Australia's Ambassador for Regional Health Security, on Behalf of Australia, pledges to driving a global health security agenda, which is free from gender biases and improving gender parity in global health leadership and reaffirming Sustainable Development Goal 5 to achieve gender equality for all women and girls during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland, the Minister for Equality reaffirms the government's commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals, Goal 5 to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls - points 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 in context of the current pandemic and all future global health security emergencies, and commits to driving a global health security agenda which is free from all gender-biases, and, where possible, support greater gender parity in global health security leadership for COVID-19 and future pandemic preparedness.
The High Commission for COVID-19 of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau commits to driving a global health security agenda which is free from all gender-biases, supporting greater gender parity in global health security leadership for COVID-19 and for future pandemic preparedness, and reaffirming the commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, Goal 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls - points 5 5.6 in context of the current pandemic and all future global health security emergencies.
The Republic of Chile pledges to working towards a Global Health Security Agenda and supporting gender parity in Global Health Security Leadership during COVID-19 and for future pandemics.
The Federal Office of Public Health of Switzerland (FOPH) pledges reaffirm its government’s commitment to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their targets, including Goal 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages - and Goal 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Switzerland is committed to ensure that girls’ and women’s needs and involvement are integrated into the design and execution of interventions to achieve Universal Health Coverage, including during health crises and other emergencies.
France's Ambassador for Global Health, on Behalf of France pledges to driving a global health agenda, which is free from gender biases and improving gender parity in global health leadership and reaffirming Sustainable Development Goal 5 to achieve gender equality for all women and girls during the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of Sustainable Development Goal 3 on health for all.
Norway will work to ensure that women and girls are included from the start in the global response to COVID-19 and that a gender perspective is incorporated in all aspects of our joint fight against the pandemic. The co-chair of the Facilitation Council of the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) pledges Norway’s relentless support to a gender-sensitive COVID-19 response. ACT-A will work to secure equitable access to diagnostics, treatments and vaccines, as well as to strengthening health systems. The co-chair of the ACT-A Facilitation council sees a unique opportunity to promote gender equality within global health leadership.
International Multilateral Organizations
WHO's DG, on behalf of WHO, is committed to work with Women in Global Health in support of gender equality in the context of COVID-19, Health Security and to build back better discussions. The WHO is proud to be championing gender equity as an organization and will continue to do so with all partners and stakeholders. In this spirit, the effort and energy of civil society are invaluable.
Gavi has committed to increasing immunization coverage and strengthening primary health care by supporting countries to overcome gender-related barriers to accessing immunization services and promoting equity of access to immunization and related health services that respond to a variety of needs.
The Global Fund commits to including a mandatory training on unconscious bias and working to attract more diverse candidates.
Unitaid commits to ensuring gender-responsive programming by responding to differential health needs of women and men, girls and boys, and transgender populations. Unitaid is continuously and increasingly collecting and publishing disaggregated data by sex, age and other dimensions relevant to assessing and achieving equity.
Organizational Commitments
Africa CDC has committed to adopting a gender-responsive approach by 2022
The American Academy of Pediatrics commits to increasing the visibility of women in global health security, elevating them on national and international levels, preventing single-sex compositions of panel discussions, amplifying diverse viewpoints from women-led organizations, ensuring that women make up 50% of external representation and collecting and publishing sex-disaggregated data about women’s unpaid work in health and social care.
The Canadian Medical Association is committed to applying an equity and diversity lens in all work, providing equal opportunity to women in decision-making structures and public discourses, and providing health care providers with a safe environment that enables everyone to thrive regardless of their gender.
The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) commits to ensuring high-quality testing with essential diagnostics is affordable, available, and accessible in the ways that women and girls need it to be – rapid, destigmatizing, and as close to home as possible – as a critical element of women’s empowerment.
Confedeprus Chile commits to providing decent working conditions for all healthcare workers and prioritizing the application of gender transformative policies to reach gender equality.
EngenderHealth is dedicated to advancing gender equality in and through sexual and reproductive health and rights programs by ensuring fair representation of women in leadership, measuring and publishing the organization’s gender pay gap, and collecting sex- and age-disaggregated data across programs.
The Gairdner Foundation is committed to supporting gender-responsive policies, ensuring that women make up 50% of the positions in all adjudication bodies, advancing women’s entry into professional technology and academic positions, and ensuring equal representation in panel discussions to amplify the voices and visibility of women, especially from LMICs.
Community Health Impact Coalition commits to ensuring women make up 50% of external representation in panels, forums, and media opportunities, ensuring women make up 50% of research leads/principal investigators in Coalition-led Studies, working with member organizations to provide community health workers (CHWs), most of whom are women, with safe and decent working conditions—including fair pay and provision of PPE, and researching legal frameworks surrounding pay for CHWs, and using findings to advocate for sector-wide reform that prioritizes fair remuneration for essential frontline workers.
The Galia Diaz Riffo Foundation for Cultural Development Chile reaffirms its commitment to working towards SDG 5, by improving access to culture and education for isolated communities in the context of current pandemic and future health crises.
Grand Challenges commits to sharing funding innovations to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on women’s SRHR, gender-based violence, and access to quality health care in LMICs, and funding women-led organizations, and organizations who engage women and men at every level of their work, in LMICs to unleash capacity to address critical issues in global health security.
