Launch of the Equity 2030 Alliance

The world’s population has reached 8 billion, presenting the international community with a unique window of opportunity to empower women and girls and create a world of equal opportunities to ensure everyone can exercise their rights and choices and realize their full potential. We witness exponential growth in innovation, technology, and science, including in the health sector. However, the advancements are not equitable across all populations. The world is not designed for women.

Lack of women’s inclusion in all stages of the design and development of innovations in global health leads to gender-blind solutions. Inadequate investment in research and innovation to address the needs of women and girls in all their diversity leads to a gap in solutions addressing women’s health. An equitable future can only be achieved if advances in science and technology include and address the needs of all. Together, we can change this.

To ensure a world of infinite opportunities for all, UNFPA together with inaugural members will launch the Equity 2030 Alliance at this year’s World Health Summit. To normalize gender equity in health science and technology, the Alliance accelerates transformative norms and principles and introduces data-driven arguments and strategies for closing the gaps in women-focused and gender-inclusive health solutions in science, technology, and financing by 2030. Creating gender-equitable solutions results in greater equality, leading to advanced women’s health, and economic growth for individuals, communities, businesses, and states.

The world is not designed for women. Let us redesign it.

The event is co-sponsored by Bayer AG and EY.