APA – Kigali (Rwanda) – The Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023) will be held from July 17 to 8 in Kigali, organisers of the event confirmed Saturday.
With the theme “Space, Solidarity, and Solutions”, the conference aims at encouraging harmony for sustainable solutions to gender equality.
The conference also catalyzes conversations with stakeholders from around the world, breaking barriers, addressing challenges, and identifying opportunities to advance gender equality, including sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), to improve the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women, in all their intersecting identities, it said.
“For the very first time, the Women Deliver Conference will be held on the African continent. It is an honor for Rwanda to be the next host of this convening as it affirms that the ongoing efforts in-country around gender equality by the Government of Rwanda are gaining the desired traction,” said Rwanda’s Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Minister Jeannette Bayisenge, who is also Chair of the WD2023 Host Country Committee.
“We believe that gender equality will only be achieved once all people have equal access to power, dignity, justice, rights, health, and opportunities that will enable them to network, develop skills, share knowledge, access funding opportunities, and participate in conversations that contribute to the global agenda setting on gender equality,” she said.
As a part of a USD four million programming investment around gender equality, WD2023 will serve as a critical policy moment and an opportunity for stock-taking and accountability at the midpoint of the Generation Equality Forum’s five-year process for global gender equality action, to achieve irreversible progress towards gender equality by 2026, founded on a series of ambitious actions.
It is expected that WD2023 will also create a space for gender equality advocates and decision-makers to come together to engage in critical dialogue, knowledge sharing, and networking.
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