letter received 271 organisational signatures and 55 individual signatures and was shared with UN Women and the GE Core Group.
Throughout the GEF process, AGIP convened intergenerational dialogues, hosted high-level events at UNGA 2020, CSW 2021, and the GE Paris Forum 2021, and held regular discussions with girls, young leaders, Action Coalition leaders, and UN Women to secure girl-centric commitments in the GE Blueprints. AGIP also co-developed papers and recommendations, and provided multiple rounds of technical inputs to ensure girl-centred language and recommendations were reflected in both the process and outcomes.
A key milestone included the Adolescent Girls Dialogue on Feminist Movements and Leadership, which informed the Feminist Movements and Leadership Action Coalition’s endorsement of the following action in the Global Acceleration Plan for Gender Equality:
“Dedicate specific, flexible financial, technical, and other resources for adolescent girls and young feminist leaders and their movements and organizations to strengthen them and create safe and inclusive spaces for their meaningful participation in decision-making processes.” (Action 4 for Feminist Movements and Leadership Action Coalition, p.50)
AGIP’s GEF commitment: AGIP committed to amplifying and supporting adolescent girls’ leadership in the ongoing GEF process by supporting AGAB and the Youth Taskforce, commissioning and sharing digital safety tools and resources and gender- and age-disaggregated data, and supporting resourcing adolescent girls to ensure they are centred in the GEF accountability mechanism.
AGIP also hosted follow-on events to hold commitment makers accountable for their girl-centered commitments. In July 2023, AGIP published an open letter to UN Women highlighting the lack of communication and action on its commitment to establish an Adolescent Girls Advisory Body as a formal accountability mechanism for the Generation Equality process.
While the GEF timeline is nearing its completion, together with adolescent girls and our partners, we remain committed to driving girl-centered accountability beyond Generation Equality Forum.
Summary reports and recordings of our past events:
- August 2022: Generation Equality Forum One year one (Report missing?)
- July 2022: AGIP’s Generation Equality Commitment
- February 2022: Young Leaders’ Open Space Dialogue