The G4 Alliance is making thirteen specific commitments to advance gender equity. These include working towards gender equity in representation, visibility, opportunities, employment, research, data collection, and advocacy.
The Haitian Center for Leadership and Excellence (CLE) commits to building women's movements and leadership by catalyzing the success of 50 young women leaders across Haiti as they lead social enterprises and transform communities, as well as continuing dedication to funding women’s movements so that diverse women’s voices are amplified to advocate for gender-transformative agendas.
IntraHealth commits to continuing a gender-responsive approach to data collection, analysis, and use of information by promoting gender parity in health leadership and removing gender barriers to participation in health decision-making by preventing stigma, harassment, violence and COVID-related occupational hazards.
Last Mile Health has committed to providing health workers with safe working conditions and secure pay for their work, advocating for equal pay for community health workers globally, ensuring fair representation of women in speaking opportunities, and collecting gender-disaggregated data in all programs.
Corporación Miles commits to applying a gender lens to the Global Health Security response by contributing to better sex-disagregated health data, and holding institutions accountable for implementing gender-transformative sexual and reproductive health services.
Muso commits to training, paying, and providing dedicated supervision to women Community Health Workers (CHWs) and providing them with safe and decent working conditions. Additionally, Muso is supporting the Malian government to develop a plan that uses domestic resources to pay national CHWs, and is ensuring that there is at least a 50% representation of women in international forums.
The National Midwifery Association in Chile commits to prioritizing women and gender equality in global health security, supporting midwives in the workplace, and promoting gender parity in leadership, in order to empower women and girls to respond to and lead the COVID-19 response.
Throughout the remainder of 2020 and over the next two years, Partners in Health is committed to providing healthcare workers, most of whom are women, with safe and decent working conditions, including providing them with adequate PPE, infection prevention and control procedures, and reinforcing ongoing efforts to protect workers from harassment and bullying.
As a leader in the global health and sexual and reproductive health sector, Pathfinder International is making it a priority to “walk the walk and talk the talk” on diversity and inclusion in programs, staffing, and communications. Pathfinder International is committed to conducting an organizational gender audit, disseminating results, creating a senior leadership action plan and excluding implicit bias in development programming and gender issues in SRHR programming by 2022.
PIVOT is led by women in the key roles of National Director, Board Chair, Executive Director, and Chief Medical Officer, and as a result, has achieved gender parity in the COVID-19 response. PIVOT is now committed to further advocating for equality in leadership, supporting the women served, and advancing the priorities that were set to transform the health system in Ifanadiana, Madagascar and beyond.
Red de Investigadoras Chile commits to standing up for gender equality in the sciences, humanities and art by ensuring and reporting on gender parity, publishing sex-disaggregated data, raising the visibility of women’s work, and designing policies that support women’s needs.
The Wellbeing Foundation Africa is making it a priority to uphold commitments towards achieving gender equality within global health security by advocating for gender parity in COVID-19 response leadership and providing a safe and decent working space for women.
The White Ribbon Alliance commits to advocating for gender transformative agendas worldwide, while also ensuring its internal policies and practices are in line with the commitment to gender equality by 2022.
WONCA has long been committed to achieving gender equity, and is now endorsing fundamental recommendations for promoting gender equity, which includes addressing the importance of gender equity in scientific conferences.
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) commits to promoting and advancing SRHR and gender equality through PMNCH’s advocacy and programmatic strategies, providing a definition of Gender in line with PMNCH 2021-2025 Strategy and WHO guidelines by 2021, ensuring sustainable gender parity in its senior management team and its new governance structure by 2021, supporting and implementing specific measures to improve gender equality and/or support women’s careers, and addressing women and girls in policies and programmes for external delivery by 2022.
Global Health Council commits to elevating the work of women in global health security and amplifying diverse viewpoints from women-led organizations to support a culture of change.
The USAID-funded HRH2030 Program is committed to ensuring parity, visibility, and amplification of women’s contributions to global health programs. HRH2030 advocates and supports the health and social service workforce in having safe and decent work spaces, and makes policy decisions equitably based on sex-disaggregated data.
Chemonics commits to promoting equity and women’s leadership across all global health portfolios by strengthening the support to health and social service workforce safety and, using sex-disaggregated data to inform advocacy for gender-transformative policies.
Amref Health Africa commits to adopting a policy of achieving gender parity in Amref Health Africa by 2022.
Jhpiego commits to advancing gender parity in leadership by transforming power structures, eliminating discriminatory practices, providing safe and decent work for women, and adopting a gender responsive approach by 2022.
Partners for Impact (PFI) commits to advancing gender parity in leadership, providing safe and decent working conditions, and adopting a gender responsive approach by 2022.
Population Services International (PSI) commits to increasing representation of underrepresented races, sexual orientations, and gender identities up to 50% by 2025. PSI will continue supporting, amplifying, and funding women's movements and organizations, particularly in the Global South, by boosting the visibility of women and other underrepresented groups in external communications and advocacy.
The Rockefeller Foundation-Boston University 3-D Commission is committed to advancing gender equality by improving the visibility of the work women do in global health security, designing gender-transformative policies, and engaging in advocacy through women-led civil society organizations.
