UN FOOD SYSTEMS SUMMIT GENDER PUBLIC FORUM
Join us as we canvas ideas and create opportunities for you to participate and share your feedback!The world needs food systems that delivers healthy, safe and nutritious food to all people, everywhere, tackles climate change, protects nature, and ensures a living wage for all farmers and food workers regardless of their role in the system.
For this goal to become a reality, we need to bring the voices of all stakeholders to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. The Summit is for everyone everywhere: a people’s summit. It is also a solutions summit that will require broad, collective action to bring about tangible and positive changes to the world’s food systems.
Women have a key role to play in the Summit process and their voices and leadership are critical. Tackling gender injustice and truly empowering women is not only a fundamental prerequisite for food systems transformation but also a goal in itself. The UNFSS Gender Lever of Change aims to work with all actors to achieve gender just, transformative and equitable food systems that guarantee a world without hunger for all. It seeks to ensure that women from all around the world – working in and leading food systems - are represented, engaged and have their voices heard in all the processes of the Summit.
Get involved
As a continuation of the Summit’s global engagement, the Action Track Public Forums and the Regional Gender Dialogues, the Summit will now host a Public Forum on Gender.
Specifically, this Forum aims to:
- Provide an update of the latest Summit progress (e.g. emerging Action Areas and Solution Clusters, next steps, etc.) and on the proposals to make food systems more gender equitable.
- Seek inputs from participants by identifying existing gaps, recommendations on emerging gender solution areas, and suggestions for actions.
- Mobilize broader participation across the globe in coalitions to implement gender and food systems proposals.
Join us
Register: Please register your attendance here on Eventbrite before June 30.
Live: This will be a live virtual forum taking place on Zoom. A link to join Zoom will be provided via email before the Forum.
The chat function in Zoom will be monitored to capture your comments and questions.
More information
The Forum will bring together the Special Envoy for the UNFSS, the UNFSS Custodian for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, and the Gender Leads for each of the five Action Tracks. The event will also offer a platform for discussion and exchange among government representatives, development partners, international organisations, CSOs, and NGOs.
All participants will be invited to reflect on the Summit’s progress and share their thoughts and feedback.
Simultaneous interpretation will be available in the Zoom session in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
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