Locally elected women: making the SDGs happen

At the initiative of Co-President of UCLG, President of the UCLG Committee on Gender Equality, and Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, a delegation of locally elected women will travel to New York to bring their perspectives to the 61st UN Commission on Women.

In the framework of the delegation, UCLG and UN Women are co-organizing “Locally elected women: making the SDGs happen” to highlight the relationship between two essential dimensions of the 2030 Agenda: gender equality and local and regional governments.

As well as being directly addressed by SDGs 5 and 11 (on gender equality and sustainable cities), both gender equality and local governments are integral to all 17 goals and their respective targets. Gender must be mainstreamed across the 2030 Agenda in order to ensure that all SDGs are met for women and girls, and the whole agenda must be localized so that the SDGs are adapted to the unique challenges and opportunities of each territory, whether urban or rural.

How do the issues of gender and localization relate to one another? What role are locally elected women playing in the achievement of the SDGs? How can we monitor and increase the proportion of elected women in local government at global level? This event will explore these questions with leading women mayors, councilors, and experts on gender equality at local level.

13.30-14.20: Standing Lunch offered by UCLG

14.30: Welcome

15.00-16.15: Roundtable on localizing SDG 5

16.15-17.30: Roundtable on gender equality, SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda