GLOBAL – Equal Measures 2030 is a coalition of national, regional, and global leaders from feminist networks, civil society, international development, and the private sector that provides data and evidence to support locally-driven and context-specific advocacy to highlight systemic discrimination against women and girls, whilst promoting collaboration and best practice sharing across partners. This initiative works alongside gender equality champions from all sectors to tell the story of progress (or lack thereof) for girls and women at the local, national, regional and global level —including through the SDG Gender Index, which tracks gender equality progress in 129 countries and across the Goals.
Equal Measures 2030 partners have led more than 50 data-driven advocacy training workshops, reaching nearly 1,700 advocates in more than 20 countries since 2018. From land rights reforms in Kenya to changes in Indonesia’s national law to curb child marriage, this initiative’s data-driven advocacy curriculum and direct engagement model with feminist organizations and advocates, including marginalized and vulnerable groups, is generating successful advocacy effective collaboration.
Feminist organizations and movements play a uniquely important role in pushing for sustainable change in gender equality laws, policies and budgets. When these organizations and movements are well-resourced with funding, data and data-skills, their campaigns can go even further and faster. By providing adequate data and tools and promoting shared learning and collaboration amongst advocates, this initiative is enabling better informed policy changes and can harness a global collective effort to accelerate the behavioral shifts needed. Over the strategy period of 2020-2025, Equal Measures 2030 aims to partner with and contribute funding to feminist organizations and movements in at least five regions and 15 countries (including at least one high-income country).
